NATO TRAINED MANCHESTER ARENA ATTACKERS?

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), a political and military alliance of North American and European nations, has, in recent decades, gone to war and invaded Global South countries in the name of fighting terrorism.

NATO’s atrocities against civilians in countries such as Afghanistan have been documented. What is not as well documented is their crimes in the 2011 onslaught in Libya.

NATO claims these military operations are necessary to keep their citizens safe from terrorist attacks. However, an inquiry into the 2017 Manchester Arena terrorist attack in the United Kingdom revealed NATO could be doing the opposite.

Abdalraouf Abdallah is a British-Libyan national serving a nine-and-a-half-year prison sentence for helping British citizens travel to Syria to join ISIS.

When he testified in November 2021 at the inquiry that ran between September 2020 and March 2023, he said Manchester Arena su*cide bomber Salman Abedi was part of NATO-supported militias that fought, overthrew and k*lled former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The country has since devolved into chaos, with multiple forces vying for control and slave markets emerging to sell Africans.

Abdallah said he and Abedi were part of the so-called Tripoli Brigade, which, according to Abdallah’s testimony, received training and material support from NATO.

Abedi k*lled 22 people and himself when he detonated a shrapnel-packed bomb at the Manchester arena on 22 May 2017 during an Ariana Grande concert. It was Britain’s first su*cide bombing attack since 2005.

In 2018, UK-based news outlet the Middle East Eye revealed that in 2011, the British government allowed Libyans living in the UK, including those under counter-terrorism control orders restricting their movement, to travel to the North African country to join the anti-Gaddafi militias. The outlet interviewed sources who claimed that the UK authorities allowed them to travel between the two countries with ‘no questions asked.’

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