The most natural questions to ask about the Manchester terrorist attack are also the most intractable: Who was the perpetrator, and what caused him to carry it out? His name, revealed on Tuesday, is known to us: Salman Ramadan Abedi. He was a British-born 22-year-old of Libyan descent from Manchester, and he was on the radar of the British security services. (Abedi was a Manchester United supporter.) Who was Salman Ramadan Abedi and what caused him to murder and maim so many young people at Manchester Arena on Monday night?

Source: Los Angeles Times May 24, 2017 20:07 UTC