'HE WAS EASY TO UPSET'
Manchester bomber Salman Abedi was thrown out of a mosque for ‘behaving like a child’, says chairman
Abdullah Muhsin Norris said the pair rowed after he tried to stop Abedi sleeping in the mosque overnight
SUICIDE bomber Salman Abedi was "very easy to upset" and was ejected from a Manchester mosque after trying to hide in the library overnight to read religious texts, its chairman claims.
Abdullah Muhsin Norris, 70, told Sky News he had a row with Abedi two months ago in which the bomber accused Norris of "treating him like a child".
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He told he had a confrontation with Abedi at the Salaam Community centre in Moss Side after finding him hiding there.
He said: "I saw him staying over in the mosque and I told him that he had to leave.
"I was very annoyed with him. He said don't treat me like a child.
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"He is very easy to be upset."
The chairman vowed to "squash" conversations about ISIS at the mosque, where signs banning political discussions are displayed.
Mr Norris said: "I am saddened at what has happened - I have grandchildren that could have gone there, any one of my kids could have gone there. I have children.
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"If anyone is going to have that type of that conversation then I will squash it.
"I don't think you can ever do enough, you have to keep trying."
Abedi also attended Didsbury Mosque, which spoke out this week to condemn the attack.
A statement said: "The thoughts and prayers of Manchester Islamic Centre is with the victims, their families, their friends and the Manchester community as a whole."
Pals of the Manchester bomber have revealed his wild youth of booze and drug-taking – and how he was nicknamed dumbo because of his big ears.
He was also reportedly banned from another mosque in the area for taking issue with an anti-ISIS sermon.
Abedi had a “face of hate” after the imam at Manchester Islamic Centre in Didsbury condemned terrorism.
He said: “He was showing hatred.”
Yesterday we revealed how Abedi grew up just streets away from more than a dozen other young extremists, many of whom have been killed fighting for ISIS or jailed for terror offences.
It has led to fears the small pocket of South Manchester could be a hotbed of extremism.
Eight men have been taken into custody over the terror attack, as cops raided homes across Manchester and the Midlands today and yesterday.
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