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An emotional candlelight vigil was held in Manchester's St. Ann's Square one week after a terror attack killed 22 people and injured dozens more.
Hundreds turned out for the event, where a moment of silence was held at 10:32 p.m. local time -- exactly one week after the attack began.
A sea of flowers, candles and balloons filled the square as hundreds of mourners paid their respects to the victims.
SUSPECTED ISLAMIST ARE BEING PREVENTED FROM RETURNING TO THE UK FOR THE FIRST TIME
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...mber-network-may-still-be-at-large-amber-rudd
Suspected Islamist terrorists are being prevented from returning to the UK for the first time, the home secretary has disclosed, as she warned that members of the Manchester bombers terror network could still be at large.
WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/france...litants-fighting-for-islamic-state-1496090116
French special forces have for months enlisted Iraqi soldiers to hunt and kill French nationals who have joined the senior ranks of Islamic State, according to Iraqi officers and current and former French officials.
The motive for the secret operation is to ensure that French nationals with allegiance to Islamic State never return home to threaten France with a terror attack (...)
Lets hope it doesn't take as long as the Chilcot inquiry.Britain's intelligence services have launched an inquiry into how warnings about the 22-year-old Abedi's radical views were handled amid indications that vital warning signs were missed.
Police are scouring 12,960 hours of closed circuit TV recordings in their search for clues, have collected more than 630 pieces of evidence and have searched 21 addresses.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-05-29-13-17-42
A man arrested on Tuesday, 23 May at Stansted Airport has been charged with preparing for acts of terrorism contrary to section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006.
Aweys Faqey, 37 (01.10.79) of north London was charged on Tuesday, 30 May.
Aweys Faqey of north London was charged under the Terrorism Act following his arrest last week.
Faqey was arrested by counter-terror police before boarding a flight to Turkey last Tuesday on suspicion he planned to travel to Syria.
RSBM
The French do it differently:
Apparently his arrest is not connected to the Manchester attack.
Faqey was arrested by counter-terror police before boarding a flight to Turkey last Tuesday on suspicion he planned to travel to Syria.
A bomb disposal team has been deployed in Wigan for the second time following an arrest linked to the Manchester attack.
Springfield Street was evacuated last Thursday after the discovery of “potentially suspicious items”.
On Tuesday, a Royal Logistic Corps bomb disposal unit returned to the area.
JUST IN: Ariana Grande to headline benefit concert in Manchester June 4 to raise money for victims; acts include Justin Bieber, Katy Perry.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ABC?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
[h=1]Eminem helps raise almost £2 million for Manchester Attack victims[/h]
Heartwarming that so many celebrities are helping out!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/ar...e-almost-2-million-manchester-attack-victims/
Police believe Manchester bomber Salman Abedi largely acted alone
16 have been arrested so far in connection with the Manchester Arena attack, but it is thought the 22-year-old operated on his own
rbbm.On Monday night police released a CCTV image showing Abedi wheeling a large blue suitcase and appealed for anyone who may have seen him with it on Wilmslow Road, known locally as the Curry Mile because of its abundance of south-Asian restaurants.
“We are especially keen to find out why he kept going back to the Wilmslow Road area and we need to find the blue suitcase which he used during these trips,” said Jackson. For the last few days officers have been searching a landfill site in Pilsworth, Bury, reportedly looking for the case.
It is, that's quite the line up. I hope its on TV too
Abdallah, of Manchesters Moss Side, is the son of a Libyan dissident and came to the UK with his family as a refugee in 1993.
He was jailed for five-and-a-half years at Woolwich Crown Court in July last year after being convicted of helping other jihadists travel to Syria and providing funds for terrorism.