in 2014, abdulraouf abdallah�*s phone was seized in a counter—terrorism raid on his manchesterflat. down his friend salman, who sent texts about martyrdom. when abdallah�*s phone was seized, erm... ..abedi's telephone number was on that phone. it was identified as a distinct phone number, but no further investigative work was done to figure out who that person was. for me, it is again another missed opportunity. mi5 knew that he was visiting abdallah. does the detail of what was in those messages, had they been ascribed back to abedi, possibly change our view of the intensity of the contact that he was having and the nature of the contact he was having with abdallah? i think probably, yes. in 2015 and 2016, salman abedi's name cropped up during investigations into extremists in manchester. his case wasn't reopened. may 2016, and concerns were raised that he travelled from turkey into libya. he wasn't questioned on his return. in 2017, he returned from another trip to libya, days before the attack. again, he wasn't spoken to. that stop could have been useful. we don't know, but it cou