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This is Salman Abedi who killed 22 people and injured 119 with his suicide bomb.

The 22-year-old British-born terrorist was known to the security services and had links to Isis.

More details about him have been emerging today.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd disclosed today that Abedi was known to the intelligence services "up to a point".

Asked if she knew whether Islamic State (IS) directed the attack, she said: "We don't have that information yet no."

However the French security services have revealed much more - including that he had "proven links with Islamic State".

France’s interior minister Gerard Collomb told French television that both British and French intelligence services had information that Abedi had been in Syria and his links to IS were proven.

What we know about Abedi

Abedi is understood to have grown up in a Libyan community in Manchester many of whom had fled oppression under Colonel Gaddafi's repressive regime.

Abedi was the second youngest of four children. His older brother Ismail had been a tutor at Didsbury mosque’s Koran school. He also had a younger brother and sister, Jomana Abedi, who were both born in Manchester, according to the BBC.

Until recently, he was said to have been "a regular kid". His former landlord's nephew told The Times he was "drinking and going out until a year ago and he dropped off the radar".

He was said to have been a keen cricket fan and a supporter of Manchester United.

The imam at the Didsbury Mosque told the Daily Telegraph said that Abedi, who wore Islamic dress, had shown him “the face of hate” when he gave a talk warning on the dangers of so-called Islamic State.

It has also been reported that Abedi knew a fellow Mancunian who was once described as an “inspirational figure” for would-be jihadis.

Raphael Hostey left the UK in 2013 and became known as Abu Qaqa in his capacity as an IS fixer, encouraging other young Britons to join the terror group.

Describing him during the trial of another radicalised Briton who had hoped to travel to Syria, a judge said: “He has become an inspirational figure, encouraging others to travel and join in with Jihad.”

Abedi may previously have been in contact with Hostey, it has been reported.

Hostey, who studied at John Moores University in Liverpool and was married with a child, was believed to have been killed in a drone strike in 2016.

Abedi's mother, Samia Tabbal, 50, and father, Ramadan Abedi, a security officer, were both born in Tripoli but appear to have emigrated to London before moving to Manchester where they had lived for at least a decade.

They are understood to have returned to Libyan capital Tripoli, according to The Times.

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Abedi was schooled in Manchester and studied business management at Salford University in 2014 but dropped out.

He travelled several times to Libya and lived near Gaddafi dissidents who are understood to have been members of the outlawed Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG).

One of them was accused of running an al-Qaeda network in eastern Libya.

Mohammed Saeed El-Saeiti, the imam at the Didsbury mosque has branded Abedi an dangerous extremist.

“Salman showed me the face of hate after my speech on Isis,” said the imam.

“He used to show me the face of hate and I could tell this person does not like me. It’s not a surprise to me.”

A trustee of the mosque, Fawzi Haffar, said Abedi's father was currently in Libya and had been there for a while.

Here's what Amber Rudd had to say

She said: "It was a devastating occasion, it was ... more sophisticated than some of the attacks we've seen before and it seems likely, possible that he wasn't doing this on his own, so the intelligence services and the police are pursuing their leads in order to make sure that they get all the information and reduce therefore the risk that they need to keep us all safe."

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she added: "Well the security services will know a lot of people, it doesn't mean that they are expected to arrest everybody they know, but it is somebody who they had known before and I am sure when this investigation concludes, we'll be able to find out more."

She went on: "I have complete confidence in our security services, in our intelligence services and I am determined to make sure that they get the support they need to carry on this investigation to keep us safe."

Three men were arrested this morning in connection with the bombing as the huge investigation into the attack gathers pace.

They were detained after police executed warrants in south Manchester.

A total of four people have now been arrested as part of the inquiry into the atrocity.