Britain’s secret service MI5 has descended into the center of the storm after being accused of missing an opportunity to take “significant” action that could have prevented the 2017 Manchester bombing, which killed 22 people, including eight. year old girl. This is the result of a public inquiry into the fight against terrorism by MI5 and the police, commissioned by the British government and supervised by Sir John Saunders.
Saunders said the national intelligence agency had missed opportunities that could have stopped the attack and accused him of sharing false information with the police. “An important opportunity to take action that could have prevented the attack was missed,” Saunders said in his third and final report on the bombing, the deadliest attack in Britain since the 2005 suicide attacks on London transport. According to him, “it is not possible to draw any conclusions about the balance of probabilities or any other standard of evidence as to whether the attack could have been prevented”, but there was still “a realistic chance of obtaining useful information that would lead to intrusion prevention actions.”
The head of MI5 said he was “very sorry” that the agency was unable to prevent the attack on the Manchester Arena. “MI5 exists to stop the persecution. To all whose lives were changed forever on that terrible night: I am so sorry that MI5 did not prevent the attack on Manchester Arena,” said Ken McCallum, director general of the Security Service, after the broadcast. your report
Salman Abedi, 22, whose younger brother Hashem was sentenced to 55 years in prison, carried out the attack that killed 22 people and injured 200 at a concert by the famous singer Ariana Grande. For 2020 for encouraging and helping him. A third elder brother, Ismail, was convicted in July for not appearing to testify at the investigation because he had fled England. The three brothers were born to Libyan parents who immigrated to England during the rule of Muammar Gaddafi. The family was known for their extremist views, and the bomber apparently learned to make the bomb that he blew himself up on one of his frequent trips to his country with his brother.
MI5 was reportedly close to uncovering the deadly conspiracy when it received intelligence that could lead to Abedi’s arrest when he returned to the UK from Libya four days before the bombing. According to the report, there are five main mistakes security services make. First, the fact that Abedi had not been correctly classified as a subject of ‘official interest’ would have led to an official assessment of the threat posed by him in the years preceding the attack. Instead, it was classified as a “de facto” low-level topic of interest in 2014 and 2016. Then, twice, in 2014 and 2015/16, Abedi was excluded from the Anti-Radicalization programme. Also, more than a thousand text messages exchanged between the bomber and imprisoned terrorist Abdalraouf Abdallah in 2014 could not be analyzed.
There was also a delay in downloading the content of an illegal cell phone used by Abdullah in prison, which was seized in February 2017 but examined only in June 2017, weeks after the bombing. Finally, the report “condemns the “risky” decision of both the Security Service and the CTPNW (North West Counter-Terrorism Police) to focus on the terrorist threat from the Islamic State terror group in Syria from Libya in 2017″.
Source: Today IT
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