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If I didn't know any better, I might suspect that Ismail Abedi is the teenager featured in this Channel 4 anti Gaddafi piece on Manchester Libyans going to fight in 2011. e.g. His age matches approximately, his father's connections and also the Didsbury Mosque is featured.
 * Also here: A story about the young Libyans from Manchester backing the rebels fighting Gaddafi. Includes an exclusive interview with a 19 year old college student who has trained with the rebel forces Elite Tripoli Brigade and is heading for the front line outside Tripoli.


 * Mr Al-Abedi senior, like many of his Islamist compatriots in Manchester, was naturally drawn to the Muslim Brotherhood. Together with his sons, he frequented the Didsbury mosque where he worked as muezzin, or prayer caller, and where his other son, Ismail – the Manchester bomber’s older brother – was a tutor at the mosque’s Qur’an school.

Thoughts? --Diagonal (talk) 10:34, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

The Channel 4 piece talks about a 19 year old fighter from Manchester traveling to join the Tripoli Brigades with his father in 2011. The 19yr old spoke of hoping to return to the frontline with his brothers. His mothers says if she had ten sons she would gladly sent them all to fight. The Iman of the Didsbury Mosque was missing detained in Libya.
 * Manchester bomber 'probably' fought in Libya, inquiry hears - MEE, November 21, 2021
 * The inquiry has heard that he traveled to Libya in 2011, aged 16, during the uprising that resulted in the toppling and killing of long-time Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The inquiry this week saw photos of Salman Abedi in Libya in 2011 holding a heavy machine gun and dressed in combat fatigues. It also saw photos of his father, Ramadan Abedi, and brothers, Ismail and Hashem Abedi, posing with weapons.