29 May, 2017
Callimachi's sources told her he went to Turkey.
The sophistication of the bombing has led British security forces to conclude that the perpetrator of the assault in Manchester received support from a network of extremists. "This is not us", the senior Abedi said.
Six additional arrests were made in Britain on Wednesday as the sprawling investigation extended to Libya, where Abedi's father and 18-year-old brother were detained in Tripoli.
The Home Secretary's comment came after the name of bomber Salman Abedi was leaked to the U.S. media within hours of the attack, which resulted in the deaths of 22 people.
Manchester police hope to resume intelligence sharing soon, but are furious with a story in the New York Times that included photos of the crime scene, the BBC reported, without saying where it got the information.
British and other European security officials said they did not believe that Salman Abedi, 22, would have been able to build the explosive device used in Manchester by himself, and they worry that a professional bombmaker may still be at large. "Another man has been arrested in the Manchester area in connection with this investigation, bringing the total number of men in custody to eight", the Greater Manchester Police said. On Wednesday, Sky News aired two screengrabs of a man walking in Manchester's Arndale shopping center on Friday night carrying a blue backpack with a sales tag still hanging off of it, reporting that police think the man is alleged bomber Salman Albedi.
Some bands - including Blondie, Kiss and Take That - have canceled shows after the blast but representatives for several music acts - including Aerosmith, Celine Dion, Shawn Mendes, Guns N' Roses and Phil Collins - said they will honor their European dates this summer.
Manchester police Chief Ian Hopkins said the story and photographs were "distressing" to victims' families. Another brother, 23-year-old Ismail, was arrested on Tuesday in Manchester.
Authorities in Britain have become increasingly angered by USA leaks from the investigation, including the bomber's name on Tuesday and the photos of blood-stained fragments from the bomb on Wednesday. Elders at the south Manchester mosque believed to have been frequented by Abedi insisted that his actions were wholly alien to their preaching, and pointed the finger at online radicalisation.
Bin Salem said Abedi's mother told investigators her son left for the United Kingdom four days before the attack after spending a month in Libya.
Dinnen said: "That is quite extraordinary language for these sort of people to be using about Britain's closest ally, especially in intelligence terms". Her French counterpart Gerard Collomb said the man had links with Islamic State and had probably visited Syria as well.
"Compared to other people I'm quite lucky really", she said.
U.S. Homeland Security Department spokesman David Lapan declined to say Wednesday if Abedi had been placed on the U.S.no-fly list.
'This is due to the fact that the government of Great Britain has raised the level of the terrorist threat in the country to the maximum possible, ' it said. Customs and Border Protection has access to a broad array of air travel information through the USA government's National Targeting Center.
