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HOSTAGE CRISIS AT TEXAS SYNAGOGUE; UPDATE: SHOTS HEARD, HOSTAGES RELEASED, TERRORIST KILLED

Posted on | January 15, 2022 | 1 Comment

UPDATE 11:20 p.m. ET: Looks like a win for the good guys:

Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted about 9:35 p.m. [i.e., 10:30 ET] that all hostages are safe and out of a Colleyville synagogue after a loud bang and gunfire were heard. U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne told a Star-Telegram reporter in a text that the hostage-taker is dead. A loud bang followed by what sounded like gunfire was heard about 9:12 p.m. Saturday outside the Colleyville synagogue where a hostage situation has been ongoing for hours.
Colleyville police confirmed in a statement on social media the the situation is resolved and all hostages are safe.

Moral of the story: Don’t mess with Texas.

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This looks very bad:

An apparently armed man took a rabbi and his congregants hostage at a Texas synagogue Saturday, demanding US authorities release a convicted terrorist known as “Lady al-Qaeda” — and phoning a New York City rabbi in a bizarre bid for help, according to sources and reports.
The unnamed assailant who stormed Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville claimed to be the brother of Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, who was convicted in Manhattan Federal Court in 2010 of trying to kill US authorities in Afghanistan.
She is currently serving an 86-year prison sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, in nearby Fort Worth, according to public records.
But a rep for Muhammad Siddiqui, the terrorist’s brother, said he has nothing to do with the incident. Authorities have not identified the alleged hostage-taker.
At some point Saturday afternoon, the hostage-taker — who was caught on the synagogue’s livestream angrily ranting about religion and claiming to have explosives — forced Congregation Beth Israel Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker to place a call to Manhattan’s Central Synagogue, a law enforcement source told The Post.
The man demanded to speak to Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, and asked her to use her “influence” to help get Siddiqui released before claiming to have a bomb, the source said.
Buchdahl called 911, the source said. It’s unclear what connection, if any, the 49-year-old Buchdahl has to the Siddiqui case.
A rep for Central Synagogue called the situation in Texas “a very sad and scary situation,” but declined to comment on the call. The NYPD said the Texas event “had no nexus to New York City.” . . .
The incident began just after 10:30 a.m. Texas time, according to the Colleyville Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The live stream had 8,000 viewers before it was cut off at 2 p.m.; during the broadcast, the man could be heard saying, “If anyone tries to enter this building, I’m tellin you … everyone will die,” and could be heard repeating, “I’m going to die. Don’t cry about me,” according to the Jerusalem Post.
Police in Colleyville, a community near Dallas-Fort Worth, dispatched a SWAT team to the residential neighborhood surrounding the temple. They warned residents to stay away from the immediate area, according to social media and a tweet by Colleyville police.
The angry man can be heard ranting about religion on the ongoing livestream, the Fort Worth Telegram reported. However, the video did not show what was taking place in the temple, and it was unclear how many people were in the synagogue, the newspaper reported.

Expect more updates later.




 

Category: Terrorism, Texas

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