British terrorist who took four people hostage in a Texas synagogue was on UK terror watchlist over 2020 lockdown but then DROPPED from it before he flew to New York as it emerges he has criminal record dating back to 1996
- Malik Faisal Akram, 44,
from Blackburn arrived in NYC on January 2 before getting a bus to Dallas,
Texas
- After a week at a Christian
homeless shelter he launched siege on Congregation Beth Israel
synagogue in Colleyville
- Akram had a long criminal
record dating back more than 25 years and had shown extremist
religious views
- Police in the UK came
looking for him around the time he jetted to the US but he still was able
to fly over
- Akram had demanded the
release of 'Lady Al Qaeda' Aafia Siddiqui, so they could die together in
siege
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Synagogue terrorist Malik Faisal Akram was
being watched by British spies in the months before his 10-hour siege in Texas
because of his links to extremism - but was let off the hook, it was revealed
today.
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The Blackburn-born father-of six, a career
criminal and reputedly a member of a ultra-conservative Islamist sect, was put
under surveillance at the end of 2020 for four weeks.
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But a security source said MI5 closed the
case having decided that he 'didn't present a terrorist threat at that time'.
He was also not put on the terror 'watchlist' that would prevent him flying to
America.
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The latest blunder emerged as Britain and
the US were today accused of 'dropping the ball' after letting him fly to New
York despite police already hunting for him and his links to a religious
sect banned in Saudi Arabia for
attempts to 'purify Islam'.
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He was also fixated with demanding the
release of Lady al-Qaeda Aafia Siddiqui, a convicted terrorist in a
Texan jail who is a cause célèbre for terror groups around the world.
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Akram's brother has claimed that he believes
'someone helped him' through immigration because he had been in and out of
prison since he was a juvenile.
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The Blackburn terrorist, 44, was shot dead
in Texas on
Saturday night after a 10-hour siege at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue
in Colleyville where he took a rabbi and three of his congregation hostage with
a handgun and claiming to be carrying a suicide bomb.
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