THE MANCHESTER SUBURBS WHERE TERROR LURKS
ABU ANAS
Libyan ex-Al Qaeda commander once had £20million FBI bounty on his head. Spent five years in Manchester after winning asylum in 1995. Linked to 1998 bombings of US embassies in Africa. Returned to Libya in 2000 and was captured in 2013. He died in 2015. His wife Umm Abdul Rahman went to college in Tripoli with the Manchester bomber’s mother. The women lived together in the city.
MOHAMED ABRINI,
known as the ‘man in the hat’, with connections to the mass murders in Paris and Brussels, is known to have visited Manchester in 2015 where he took photographs of Old Trafford football stadium.
KHALIF AND ABDULRAHMAN SHARIFF,
aged 21 and 18, from Old Trafford, died fighting in Syria.
ABD AL-BASET AZZOUZ
The bomb-maker father-of-four from Whalley Range, left Britain to run a terror network in Libya.
SALMA AND ZAHRA HALANE
attended Whalley Range High School with Abedi’s sister Jomana . The ‘terror twins’ fled to Syria, aged 16, in June 2014 to become jihadi brides. Their older brother Ahmed , right, attended Burnage Academy with the Arena bomber Abedi before travelling to Syria.
ABDALRAOUF ABDALLA,
23, left, a Libyan refugee was jailed last year for aiding IS recruits. They included RAF Iraq War hero Stephen Gray, 32, from Moss Side, who became a Muslim and tried to join IS. Mancunian Raymond Matimba is believed to be in Syria after being recruited by Abdalraouf.
KHALIL RAOUFI,
20, travelled to Syria with Raphael Hostey and was killed in fighting in February 2014.
SALMAN ABEDI
Monday’s Arena suicide bomber’s family home was in Fallowfield. He went to school at Burnage Academy with Ahmed Halane, brother of the ‘terror twins’
JAMAL AL-HARITH
Born Ronald Fiddler to Jamaican parents in Moss Side, converted to Islam in his 20s, held for two years in Guantanamo after time in Afghanistan. Returned to Britain in 2004. Received £1m in compensation from UK Government but went to Syria and died in a suicide attack in Mosul, Iraq, this year.
JAMSHED JAVEED
A biology teacher jailed for six years for helping others to travel to fight in Syria. His younger brother Mohammed blew himself up in a suicide attack in Iraq.
RAPHAEL HOSTEY
An IS recruiter (pictured below aged 12) lured Britons to fight in Syria, where he was killed in a drone strike last year, aged 24. Grew up in Moss Side, a mile from Abedi’s home in Fallowfield and was a family friend of Abedi.