This is a reflection of just how woefully and willfully ignorant British intelligence and law enforcement officials, and those officials all over the West, remain about the threat of jihad terror, and the consequences of their refusal to come to grips with its motivating ideology. MI5 likely let Salman Abedi go multiple times because politically correct miseducation had blinded them to the danger signs he was displaying.
Rather than to the security service’s failings, attention continues to be devoted far more to the “Islamophobia” subterfuge, while lives continue to be lost and as persecution and a range of human rights abuses continue.
Victims of jihad and Islamic supremacism continue “to be murdered by political correctness.”
“Manchester bomber Salman Abedi was flagged by MI5 18 times,” by Fiona Hamilton, The Times, October 1, 2020:
The Manchester bomber came to MI5’s attention at least 18 times, including for his attempts to travel to Syria and his links to Islamic State fundraisers, it emerged yesterday.
The public inquiry into the suicide attack at a pop concert in May 2017 was told that Salman Abedi, 22, had been identified associating with six MI5 “subjects of interest” [SOI], including a man previously linked to al-Qaeda who was under investigation for helping extremists to travel to Syria.
A year before Abedi killed 22 people at the Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena he had travelled to Istanbul, a well-known gateway for extremists heading to Isis territory.
A jury found Hashem Abedi, 23, guilty of 22 counts of murder, attempted murder and conspiring to cause explosions…