A gunman who took four people took hostage in the Dallas area and his own dead when the federal agent stormed the temple was identified on Sunday as a British citizen, while police in the UK said they had detained two teenagers to be intervenigated.
Siege Daylong in Synagogue Beth Israel in Colleyville, about 16 miles northeast Fort Worth, Texas, ended Saturday night with the four hostages released without being injured and with the suspect dead.
It is not clear whether the gunmen took his own life or was killed by a member of the FBI hostage rescue team.
The suspect was reported to be demanding the release of a Pakistani-born scientist who presented a federal prison sentence in the area worth Dallas for 10 hours of negotiating hostages that were tense with the authorities.
The FBI on Sunday identified the suspect as Malik Faisal Akram, 44, a British citizen but did not say how or when he entered the United States.
Akrram’s Brother Gulbar Posted on Facebook that the suspect, from the Blackburn industrial city in the north of England, suffered from mental illness and said the family had spent all night at the Blackburn police station “Liaising with the FBI, FBI, etc.” There is nothing we can say to him or What will convince him to surrender, “wrote the guide on the Blackburn Muslim Community Facebook page.
He said the FBI will fly to England “Later today,” said that the family as a result could say a little more.
“We want to say that we as family do not forgive their actions and want to sincerely apologize with all my heart to all the victims involved in a unfortunate incident,” the brother wrote.
Then on Sunday in England, the larger Manchester police issued a statement that said officers from the North West Police Terror Counter “had made two arrests in relation to the incident” in Texas, added that the two teenagers were detained “remained in detention to be questioned.” President A.S.
Joe Biden, who was in Philadelphia with the first woman Jill Biden for a visit to commemorate the birthday of the leader of the Civil Rights Killed, Martin Luther King Jr., called “a terror action.” “Suspected – I did not have all the facts, also the Attorney General – but allegedly the assertion was he got a weapon on the road,” said Biden.
“He bought it when he landed and it turned out that there was no bomb we knew.
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Apparently he spent the first night at the homeless shelter.” The Sabbath prayer disrupted Saturday’s siege began in the morning, disrupting Sabbath service because the suspect took Rabbi and three other people took hostage.
A hostage was released without injury after six hours and the remaining three were released later before or during the attack by the FBI hostage rescue team.
The Swat team from the Colleyville Police Department initially responded to the scene, and the FBI agent arrived after contact with the suspect, who said he wanted to talk to a woman held in a federal prison.
The man, who seemed to bring one-sided telephone conversation during Livestream Facebook from service, could be heard nagging and talked about his religion and sister, repeatedly said he did not want to see anyone who was injured, Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.
The hostage taker claimed to be a brother of Aafia Siddiqui Neuroscientis scientist, who served an 86-year-old Federal Prison sentence in the 2010 belief for the shooting of the army and FBI agent, and demanded that he was released, a US official told ABC News.
Siddiqui was detained in federal medical locking in the Fort Worth area.
A lawyer who represented Siddiqui, Marwa Elbaly, told CNN in a statement that the man was not Siddiqui’s brother and the Siddiqui family condemned the actions of “vile”.
Although the situation of the Texas hostage seems to be an isolated incident, a synagogue in New York and elsewhere throughout the country increases security as a response and official demanding anti-Semitic actions.
“What happened yesterday in the Congregation of Beth Israel is a reminder that we must speak and fight antisemitism and hate wherever it is,” said Vice President Kamala Harris in a statement.
“Everyone has the right to pray, work, study, and spend time with loved ones not as others – but like us.” At the Facebook post, Akram’s brother, who also mentioned the death of a younger sister, was almost three months ago, “the family priority word is to have Akram’s body back to England” for his funeral prayer even though we have warned it can happen weeks.
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Texas Synagoge Hostage-taker is a British citizen; Two captured in England
