Manchester raids: Son of Muslim Brotherhood member arrested

Tuesday 30-05-2017 - 07:26 PM

Daily Mail, Sky News & Al-Bawaba

London - Zuhair Nasrat was arrested yesterday in Manchester raids. His father Khaled, from the Muslim Brotherhood, is labor attaché at Libya's embassy in Turkey.

Nassrat, 19, was arrested after police searched his family home.

He was one of two arrested on Sunday evening and yesterday morning, along with a 23-year-old man at a flat in Shoreham, West Sussex, where a pilot lived

Police also searched a house in Chester, where Zuhir Nassrat is a student.

He was removed from the house of his Libyan family in Gorton in handcuffs.

Bragging on social media

Nassrat was an appointed member in the Transitional Council of Libya; the de facto government of Libya after 2011 uprising and for a period during the Libyan civil war that occurred after Mua'ammar Gaddafi.

Neighbors told the Daily Mail that the oldest of Nassrat's sons, Abdul and Loqman, travelled to Libya with their father, said to be a former diplomat, to fight in the overthrow of Colonel Gaddaffi in 2011.

‘They used to post pictures and videos of themselves holding AK47s and fighting on Instagram.

Pictures on social media showed Abdul posing with Abedi – and Zuhair with the bomber’s brother Hashim, 20, who is in custody in Libya on suspicion of being part of the same jihadi cell. Loqman Nassrat, 22, who lives in Chester and also attends the city’s university, confirmed he knew Salman Abedi when he was ‘younger’.

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Father Khaled Nassarat

Last August, Zuhair posted on Twitter that he had been given a place at Chester University to study criminology and law. His profile picture shows a man in camouflage holding a gun and he has made a string of posts sympathising with terrorism. The day of the 2013 Boston marathon bombings, he wrote: ‘I think the world just noticed something that happens [sic] everyday in Afghanistan, Palestine.’

On a page linked to Zuhair on social media website Askfm, a post in response to someone saying ‘All Islamists are terrorists’ an answer read: ‘Get your facts right, if it wasn’t cause (sic) of America then there will be no war in Palestine, Afghanistan …just because we stick up (for) our countries… check who the terrorists

Bir al-Ghanam Battle

The father, along with his eldest son Abdul Rahman, took part in Bir al-Ghanam battle in August 2011 against Qaddafi's troops.

Bir al-Ghanamis a town in western Libya. It is located south of Zawiya. It was the site of several battles during the Libyan Civil War. It was occupied by anti-Gaddafi forces on 7 August, just a few weeks before they entered Tripoli.