Malik Faisal Akram reportedly used a phone with a New York area code to make calls to a number from New York before taking people hostage inside a Texas synagogue.
made phone calls to someone with a New York number before the incident, it was revealed Tuesday.
On Saturday, Akram, 44, walked into Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, about 26 miles northwest of Dallas, andAkram apparently chose the synagogue because it looked to be the closest gathering of Jewish people to the federal prison where Aafia Siddiqui is serving an 86-year sentence.and made demands to the FBI to immediately release Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman who was convicted on terrorism charges in 2010.
Akram held four people hostage inside the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue and demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui. The gun that Akram used to take the hostages was a pistol bought on the street in Texas that had been reported stolen, law enforcement sources said. It was traced to a recorded purchase in 2020 but it’s unclear how the weapon ended up in the terrorist’s possession, the outlet reported.
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