Abidi's Backpack

Two british transport police support officers did a security sweep of the toilet cubicles. They missed a bed. 59 seconds faken. Abidi then lugged his incredibly heavy back pack the short distance between the station and the foyer of the manchester arena, which is known as the city room. Now you can understand why one thousand people got hurt. I'm amazed it was only that. And we'd all like to imagine that there's some one waiting and watching for that sort of thing. That evening, there were five british Transport police officers stationed in and around the manchester Arena. Despite this, none of them were stationed inside the foye of the arena

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