22 Dead in Manchester Bombing; ISIS Supporters Celebrate Online
BY PATRICK GOODENOUGH / FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS
Police in Manchester, England confirmed Tuesday that they believe a deadly blast at a music concert venue on Monday night was a terrorist attack carried out by a suicide bomber who died at the scene, killing at least 22 people.
“We have been treating this as a terrorist incident and we believe, at this stage, the attack last night was conducted by one man,” said Greater Manchester police chief constable Ian Hopkins.
“The priority is to establish whether he was acting alone or as part of a network.”
Hopkins said the attacker was believed to have been “carrying an improvised explosive device, which he detonated, causing this atrocity.”
“We would ask people not to speculate on his details or to share names. There is a complex and wide-ranging investigation under way,” he said. “Our priority is to work with the national counter terrorist policing network and U.K. intelligence services to establish more details about the individual who carried out this attack.”
Supporters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) were celebrating online overnight following news of the attack, terrorism analysts reported.
Although there was no official claim of responsibility in the hours after the blast at the city’s Manchester Arena, attempts were clearly being made on social media networks to associate ISIS with it.
Along with the fatalities, 59 people were injured when an explosion occurred at the end of a concert by U.S. singer Ariana Grande, whose fans are typically teen and pre-teen girls.
U.S.-based analyst Michael S. Smith II drew attention to an evidently hastily-produced video clip, posted onto an ISIS-linked channel on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, in which a heavily masked man seeks to link ISIS to the Manchester attack.
“This is only the beginning. The lions of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham are beginning to attack all the crusaders. Allahu akhbar!” says the man, who then holds up a piece of card with the word “Manchester” and Monday’s date scrawled on it.
On Twitter, Smith also posted screenshots of messages on ISIS-linked Telegram channels celebrating the Manchester attack.
Rita Katz, director of the private intelligence group SITE, also reported on pro-ISIS forum users celebrating the attack, described as a “successful and surprising blow” to Britain, and framed as retaliation for British airstrikes against ISIS.
Since late 2014, Britain’s Royal Air Force has carried out more than 1,200 airstrikes against terrorist targets in Iraq and Syria, more than any other member of the anti-ISIS coalition apart from the United States. Britain has more than 1,250 military personnel deployed in the region supporting local forces in the campaign.
Monday night’s terrorist attack was the deadliest on British soil since four al-Qaeda suicide bombers killed 52 people on trains and a bus in London on July 7, 2005.
Britons go to the polls in just over a fortnight’s time in an snap election called by Prime Minister Theresa May in a bid to strengthen her hand in negotiations for leaving the European Union. May’s Conservatives suspended campaigning in the wake of the attack and other parties were expected to do so too.
In the U.S., the Department of Homeland Security said it was closely monitoring the situation in Manchester, and was “working with our foreign counterparts to obtain additional information about the cause of the reported explosion as well as the extent of injuries and fatalities.”
It advised U.S. citizens in the area to maintain security awareness.
“At this time, we have no information to indicate a specific credible threat involving music venues in the United States,” the department said. “However, the public may experience increased security in and around public places and events as officials take additional precautions.”
In a message to her 45.6 million Twitter followers early on Tuesday morning, Ariana Grande said she was “broken” by what had happened, adding “from the bottom of my heart, i am so sorry. i don’t have words.”
The singer’s manager, Scooter Braun, said in a statement, “Words cannot express our sorrow for the victims and families harmed in this senseless attack. We mourn the lives of children and loved ones taken by this cowardly act.”
“We are thankful for the selfless service tonight of Manchester’s first responders who rushed towards danger to help save lives,” said Braun. “We ask all of you to hold the victims, their families and all those affected in your hearts and prayers.”
As reaction came in from around the world, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told parliament in Canberra that the attack was “especially vile, especially criminal, especially horrific because it appears to have been deliberately directed at teenagers.”
“This is an attack on innocence,” he said. “Surely there is no crime more reprehensible than the murder of children. This is a direct and brutal attack on young people everywhere, on freedom everywhere.”
Patrick covered government and politics in South Africa and the Middle East before joining CNSNews.com in 1999. Since then he has launched foreign bureaus for CNSNews.com in Jerusalem, London and the Pacific Rim. From October 2006 to July 2007, Patrick served as Managing Editor at the organization’s world headquarters in Alexandria, Va. Now back in the Pacific Rim, as International Editor he reports on politics, international relations, security, terrorism, ethics and religion, and oversees reporting by CNSNews.com’s roster of international stringers.
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FALSE FLAG FILMED, EDITED, AND READY FOR RELEASE: TARGET: LONDON
Wednesday, May 24, 2017 11:52
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The following comment is courtesy of Jim Stone Freelance
London activated 1000 troops
There are now 1000 troops active on London’s streets, with thousands more scheduled to activate. Now perhaps we have the real reason for the false flag terror attack. They need troops in place for something upcoming that is very big and is going to anger the public badly.
Even if the terror bombing was real, there is absolutely no precedent for having the military respond and put the CITY UNDER MARTIAL LAW. 40 years ago the Irish Republican Army was staging attacks frequently, and the military was not deployed in such a way to handle it. There is something seriously amiss with this, something huge is in the works.
The reports are that the TROOPS ARE CONSPICUOUSLY PLACED, and are stated to be there to stop “terrorist bombings”. However, If you want to deploy people to stop bombings, you don’t hand them a huge gun, put them in military garb, and say GO FOR IT, because that only makes who to avoid obvious to whoever wants to do a bombing. If there was a legitimate deployment to stop bombing incidents, everyone deployed would be in PLAIN CLOTHES to keep any bomber completely oblivious to the fact he might get caught
My guess is that the troops were instead PLACED to SCARE the PUBLIC, and that this false flag was done to excuse putting them on the streets. Now, when the government pulls something big, like defying the people’s will on Brexit the military has already been placed to keep control, and no one will question why they are already there.
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