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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
John Scheerhout

Leaders of Didsbury Mosque attended by Arena bomber guilty of 'wilful blindness' to highly-charged debate about Libya conflict before atrocity, inquiry finds

The leaders of a mosque attended by Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi were guilty of ‘wilful blindness’ to highly-charged political debate about the conflict raging in Libya before the atrocity, the public inquiry into the atrocity has found.

But Didsbury Mosque was not an ‘active factor or cause’ in the radicalisation of suicide bomber Salman Abedi and his accomplice brother Hashem.

The south Manchester mosque was today (Thursday, March 2) heavily criticised in the third and final report of the public inquiry into the atrocity, which examined the radicalisation of the bomber, although it was not an ‘active factor’ in that radicalisation.

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