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EXCLUSIVE 'You get picked up in the US for walking on cracks in a pavement!' Security services are accused of 'intelligence failure' after British synagogue siege terrorist, 44, evaded officials despite criminal convictions and 9/11 rant
dailymail.co.uk ^ | January 17, 2022 | Martin Robinson, Vivek Chaudhary and James Tapsfield,

Posted on 01/17/2022 1:05:35 PM PST by elpadre

The security services were today accused of a serious 'intelligence failure' after a British Islamist was able to travel to the US to lay siege to a synagogue despite his significant criminal convictions and known radical views.

As police in the US and UK scramble to discover if he was part of a wider terror cell, it has emerged that Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn, Lancashire, was branded a 'menace' for raving about the attack on the World Trade Centre in 2001.

The terror suspect was given a rare Exclusion Order at Blackburn's magistrates' court - the first in 25 years - for abusing staff about 9/11 on the day after the attack that claimed more than 2,750 lives.

The incident 20 years ago raises questions about whether he was known to the security services on either side of the Atlantic - and how he managed to get into the United States two weeks ago with a significant criminal record.

Today, Tory MP Bob Seely told MailOnline there seemed to have been a 'dreadful' error at the UK and US borders caused by an 'intelligence failure' and it needed to be looked at.

'This is clearly a failure of intelligence sharing. It is absolutely dreadful that he has been allowed to go to the States and hurt people. Clearly something has gone wrong somewhere,' he said.

Another senior MP with knowledge of the security services voiced surprise that the background had not been picked up. 'How did he get into the US?' they said. 'You get picked up for walking on the cracks in the pavement.'

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To: joma89

Is Benny Hill running Brit security? I can hear Yakety Sax playing every time they try to explain something/


21 posted on 01/17/2022 1:30:27 PM PST by OldWarBaby
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To: ozarker
Stepping on a crack to break your mother's back is a War on Parents, which the FBI supports.

-PJ

22 posted on 01/17/2022 1:30:54 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: elpadre

How many bullet holes in the man from Blackburn, Lancashire?

I know the holes are rather small
But they had to count them all...


23 posted on 01/17/2022 1:35:48 PM PST by shotgun
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To: elpadre

five eyes blind


24 posted on 01/17/2022 1:40:38 PM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: elpadre

The FBI likes to track folks...then lie about it....


25 posted on 01/17/2022 1:41:27 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: elpadre

The fascists in charge of Law Enforcement NEVER seem to be watching ANYBODY on their watch lists except now for domestic enemies of Biden, et. al.


26 posted on 01/17/2022 1:43:10 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Pollard

Five Blind Mice.


27 posted on 01/17/2022 1:44:11 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

See who they run...


28 posted on 01/17/2022 1:44:52 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: joma89
"You get picked up in the US for walking on cracks in a pavement!"

Walking on cracks in a pavement must be the "Parading" that so many protesters on 1/6/2021 were charged with!

29 posted on 01/17/2022 1:45:18 PM PST by rlmorel (Nothing can foster principles of freedom more effectively than the imposition of tyranny.)
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To: shotgun

+1


30 posted on 01/17/2022 1:48:02 PM PST by mykroar (There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. - Sun Tzu)
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To: elpadre
As police in the US and UK scramble to discover if he was part of a wider terror cell,

I will step out on a limb and say the Fibbies will determine that he was another in a long line of lone wolves.

31 posted on 01/17/2022 1:49:14 PM PST by mykroar (There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. - Sun Tzu)
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To: oil_dude

“Maybe the FIB wanted him to enter the US and make his way to Texas.”

How did that Muslim terrorist living in the UK have the funds to fly to the USA and then get to the Jewish Synagogue?

How did he get a weapon and ammo, after he arrived in CONUS?

Again, how did he get to that Synagogue in Texas after arriving in CONUS.

Why was that Synagogue even a target?

Does MI5 share intel with America anymore, besides BS Intel based on Trump and his friends like in past American presidential elections.


32 posted on 01/17/2022 1:50:53 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Nietzsche: “Everything the State says is a lie, and everything the State has. It was stolen!”)
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To: elpadre

Too busy rounding up grandmothers who visited the Capitol on January 6, 2021.


33 posted on 01/17/2022 2:06:33 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: elpadre

No, it’s not a failure.

It’s a feature, not a bug.


34 posted on 01/17/2022 2:10:18 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: elpadre

Was he vaccinated...?


35 posted on 01/17/2022 2:19:50 PM PST by Scarlett156 (I'm really starting to hate all comedy. Comedians are the worst people. Prove me wrong. You can't.)
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To: elpadre

How reassuring./s


36 posted on 01/17/2022 2:27:03 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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To: elpadre

And in the UK you are fined for littering if you miss some beggar’s hat when dropping a fiver into it and it lands on the sidewalk.


37 posted on 01/17/2022 2:27:20 PM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: TonyinLA

That’s been clear since 9/11, when it was revealed that one of the terrorists was in custody but there was no search for the others - despite the fact that they had overstayed visas and such.

After the Bronx fire recently that killed a bunch of Gambian Muslims, the mayor assured them that immigration wouldn’t get involved as the city sought to provide assistance with housing and such. The city that had paid such a price on 9/11 was openly hosting illegal Muslims again...

Our security means nothing to our government; they think WE are the problem.


38 posted on 01/17/2022 2:28:15 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Flick Lives

“..the FBI is *very* busy hunting down old folks from the 1/6 “insurrection”!...”

I believe this screw up belongs to the CIA and Border Control - the ones that admit foreigners at airports.

And I suspect the Obama policies of admitting as many Muslim as possible without regard to security concerns are back. Remember how he brought half of Somalia and settled them In Minneapolis??


39 posted on 01/17/2022 2:55:25 PM PST by elpadre ( ying them.?)
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To: Yo-Yo
Too busy rounding up grandmothers who visited the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Makes the agents feel like big, strong tough guys.

Like the civilian urban types who have recently targeted the elderly women to be beaten, punched or pushed in front of trains. Makes them feel like they're getting back at someone for 1619. They saw about that race theory stuff on Dem TV speeches.

40 posted on 01/17/2022 3:02:25 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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