The father of the terrorist allegedly responsible for the Manchester attacks was a former MI6 operative, reports Réseau Voltaire.
ACCORDING TO Scotland Yard, the attack on the crowd leaving the Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena, 22 May, has been perpetrated by Salman Abedi. A bank card has been conveniently found in the pocket of the mutilated corpse of the "terrorist".
This attack is generally interpreted as proof that the United Kingdom is not implicated in international terrorism and that, on the contrary, it is a victim of it.
Salman Abedi was born in the UK of a family of Libyan immigrants. He has travelled to Libya several times in the last couple of months, with or without his father.
His father, Ramadan Abedi, with whom Salman lived, is a former officer in (Gaddafi’s) Libyan Intelligence Services. He specialised in the surveillance of the Islamist movement, but two decades later failed to notice that his son had joined Daesh (IS).
In 1992, Ramadan Abedi was allegedly sent back to Libya by Britain’s MI6 and was involved in a 1996 British-devised plot to assassinate Muammar Gaddafi. The operation having been readily exposed, he was exfiltrated by MI6 and transferred back to the UK, where he obtained political asylum. He moved in 1999 to Whalley Range (south of Manchester) where there was already resident a small Libyan Islamist community.
In 1994, Ramadan Abedi returned again to Libya allegedly under MI6’s direction. In late 1995, he is involved in the creation of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), a local branch of Al-Qaeda, in conjunction with Abdelhakim Belhadj. The LIFG was then allegedly employed by MI6 again to assassinate Gaddafi, for a payoff of £100,000. This operation, which also failed, provoked heated exchanges within British Intelligence, leading to the resignation of one David Shayler.
EXCLUSIVE: UK government helped Mancunian Libyans join rebel groups in Libya, say former fighters https://t.co/50g7Wxiy4m pic.twitter.com/KXGcFCapKO
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Other former members of the LIFG have also lived at Whalley Range, including Abedi’s friend Abd al-Baset-Azzouz. In 2009, this last joined Al-Qaeda in Pakistan and became a close associate of its chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri. In 2011, al-Baset-Azzouz was active on the ground with the NATO operation against Libya. On 11 September 2012, he allegedly directed the operation against the U.S. Ambassador in Libya, Christopher Stevens, who was assassinated at Benghazi. He is arrested in Turkey and extradited to the US in December 2014, his trial still pending.
Nobody has paid attention to the fact that Ramadan Abedi has linked LIFG members to the formation of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and, in 2011, he took part in MI6’s "Arab Spring" operations, as well as in LIFG’s role on the ground in support of NATO. In any event, Abedi returned to Libya after the fall of Gaddafi and moved his family there, leaving his older children in the family home at Whalley Range.
According to the former Spanish Prime Minister José Maria Aznar, Abdelhakim Belhadj was involved in the assassinations in Madrid of 11 March 2004. Later, he was secretly arrested in Malaysia by the CIA and transferred to Libya, where he was allegedly tortured, not by Libyan or American functionaries, but by MI6 agents. He was finally freed after the accord between Gaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, and the jihadists.
During the Libyan war, Belhadj, who had been living in Qatar, returned to Libya, courtesy of the Qatari Emir, and commanded the operations on the ground in league with NATO. On 28 July 2011, he allegedly organised the assassination of General Abdul Fatah Younis, who claimed to have joined the "rebels", but who Belhadj accused of overseeing the struggle against the LIFG during the 1990s.
In September 2011, Belhadj was named military governor of Tripoli by NATO. In 2012, seconded by the Irish-Libyan Mahdi al-Hatari, he created the Free Syrian Army, then returned again to Libya. On 2 May 2014, he is received officially at the Quai d’Orsay (the French Foreign Ministry).
Here is John Mccain @SenJohnMcCain with Abdelhakim #Belhadj, an ex Libyan Al Qaeda leader & ex leader of the LIFG pic.twitter.com/DDUgtXwINR
— Brasco_Aad (@Brasco_Aad) May 24, 2017
In December 2013, following the discovery in the archives of Gaddafi’s Libyan regime of a letter from the former chief of MI6, Belhadj launches proceedings in London against the UK for having kidnapped and tortured him nine years earlier. British Intelligence then illegally places his lawyers under phone-tapping, although it is ultimately constrained to destroy the intelligence obtained.
According to Egyptian Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat, in May 2015, Belhadj became Daesh’ most senior figure in North Africa, this claim being taken up by Interpol. Belhadj installed three training camps for Daesh in Libya at Derna (in the former property of Abd al-Baset-Azzouz), at Syrte and at Sebrata. In October 2016, he launched in London new legal proceedings regarding his kidnapping and torture, this time nominally against the former director of MI6, Sir Mark Allen.
Daesh has claimed responsibility for the Manchester attack, but without describing Salman Abedi as a "martyr". After the assassination, Ramadan Abedi declared his opposition to jihad in a telephone conversation with journalists. He has also claimed that his son had intended to spend the month of Ramadan, beginning 26 May, with him in Libya and that he is convinced of his innocence.
This article was originally published by Voltairenet.org on 24 May and has been republished with permission. It was translated from its original French by Dr Evan Jones.
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