How Manchester bomber Salman Abedi took his twisted revenge out of 'love for Islam' after being radicalised by Isil preacher

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/25/manchester-bomber-salman-abedi-took-twisted-revenge-love-islam/

Salman Abedi become increasingly violent over the course of the past year

• Robert Mendick, Chief Reporter
• Victoria Ward
• Ben Farmer, Defence Correspondent

26 May 2017 • 11:28am

Salman Abedi launched his suicide attack out of ‘a love of Islam’ and in twisted revenge for US airstrikes on Syria, his sister has claimed.
Jamona Abedi failed to condemn her brother’s murderous actions but instead claimed to offer an explanation for the atrocity, in which 22 innocent people, many of them children, were killed.

Miss Abedi, who lives in the Libyan capital Tripoli, said her brother had become increasingly violent over the course of the past year, convinced that Muslims were under attack both in the UK and abroad.

 

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Miss Abedi, who posted a prayer in mourning for her brother on her Facebook page, suggested the bombing of Syria ordered by President Trump in early April had been the final straw; the catalyst for Monday night’s carnage.

“He did what he did in revenge, and in love for Islam,” said Miss Abedi. “I think he saw children – Muslim children – dying everywhere, and wanted revenge. He saw the explosives America drops on children in Syria, and he wanted revenge.”
She told the Wall Street Journal: “But still, I never thought my brother would ever do this one day. Looking at how he was with us, we didn’t expect him to do what he did.”

She said her brother had been upset a year earlier by the death of Abdul Wahab Hafidah, 18, known as ‘Mudz’ to his friends, who was killed in May last year.

Abdul Wahab Hafidah, 18, was pursued through Moss Side and across one of the Manchester's main commuter routes in front of shocked motorists during the evening rush-hour before he was cornered and attacked with hammers and knives, a court heard Credit: MEN

Mr Hafidah was – like Abedi – brought up in Manchester to Libyan parents, part of a tight-knit community in the city.

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