British intelligence investigated the man who took four people hostage in a synagogue as recently as 2020, but he was still able to travel freely to the U.S.
The British national who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue at the weekend had been under investigation as a possible Islamist terrorist threat as recently as 2020, it has been reported.
The MI5 spy agency closed the investigation into Malik Faisal Akram after officers determined that he posed no threat,That allowed Akram to freely travel to the U.S., where authorities identified him as the armed gunman who took four people hostage at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas.said Akram died in a shooting on Saturday night after the final three hostages ran out of the synagogue at around 9 p.m.
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