U.K. Is Investigating Missed Signals Over Manchester Bomber<br />By CEYLAN YEGINSUMAY 29, 2017<br />LONDON — Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, MI5, is investigating its response to warnings from the public about the threat posed by Salman Abedi, the suicide bomber who killed 22 people<br />and wounded dozens more in an attack at a crowded pop concert in Manchester, England, last week.<br />It is highly unusual for the British authorities to publicly confirm the existence of internal investigations into possible security lapses,<br />but the British home secretary, Amber Rudd, welcomed the MI5 review on Monday, saying it was "the right first step" in learning from the Manchester attack.<br />The police released a new image of the bomber on Monday<br />that showed him wheeling a blue suitcase through Manchester city center days before he carried out the attack.<br />" he said in a statement. that We believe Abedi was in possession of this case in the days before the attack at Manchester Arena on Monday 22 May,<br />A British government spokesman said on Monday that the agency had opened two internal investigations last week, amid reports<br />that the British authorities had been alerted to Mr. Abedi’s extremist views at least three times before the bombing.<br />Mr. Abedi, a 22-year-old Manchester resident of Libyan descent, had previously been flagged by MI5 as a "person of interest,"<br />a law enforcement official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the investigations are continuing.
