What we know so far:
- The Manchester Arena was hit by at least one explosion during a concert by Ariana Grande
- Police confirm 22 Dead, around 59 injured
- Police state it is ‘possible terrorist incident’
- UK officials suspect it was caused by suicide bomber.
- Senior counter-terrorism officials meeting in London
- Police warn people to stay away from area
- Emergency services rush to scene
- Ariana Grande ‘Okay’ following the incident
Here is the summary: A man armed with an “improvised” bomb has killed at least 22 people and injured 59 outside a concert arena filled with teenagers in central Manchester on Monday night, in the worst terrorism incident in the UK since 2005. Police said the bomber, who died in the explosion, detonated the device shortly after the end of a concert by US pop star Ariana Grande at about 10.30pm. The incident adds the northern English city to the growing list of recent western targets that includes London, Paris, Stockholm and Berlin.
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Quoted by the FT, Ian Hopkins, chief constable of Greater Manchester police, said they were still attempting to determine whether the attacker “was acting alone or was part of a network”.
“This has been the most horrific incident we have had to face in Greater Manchester and one that we all hoped we would never see,” Mr Hopkins said at a news conference on Tuesday morning. “Families and many young people were out to enjoy a concert at the Manchester Arena and have lost their lives… We believe, at this stage, the attack last night was conducted by one man,” Hopkins told reporters. “The priority is to establish whether he was acting alone or as part of a network.
British political leaders, who were in the middle of a general election race, halted all campaigning. Prime Minister Theresa May was scheduled to chair a meeting of the cabinet’s emergency Cobra committee on Tuesday morning.
“We are working to establish the full details of what is being treated by the police as an appalling terrorist attack,” Mrs May said. “All our thoughts are with the victims and the families of those who have been affected.”
Prime Minister Theresa May called an emergency meeting with intelligence chiefs on the deadliest militant assault in Britain since four British Muslims killed 52 people in suicide bombings on London’s transport system in July 2005. Witnesses related the horror of the blast which prompted a stampede just as the concert ended at Europe’s largest indoor arena.
“We ran and people were screaming around us and pushing on the stairs to go outside and people were falling down, girls were crying, and we saw these women being treated by paramedics having open wounds on their legs … it was just chaos,” said Sebastian Diaz, 19.
“It was literally just a minute after it ended, the lights came on and the bomb went off,” Diaz said.
U.S. President Donald Trump described the attack as the work of “evil losers”. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it “will only strengthen our resolve to…work together with our British friends against those who plan and carry out such inhumane deeds.”
According to AP, there was no immediate claim of responsibility. Online, supporters of the extremist Islamic State group, which holds territory in Iraq’s Mosul and around its de facto capital in the Syrian city of Raqqa, celebrated the blast. One wrote: “May they taste what the weak people in Mosul and (Raqqa) experience from their being bombed and burned,” according to the U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group.
“A huge bomb-like bang went off that hugely panicked everyone and we were all trying to flee the arena,” said concertgoer Majid Khan, 22. “It was one bang and essentially everyone from the other side of the arena where the bang was heard from suddenly came running towards us as they were trying to exit.” Added Oliver Jones, 17: “The bang echoed around the foyer of the arena and people started to run.” Video from inside the arena showed concertgoers screaming as they made their way out amid a sea of pink balloons.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said the government was working to establish “the full details of what is being treated by the police as an appalling terrorist attack.” May is due to chair a meeting of the government’s COBRA emergency committee later Tuesday. She and other candidates suspended campaigning for Britain’s June 8 election after the blast.
Police advised the public to avoid the area around the Manchester Arena, and the train station near the arena, Victoria Station, was evacuated and all trains canceled.
The Dangerous Woman tour is the third concert tour by 23-year-old Grande and supports her third studio album, “Dangerous Woman.” Grande’s role as Cat Valentine on Nickelodeon’s high school sitcom “Victorious” propelled her to teen idol status, starting in 2010.
Who (ideology) could have possibly done this?
I should be a member of the UK police – they have zero clues on the perp/group responsible.
Such a Mystery!!!!!!!
Having heard arianna grande’s music, am still wondering why he waited until it was over before detonation. If it was me, ida popped it off halfway thru the first song. Terrible, just the worst music. So not only did people have to listen to the music, but they got blown up only afterwards. A true tragedy.
