LONDON: British hostage takers shot dead by the FBI to end the siege in a synagogue in Texas known British secret services, according to British media reports on Tuesday.
Akram Faisal Malik was reported from the migrant family from Jhelum in Pakistan, settled in Blackburn City in Lancashire, Northwest England, since the 1970s.
The 44-year-old player who demanded the release of Neuroscientis Pakistan Afia Siddiqui who was allegedly related to Al-Qaeda, was on the radar of the MI5 intelligence service for the second half of 2020 to assess whether he pose a security threat after the suspicion of Islamic terrorism was reported.
According to ‘The Times’, Akram is the subject of “short lead investigation” for at least four weeks but the case is closed when spies assess there is no indication that he presents terrorist threats at that time.
Akram has also been in prison four times, between 1996 and 2012, for various violations, including disorders of violence, harassment and theft.
It appeared earlier that he had even been banned from the British court because he was raving about the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York in 2001.
Exclusion orders at the Judge Blackburn Court were made under the section of the court in the top 20 years ago.
However, when he traveled to the US at the end of December 2021, Akram was not on the commemoration index of the UK home office, a list of monitoring that allowed the police at the airport to intercept prospective passengers.
The source told the newspaper that it would be “disproportional” for someone who was considered not a threat in the list.
Akram was killed by the FBI after a siege in a synagogue at Colleyville, three miles from Dallas, Texas, on Saturday when he demanded the release of Siddiqui, nicknamed “Lady Al Qaeda”.
Akram, whose family is based in the UK says he has a mental health problem, has lived in a homeless shelter before holding a siege.
His arrival did not raise the red flag in the US, where President Joe Biden said the incident was an act of terror.
Biden said that Akram bought a gun used in the siege “on the road”.
Akram’s colleague at Blackburn said he had a fight with his family after moving to a more conservative strand of Islam.
They said Akram, who wasolated from his wife and had six children, experienced a temperament and tried to impose rigorous religious values to others.
He became increasingly religious, had distanced himself from his family and was brought to Wahhabism, a fundamentalist Islamic strain.
Two teenagers who were arrested in Manchester Selatan in connection with the Siege of Texas were still questionable by the Western Terrorism Unit of Western England.
Suspect English Texas Synagoge Siege is known to the UK spy
