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Bomber linked to "good" terrorists which UK backed
May 26th, 2017 at 10:35am
 
Blowback? Manchester bomber linked to terrorist group which UK backed


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Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi and his father, Ramadan, had long-standing links to a violent jihadist group which may have had British backing for the 2011 Libyan war and a 1996 attempt to kill then-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The controversy centers on the role of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), which was both an anti-Gaddafi and Al-Qaeda subsidiary in the North African state.

Many of the fighters which formed the group in the mid-90s were veterans of the Afghan-Soviet war from the 1980s. They went on to fight the Gaddafi regime in Libya itself.

The war saw the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime and the eventual murder of the leader himself after he was captured by opposition fighters. Since NATO’s intervention, Libya has been in chaos.

It has descended into a protracted civil war, is a major contributor to the international refugee crisis, has its own branch of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), and two opposing governments.

The elder Abedi was reportedly one of the LIFG fighters who fled Gaddafi’s response to the rebels, settling in London and, later, in Manchester.

The area of Manchester in which Salman Abedi grew up was home to a number of other LIFG members, including former senior commanders including Abd al-Baset Azzouz, who left Manchester to go to Libya and run a 200-300-strong militant network for Osama Bin Laden’s successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Azzouz is reported to be an expert bomb-maker.







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Re: Bomber linked to "good" terrorists which UK backed
Reply #1 - May 26th, 2017 at 10:50am
 
Isn't that the same with Syria, Libya, and the Yanks. Oh yes and Iraq (Saddam Hussain) didn't the CIA finance most of them...........glass houses and all that eh...Yank.
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Reply #2 - May 26th, 2017 at 10:56am
 
It would be wonderful if hindsight allowed us to go back in time and alter things.......eh ...Yank.... but in the real world we can't go "Back to The Future".......
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