If my sarcasm is too much for you, lets keep in mind this all could have been prevented with the word “NO”, as in, no just go home.
FWIW, apparently he knew he couldn’t get past security to enter the concert itself so he blew up the lobby when it was at its most crowded time and he would be least noticed or denied access as people left.
It was a better plan than most people will credit it being, well planned and thought out to do the most killing possible with the least risk of failure. Better and more intelligent planning for mass killing is not a good thing.
“WIW, apparently he knew he couldn’t get past security to enter the concert itself so he blew up the lobby”
Most dangerous part of an airport is the mob scene in FRONT of the security check. This is why the TSA is a joke.
Exactly right, and contrary to popular belief among the sheeple, terrorists are not necessarily stupid – they are soldiers and they train and they think, just like we do. If we want to keep our liberties intact, we must out-think and out-fight them. First step, stop the mass migration and send them back to the Middle East – you can dump them at the port for all I care. Second, once the legal migration has been stopped we must stop illegal immigration that allows them to infiltrate our countries. Third, pull up our big boy pants and actually wage war against the terrorists instead of worrying about how Islam is perceived and potential backlash against “peaceful” Muslims – I spent a lot of my life in the Middle East and there just ain’t no such thing.
The problem is, individuals can change their minds, but no one can change their genetic code. The children and grandchildren of people genetically predisposed to alien cultures will still be alien and fertile soil for recruiting violent jihadis.
High fences and wide oceans make for good neighbors. They all have to go back.
And Trump was criticized for banning Muslims from terror prone areas or nations and Obama was praised as he changed the face of America by importing people with a culture that encourages efforts like this .
I knew when liberals around the world opened their borders nothing good could come from it . It may be time for Americans to isolate ourselves in our homeland and let American steel do the talking when a terror group gets on with it . You can be sure terror is coming to a street near you soon and the previous adminastration (Obama) helped them set up shop !
@ Boat Guy: just last week, in Minnesota. Who knows what they might have done.
http://www.startribune.com/routine-arrest-leads-minneapolis-police-to-arsenal/422377353/
Islamic State Claims Responsibility For Manchester Bombing
by Tyler Durden
May 23, 2017 8:22 AM
Following the horrific events last night in Manchester in which a bombing at an Ariana Grande concert, primarily attended by teenagers, claimed the lives of at least 22 people, we’re just now learning that the Islamic State is claiming responsibility for the attack.
Here is the statement from the Islamic State:
“With Allah’s grace and support, a soldier of the Khilafah managed to place explosive devices in the midst of the gatherings of the Crusaders in the British city of Manchester, in revenge for Allah’s religion, in an endeavor to terrorize the mushrikin, and in response to their transgressions against the land of the Muslims. The explosive devices were detonated in the shameless concert arena, resulting in 30 Crusaders being killed and 70 others being wounded. And what comes next will be more severe on the worshipers of the Cross and their allies, by Allah’s permission. And all praises due to Allah, Lord of the creation.”
Of course, this is not a terribly surprising outcome given some of the disturbing messages posted to Twitter last night in which Islamic State supporters celebrated the attack. Per Yahoo News:
“It seems that bombs of the British airforce over children of Mosul and Raqqa has just came back to #Manchester,” one user named Abdul Haqq said on Twitter, in reference to the Iraqi and Syrian cities held by the militants where a U.S.-led coalition, of which Britain is a member, is conducting air strikes.
Supporters posted messages encouraging each other to carry out “lone wolf” attacks in the West and shared Islamic State videos threatening the United States and Europe.
One user said he hoped Islamic State was responsible for the attack, although no claim has appeared on any of the militant’s group’s official social media channels.
“We hope that the perpetrator is one of the soldiers of the caliphate,” he wrote on a channel affiliated to the group hosted by messaging network Telegram.
Others posted banners saying “the beginning is in Brussels and Paris, and in London we form a state,” in reference to previous similar “lone wolf” attacks in Belgium and France for which the group has claimed responsibility.
Sounds like a moslem to me.
Europeans from the 1400s must be fucking spinning in their graves.
I don’t give a fuck about these savages and it’s GD mind numbing to try and reconcile WhyTF we are allowing them into our country. The solution is staring us right in the face-it’s like we’re injecting ourselves with cancer and expecting no negative consequences.
