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REPORT: UK police hunting possible bomb-maker, accomplices after Manchester bombing - source
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REPORT: UK police hunting possible bomb-maker, accomplices after Manchester bombing - source
After Salman Abedi detonated a bomb packed with metal bolts among fans streaming out of a concert in Manchester, British police are hunting for accomplices who may have helped him build the suicide bomb and who could be ready to kill again.
As police tried to piece together the past of British-born Abedi, Prime Minister Theresa May met security officials who said they were raising their assessment of the threat to Britain to "critical", indicating an attack is imminent.
Part of that threat assessment is the fear that Abedi could have been working as part of a group of accomplices with possible links to militant groups who have the competence to plot and execute suicide bombings.
"The question is: Was he acting alone or was he part of a network of others who want to kill. That is what the investigation is focusing on," a source with knowledge of the probe told Reuters, on condition of anonymity.
"The concern is that there may be others out there who helped him to make the bomb. Making a bomb of this sort requires a certain level of expertise and competence," the source said.
Manchester Police Chief Constable Ian Hopkins later told reporters it was very clear that they were investigating what he called "a network". He declined to give any further details on the investigation.
Police have so far announced four arrests and Abedi's home was raided by special forces troops around 12 hours after the suicide attack. His brother, Ismail, was arrested.
British security services are now trying to work out what turned Abedi, the tall, skinny son of a devout Muslim who opposed former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, into a killer.
He was born in Manchester in 1994 to parents of Libyan birth and raised in Britain. His parents had emigrated from Libya to London before moving to the Fallowfield area of south Manchester, where they lived for at least 10 years.
Britain's interior minister, Amber Rudd, said Abedi had recently returned from Libya and her French counterpart, Gerard Collomb, said he had "proven" links with Islamic State and had probably visited Syria too.
Reuters was unable to independently verify the links to Islamic State or Syria.
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According to the Kalam Research think-tank, which has an office in Tripoli, Abedi's father Abu Ismail left Saudi Arabia for London in 1992 and joined the Islamist Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in 1994.
Abedi's father and elder brother Ismail were active at Disbury Mosque in south Manchester, said a trustee of the mosque, Fawzi Haffar. U.S. security officials said Abedi also had a sister named Jomana.
Abu Ismail would read the call to prayer and Ismail worked as a volunteer, Haffar said.
"He (Abu Ismail) was devout as far as I know," Haffar added. "He's in Libya and has been for a while."
Abdalla Yousef, a spokesman for the mosque, said Abedi's father and the rest of the family apart from the two sons had returned to Libya in 2011 after the killing of Gadaffi.
Ismail was arrested by armed police in Chorlton, south Manchester.
Abedi attended Burnage Boys' School in south Manchester from 2009 to 2011, the school confirmed. He was a keen Manchester United fan.
"He always had a bit of an attitude problem," Leon Hall, who went to school with him, told the Daily Mail newspaper. "I cant say I really liked the man."
After leaving school, he went on to begin a business and management course in 2014 at the nearby University of Salford.
Alan Kinsey, 52, who lived in the house opposite Abedi, said he thought there had been just one man for the last 7-8 months and a couple had been living there as well before that.
He said the man used to wear traditional white Islamic dress, was aged in his 20s, 6 ft. 2-4ins (about 1.9 meters), and very skinny.
"No one really interacted with him," Kinsey said.
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