Lounging on a Libyan beach with his childhood mates, the cannabis-smoking teenager who went on to slaughter 22 people in Manchester Arena attack after being radicalised and ‘receiving secret terror training in Syria’
Salman Abedi had recently returned from Libya before launching suicide bomb attack at Manchester Arena
Mancunian of Libyan descent ‘made regular visits’ to North African country and ‘had secret terror training’
Abedi killed 22 after detonating a suicide bomb at Manchester Arena on Monday after Ariana Grande concert
Home Secretary said it ‘seems likely’ he did not act alone and was known to security services ‘up to a point’
Three men arrested in the south of the city before police staged dramatic raid on a Manchester city centre flat
Police say they know the names of all those killed and specially-trained officers are contacting their families
Nearly a thousand troops are being deployed on Britain’s streets today amid heightened terror warnings
Pictures have emerged of Abedi as a teenager relaxing with friends who are not connected to the bombing
There is no suggestion any of the people he was pictured with have been involved in any wrongdoing
Premier League Champions Chelsea to cancel Sunday’s victory parade after saying it would be ‘inappropriate’
By JAKE WALLIS SIMONS
DailyMail.com
24 May 2017
Lounging on the beach in Libya with friends and hanging out with his mates in Manchester, this is the teenage boy who became a suicide bomber.
Exclusive pictures show Salman Abedi as an innocent schoolboy, about seven years before he murdered 22 people including children as young as eight by detonating a bomb at Manchester Arena on Monday night.
According to schoolmates of the 22-year-old killer, the pictures were taken near his home in South Manchester and on a trip in his parents’ home country of Libya when he was 14 or 15.
The ‘ordinary’ teenager posing in the new photographs was described as ‘quiet’ and ‘not the sort of kid that stood out’ and showed little interest in religion, friends told MailOnline, adding that he even smoked cannabis.
There is no suggestion any of the people he was pictured with have been involved in any wrongdoing.
He went to Burnage Academy, a boy’s school catering largely to Manchester’s Asian community and was a keen footballer, often playing at the ground at Whalley Range High School where the Manchester United Foundation held soccer sessions, they said.
But a senior US intelligence official claimed today that members of his own family had warned police that he was ‘dangerous’.
UK border checks were branded a ‘shambles’ after it emerged the suicide bomber had travelled to ISIS strongholds Syria and Libya before being able to come ‘straight through’ to Britain.
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