Who’s the “we” to whom you refer, Kemosabe?
It’s the assholes who surround me who are inviting the culturally inimical aliens. There’s not one damn thing I can do about it for the time being. I expect that condition to change, however.
Bomber was “known to the Authorities.”
How long until we see citizens line up to stone the individuals who signed off on leaving those “known” threats among them?
Time to stone. Bricks are appropriate substitutes.
I knew he was going to be Irish!!!
CBS Reports Suspected Manchester Attacker Is 23-Year-Old Salman Abedi
How did they discover that? You’d think that he’d been reduced to molecule sized pieces.
The Surname Abedi is most commonly Iranian (or Pakistani). Iranian terrorism!!!
He’s Libyan
Probably a refugee from when we “liberated” Libya.
Hillary Clinton. The gift that keeps on giving.
The Brits have already officially announced this was a terror attack, something we still haven’t done about San Bernardino and Orlando AFIK.
FWIW, isn’t Ariana Grande the America hating doughnut licker? I wonder if this incident will have any influence on her future politics?
I predict Grande will put on a “benefit” concert to help refugees everywhere, but I further predict that she will insist on full-body pat-downs for attendees.
People like her are talented in their own way (at riding the fashion zeitgeist and getting rich thereby), but stupid as a brick in ways that matter.
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Going to get worse before it gets better. A LOT worse.
As long as stocks bump the stratosphere, we know that social mood is high and as long as social mood is high, people will remain trusting and open to the point of suicide and pathology. No public policies will change.
When this Long Boom in social mood finally….FINALLY….ends, and all that trust and openness turns to fear and rage, violence will skyrocket and each increase will fuel even more fear and rage.
Eventually, I predict that mixing in culturally alien peoples everywhere will simply create a target-rich environment. People will attempt to segregate, first by driving out those with whom they don’t identify, and ultimately by slaughtering them.
The longer this antebellum period lasts, the more future horrors it embeds, and the higher the pyramids of human skulls will stack in the future.
Must have been the Jews!
Obviously not directly. How do you think British Jews voted on the Brexit referendum? Where do most Jews (especially in the media) stand on “refugees” invading the West? How about on the supposed need to overthrow Assad? This terrorism is the direct result of the globalism and open borders espoused by most Jews (and others).
Iska – Britain only has around 250,000 Jews, of all ages. The 100,000 or so that vote – I doubt they sway many elections. The Muslim population is about 3 million. They got a Muslim mayor of London elected.
Wonder how they vote on immigration, refugees, and such?
Britain has reached tipping point. When a nation hits a Muslim population around the 5 – 7% mark, things turn to shit.
France has passed the point of no return, too.
“The EU should “do its best to undermine” the “homogeneity” of its member states, the UN’s special representative for migration has said.
–Peter Sutherland, ex Goldman International CEO, President of the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC), former Attorney General of Ireland, and Soros shill.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18519395
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/08/20/soros-leaks-un-chief-behind-scenes-advocate/
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/partners/srsg.shtml
So, yes, ultimately, it literally was Jews that caused this. They are terrorist collaborators and enablers.
Decent of you to point it out.
The ‘slums are well past the raping women stage and on to murdering western children.
An eye for an eye.
maybe it was a blood sacrifice and not a terror attack, puts things in a fresher perspective
This will continue until:
We hunt them down and kill them. Then we kill their wives ,children,brothers and sisters,uncles and aunts and cousins. Then we kill their imam and bomb their mosque on Friday.
We are involved in a horrible kind of war and will lose if we do not fight it appropriately.
“We are working to establish the full details of what is being treated by the police as an appalling terrorist attack,” Mrs May said. “All our thoughts are with the victims and the families of those who have been affected.”
LMAO at this statement. More like: “We are working to establish the full coverup of what is being treated by the police as an appalling terrorist attack. All our thoughts are with the ‘refugees’ and their families who may be affected.”
