circumstances should be scrutinised with the greatest care. an important part of the report deals with what are cold to mist opportunities. there were a number of opportunities to identify salmon ibd s activities as being suspicious on the night before he detonated his bomb. what i cannot say with any certainty is what would have happened if those opportunities had not been missed. salman abedi might have been deterred from committing this outrage. that might have done the same thing elsewhere. he might have detonated his bomb earlier, in a different location, in or close. the report deals in detail with the shortcomings in security. i will not go into detail now. i invite those interested to read that the detail