Texas Attack: Texas synagogue attack: Hostage-taker’s Pakistan link being probed – The Economic Times Video

The British Muslim man shot lifeless after taking worshippers hostage in a Texas synagogue at gunpoint ranted about wishing he had died within the 9/11 assaults. Because the police within the US and the UK scramble to seek out if he was a part of a wider terror cell, it has emerged that Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn, Lancashire, was branded a ‘menace’ for expressing his need to be onboard one of many planes that destroyed the World Commerce Centre in 2001. Akram’s hyperlinks to Pakistan are additionally being probed, having been a daily customer to the nation the place his father was born. He was reportedly a supporter of the conservative Tablighi Jamaat group, set as much as ‘purify’ Islam.