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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

How did Ariana Grande concert bomber go unnoticed?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The 22-year-old man was on the radar of anti-terror cops, but he was still able to kill 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in England with a suicide bomb. In this episode, Nancy Grace talks with Brian Levin, Director of Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, about the terror attack and how it could happen again in the United States.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh my god, you're doing it. I'm just having fun. Oh my god!

0:13.1

And there was just this huge bang, so everyone just looked at each other and there was just a mad rush.

0:17.6

All I could hear was screaming, people crying.

0:20.2

Of the 22 people confirmed dead police say there are still a number that have not been identified.

0:26.1

In my daughter Olivia, I haven't seen her since five o'clock last night.

0:30.2

Many of the victims who did not make it out were teenage girls. The youngest victim, just eight years old.

0:37.2

This is crime stories with Nancy Grace. This attack stands out for its appalling, sickening, cowardice.

0:45.8

Deliberately targeting innocent defenseless children and young people who should have been enjoying one of the most memorable nights of their lives.

0:57.4

Lounging on the beach with his buddies, a pothead teen who goes on to massacre 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert.

1:12.2

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. He was in the street chanting Muslim phrases, anti-Western, tirades, M15 was onto him, but he was allowed to walk free.

1:29.8

I mean, it's he Grace. This is crime stories. Why did the concert bomber?

1:35.9

Why was he walking free? Why was he able to access mothers and daughters?

1:44.9

Many of whom are still missing right now. Their families don't know if they're dead or alive.

1:50.8

Why was he able to walk free? Thank you for being with us.

1:57.9

In addition to our friend, the Duke, Alan Duke, joining me, special guest, Brian Levin.

2:06.4

He is the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, joining us. I don't understand it, Brian.

2:14.2

Why is he walking free? And now I have to look at the pictures of him.

2:18.8

High as a kite on pot with his buddies on the beach, living it up prior to a slaughter of 22 people in a public arena at the Ariana Grande concert.

2:32.3

I mean, this guy who detonates his bomb, killing 22, had been out in the street chanting Islamic dogma, anti-Western hatred, spewing it.

2:47.3

And now this and these little girls represented everything he hated that a woman, girls, could be whoever they want to be.

2:58.7

They could dress how they want to dress. They could spray paint their hair purple. They could have tattoos. They could wear midge of shirts.

3:07.5

They could dance and sing in the public with their mothers. And I'm sure that infuriated him.

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