https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-59392950
The Manchester Arena bomber’s elder brother had a “significant” amount of extremist material when he was teaching at a mosque, an inquiry has heard.
Ismail Abedi helped with Quran reading in Arabic in classes at Didsbury Mosque between February 2014 and July 2017.
The Manchester Arena Inquiry was told images of him and his brothers holding weapons and pro-Islamic State material was found on his devices in 2015.
A mosque trustee told the inquiry “no radicalisation” was taught there.
Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated his homemade device at the venue on 22 May 2017.
The inquiry into the attack was shown a number of photographs which were recovered in 2015 when Ismail Abedi was stopped at Heathrow Airport on his return from honeymoon in Indonesia.
An investigation uncovered a “significant” amount of material supporting the Islamic State group, including music encouraging suicide missions and a “very disturbing” Facebook post of a man being burned to death in a cage, to which Ismail had added the caption “looking for seasoned firewood”.
Also downloaded were images, which were believed to have been taken in Libya around the time of the country’s civil war in 2011, of both Ismail and Salman Abedi and their younger brother, Hashem Abedi, who was jailed for life for aiding the bombing.
All three were pictured holding various weapons, while another undated photograph of Ismail showed him outside a bookshop pointing to a book about the Islamic State group….
