This is why it is necessary to deny these people some of our civil liberties:
From Breitbart concerning Manchester attack:
Mr. Ramadan said he believed that that report led to Abedi being placed on a watch list, yet he was allowed to travel to Libya and Syria repeatedly, before returning to Manchester to carry out his deadly plot.
Last night Home Secretary Amber Ruddadmitted*that Abedi had been known to the British security services, whilst U.S. intelligence has confirmed he was also known to them.
France’s interior minister has said Abedi had “proven” links with Islamic State, and that both French and British intelligence had information that he had been to Syria.
But Frank Gardner, the BBC’s security correspondent,*told*Radio 4’s*Today*the opportunities were missed because the threat is so widespread.
“This comes down to numbers,” Gardner said. “If they told us how many people had these extreme views just across the UK we wouldn’t sleep at night. It’s in the thousands.
“They haven’t got the ‘watchers’ – they haven’t got the capability to follow all of those people, so they have to go where they think the danger is the most imminent and the most serious.”
A*security source told Sky News: “MI5 are working on 500 active investigations involving some 3,000 subjects of interest at any one time. Abedi was one of a larger pool of former subjects of interest whose risk remained subject to review by MI5 and its partners.”
“Where former subjects of interest show known risks of re-engaging in terrorism, MI5 can consider reopening the investigation. This process relies on inevitable difficult judgements based on partial information,” the statement added.
Eight arrests have now been made in connection to the plot, but police have admitted that with each arrest and new location discovered, the web of involvement widens. Just over 36 hours in, the investigation is already being described as “vast”.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/05/25/manchester-bomber-repeatedly-reported-authorities-friends