Timeline Shows Manchester Bomber’s Family’s Deep Ties to Libya<br />By THE NEW YORK TIMESMAY 27, 2017<br />Salman Abedi, who killed 22 people and wounded 116 more when he blew himself up outside an Ariana<br />Grande concert in Manchester on Monday, was born in Britain to a family with deep ties to Libya.<br />May 12, 2016: Abdul Wahab Hafidah — a friend of Salman<br />and a close friend of his younger brother — is run over and then stabbed to death in Manchester, in what the police called a gang-involved killing.<br />His father, Ramadan, had fled Libya in 1991 after supporting Islamists seeking<br />to overthrow Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, and the family sought asylum in Britain.<br />May 11, 2016: Salman’s friend Abdal Raouf Abdallah, 23, of Manchester, is convicted in Britain of a terrorism-related charge.<br />April 16, 2017: Hashem travels from Britain to Libya, according to the Special Deterrence Forces, a Libyan militia group.
