There was “no indication” that anyone else was involved in the attack on the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in the small Texas town of Colleyville, the FBI’s field office in Dallas said in a statement.
He added that he had been in touch with law enforcement at the scene in Texas and that his family hoped to get Akram’s body back to Britain for a funeral. Britain’s foreign minister Liz Truss likewise Sunday condemned the hostage-taking as an “act of terrorism and anti-Semitism.”Siddiqui, the first woman to be suspected by the United States of links to Al-Qaeda and a cause celebre in Pakistan and in South Asian jihadist circles, was detained in Afghanistan in 2008.
Siddiqui’s lawyer has said she “has absolutely no involvement” in the hostage situation and condemned it.FBI special agent Matthew DeSarno told reporters in Colleyville after the standoff that the investigation would “have global reach.” “In the last hour of our hostage crisis, the gunman became increasingly belligerent and threatening,” the rabbi said.
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