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Deutsche Welle: Newspaper reports Manchester bomber’s brother plotted attack on UN envoy

By Deutsche Welle.

Published May 28, 2017 at 4:18 pm

Armed police stand guard at the scene of a suspected terrorist attack during a pop concert by US star Ariana Grande in Manchester, northwest England on May 23.

Photo by AFP

The 20-year-old brother of the Manchester bomber was allegedly part of a jihadist cell that was planning to target Martin Kobler (pictured above) – the United Nations special envoy to Libya, Britain’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported.

Hashim Abedi, who was arrested this week in Tripoli following the suicide bomb attack at Manchester Area that killed 23 people, was understood by Libyan security services to be a “significant player” in the plot.