Manchester Arena suicide bombing

Bomb

 * Found at the Scene in Manchester: Shrapnel, a Backpack and a Battery - C. J. Chivers, The New York Times, May 24, 2017
 * UK police stop passing Manchester bombing information to US over leaks - The Guardian, May 25, 2017

Salman Abedi

 * Security services missed five opportunities to stop the Manchester bomber - The Telegraph, May 25, 2017
 * Everything we know about Salman Abedi, the Manchester suicide bomber - The Telegraph, May 25, 2017
 * Salman Abedi wasn't a lone wolf – he was a known wolf, and the Muslim community tried to warn us about him - Muddassar Ahmed, The Independent, MAy 27, 2017
 * ''Our Prime Minister was Home Secretary and in charge of MI5 when they were tipped off about Abedi – do the victims’ families have a right to an explanation of why the warnings were not heard?

LIFG base in Manchester

 * The teenage Libyan rebel from Manchester - Jane Deith, Channel 4, June 11, 2011
 * ''There are thousands of Libyans in Manchester who hate the Gaddafi regime. The city is home to Britain’s largest Libyan community. Almost every elder you meet fled Libya in the last 20 years, warned that they would be arrested or killed if they stayed, simply for calling for change.
 * Father of Manchester Arena suicide bomber 'was a member of al-Qaeda linked militant group' - Roland Oliphant, - The Telegraph, May 24, 2017
 * 'Sorted' by MI5: How UK government sent British-Libyans to fight Gaddafi - Middle East Eye, May 25, 2017
 * ''Fighters say government operated 'open door' policy allowing them to join rebels, as authorities investigate background of Manchester bomber
 * Rebels 'went to Libya with MI5 blessing' amid Abedi probe - Daily Mail, May 25, 2017
 * ''Those who travelled to Libya to fight alongside Islamic rebel groups have described how, even though they were subject to counter-terror orders banning them from leaving their homes because they posed a security threat, they were allowed to travel to the hostile warzone. When they returned to the UK, having spent months alongside groups thought by British intelligence to have links with Al-Qaeda, rebels were said to have been allowed back into the country without hesitation.
 * ''Libyan officials have backed up the claims, saying the British government were 'fully aware' of young men being sent to fight, turning the North African country into an 'exporter of terror'.

Analysis

 * UK Government Harbored Terrorists Linked to Manchester Blast for Decades - Tony Cartalucci, May 24, 2017
 * The west accepted Salafist “refugees” for decades, now it’s paying the price - Andrew Korybko, The Duran, May 25, 2017
 * ''There is no greater structural threat to a secular Muslim-majority country than Salafists, which is why the West welcomed those “fleeing” from the “political and religious repression” in their homelands in order to weaponize them for future Hybrid War use.
 * Details Emerge On The Manchester Blowback From Britain's Terror Support - Moon of Alabama, May 25, 2017
 * The Manchester Bombing is Blowback from the West’s Disastrous Interventions and Covert Proxy Wars - Max Blumenthal, AlterNet, May 25, 2017
 * ''How the US and UK helped bring jihadists like Salem Abedi to Libya and Syria
 * ISIS Terrorist Attack in Manchester? 17 Days Before Crucial UK Elections - Peter Koenig, OffGuardian, May 25, 2017
 * Charles Shoebridge interviewed by RT