![]() ![]() Brother says Texas synagogue hostage-taker had ‘mental health issues,’ issues apology to victimsĬhairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen.FBI identifies British national as Texas synagogue hostage-taker.All hostages free, safe after hours-long standoff at Texas synagogue: governor.Read the weekend’s coverage of the situation “There was nothing we could have said to him or done that would have convinced him to surrender,” he said. He said his family does not “condone any of his actions and would like to sincerely apologise wholeheartedly to all the victims involved in the unfortunate incident,” Gulbar Akram says in a statement obtained by Sky News. ![]() He added that various law enforcement and intelligence agencies were looking into “what this person’s motives were and whether or not there are any further connections.”įamily apologizes: Akram’s brother, Gulbar Akram issued an apology to the hostages on behalf of is family “It’s too soon to tell at this point what the full parameters of this act of terrorism, this act of anti-Semitism were,” Sullivan told moderator Margaret Brennan on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” ![]() ‘Too soon’ to tell broader threat: National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday said it is “too soon to tell” if the Texas synagogue hostage situation was part of a broader extremist threat. “I don’t even know why the assumption was made that it was her brother.” “It didn’t even seem remotely plausible,” said the attorney. Marwa Elbially, Siddiqui’s attorney, told The Hill on Saturday that her client condemned the hostage-taking and that she “specifically made clear that she wants no violence in her name.”Įlbially also dismissed suggestions that the gunman was Siddiqui’s brother, after Akram reportedly called Siddiqui a sister during the situation. Siddiqui has long been accused of helping militant Islamist groups, with terrorist organizations such as ISIS and the Taliban demanding her release. What the suspect wanted: Akram demanded the release of Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, who is currently imprisoned in Texas for attempting to murder a U.S. The FBI on Sunday identified the gunman who held hostages as a British national named Malik Faisal Akram. He was pronounced dead. The four hostages, one of which was a rabbi, were all released over ten hours later. The situation at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas started around 10:30 a.m., with local police, the FBI, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the North Tarrant Regional SWAT team responding to the scene. The nation was rattled on Saturday by an hours-long hostage situation at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |