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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 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.
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.
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 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.
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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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