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Professor stunned ‘very slow’ student was bomber

A college lecturer who taught Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi was stunned that he pulled off the deadly attack — because he was “very slow, uneducated and passive” as a student, according to a new report Friday.

The man, who didn’t want to be identified, taught Abedi five or six years ago at Trafford College in an IT and business class geared toward students at an “exceptionally low level,” The Guardian reported.

“People talk about the planning and the intelligence you need to plan an attack. This was not an intelligent person,” the man said of Abedi, 22.

“Educationally, I tutor kids who are 11 years old and they’ve got better English and maths than the kids who were on the course I used to teach which this lad was on,” added the educator, who no longer works at Trafford.





He said Abedi — who was about 16 or 17 when he took the course, which was designed for students with weak English skills — was a “quiet person, not on the angry side.”

“He was on the quiet side. But it just feeds to this idea of him being used by other people,” the man said.

He recalled that either staffers or peers at Trafford reported Abedi to police for expressing extremist views, but it’s unclear if anything happened as a result.

The Manchester-born Abedi would go on to detonate a bomb Monday night as mostly young fans poured out of Manchester Arena after an Ariana Grande concert. Twenty-two victims — including an 8-year-old girl — died.





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