The crazed jihadi who slaughtered 22 people at a concert in Manchester, England, used his taxpayer-funded student loans to learn how to build bombs, it was reported Friday.
Salman Abedi received some $18,000 in financial aid over the years and is believed to have at least used some of it for his terrorist studies at a training camp in Libya, according to Britain’s Telegraph newspaper.
Abedi got about $9,000 after enrolling in a business administration course at England’s Salford University in 2015.
A year later he scored another $9,000 even though by then he had dropped out.
The 22-year-old never had a job, friends and neighbors told the newspaper. But he had enough money to buy materials for his sophisticated bomb, rent a house and another property — as well as take several trips to Libya.
Both the university and the Student Loans Company refused to comment.
But David Videcette, a former London detective who worked on terror plots, said getting a student loan is a popular way of financing terror training.
“All you have got to do is get yourself into university and then off you go,’’ he told the Telegraph. “Often they have go no intention of turning up.”