MALIK FAISAL AKRAM, THE TEXAS TERRORIST FROM BLACKBURN, WAS ALREADY ON THE UK TERROR WATCHLIST BUT SLIPPED THRU THE NET AGAIN!!

 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 

·       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.

·       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. 

·       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.  

·       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'.

·       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. 

·       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.

·       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.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10413273/British-terrorist-hunted-cops-days-flew-New-York.html