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2022-01-22 Home Front: WoT
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Texas hostage-taker Brit-Paki known wolf searched Internet for American rabbis, Dallas gun shops and Aafia Siddiqui
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[WashingtonPost] 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...
agents examining the digital trail left by 44-year-old Malik Faisal Akram have found plenty of evidence hinting at his plan and state of mind in the days before the attack, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation.
Searches on Akram’s cellphone, they said, led him to focus on Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of New York City’s Central Synagogue, who has been named on various online lists over the past decade as one of the most influential Jewish people in the country.
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Akram, who was rubbed out by FBI agents after an 11-hour standoff, parroted antisemitic tropes during the hostage-taking, saying he believed Jewish people had the power in the United States to free convicted terrorist Aafia Siddiqui
...American-educated Pak cognitive neuroscientist who was convicted of assault with intent to murder her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan. In September 2010, she was sentenced to 86 years in jug after a three-ring trial. Siddiqui, using the alias Fahrem or Feriel Shahin, was one of six alleged al-Qaeda members who bought $19 million worth of blood diamonds in Liberia immediately prior to 9-11-01. Since her incarceration Paks have taken her to their heart and periodically erupt into demonstrations, while the government tries to find somebody to swap for her...
Investigators suspect Akram saw Buchdahl mentioned on such lists and came to believe she had the political connections to get his demands to senior U.S. policymakers, officials said. Searches for influential rabbis also led him to focus on his ultimate target: Congregation Beth Israel in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Colleyville.
It’s the closest synagogue the airport, too. Over a roughly two-week period in Texas, Akram also searched on his phone for gun shops and pawnshops in the Dallas area, the officials said. But authorities have traced the handgun he used in the attack and think he bought it "on the street" rather than at a business.
Excuse the question, O clever FBI agents, but how does a stranger to our shores know how to find someone selling illegal guns on the street? People like that don’t have little kiosks with neon signs identifying them, and surely they don’t sell to somebody nobody sent. The gun’s last official sale was recorded in early 2020; it was reported stolen from a hotel room later that year, the officials said.
Akram also looked up online information about Siddiqui, an American-educated Pak woman who was convicted in 2010 of trying to kill U.S. soldiers and is serving an 86-year-prison sentence in a federal prison in Texas. Freeing her has become a focus in some Islamist holy warrior circles.
Investigators are still piecing together Akram’s movements in the United States. He arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Dec. 29 and a few days later flew to Dallas,
...did his family send him money for that, as hew was reported to have requested? If yes, why? It can’t have been to help him find the Mexican wife he told them he was going to America to get, and odd statement given that in general Mexicans are Catholic, with atheist Communists and a small number of Jews, while he so bullied his first wife about being a good Muslimah that she left him... where he stayed at facilities that serve the homeless and got into at least one confrontation at a local mosque, according to law enforcement officials and others familiar with his movements.
On Jan. 1, Akram joined in the day’s last prayer at the Islamic Center of Irving, then asked if he could stay the night, according to Khalid Hamideh, a lawyer and front man for the mosque who has watched security footage of the episode and talked to those involved.
Hamideh said a staff member told Akram that city and mosque regulations prevented him from sleeping there, and Akram grew upset, telling staff, "You will be judged by God for not helping a fellow Moslem" and insisting "I’m from a good family."
Akram — who was carrying a bag or backpack big enough to hold a weapon — left after the staff member threatened to call police, Hamideh said.
"God knows if he already had acquired the gun and already had the gun in there," Hamideh said.
"We don’t search anybody," Hamideh added. "Maybe we’ll start."
Akram returned about 6 a.m. the next day, Hamideh said. By then, his demeanor had changed.
"This time he was calm, cool, collected," Hamideh said. "He apologized for his behavior on the previous night and asked for permission just to use the sanctuary to conduct his prayer."
Hamideh said Akram prayed alone, and left between 7 and 8 a.m. — walking into an empty parking lot. That night, he was dropped off at OurCalling, a Dallas center for homeless people, by a man who escorted him inside and embraced him before saying goodbye, the center’s chief executive has said.
Officials think he also spent time at another area facility for homeless people before knocking on the door of Congregation Beth Israel during Sabbath services the morning of Jan. 15.
After being invited inside and sitting through some of the service, Akram pulled out a gun and took four hostages: Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, congregant Jeffrey Cohen and two others whose names have not been released.
He soon demanded that Cytron-Walker call Buchdahl — who is known for her creative use of music in religious services and was photographed at a White House Hanukkah party during the B.O. regime.
"He mentioned her by name, because he knew that she played guitar. . . . He thought that she was the most influential rabbi," Cytron-Walker said Thursday in an online forum about the hostage-taking that was hosted by the Anti-Defamation League.
Akram wanted Buchdahl specifically to act on his demand that U.S. authorities free Siddiqui. Cytron-Walker reached Buchdahl by phone and relayed Akram’s desires, though both rabbis thought the demand was as far-fetched as it was frightening.
A front man for Buchdahl’s synagogue declined to comment.
Speaking at the same online forum, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray said agents are still analyzing and reviewing "phones and other electronic devices and media, and there’s a lot more work to be done."
"This was not some random occurrence — it was intentional, it was symbolic," he said. "And we’re not going to tolerate antisemitism in this country."
Ignore it, yes, if “we” can get away with it, especially if the Jew-haters are Democratic politicians, persons of “colour,” even if they’re fairer-skinned than certain Italians of my acquaintance, or Progressives of any other category. 
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