Explosion At Manchester Arena

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Daily Mail

Thomas Burrows

22 May 2017

 

Several people have been killed after explosions were heard inside Manchester Arena at the end of an Ariana Grande gig tonight.  Video footage showed people fleeing in tears from the venue after bangs rang out immediately after the concert finished.

Bloodied concertgoers were pictured being helped by emergency services outside the gig and armed police were seen patrolling the arena.  

 

Evie Brewster, who attended the concert, told MailOnline: 'Ariana Grange had just finished her last song and left the stage when a huge explosion sounded. 'Suddenly everybody started screaming and running for the exit.

 

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Ariana Grande concert explosion: 19 dead, around 50 injured in 'terrorist incident'

 

At least 19 people were killed and around 50 others were injured Monday when an explosion rocked an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England.

Greater Manchester Police said in a statement that they were treating the blast as a "terrorist incident until police know otherwise."
British Transport Police said an explosion occurred in the foyer of Manchester Arena at 10:30 p.m., around the time the concert finished. Others reported hearing two blasts, a discrepancy that could not immediately be reconciled. The cause of the explosions was not immediately confirmed, but bomb disposal units were  at the scene more than two hours after the initial explosion.
Spokesman Joseph Carozza said Grande, who was performing at the arena as part of her "Dangerous Woman" world tour, was "okay" and added, "we are further investigating what happened."

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Reports of nails and bolts flying everywhere.

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Trump promised he'd rid the world of ISIS. He's done nothing but play (Expletive deleted golf). Hold him to the same standard they held Obama to.

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@Valin,  DU blaming trump for ISIS still being around is like blaming Obama for not ending Global Warming in 3 months versus doing it in 8 years... oh wait ... he did not do that either in 8 years...

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I read DU so you don't have to.

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The sad thing is by Thursday this will be old news, and most people will forget about it.

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I agree on being forgot about. 

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Islamic State claims responsibility for Manchester attack after police make an arrest

AP

May 23 2017

 

Greater Manchester Police say they have arrested a 23-year-old man in connection with the apparent suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in the English city.

Police say the man was arrested in south Manchester on Tuesday, a day after the explosion killed 22 people and injured 59, many of them teenagers.

They did not provide details.

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CBS Reports Suspected Manchester Attacker Is 23-Year-Old Salman Abedi

Tyler Durden

May 23, 2017

 

While unclear if this is an official release - recall, earlier in the day UK PM Theresa May said authorities knew the name of the Manchester attack suspect but were not disclosing it until they were certain - moments ago CBS reported that the suspect behind the Manchester attack is 23-year-old Salman Abedi. As CBS also adds, he was known to authorities

 

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Manchester attack perpetrators are 'evil losers,' Trump says

 

President Trump extended his condolences to the victims of Monday's suicide bombing in the English city of Manchester, calling the perpetrators "evil losers."
"I extend my deepest condolences to those so terribly injured in this terrorist attack and to the many killed and the families, so many families, of the victims. We stand in absolute solidarity with the people of the United Kingdom," Trump said.
"So many young beautiful innocent people living and enjoying their lives murdered by evil losers in life. I won't call them monsters because they would like that term. They would think that's a great name. I will call them from now on losers because that's what they are."

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Manchester attack perpetrators are 'evil losers,' Trump says

 

President Trump extended his condolences to the victims of Monday's suicide bombing in the English city of Manchester, calling the perpetrators "evil losers."
"I extend my deepest condolences to those so terribly injured in this terrorist attack and to the many killed and the families, so many families, of the victims. We stand in absolute solidarity with the people of the United Kingdom," Trump said.
"So many young beautiful innocent people living and enjoying their lives murdered by evil losers in life. I won't call them monsters because they would like that term. They would think that's a great name. I will call them from now on losers because that's what they are."

 

Shades of Dick Cheney Dead Enders

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Manchester Ariana Grande Concert Bomber is Yet Another 'Known Wolf' Terrorist

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Ann Coulter‏Verified account @AnnCoulter

This may be considered "politically incorrect," but I think some politician ought to propose a Muslim ban.

 

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No Annie, its not politicly incorrect its STUPID not to mention unconstitutional.

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So, You Have No Doubt Been Asking Yourself...Just How Stupid Can The Left Be?

 

 

 

Any more questions?

