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2022-01-17 Home Front: WoT
Day 3: Police in Manchester arrest two teenagers over Texas synagogue siege that saw anti-Semitic terrorist from Blackburn shot dead
Gee, maybe they can save a trip and interview Andy while they're there.
See Day 2 report here. Day 1 reports here and here. Also discussed yesterday here and here.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] ...as first picture of gunman emerges and his 'devastated' brother says: 'He had a criminal record. How was he allowed to travel?'
  • FBI identifies Texas synagogue shooter as 44-year-old Malik Faisal Akram, who is originally from Blackburn
    Blackburn is only 30 km from Manchester, which too often appears for interesting reasons in our archives.
  • His brother, Gulbar, liaised with suspect in FBI incident room, blamed mental health issues for Faisal's auctions

  • Sibling also revealed Malik Akram had a criminal record and asked how he was able to enter the United States

  • Two teenagers from south Manchester have been arrested in connection with incident and were quizzed last night

  • US President Joe Biden condemned Akram's actions as an 'act of terror' during a PR event in Philadelphia

  • All four hostages have been released after the terrorist was shot and police stormed the Texas synagogue

  • Gunshots were heard at around 9pm CST (3am GMT) after a hostage was released and SWAT team stormed in

  • Dramatic footage captured the moment two of three remaining hostages ran out of the temple, with the gun totting terrorist right behind them before he quickly retreated inside after seeing the nearby SWAT team

  • A SWAT team had been deployed and the FBI was negotiating with him as the standoff entered hour eleven

  • Akram had demanded the release of 'Lady Al Qaeda' Aafia Siddiqui, who is serving 86 years at FMC Carswell, New York for the attempted murder of US military personnel, according to an ABC News report
The rabbi held during the siege, Charlie Cytron-Walker, has since revealed that Akram was 'increasingly belligerent and threatening' during the stand-off - which was partly livestreamed on Facebook because as part of the synagogue's planned morning shabbat.

President Biden said: 'I don't think
...he could stop there and have told the absolute truth, poor man...
there is sufficient information to know about why he targeted that synagogue, why he insisted on the release of someone who's been in prison for over 10 years, why he was engaged, why he was using anti-Semitic and anti-Israel comments'.

Biden later added that it is understood that Akram purchased the weapons used during the stand-off 'on the street' and spent his first night in the US 'in a homeless shelter'.

'He purchased them when he landed and it turns out there apparently were no bombs that we know of.

'He apparently spent the first night in a homeless shelter — I don't have all the details, so I'm reluctant to go into much more detail, but allegedly he purchased it on the street. What that means, I don't know if he purchased it from an individual in the homeless shelter or a homeless community.'

Asked if the incident meant a new push to restrict firearm access, Biden said: 'The idea of background checks are critical, but you can't stop something like this if someone is on the street buying something from somebody else on the street.'

He indicated he would have more to say at his upcoming Wednesday press conference.

Texas rabbi: Hostages managed to escape as gunman became ‘increasingly belligerent’

[IsraelTimes] Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, among four people held hostage at his Congregation Beth Israel, said Sunday that the attacker grew "increasingly belligerent and threatening" toward the end of the 11-hour standoff, and revealed that the captives had escaped, crediting security courses he had taken for helping them flee.

Authorities identified the hostage-taker as a 44-year-old British national, Malik Faisal Akram, who was killed Saturday night after the last hostages ran out of the synagogue around 9 p.m and an FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
 SWAT team rushed into the building, apparently shooting him dead.

"Over the years, my congregation and I have participated in multiple security courses from the Colleyville Police Department, the FBI, the Anti-Defamation League, and Secure Community Network," Cytron-Walker said in a statement late Sunday.

"We are alive today because of that education. I encourage all Jewish congregations, religious groups, schools, and others to participate in active-shooter and security courses," he said.

"In the last hour of our hostage crisis, the gunman became increasingly belligerent and threatening," Cytron-Walker added. "Without the instruction we received, we would not have been prepared to act and flee when the situation presented itself."

