FBI ‘warned MI5 Manchester bomber was planning an attack’

FBI ‘warned MI5 Manchester bomber was planning an attack’

• The FBI told MI5 that Abedi was planning an attack in Britain in January this year
• But they thought he might be planning to assassinate a key political figure
• MI5 investigated but ‘nothing came of it’ and he slipped down the pecking order
• It will pile more pressure on MI5 to reveal when and how they knew of Abedi 

UK security chiefs were warned in January that Salman Abedi was planning an attack in Britain, it was claimed last night.

According to a security source, the FBI told MI5 that Abedi was part of a North African Islamic State cell plotting to strike a political target in the UK.

The information came from a US investigation into Abedi and his links to terrorist groups in Libya. The Mail on Sunday has also been told that US security services put him on a terror watch list – used by agents to identify key suspects – in 2016.

Source: FBI ‘warned MI5 Manchester bomber was planning an attack’ – Webgrio.com