25 May, 2017
The Libyan security force, known as Rada, detained Hashem Abedi, who was born in 1997, on Tuesday evening, spokesman Ahmed Bin Salem said.
British police say the leaks are undermining their inquiry into a network linked to the alleged suicide bomber - Salman Abedi. "He was in contact with his brother and he knew about the attack".
Sky News has reported that Abedi grew up on the same south Manchester housing estates as baby-faced Isis recruiter Raphael Hostey who is believed to have sponsored hundreds of jihadists going to Syria and Iraq.
A woman was also arrested during an armed raid at an apartment building in Blackley, an area of Manchester.
British Prime Minister Theresa May will confront U.S. President Donald Trump over leaks of intelligence about a suicide bomb attack in Manchester at a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit in Brussels on Thursday, the Guardian newspaper said.
Hashem Abedi is Salman Abedi's 20-year-old younger brother. In the hours prior, he spoke with disbelief that his son could have been involved in an attack like that in Manchester, saying that the last time he spoke to Salman he sounded "normal".
'We don't believe in killing innocents, ' he had told the Associated Press.
Britain was not amused, as presumably those United States officials had themselves been told the name by the UK under the two countries' intelligence-sharing arrangements.
The gunmen - who were later confirmed to be Libyan counter-terror officers - put Ramadan in one of the cars and drove him to an unknown location. We go to mosques.