Asked to clarify whether the suspects escaped or were freed by the gunman, as indicated by other officials and the attacker’s family, a spokeswoman for Cytron-Walker told The Times of Israel, "They escaped."
Update at 12:45 a.m. ET: Heard on the local 11:00 pm news: The two teens arrested in Manchester are Mr. Akram’s sons. Separately, Mr. Akram is unsurprisingly starting to be described as a Pakistani-Brit. As for me, I wonder why a mentally unbalanced petty criminal who landed in New York City would go all the way to the wilds of Texas to attack a minor synagogue noted for its work with Moslems, alternative lifestyles, and other “good works”.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [26 views ]  Top
 File under: Devout Moslems 

#1  why a mentally unbalanced petty criminal who landed in New York City would go all the way to the wilds of Texas to attack a minor synagogue

Probing attack
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-17 03:21||   2022-01-17 03:21|| Front Page Top

#2 and Siddiqui is in nearby Ft. Worth medical incarceration per other reports
Posted by Frank G 2022-01-17 06:53||   2022-01-17 06:53|| Front Page Top

#3 British terrorist shot dead in Texas synagogue siege was banned from Blackburn court 20 years ago for ranting about 9/11 - so why WAS he let into America?
Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-17 09:17||   2022-01-17 09:17|| Front Page Top

#4 FBI changes it's tune.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-01-17 09:20||   2022-01-17 09:20|| Front Page Top

#5 as to why Akram went to Ft Worth area it seems obvious that he did so because Aafia Siddiqui is being held at the Carswell Federal Medical Center in Ft Worth

question is who helped him get there from NYC and, for that matter, who gave him funds for an airplane ticket to NYC
Posted by Lord Garth 2022-01-17 09:36||   2022-01-17 09:36|| Front Page Top

#6 I googled synagogues in Ft. Worth, Texas — the one he attacked was the closest result to the DFW International Airport that’s actually Jewish.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-01-17 10:58||   2022-01-17 10:58|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ Cab fares are expensive. He was exercising shpanung.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-17 11:03||   2022-01-17 11:03|| Front Page Top

#8 
Posted by Frank G 2022-01-17 12:06||   2022-01-17 12:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Mark Steyn: The weekend seizure of a Texas synagogue by a "British man" is the umpteenth example of "Let's pretend that the 37,893rd incident of Islamic terrorism is anything but Islamic terrorism".
Posted by Matt 2022-01-17 12:48||   2022-01-17 12:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Yahoo listened to the tape and reports he claimed having six children. What a genetic heritage he left them, to be sure.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-01-17 13:06||   2022-01-17 13:06|| Front Page Top

#11 There is a mega mosque nearby in Irving.
A lot of DFWb airport cab drivers do Friday prayers there.
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2022-01-17 14:57||   2022-01-17 14:57|| Front Page Top

#12 Another side note about Colleyville, it is a small community consisting of mostly huge mansions.
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2022-01-17 15:13||   2022-01-17 15:13|| Front Page Top

#13 (wfaa.com) DALLAS — The standoff had lasted more than 11 hours, and Charlie Cytron-Walker, the rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel, knew the situation wasn't improving.

Cytron-Walker and two other men were still being held hostage, as they had been most of the day Saturday, inside their synagogue in Colleyville. None of the hostages had been hurt.

But the suspect, Malik Faisal Akram, had a gun, and "he wasn't getting what he wanted," Cytron-Walker said Monday in an interview with CBS Morning News.

"It didn't look good," Cytron-Walker told the network. "It didn't sound good."

So, Cytron-Walker looked for an opening. When Akram "wasn't in a good position," Cytron-Walker made sure the other two hostages were ready.

Cytron-Walker then told them to flee, as he threw a chair toward Akram. The three hostages bolted for the door and escaped, a moment captured on video by WFAA.
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2022-01-17 15:46||   2022-01-17 15:46|| Front Page Top

#14 Congregation Beth Israel Rabbi had a strong relationship with local Islamic Mosques.

The Islamic Center of Southlake said Cytron-Walker brought sweets to their Eid festival and attends festivities during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, former center president Shahzad Mahmud said.

Mahmud said the rabbi and his wife have been friends of the Islamic center since "day one."
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2022-01-17 22:31||   2022-01-17 22:31|| Front Page Top

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