After leak, United Kingdom stops sharing bombing intelligence with US

Manchester terror attack 8 taken into custody threat level still severe
UK police arrest two more in hunt for suicide bomber's network
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28 May, 2017

People crowd St. Ann's Square in Manchester, England, on Thursday for a moment of silence for Monday's suicide-bomb victims.

The move follows an arrest made in the same part of the city overnight.

The name of the attacker, Salman Abedi, also appeared in U.S. media the day after the attack - before United Kingdom authorities had publicly named him.

Greater Manchester Police said two men, aged 20 and 22, were detained early Saturday on suspicion of terror offenses.

The Labour leader is expected to make a veiled attack on the Conservatives for underfunding the police service at a time of heightened threat, while linking Britain's overseas military campaigns with terrorism at home.

"These searches are connected to Monday's attack on the Manchester Arena, but this is a fast moving investigation and we are keeping an open mind at this stage".

On Wednesday morning, Amber Rudd, Britain's home secretary, said the leaks in the USA media were "irritating" and should not happen again. "These leaks have been going on for a long time and my administration will get to the bottom of this".

"While we do not usually comment on information sharing arrangements. having received fresh assurances, we are now working closely with our key partners around the world including all those in the "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance," Britain's lead officer for counter-terrorism policing, Mark Rowley, told Reuters.

The Czech Republic's interior minister, meanwhile, said a report by German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel claiming Abedi had traveled to Germany via Prague, wasn't correct.

Meanwhile, a relative of the Abedi says he was driven to extremism after seeing a friend fatally stabbed previous year.

The relative says Abedi, who was born in England to parents from Libya, referred to Britons as "infidels" who "are unjust to the Arabs".

Special Deterrent Force spokesman Ahmed bin Salem said Thursday that 22-year-old Salman Abedi's mother and three of his siblings in Libya were summoned for questioning.


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