Kathianne
05-27-2017, 11:31 AM
his plans. pete311 guess his family wasn't taking care of him either?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/26/exclusive-manchester-suicide-bomber-used-student-loan-benefits/
Exclusive: Manchester suicide bomber used student loan and benefits to fund terror plot Robert Mendick (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/robert-mendick/), chief reporter
Martin Evans (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/martin-evans/)
Victoria Ward (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/victoria-ward/)
<time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2017-05-27T10:57+0100" class="article-date-published" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.4rem; line-height: 2rem; font-family: "Telesans Text Regular", Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">27 MAY 2017 • 10:57AM
</time>The Manchester suicide bomber used taxpayer-funded student loans and benefits to bankroll the terror plot, police believe.
Salman Abedi is understood to have received thousands of pounds in state funding in the run up to Monday’s atrocity even while he was overseas receiving bomb-making training.
Police are investigating Abedi’s finances, including how he paid for frequent trips to Libya where he is thought to have been taught to make bombs at a jihadist training camp.
In further developments, a barber shop in Manchester was raided with one theory that Abedi may have obtained hydrogen peroxide - a chemical used in the hairdressing industry but which can also be used to construct bombs - from the salon. (Two of his cousins owned the barber shop. They've been arrested.)
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Abedi was given at least £7,000 from the taxpayer-funded Student Loans Company after beginning a business administration degree at Salford University in October 2015.
It is thought he received a further £7,000 in the 2016 academic year even though by then he had already dropped out of the course. Salford University declined to say if it had informed the Student Loans Company that Abedi’s funding should have been stopped.
Separately, the Department for Work and Pensions refused to say if Abedi had received any benefits, including housing benefit and income support worth up to £250 a week, during 2015 and 2016. It would only say he was not claiming benefits in the weeks before the attack.
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Abedi, 22, never held down a job, according to neighbours and friends, but was able to travel regularly between the UK and Libya.
Abedi also had sufficient funds to buy materials for his sophisticated bomb while living in a rented house in south Manchester.
Six weeks before the bombing Abedi rented a second property in a block of flats in Blackley eight miles from his home, paying £700 in cash.
He had enough money to rent a third property in the centre of Manchester from where he set off with a backpack containing the bomb.
Abedi also withdrew £250 in cash three days before the attack and transferred £2,500 to his younger brother Hashim in Libya, who is accused of knowing about the attack in advance.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/26/exclusive-manchester-suicide-bomber-used-student-loan-benefits/
Exclusive: Manchester suicide bomber used student loan and benefits to fund terror plot Robert Mendick (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/robert-mendick/), chief reporter
Martin Evans (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/martin-evans/)
Victoria Ward (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/victoria-ward/)
<time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2017-05-27T10:57+0100" class="article-date-published" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.4rem; line-height: 2rem; font-family: "Telesans Text Regular", Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">27 MAY 2017 • 10:57AM
</time>The Manchester suicide bomber used taxpayer-funded student loans and benefits to bankroll the terror plot, police believe.
Salman Abedi is understood to have received thousands of pounds in state funding in the run up to Monday’s atrocity even while he was overseas receiving bomb-making training.
Police are investigating Abedi’s finances, including how he paid for frequent trips to Libya where he is thought to have been taught to make bombs at a jihadist training camp.
In further developments, a barber shop in Manchester was raided with one theory that Abedi may have obtained hydrogen peroxide - a chemical used in the hairdressing industry but which can also be used to construct bombs - from the salon. (Two of his cousins owned the barber shop. They've been arrested.)
...
Abedi was given at least £7,000 from the taxpayer-funded Student Loans Company after beginning a business administration degree at Salford University in October 2015.
It is thought he received a further £7,000 in the 2016 academic year even though by then he had already dropped out of the course. Salford University declined to say if it had informed the Student Loans Company that Abedi’s funding should have been stopped.
Separately, the Department for Work and Pensions refused to say if Abedi had received any benefits, including housing benefit and income support worth up to £250 a week, during 2015 and 2016. It would only say he was not claiming benefits in the weeks before the attack.
...
Abedi, 22, never held down a job, according to neighbours and friends, but was able to travel regularly between the UK and Libya.
Abedi also had sufficient funds to buy materials for his sophisticated bomb while living in a rented house in south Manchester.
Six weeks before the bombing Abedi rented a second property in a block of flats in Blackley eight miles from his home, paying £700 in cash.
He had enough money to rent a third property in the centre of Manchester from where he set off with a backpack containing the bomb.
Abedi also withdrew £250 in cash three days before the attack and transferred £2,500 to his younger brother Hashim in Libya, who is accused of knowing about the attack in advance.
...