Attention Officials: British Authorities

attention officials: The son of Libyan parents who immigrated to Britain in the early 1990s, Abedi has been identified by British authorities as the bomber who attacked the Ariana Grande concert Monday night, according to Brandon Sun. While Home Secretary Amber Rudd said he was on the radar of the intelligence service up to a point, it was not clear how much attention officials had paid to his activities and whether authorities could have stopped him. While some claim Salman Abedi had been banned from the mosque he attended for statements glorifying terrorism and his angry rhetoric even prompted an acquaintance to report him to the authorities, others deny that account, saying he never showed any worrying or erratic behaviour. As a portrait of the alleged bomber emerged, it was complicated by contradictory accounts over whether Abedi held views that had sparked concern before Monday's attack. He was glorifying terrorism, Shafiq told The Associated Press. Mohammed Shafiq, who heads the Manchester-based Muslim organization Ramadhan Foundation, said some of Abedi's past statements had prompted a Libyan community activist in Manchester to report him to the national counter-terrorism hotline two years ago. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.