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Former NY Times London Bureau Chief, John Fisher Burns, on the Manchester Bombing

May 24 2017

 

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HH: There is a cover of the Sun this morning which has Saffie, the 8 year old, the youngest murder victim, and then the picture of the suicide bomber along with the headline that he had secret jihadi training, and a Desk 8 tweet that he was trained in terror by IS warlords. What do you know about this, John Fisher Burns? Is it in fact the case?

JFB: Well, I think this is all highly speculative. There’s been no official statement of that kind. As much as we know, Salman Abedi is of Libyan origin, but born in the United Kingdom. And I think that’s a factor, has been a factor in a number of terrorist attacks in this country that is particularly disturbing, because it goes directly to the question of the failures in assimilation of large numbers of young Muslim people, now very many of them, and second and third generation. And this, in the case of this young man, he would be the first generation of his family born in this country. There have been reports that his family have returned to Libya, leaving two of their four children, including Mr. Abedi himself, the bomber, here.

HH: Yeah, in the Times, it reports he went back to Libya three weeks ago and came back recently, like days ago, according to one of his friends. That would be, if he was known to the security services, and so it sort of underscores something I think you’ve told us before. There just aren’t enough security service people to meet this kind of a threat when thousands of people are traveling on their passports to jihadi-dominated regions.

JFB: That’s absolutely true, and it’s a point that the security service chiefs and the Prime Minister themselves, herself, and remember that Mrs. May as Home Secretary of interior minister in European terms in this country for six years before she became prime minister, it’s a point that she’s often made, which is that the government has increased the manpower and the resources of the security services in this country very greatly over the last, not just this government, but the Labour government before it. They’ve doubled the manpower of the domestic intelligence and security agency, MI5. But even with that increase in manpower, there are more active cells in this country than they have the resources to follow. To give you an idea of the scope of this, I read somewhere quite recently that it takes, in order to conduct round the clock surveillance of a fugitive or potential jihadi bomber, it takes 24 trained people just for one man. So obviously, what they do, what they have to do is, and they keep repeating this, they have to prioritize. And that gets into extremely difficult territory. At what point does somebody who might turn violent actually get into the planning process? And they’ve said for many years now that the threats, threat level has to remain very high. It’s now the highest it’s been in many years, critical, precisely because of that, because they don’t have the resources in order to keep on top of every possible suspect.

 

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Manchester attack: Three more arrests in bomber investigation

May 24 2017

 

Three more men have been arrested as police continue to investigate whether Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi acted alone.

Abedi's 23-year-old brother has also been arrested.

Abedi killed 22 and injured 64 when he blew himself up outside an Ariana Grande concert on Monday night. An off-duty policewoman is among the dead, the BBC understands.

The UK terror threat level is now up to its highest level of "critical".

This means more attacks may be imminent.

Military personnel are being deployed to protect key sites.

The Palace of Westminster has been closed to the public following police advice, and will not re-open until further notice, its website said.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd said: "[Monday's attack] was more sophisticated than some of the attacks we've seen before, and it seems likely - possible - that he wasn't doing this on his own."

 

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Manchester bombing probe expands to Germany amid raids, arrests in Britain

Griff Witte, Karla Adam and Souad Mekhennet

May 25 2017

 

MANCHESTER, England — The investigation into a suicide blast that killed at least 22 people at a Manchester pop concert widened Thursday, with security services carrying out raids and rounding up suspects amid fears that the bombmaker who devised the bolt-spewing source of the carnage remains at large Police used controlled explosives to carry out a raid in the early hours of Thursday while also arresting two male suspects in Manchester. The arrests brought to eight the number of people in British custody who are suspected of involvement in the attack. While the nation observed a one-minute silence at the stroke of 11 a.m. to honor those who died in the attack, a bomb disposal unit was called to the southwest of Manchester to investigate a suspicious package. The police later said that the area had been “deemed safe.”

Meanwhile, a German security official told The Washington Post that the bomber, 22-year-old Salman Abedi, had been in Düsseldorf just four days before the bombing. The development signaled an expansion of an investigation that already has stretched to North Africa and continental Europe. Authorities were investigating whether Abedi had possible contacts with extremists in Germany, including during a 2015 visit to Frankfurt, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. Abedi was en route back to Britain from Istanbul when he stopped off in Düsseldorf. The German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel first reported the bomber’s presence in Germany. The paper, which cited unidentified security sources, said Abedi, flew from Düsseldorf to Manchester last Thursday. 

 

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