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The security service MI5 missed a significant chance to take action that might have prevented the Manchester Arena attack, an inquiry has found.
Chairman Sir John Saunders said the reasons for the missed opportunity included a “failure” by an MI5 officer to act swiftly enough.
Twenty-two people were killed when Salman Abedi detonated a homemade bomb after a concert on 22 May 2017.
The youngest was just eight years old. The public inquiry found Abedi was probably assisted by someone in Libya.
It is the first time an official conclusion has been made about the possible involvement of other people from abroad.
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Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest.
The sovereign state is made of three historical regions: Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica. The largest city and capital, Tripoli, is located in western Libya and contains over three million of Libya’s seven million people. The second-largest city is Benghazi, which is located in eastern Libya.
Libya became independent as a kingdom in 1951. A military coup in 1969 overthrew King Idris I. Parts of Libya are currently split between rival Tobruk and Tripoli-based governments, as well as various tribal and Islamist militias.
Libya is a member of the United Nations (since 1955), the Non-Aligned Movement, the Arab League, the OIC and OPEC. The country’s official religion is Islam, with 96.6% of the Libyan population being Sunni Muslims.
The Security Service, also known as MI5, is the United Kingdom’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service, Government Communications Headquarters, and Defence Intelligence.
