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Britain’s interior minister said on
Wednesday she believed the suicide
bomber, who killed 22 people at an
Ariana Grande concert in the English
city of Manchester, had recently
returned from Libya.
Asked to confirm whether Salman
Abedi had recently come back from
the country, Amber Rudd told BBC
Television: “Yes, I believe that has
been confirmed.
“When this operation is over, we will
want to look at his background and
what happened, how he became
radicalised and what support he
might have been given,” she said.
Rudd said up to 3,800 military
personnel would be deployed on
Britain’s streets in response to the
worst militant attack in over a
decade.
In another development, British
investigators told French authorities
that the suspect in the Manchester
bombing had probably traveled to
Syria, French Interior Minister
Gerard Collomb said on Wednesday.
British police said on Tuesday they
believed British-born Abedi, 22,
carried out the suicide bombing.
“Today we only know what British
investigators have told us, someone
of British nationality, of Libyan
origin, who suddenly after a trip to
Libya, then probably to Syria,
becomes radicalized and decides to
carry out this attack,” Collomb told
BFMTV.
Pressed on how he knew Abedi had
been in Syria, Collomb said this was
the information that French and
British intelligence services had.
Asked if he believed Abedi had the support of a
network, Collomb said: “That is not known yet, but
perhaps. In any case, (he had) links with Daesh
(Islamic State) that are proven.”(Reuters/NAN)