The number of people in custody in connection with this week’s deadly suicide attack in Manchester increased to nine with the arrest of a 44-year-old man, police said.
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Manchester bomber Salman Abedi called his mother in Libya to say goodbye and ask her to forgive him before detonating the nail bomb that killed 22 people and injured dozens more.
Ramadan Abedi and his youngest son, Hashem, were arrested late Wednesday.
In total eight men are now in custody following the attack, carried out by Manchester-born Abedi, a 22-year-old from a family of Libyan origin. Another man is arrested in the Manchester area, police said without giving further details.
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British officials were infuriated by the leaks but believe USA law enforcement was responsible for them, not the White House.
“A third US government source” was cited to identify the attacker as Salman Abedi, or Salman Ramadan Abedi, according to Reuters.
Ismail Abedi, 24, the bomber’s brother, arrested in Whalley Range, south Manchester, on Tuesday.
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Officials are examining Abedi’s trips to Libya as they piece together his allegiances and try to foil any new potential threats.
The UK has seen its terror threat raised to the “critical”, the highest level, with nearly 1,000 British Army troops deployed to bolster policing and security around “key locations”.
But this isn’t only a war of words: police have now reportedly stopped sharing intelligence gathered in Manchester with the USA as a result of the leaks.
“[Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre] have assessed that the level of threat should remain at critical while the operation continues”. British authorities made the decision not to release Abedi’s name to the public until after raids were conducted at his home. The elder Abedi was also later arrested.
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Dagdoug told ABC News that the two brothers do consider themselves to be members of ISIS and said that they had been studying ISIS videos online, including instructional videos that teach the viewer how to make a bomb.
