Inquiry reveals the agency did not act quick enough to prevent attack
New Information has come to light over what happened at the Ariana Grande Concert Terror Attack.
An inquiry into the 2017 Manchester Arena attack found that Britain’s domestic intelligence agency did not act swiftly enough.
The attack killed 22 people and the inquiry found the MI5 did not act promptly enough on crucial information, missing a significant opportunity to prevent the suicide bombing.
According to the judge who led the inquiry, an MI5 officer had considered the intelligence regarding the suicide bomber to be a possible national security concern, but did not communicate it quickly enough with colleagues.
MI5 Director General Ken McCallum publicly apologised for the agency’s failure to prevent the attack.
“I deeply regret that such intelligence was not obtained,” he told Sky News.
If the MI5 had acted on the intelligence it received, it could have potentially stopped the attacker at Manchester Airport four days before the attack.
