Poor Manchester.
I find it a not strange and remarkably unsurprising fact that UK and US Nat Security Forces both knew of UK born Salman Abedi and his movements. Both UK and French National Security forces knew he'd been in Syria training with the UK and US backed Dogs of War Daesh and ISIS this year. They are our guys after all...
Salman Abedi's father Ramadan Abedi was a refugee from Gadaffi's Libya in the late 1980's. However after the joint UK and US-backed toppling of Gadaffi (using the mercenary Dogs of War Daesh/ ISIS) in 2011, Ramadan Abedi left Britain and suddenly became manager of the Central Security Force in Tripoli (the same Dogs of War under any other name). You couldn't make this stuff up... Salman Abedi just came back from a visit there a few days ago...
The diplomacy of the first half of the 20th Century which really marked the UK's entry into Arab States and allowed Western Oil Interests to begin work ended a bit more than a decade ago. Diplomacy, trade and business has been replaced by Western and Saudi-backed proxy armies of Wahhabist thugs who instigate wars, terrorise civilian populations and destabilise governments to enable ram-raids on resources and legitimise "Western Intervention" (aerial bombardment with depeleted Uranium) to "protect civilians" and enable "regime change". We've all seen what that looks like.
To suggest that UK and US-backed destabilisation of the Middle East has spawned a monster in the shape of Salman Abedi would be of course a huge understatement. Our leaders who knew better stoked the fires of extremism across the Middle East, created blood-soaked chaos where none was needed and left our front door wide open. Poor Manchester.
We've been here before and we'll be here again. Trump has eased the way for the US Military Industrial Complex in the massive arms deal with the Wahhabist Saudis. Our friends across the pond should look out for angry looking Yemenis wearing vests soon. "This deal has President Trump throwing gasoline on someone else's little house fire and locking the door on his way out."
Cui bono.
