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Ariana Grande concert bomber lawsuit

Details have come out that security personnel saw the bomber carrying in the bomb. They noticed
he was acting very suspicious and they all wanted to pull him aside and question him. But they could
not do that because they could tell he was Middle eastern, and they were afraid of getting fired due
to racism.

LONDON (AP) — A legal claim against Britain’s domestic intelligence agency by more than 300 survivors of a bombing that killed 22 people at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in Manchester was rejected Friday by a special tribunal.

Judges on the U.K.’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal said the claimants waited too long to bring their case, which alleged that MI5 violated their human rights by failing to take measures that could have prevented the disaster.

Suicide bomber Salman Abedi set up a knapsack bomb in Manchester Arena at the end of Grande’s concert on May 22, 2017, as thousands of young fans were leaving. As well as the 22 dead, more than 100 people were injured, many of them children and teenagers. Abedi died in the explosion.

An official inquiry reported last year that MI5 didn’t act swiftly enough on key information and missed a significant opportunity to prevent the bombing, the deadliest extremist attack in the U.K. in recent years.
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Security guards at the 2017 Ariana Grande show where 22 fans were slaughtered have admitted having a “bad feeling” when they saw the suicide bomber minutes before the attack — but didn’t do anything because they feared being branded racist, he told a public inquiry.

Kyle Lawler, then 18 and paid just $5.50 an hour, had been alerted to a suspicious-looking Salman Abedi sitting near an exit to the Manchester Arena with a big bag and dressed in heavy clothing on a hot May night, he told a public inquiry into the attack.

As Lawler and a colleague watched the 22-year-old terrorist from 10 feet away, Abedi “became fidgety” and tried to avoid eye contact, Lawler recalled.

“I just had a bad feeling about him … I felt something was wrong,” Lawler told the hearing, saying he felt “conflicted” because even though he “felt that he did not belong there” he “did not know why.”

”I felt unsure about what to do. It’s very difficult to define a terrorist,” he told investigators in a statement read out at the inquiry.

“I did not want people to think that I was stereotyping him because of his race,” he said.

“I was scared of being wrong and being branded a racist … I wanted to get it right and not to mess up by overreacting or judging someone by their race,” he said.

Lawler said he failed to get through to other staff on his radio and started to “panic” because he was certain Abedi was “not [there] for a proper reason,” he said.
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