Identity Of Manchester Arena Attacker Revealed

The identity of the man who murdered 22 people and injured 59 others in the dreadful Manchester Arena attack has been revealed.

The attacker has been named as a 22 year old Salman Ramadan Abedi, a Mancunian of Libyan descent.

Police confirmed the 22-year-old’s identity after officials in the United States passed it to news reporters, apparently against the wishes of the British police and security services.

Salman Abedi is thought to have been known to both the police and the security services. A few hours after the attack, Islamic State claimed it had been carried out by “a caliphate soldier”.

Even before Abedi was named, several members of south Manchester’s Libyan community wondered whether the suicide bomber would turn out to be one of their own: perhaps one of the young men who had fought in Libya during the 2011 revolution, some of whom came home traumatised, angry and unsettled.

But none appear to have suspected that Abedi - a slightly withdrawn, devout young man, always respectful to his elders - would become a mass murderer.

“Salman? I’m astonished by this,” one member of Manchester’s Libyan community told the Guardian.  

“He was such a quiet boy, always very respectful towards me. His brother Ismael is outgoing, but Salman was very quiet. He is such an unlikely person to have done this.”

However, an Imam told The Telegraph that Salman “had shown him “the face of hate” when he gave a talk warning on the dangers of so-called Islamic State“. He claimed he wasn’t surprised that Abedi is a suspect in this sort of crime as he had a face of hate and was “a dangerous extremist“.

A neighbor described him as a loner who “wore mainly traditional Islamic clothes” and gave him the middle finger when he complained to him about bad parking.

Other reports say Salman would stand in the street and chant Islamic verses loudly. Salman attended Manchester’s Salford University where he studied Business and Management but dropped out after two years as he rarely attended classes or participated in activities.

Police authorities say he used an “improvised explosive device” in the attack. Salman Abedi also died in the explosion.