BRITISH Intelligence Officials missed, or intentionally ignored (because of political correctness) a ‘significant opportunity’ to prevent the Muslim terrorist attack at the 2017 Ariana Grande Concert in the Manchester Arena.
Breaking9/11 (h/t Marvin W) An inquiry into the 2017 Manchester Arena attack, in which 22 people were killed, found that Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, MI5, did not act promptly enough on crucial information, missing a significant opportunity to prevent the suicide bombing.
According to retired judge John Saunders, who led the inquiry, a MI5 officer had considered the intelligence regarding the suicide bomber to be a possible national security concern but did not communicate it quickly enough with colleagues.
MI5 Director General Ken McCallum publicly apologized for the agency’s failure to prevent the attack. The inquiry revealed that if MI5 had acted on the intelligence it received, it could have led to action, including possibly stopping the attacker at Manchester Airport four days before the attack.
“I did not want people to think I was racist,” said Kyle Lawler, Manchester Arena Security guard, who was reluctant to confront the Muslim terrorist suicide bomber right before he set off his backpack bomb that murdered 22 children and adults at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017.
Daily Mail A security guard had a ‘bad feeling’ as he looked at the Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi but did not approach him for fear of being branded a racist, a public inquiry has heard.
Kyle Lawler, who was 18 at the time, was on duty when a Muslim colleague, Mohammed Agha, told him a member of the public had raised concerns about Abedi, who was hanging around outside the Arena at an Ariana Grande concert. Lawler said he was stood 10 or 15ft away from Abedi, who had been reported to security by a member of the public who thought he looked ‘dodgy’.
Lawler, aged 18 at the time of the terror attack, told police in a statement read to the inquiry sitting in Manchester: ‘I felt unsure about what to do. ‘It’s very difficult to define a terrorist. For all I knew he might well be an innocent Muslim male. ‘I did not want people to think I am stereotyping him because of his race. I was scared of being wrong and being branded a racist if I got it wrong and would have got into trouble.
Paul Greaney QC, counsel to the inquiry, said: ‘If you were to approach him and he was some innocent kid, people might think you were racist?’ Mr Lawler replied: ‘Yes.’
The suicide bomber, dressed all in black and carrying a large, bulky rucksack, was reported by concerned parent Christopher Wild (below video), who though it looked ‘dodgy’ and had asked Abedi what he had in his backpack.
Mr Wild told the inquiry he felt ‘fobbed off’ when he raised the matter to security, but Mr Agha said he could not immediately pass on the concerns as he was guarding a fire exit and it was practice never to leave those unattended.
The SUN A public inquiry heard how Salman Abedi, 22, killed the innocent fans after detonating his homemade device packed with 3,000 nuts and bolts hidden in his backpack.
Showsec security guard at the Arena on the night, Mohammed Agha, told the inquiry in Manchester: “He was on a phone, a mobile phone, he was smiling.” Seconds later Abedi blew himself up – with the shrapnel exploding into the unsuspecting crowd.
Of course it did. Wokeness (new term for political correctness) is destroying (not so) Great Britain!
You know it did. I know it did. We all know it did. The hyenas know that MI5 isn’t going to do anything.