国际英语资讯:Cousins of Manchester suicide bomber say have no idea he was a terrorist_时事

国际英语资讯:Cousins of Manchester suicide bomber say have no idea he was a terrorist

Isaac Forjani, who is 24, said: "It's not easy being connected to 22 lost, innocent lives. The fact that the person that did this is related to us by blood is something that's going to stay with me for the rest of my life. My thoughts are with the families of the victims. I really do feel for them."

Police in Manchester hope the new images may help people come forward if they remember seeing Abedi on the day of the attack or in the days before.

Dr Chris Murphy, an intelligence expert and senior lecturer at the University of Salford, said the attack on Manchester demonstrated that intelligence is not an exact science.

He was responding after it was disclosed Britain's secret service MI5 is conducting two separate inquiries into the bombing and the terrorist responsible.

"The thing that strikes me is that it takes an act of atrocity to really bring out that intelligence is not an exact science. It therefore follows that intelligence agencies are going to be subject to things going wrong. We can never be confident of stopping everything.

"We have a world of fiction with spies such as James Bond 007, all knowing and all seeing, and it takes an event like Manchester to bring us back to sad reality.

"It is important that they are having the investigation to find out what has happened and what went wrong, if indeed did go wrong."

Murphy posed the question of whether the secret service in Britain, with its staff level of 4,000, could be expected to handle the number of cases it currently faces.