Cameron’s and May’s Legacy
While May was home secretary, publically her policy was to curb immigration but privately she was facilitating Cameron’s ambitions for Libya. Cameron’s public speeches on helping “freedom fighter” and “rebels” in Libya. (The same “freedom fighter” and “rebels” now called terrorists.
May, was issuing passports and turning a blind eye to the Islamic fighters going to and from Libya and Syria.
https://www.ft.com/content/42cabb04-...6-25f963e998b2
While May was home secretary, publically her policy was to curb immigration but privately she was facilitating Cameron’s ambitions for Libya. Cameron’s public speeches on helping “freedom fighter” and “rebels” in Libya. (The same “freedom fighter” and “rebels” now called terrorists.
May, was issuing passports and turning a blind eye to the Islamic fighters going to and from Libya and Syria.
https://www.ft.com/content/42cabb04-...6-25f963e998b2
Salman Abedi was 16 when he first visited Libya, the country his parents had fled in 1993 to escape persecution under Muammer Gaddafi. But this was no ordinary coming-of-age trip for Abedi. Once there, he reunited with his father, who had left his family in Manchester three years earlier to aid the revolution against Gaddafi. And, according to friends of the family, members of the Libyan community in Manchester and sources in Libya, Abedi had come to fight.He was not alone. It was 2011, and dozens of other Mancunians were already there. Mustafa Graf, the imam of the Didsbury mosque, the centre of the Libyan community in south Manchester, had also travelled back to Libya to help topple Gaddafi. Manchester became a fundraising centre for their war effort. Preachers travelled between the two countries, encouraging the fight, invariably couching it in terms of jihad.
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