Reports are now identifying the suicide bomber who struck following an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester as 23-year-old Salman Abedi:

JUST IN: @CBSNews can now confirm Salman Abedi as the name of the suspected Manchester bomber pic.twitter.com/nJxcPxlmRZ — CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) May 23, 2017

And ISIS has claimed credit for the attack:

https://twitter.com/VPAFernandez/status/866985302669352960

As with virtually all Western terror attacks (as I’ve reported many times here at PJ Media — see below), this appears to be yet another case of “Known Wolf” terrorism. The suspected bomber had been known to authorities beforehand.

In this case, as in so many others, he apparently had been deemed not a threat:

https://twitter.com/UKTodayTopNews/status/866991993414725633

The “Known Wolf” terrorism problem has become so ubiquitous in these Western terror cases that it has become the rule, not the exception:

5 Days and 2 'Known Wolf' Terror Attacks, Yet No Apparent Concern from Western Govts — How Many More Must Die? https://t.co/bYMXtsh0o2 — Patrick Poole (@pspoole) March 23, 2017

The #ParisAttack suspect had planned to kill police, but was released by the Proscutor's office #KnownWolf https://t.co/w7p1PYOoRV — Patrick Poole (@pspoole) April 21, 2017

Stockholm truck-attack suspect was previously investigated over extremism https://t.co/3LmQybdfTE — The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) April 8, 2017

Revealed UK terror suspect was deported by Turkey in 2015 trying to join IS in Syria, but UK authorities did nothinghttps://t.co/YcXVNsaw7E — Charles Shoebridge (@ShoebridgeC) April 29, 2017

While I have been reporting on the “Known Wolf” phenomenon since October 2014, others are now just starting to catch on:

After every attack this same sentence: "suspect was known to security services"… Europe, don't you realize how incompetent this sounds? https://t.co/C3GkdlcnSs — Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) April 8, 2017

The UK’s parliamentary elections are in just a few weeks, and undoubtedly Prime Minister May’s opposition will try to capitalize on last night’s security failure.

But has any major Western political party made the problem of “Known Wolf” terrorism an issue?

Back in March, after two “Known Wolf” terror attacks in only five days, I asked here how many more have to die before Western authorities begin to address the issue. The resounding answer has been: many more.

Sadly, I’ll have to continue updating the ever-growing list of “Known Wolf” terror attacks: