Could The Manchester Bombing Have Been Prevented Had The Security Services Acted More Efficiently?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6012701/Why-DID-hide-truth-Manchester-bomber.html

[Rockrose]

Your question is about the security services but your headline is about the Royal Navy rescuing him and that being kept secret - so which do you want answered please.

[Rockrose]

//MI5 closed his file as a result of mistaken identify a month prior to his evacuation from Libya in 2014//
And mistake identity is easily done.

[anotheoldgit]

Perhaps it would help you if you read the report islay,

/// Security services had concerns about Abedi seven months before the rescue ///

[anotheoldgit]

/// Salman Abedi was one of 110 Britons rescued by the Royal Navy from Libya ///

'BRITONS'??????

One reason that I demand to be called 'ENGLISH'.

[Rockrose]

Yes I have read the newspaper article (hardly a report is it) and the majority of it is about people complaining about the Royal Navy rescuing him - there are a few bylines about MI5 knowing about him - but how can anyone comment on the comings and goings of MI5 based on a few lines published in The Daily Mail.
My name is Rockrose please call me as such or I shall be forced to report you to the Editor.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Can't remember where I saw this, but it was a placard with something like this on it:

"They're not dangerous. They're in danger."

A message from the pure of heart to xenophobes everywhere.

[andy-hughes]

Rockrose - //My name is Rockrose please call me as such or I shall be forced to report you to the Editor. //

If AOG has inadvertently called you by another user's name, it is probably a simple oversight, and there is no need to be unpleasant about it.

If you feel there is a hidden agenda, then the place to take it up is with the Editor, privately, rather than letting spats derail the thread.

[Rockrose]

Andy, he has called me and Minky by Islay for several weeks now it is draining and is on purpose.

[Mamyalynne]

It isn't an oversight, he's been doing it on other threads too - agree re letting the Editor deal with it.

Re the OP - the answer has to be - possibly it could have prevented but we shall never know.

[Rockrose]

And as he chose to derail his own thread - who am I to argue?

[andy-hughes]

I don't think the Security Services are in the business of keeping the public up to date with information on people of interest.


One - it would be far too time and money-consuming.

Two - being of interest does not mean you have done anything wrong, you let's not encourage a visit from vigilante boneheads on the basis of your name being revealsed.

[andy-hughes]

Rockrose - // Andy, he has called me and Minky by Islay for several weeks now it is draining and is on purpose. //

Then, as I said, take it up with the Editor off-line - the thread is not the place for this, and it will possibly result in the thread being closed if it carries on.

[ummmm]

Oh Andy...please...you derail threads on a daily basis.

[andy-hughes]

ummmm - // Oh Andy...please...you derail threads on a daily basis. //

Then you should be setting a better example, by discontinuing the derailment of this one with off-post observations.

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

Thank you.

But back to the thread:

/// I don't think the Security Services are in the business of keeping the public up to date with information on people of
interest. ///

Agree, but don't you think that if they had taken more interest in him, perhaps all those killed and injured would now still be living a normal life?