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Seven lessons to learn from the Texas synagogue attack
American Thinker.com ^ | January 18, 2022 | Rajan Laad

Posted on 01/18/2022 2:54:27 AM PST by Kaslin

It has been two days since the hostage crisis in Texas where a gunman took four hostages at a synagogue. He had demanded the release of convicted terrorist Aafia Siddiqui from a nearby federal prison.

The FBI has identified the terrorist as Malik Faisal Akram. Akram, 44, a British subject who hails from Blackburn in the United Kingdom.

Akram was shot dead by the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team after the last of the hostages was evacuated from the Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue.

Federal law enforcement source told CNN that Akram had entered the US on a tourist VISA in December 2021 via JFK International Airport in New York. Akram then traveled to Texas where he spent three nights at Union Gospel Mission in Dallas, a homeless shelter, from which he moved in and out multiple times over the course of a week. He eventually left the facility for the last time on January 13.

UK law enforcement has been coordinating with their counterparts in the US, and two teenagers from Manchester, reportedly Akram’s children, have been arrested and quizzed in connection with the incident.

This crisis leaves offers the following lessons to learn:

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Society
KEYWORDS: 202112; 292112; akram; blackburn; colleyville; fbi; jfk; ny; pakistan; siddiqi; siddiqui; synagogue; texas; touristvisa; uniongospelmission; visa
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To: Kaslin

If he was in and out of a homeless shelter in Texas where did he get the money to buy the gun and pay for his airline flight?


21 posted on 01/18/2022 5:20:02 AM PST by ops33 (SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
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22 posted on 01/18/2022 6:21:17 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kaslin

He was on the MI5 watch list, so naturally Brandon was eager to offer him a visa, no questions asked.


23 posted on 01/18/2022 6:22:12 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Candor7

Hahahahaaaaaa! That is a good one! I will not hold my breath.


24 posted on 01/18/2022 6:40:57 AM PST by JoJo354 (JUST SAY NO to covid vaxx!)
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To: Kaslin

Blackburn is home to the College of Islamic Knowledge and Guidance, the same school where the wanna-be shoebomber Badat attended.


25 posted on 01/19/2022 7:35:26 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Kaslin

Blackburn is home to the College of Islamic Knowledge and Guidance, the same school where the wanna-be shoebomber Badat attended.

Bad at was also a Pakistani like Aafia Siddiqi.


26 posted on 01/19/2022 7:36:07 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Kaslin

Blackburn is one of those places where the flood of foreigners into the area and flight of citizens out left a local Catholic school in the position of teaching more Muslim students than Catholic children.


27 posted on 01/19/2022 7:41:11 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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