{"id":50308,"date":"2022-01-15T14:42:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T20:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=50308"},"modified":"2022-01-17T15:21:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T21:21:04","slug":"breaking-jihad-hostage-situation-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=50308","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Jihad Hostage Situation In Texas (Update: Hostages Rescued, Jihadi Dead)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Police in Colleyville, Texas, involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/police-colleyville-texas-involved-standoff-synagogue-media-2022-01-15\/\">standoff at synagogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Authorities are negotiating with a man who has reportedly taken people hostage at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, during services on Saturday that were being streamed live, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>The Colleyville Police Department posted on Twitter earlier on Saturday that it was conducting SWAT operations on the block where Congregation Beth Israel is located and said that all residents in the immediate area were being evacuated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Evidently a jihadist mad that his jihadist sister was jailed:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AaronKatersky?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AaronKatersky<\/a> &#8211; Aafia Siddiqui is a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted in Manhattan federal court in 2010 of trying to kill US soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan.<br \/>She was sentenced to 86 years in prison. Hostage-taker in TX claiming Siddiqui is his sister. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ABC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Erielle Reshef (@ErielleReshef) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErielleReshef\/status\/1482450381087072261?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Updates as they occur&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: <a href=\"https:\/\/dfw.cbslocal.com\/2022\/01\/15\/swat-team-deployed-to-congregation-beth-israel-in-colleyville\/\">One hostage released<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update 2<\/b>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/colleyville-swat-operation-police-asking-those-in-the-area-to-evacuate\">All hostages rescued alive and well<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a>: Gov. Abbott says all hostages have been rescued alive and safe. This comes just after our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidSFOX4?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DavidSFOX4<\/a> heard what sounded like a flash bang followed by multiple gunshots &#8211; at the scene near a Synagogue in Colleyville <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l4Q06WHQsi\">https:\/\/t.co\/l4Q06WHQsi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d3y7FgBYEb\">https:\/\/t.co\/d3y7FgBYEb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOX4\/status\/1482557071933558787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Not word yet on the hostage-taker. <\/p>\n<p><b>Update 3<\/b>: Hostage-taker reported dead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I can confirm the hostage-taker is dead.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Karol Markowicz (@karol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karol\/status\/1482558720064339974?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p><b>Update 4<\/b>: Dead hostage-taker identified as UK citizen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-60014006\">Malik Faisal Akram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We may never know the motivation of Malik Faisal Akram, who attacked a synagogue to release an Al Qaeda terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sunny McSunnyface (@sunnyright) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sunnyright\/status\/1482769078657945604?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a profile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/calm-collected-synagogue-rabbi-wowed-fbi-through-10-hour-texas-hostage-crisis\/\">Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker<\/a>, who was praised for remaining cool during the entire hostage event. <\/p>\n<p><b>Update 5<\/b>: NRO has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/texas-rabbi-recounts-escape-from-terrorist-hostage-taker-i-threw-a-chair-at-the-gunman\/?utm_source=email&#038;utm_medium=breaking&#038;utm_campaign=newstrack&#038;utm_term=26396382\">an interview with the rabbi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The terrorist, who the FBI named as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram, reportedly knocked on the door of the synagogue before Cytron-Walker welcomed him in and made him a cup of tea. Struggling to speak on air, the rabbi said that he didn\u2019t notice anything suspicious about the character until they prayed together.<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi said he realized something was amiss when, during prayer, as his back was turned away from the man, he heard a click and \u201cit was his gun.\u201d The man then revealed himself and started ranting for hours about his family and Islam, according to a Facebook livestream broadcast from inside the house of worship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anyone tries to enter this building, I\u2019m telling you . . . everyone will die,\u201d he said during the livestream. He demanded the prison release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist convicted of attempting to murder U.S. soldiers while Siddiqui was in their custody in Afghanistan in 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Snip.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDuring the last hour of the standoff, he wasn\u2019t getting what he wanted. It didn\u2019t look good, it didn\u2019t sound good. We were terrified. And when I saw an opportunity where he wasn\u2019t in a good position, I made sure that the two gentlemen who were with me, that they were ready to go. The exit wasn\u2019t too far away,\u201d he explained. \u201cI told them to go, I threw a chair at the gunman, and I headed for the door, and all three of us were able to get out without a shot being fired.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Police in Colleyville, Texas, involved in standoff at synagogue. Authorities are negotiating with a man who has reportedly taken people hostage at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, during services on Saturday that were being streamed live, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The Colleyville Police Department posted on Twitter earlier on Saturday that it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":25,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,31,12],"tags":[8263,8266,2872,8098,1242,2867,8267,2861],"class_list":["post-50308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-jihad","category-texas","tag-aafia-siddiqui","tag-charlie-cytron-walker","tag-crime","tag-hostages","tag-jews","tag-jihad","tag-malik-faisal-akram","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50347,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50308\/revisions\/50347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}