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In his PJ Media article, "Manchester Massacre Inquiry: Security Could Have Stopped Bomber But Feared Being Branded 'Racist'," Rick Moran writes:
Suicide bomber Salman Abedi could have been stopped by Manchester Arena security before he detonated his homemade bomb that killed 22 mostly young concertgoers in 2017, a British inquiry into the terror attack found.
The witness, security guard Kyle Lawler, who was 18 at the time, told police that he was “conflicted” because he thought something was wrong with Abedi but couldn’t describe it. He was standing about 15 feet away five minutes before a smiling Abedi detonated his bomb.
Lawler and security steward Mohammed Ali Agha watched Abedi for several minutes, troubled about his all black-clad appearance and the knapsack he was carrying. They exited the arena before the bomb was detonated.
According to a BBC report Moran quotes, the security guard testified:
“It’s very difficult to define a terrorist. For all I knew he might well be an innocent Asian male.
“I did not want people to think I am stereotyping him because of his race.
“I was scared of being wrong and being branded a racist if I got it wrong and would have got into trouble. It made me hesitant.
In related news, the Daily Mail reports that "[o]nline jihadists celebrated the latest terror attack on France today after three people were murdered by a knifeman in Nice on a day which also saw a gunman killed in Avignon and a guard attacked at a French consulate in Saudi Arabia." Also, Mahathir Mohamad, the former prime-minister of Malaysia, stated that "Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past," allegedly because the French have killed millions of people in the past (presumably Muslims, although I don't know when France would have done anything like this).
It was a long time ago when Robert "The Hammer" Martel bested the Muslim army.
ReplyDeleteThe security guard, Kyle Lawler, wasn't wrong. If he had acted on his hunch and been wrong, at a minimum he would have been publicly humiliated and fired from his job. In Britain, he could have even been criminally charged with a thought crime for thinking ill of a Mohammedan.
ReplyDeleteThere is a lesson to draw from this incident: Trust your instincts - at least get yourself and your loved ones away from the perceived threat.