Transcript for Police investigating 'network' behind Manchester attack

Good afternoon Fran Manchester I'm Molly had Kerry and this of course is our chief foreign correspondent carrying rent we art. Downtown in the center of Manchester and Randy has Jerry what's going on here. Wolf broke several hours as you know Molly. Manchester police have been conducting some kind of raid here in Iraq shortly afternoon they conducted we are told if forced entry. Into an apartment on the third floor neighbors have told us. That that apartment may have been being used as air B&B rental and so now police have been up there. Scouring the place apparently collecting evidence. And it's of course is one of four people that we know. Arrested last week for hours the Reid just overnight I've been to two of the other locations which are not very different neighborhood that met in south Manchester. I'm but this is actually quite in nice building. What are police saying about where routed the investigation how wide an editing casting. Well I think the news of the day out of Manchester is that he did not act alone it is now certain from the comments of officials and from their actions. That this is no lone wolf no kind of low life criminal Jihad. To the main artery of Islamist terror around the world ice is apparently a born here in in Britain but of Libyan descent. Had visited Libya and had been on the radar. The security service here for several years people. Drop the dime on the mistakes and they told authorities this guy is an extremist. Five years ago and so he's he's not alone is the story today. And we're hearing we heard from the home secretary this morning who hinted at it very vague phrasing she's that if he'd likely not alone in the has been on our radar and you. We also. Heard from college. His college. Here is. It actually they knew he would potentially getting radicalized. He did mention Liddy connection now we know his parents were born in Libya but he was born here of course we can't get lots of families still in Libya now we are talking about Libya of course his parents were born in Libya he was born here and we know from his father who was beaten and Associated Press that was recently back and look at what does that tell us potentially about his radicalization what might we. I think it's a very fertile raft for investigators to go because Libya. As you know has been. A scene of tremendous chaos and the civil war there are several years ago Moammar Gadhafi overthrown. A one of the reasons that data and we came to Britain they were refugees from adoptees tyranny when he got overthrow. The family has moved back but so has extremism one of the things Gaddafi did like so many Middle East dictators he kept the lid. On the lot of the most radical elements in his country since the departure. Gaddafi and the through that trauma of civil war the the free for all that Libya has become. Crisis has moved in in a very big way in fact there was some talk. Earlier this year that some main ices leaders were moving from Syria to their next headquarters which would be Libya so the fact that he's got a Libyan connection. Makes it all the more sinister that this could be a very serious global plot what happened here in that. Of course Bolivia being even more fertile forest it is because the US led coalition of course fighting crisis in Iraq and it does not have a but ultimately there isn't much progress in Libya and says they are hiding out in. In Libya and those networks are growing. If we learn any more kind of about it. Your hand there is answers that not so on and so if we learn more about obviously if people. Here they were born here in and the lawmaker potentially that could you Libby are things. Could be here this may not just in Manchester number Disney being UK market making Europe now where it. Now this could this this could lead to clues kind of in all of these cities covered every attack at a senior for the last couple of years. After every attack police cast a wide net and usually they're finding networks that are not just based in city right. Exactly and that is that concerned that's really I think the big reason. That the terror threat a level in Britain was raised to its highest level critical yesterday. It was right after the first raid apparently on the brother's apartment some of the babies brother's apartment within several hours of that red whatever they found there. They raise the terror threat level. And I think was because they found wait we've got a lot of dreadful here we've got a lot of leads. And who knows where they will take us now we have seen other terror attacks in France in Brussels where once the attack happened. The investigation then started pulling. Some of the investigative leads out of the apartments and of the locations associated with the attack and found networks buried. In other countries and across borders and that is the big concern here whether it's securities been raised. And I expect it of course critical level it. Very rare here in the UK the last time at prime minister raised to critical within July 2007 apart 77 bombing it takes so many resource to keep. A country act critical all of those troops on street police officers. And more security that actually British citizens aren't used to but it was hot in the press conference stated that no troops here in Manchester I didn't Bennett. Well they would know that no where where they need the resources there's two things that that critical threat level does for the government one. You put up to 5000 military troops on the streets at key sites around the country that doesn't beef up security that keeps things at that. Hyper state level but by doing that you're also freeing up. Police resources armed police resources swat team has worked. To do stuff like this show you get more resources flooding. Into the investigation. To go on the hunt for the other suspects what we have seen before in Britain. Is this critical threat level last for a few days a week. While they pursue every lead with as much speed and aggression is they can. And then they'll bring it back and the troops come off the street and then we'll go to severe it's that group which didn't. Any less scary declared that this investigation is moving incredibly quickly three think he's damaged the acting. We will be back all afternoon with more updates right here on its usage I forget I'm Alan hunter at this train rammed expediting.

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