28 May, 2017
With British police investigating an alleged network linked to the British-born suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, the matter of information leaked to USA media will be taken up by British Prime Minister Theresa May when she meets President Donald Trump at a later North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit, the BBC reported.
Salman Abedi lived for years with family in a modest red-brick house in the Fallowfield section of Manchester, a middle- to working-class neighborhood.
There were also reports Abedi's parents were so anxious about him being radicalised in Manchester that they got him to join them in Libya and confiscated his passport.
A Libyan neighbor says the elder Abedi returned again to Libya in 2011 after Gadhafi's government fell.
Just hours before the leak on Wednesday, Britain's Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, said that she was "irritated" by the disclosures and said she had spoken to US authorities. But leaks from the investigation were creating a diplomatic mess.
"I want to make one thing very clear to Jeremy Corbyn and to you, and it is that there can never, ever be an excuse for terrorism", she said at a summit of Group of Seven leaders in Sicily.
Trump pledged to "get to the bottom" of the leaks, calling them "deeply troubling" and asking the Justice Department and other agencies to "launch a complete review of this matter".
USA congressman Mike McCaul, Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said the bomb was of a "level of sophistication" that might indicate its maker had foreign training.
"Following the awful events in Manchester on Monday night, we have chose to cancel our special screening of Orange is the New Black and GLOW on Tuesday 30th May", a Netflix spokesperson said on Thursday.
Greater Manchester Police say two men were arrested overnight Thursday in Manchester and in the Withington area south of the city. The young man enrolled at Manchester's University of Salford in 2015 to study business administration.
The magazine also reports that British police informed their German counterparts Abedi had received paramilitary training in Syria. Authorities in multiple countries worked to determine if Salman Abedi, who died in the blast, acted alone or with assistance from a sophisticated cell. In an interview with the AP before his arrest, Ramadan Abedi said his 23-year-old son, Ismail, had been arrested Tuesday, as well.
The senior Abedi denied that his son Salman had links to militants, telling the AP in an interview "we don't believe in killing innocents" before being taken into custody in Libya, along with another son, Hashim. "This is not us".
It was Grande's first public statement since tweeting she was "broken" in the immediate wake of the bombing that killed 22 people and injured dozens more as they left her concert, Rolling Stone reports.
The UK threat level has been reduced from critical, which means an attack is imminent, to severe, which means an attack is highly likely, Theresa May has said. The official also said his brother Hashim had told officials: "I know everything about my brother, what he was doing there in Manchester".
