TERROR WARNING: Britain ‘faces new wave of attacks’ in wake of Manchester massacre
FEARS of a Libyan-fuelled wave of terror were sparked yesterday by the son of the Lockerbie bomber.
By CYRIL DIXON
Express.co.uk
Mon, May 29, 2017
Security experts backed a claim by Khaled al-Megrahi that cities like Tripoli are a fertile breeding ground for Islamic State assassins who are desperate to carry out terrorist attacks on British soil.
Yesterday’s warning came six days after British-Libyan suicide bomber Salman Abedi killed 22 people at Manchester Arena.
It contradicts conventional security thinking that the main IS threat comes from jihadis returning to Britain from the Syrian warzone.
Libyan-born Mr al-Megrahi, 32 – whose father Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of killing 270 people in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 – said his country was a hotbed of terrorists.
The militants will kill each other here and then come to each city in the west – it is only a sea between us
Khaled al-Megrahi
He warned that militant gangs have taken over since international forces pulled out following the removal of Colonel Gaddafi.
“Today it was Manchester, but tomorrow it will be some other place,” he said.
“You make Libya like this. You will see a lot of terrorists in the UK and everywhere. The militants will kill each other here and then come to each city in the west – it is only a sea between us.”
Britain was part of an international force which intervened in Libya six years ago to stop Gaddafi persecuting his political opponents.
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