All hostages were safely released from a Colleyville, Texas, temple after a twelve-hour standoff and the hostage- taker was killed, US officers blazoned on Sunday.
“ The four hostages are unharmed, and the hostage-taking isn’t part of an ongoing trouble,” the Dallas office of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation said. The hostages included a rabbi.
” Prayers answered. All hostages are out alive and safe,”Texas Governor Greg Abbott twittered about 20 twinkles after a large bang and gunfire were heard in the direction of the temple.
The FBI said their “ mediators were in near-constant communication with the hostage- taker before a deliberate decision to transgress the temple.”
Soon after these adverts, media outlets in the near metropolises of Fort Worth and Dallas reported that the hostage- taker, who before linked himself as Muhammad Siddiqui, was dead.
The man who raided the temple during the Sabbath services also claimed that he was Aafia Siddiqui’s family and demanded her release.
Siddiqui, a Pakistani-American neuroscientist, was doomed to 86 times in captivity by a New York court in 2010 for the tried murder of US officers in Afghanistan.
Dr Aafia has nothing to with the incident attorney
Still, the attorney who represents Dr Siddiqui said”she has absolutely no involvement with”the hostage-taking and the perpetrator wasn’t Siddiqui’s family.
“ She doesn’t want any violence executed against any mortal being, especially in her name,”Marwa Elbially told CNN by phone.”It obviously has nothing to do with Dr Siddiqui or her family.”
“Whoever the bushwhacker is, we want him to know that his conduct are condemned by Dr Siddiqui and her family,”Elbially said.”We supplicate you to incontinently release the hostages and turn yourself in.”
The resolution came further than 12 hours after the suspect entered the Congregation Beth Israel as the temple was live-streaming its Sabbath morning service on Facebook.
The live sluice appeared to capture part of the incident before it was removed. Law enforcement officers told CNN they reviewed the sluice and used it to gather suggestions on the incident and the individualities involved.
Two law enforcement officers told CNN that investigators believe the perpetrator may have been motivated by a desire to release Dr Siddiqui.
At the suspect’s request, the rabbi of the congregation called a well- known rabbi in New York City. The alleged raider, who had no connection with the rabbi, told the clerk that Dr Siddiqi was framed, and he wants her released, the officers said.
In a separate state, a US- grounded Muslim advocacy group known as CAIR, and Free Dr Aafia Movement condemned the hostage-taking and said that her family had nothing to do with the incident.
John Floyd, who heads the Houston chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and a legal counsel for Dr Siddiqui’s family said “ This antisemitic attack against a house of deification is inferior. We stand in solidarity with the Jewish community.”
They also said that they wanted to “ make it veritably well known that the hostage- taker is NOT Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s family, who isn’t indeed in the same region where this horrible incident took place. Dr Aafia Siddiqui and her family explosively condemn this act and don’t stand by the perpetrator.
They said that Dr Siddiqui’s family has always stood establishment in championing for the release of their family from incarceration by legal andnon-violent means only.
Before the media reported the suspect’s death, CAIR and the Dr Siddiqui family’s legal counsel prompted him to “ incontinently release the hostages and turn yourself in.”
Biden condemns’ rise of unreasonableness’
President Joe Biden pledged to “ stand againstanti-Semitism and against the rise of unreasonableness in this country.” “ I’m thankful to the inexhaustible work of law enforcement at all situations who acted cooperatively and valorously to deliver the hostages,” he said.
“ We’re transferring love and strength to the members of Congregation Beth Israel, Colleyville, and the Jewish community.”
Israel’s minister to the United States, Michael Herzog, said he was “ thankful” all the hostages had been released safely.
“ No bone should ever be hysterical to assemble in their place of deification,” the Jewish Community Relations Council said in a statement.
