As you might have expected, ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack in Manchester last night, saying one of their members was the bomber:
LA TIMES – Greater Manchester Police say they have arrested a 23-year-old man in connection with the apparent suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in the English city.
Police say the man was arrested in south Manchester on Tuesday, a day after the explosion killed 22 people and injured 59, many of them teenagers.
They did not provide details.
The Islamic State group said one of its members planted bombs in the attack. Police, however, have spoken only of “an improvised device.”
Islamic State said “a soldier of the caliphate planted bombs in the middle of Crusaders gatherings,” then detonated them.
The group said “30 Crusaders were killed and 70 others were wounded,” higher than the totals confirmed by authorities in Manchester.
The jihadis were celebrating the attack even before they claimed responsibility for it:
TELEGRAPH – Isil supporters hailed the bombing as a victory against “the crusaders” of the West. In one video an English-speaking supporter of Isil held up a home made sign with the word “Manchester” and the date of the attack.
“This is only the beginning. The lions of Islamic State of Iraq and Sham are beginning to attack all the crusaders,” the masked man said in the short video.
SCREENSHOTS Growing celebrations of situation in #Manchester on key Islamic State-linked Telegram channels. Strong indicator of IS linkage pic.twitter.com/RSJBt0gJcR
— Michael S. Smith II (@MichaelSSmithII) May 23, 2017
Other Isil supporters said the attack was revenge for the UK’s involvement in the bombing campaign against Isil in Iraq and Syria. “It seems that the bombs of the British airforce over children of Mosul and Raqqa has just come back to Manchester,” wrote one user.
There were similar celebrations after the attack in Westminster in March and Isil eventually claimed credit for the assault which killed five people.
What the media won’t tell you is that we could have taken these cockroaches out in 2014, back when Obama was calling the group a JV team. Even when Obama admitted he knew how serious they were, he still let them thrive and grow before he ever began taking them seriously.
Even worse, Obama was warned by Flynn in 2012 that he shouldn’t support these jihadis, because they wanted to create an Islamic Caliphate. But in the name of taking out Assad, Obama did it anyway and look where we are now.