((Ariana Grande))
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariana_Grande
Grande was raised a Roman Catholic but abandoned Catholicism during the reign of Pope Benedict XVI,[253] citing opposition to the church’s stance on homosexuality,[6][254] noting that her half-brother is gay.[255] She has followed Kabbalah teachings since the age of twelve, along with her brother Frankie,[256] believing “the basis lies in the idea that if you’re kind to others, good things will happen to you.”[257] A few of her songs, such as “Break Your Heart Right Back”, are supportive of LGBT rights.[258]
Kabbalah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah
Kabbalah (Hebrew: קַבָּלָה, literally “receiving/tradition”[1]) is an esoteric method, discipline, and school of thought that originated in Judaism. A traditional Kabbalist in Judaism is called a Mekubbal (Hebrew: מְקוּבָּל).
((Ariana Grande)) is just another ((Disney)) star for a new generation. The Goyim/Gentile kids watch the ((Disney)) channel’s ((stars)) and “grow up” with them. The kids dance and sing to children’s songs and mimic the ((stars)) new found “grown up” activities (e.g. sex, drugs, etc).
((WHY)) are all of ((her)) songs about degenerate anti-Christian/moral behavior?
((Madonna)), ((Miley Cyrus)) aka ((Hannah Montana)), ((Ashton Kutcher)), ((Mila Kunis)), etc.
Kabbalah Centre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah_Centre
Celebrity followers[edit]
Other celebrities that have been associated with the Centre include Britney Spears, Roseanne Barr, Sandra Bernhard, Anthony Kiedis, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Mick Jagger, Jerry Hall, Lucy Liu, Alex Rodriguez, Rosie O’Donnell, Naomi Campbell, Donna Karan, Elizabeth Taylor, Mischa Barton, Paris Hilton, Ariana Grande[19][20] Nicole Richie, James Van Der Beek, Kyle Richards,[21] Heather McComb and Lindsay Lohan.[22]
How come ALL of these ((celebrities)) are ((Zionists))?
The “get them while they are young” aka “corrupt the youth” strategy is found in the ((The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion)).
((Why)) isn’t the “Holocaust” “taught” in college? ((Why)) is it ONLY in middle school?
((WHO)) created ((ISIS))?
((WHY)) has ((ISIS)) NEVER ATTACKED ((ISRAEL))?
Inquiring minds want to know!
A bunch of mindless, navel-gazing celebrities get a chubby for some sect of some supposedly mystical religion.
In other news, water is wet.
So they think Islamic State (ISIS) did it. Couldn’t be the same ISIS we fund and support could it. They claim they identified him because he left one of those bombproof ID’s issued by “Alah” to suicide bombers so he knows who to give the virgins to, seeing as how he was blown to smithereens.
You guys of all people, falling for that hate the Muslims kill em all deep state narrative. It tells me you don’t believe all the bullshit you spout about the deep state being the enemy. This Diversity, Muslim refugee hordes, Ariana Sleaze value corruption plot etc. is all deep state orchestrated, but they’ve got you hating Muslims for not thanking us for bombing half the Muslim world to smithereens. I suppose by that logic the Muzzies are causing the latest Heroin Epidemic and not the Deep State.
You guys of all people should be able to see through all this.
Cant we hate the deep state AND backwards psycho muslims as well?
Greetings,
I’m coming late to this party but I’ve got a few comments I’d like to bring up.
First, I’ve wondered for a years why these very soft targets have not been hit. A concert or sporting event is the perfect place to take out large numbers of people on your way to 72 Virgins Land. If the authorities follow the same path as they did with the fake liquid bombing plot where people with no knowledge of explosives, no passports and no plane tickets were going to cook up explosives and blow up airplanes then I can predict that it will soon be next to impossible to go attend a concert or sporting event without so much grief as to make it not worth going.
How will the super liberal celebrities feel when they can no longer earn a living by fleecing children at these lip-synch’ed performances? How wonderfully liberal and welcoming will they be when the tours come to an end?
Ariana Grande is a corrupt little bitch like Katy Perry and Hannah Montana. That is a whole other subject. Mohammedans bombed a crowd of people to spread terror and we have people on this site going off on anti- Semitic rants. Get real.
“Mohammedans bombed a crowd of people to spread terror and we have people on this site going off on anti- Semitic rants. Get real.” – overthecliff
What are the ((GOALS)) of the ((NWO))?
Is youth corruption at the top of their list?
((WHO)) INVITES and FORCES Islam into the WEST?
((WHO)) is ((ISIS))?
((WHO)) runs the ((NWO))?