The father of the Muslim bomber in Manchester has been arrested as it looks like he’s a terrorist too:
#BreakingNews: Father of U.K. suspect arrested in Libyan capitol, report https://t.co/W4PYcrWBCt pic.twitter.com/2z5MZ4lnFY
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FOX NEWS – Manchester bomber Salman Abedi apparently wasn’t the only member of his family to harbor extremist views as a Libyan officilas arrested both the the suicide bomber’s younger brother and father between late Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Hashem Abedi, who was born in 1997, was arrested in Tripoli on Wednesday evening by the Libyan counter-terrorism force Rada on suspicion of links to the Islamic State, a Libyan spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday.
A Libyan security spokesman told the Associated Press on Wednesday that the father of the Manchester bomber has also been arrested in Tripoli.
Earlier Abdel-Basit Haroun, a former security official in Libya, told The Associated Press Wednesday that he personally knew Ramadan Abedi, the father of Salman Abedi, and that the elder Abedi was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the 1990s. The group had links to Al Qaeda.
Although the LIFG disbanded, Haroun said the father belongs to the Salafi Jihadi movement, the most extreme sect of Salafism and from which Al Qaeda and the Islamic State group hail. Haroun added that Abedi, also known as Abu Ismail, had returned to the Libyan capital of Tripoli.