{"id":92503,"date":"2022-01-16T17:05:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T15:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=92503"},"modified":"2022-01-16T14:56:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T12:56:04","slug":"24-05-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=92503","title":{"rendered":"Hostages Released at Texas Synagogue, Gunman Dead After Hours-Long Standoff"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Hostages Released at Texas Synagogue, Gunman Dead After Hours-Long Standoff<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Reuters<\/strong> and<\/span> Algemeiner Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Emergency responders are seen near a synagogue where a man has reportedly taken people hostage at a synagogue during services that were being streamed live, in Colleyville, Texas, U.S. January 15, 2022. REUTERS\/Shelby Tauber<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

All the remaining hostages being held at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, were safely released on Saturday night more than ten hours after a gunman disrupted a religious service and began a tense stand-off with police.<\/span><\/p>\n

Members of the FBI\u2019s Hostage Rescue Team stormed the synagogue to free the three remaining hostages. The gunman was dead, Colleyville Police Chief Michael Miller said at a news conference.<\/span><\/p>\n

The gunman had initially taken four people hostage, including the rabbi, at the Congregation Beth Israel, officials said. One hostage was released unharmed six hours later.<\/span><\/p>\n

Local reporters said they heard the sound of explosions, possibly flashbangs, and the sound of gunfire shortly before Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the crisis was over.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPrayers answered. All hostages are out alive and safe,\u201d Abbott said on Twitter. The FBI said they have confirmed the identity of the gunman but said they would not yet disclose it. The FBI declined to confirm the cause of his death, saying it was still under investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Colleyville Police Department said it first responded to the synagogue with SWAT teams in response to emergency calls beginning at about 10:41 a.m. during the Shabbat service, which was being broadcast online. FBI negotiators soon opened contact with the man, who said he wanted to speak to a woman held in a federal prison.<\/span><\/p>\n

No injuries were reported among the hostages.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the first few hours, the man could be heard having a one-sided conversation in what appeared to be a phone call during a Facebook livestream of the service of the Reform Jewish synagogue in Colleyville, which is about 16 miles northeast of Fort Worth. The livestream cut off around 3 p.m. EST.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before the livestream was ended, the man could be heard ranting and talking about religion and his sister, the\u00a0Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/em>\u00a0reported. The man could be heard repeatedly saying he didn\u2019t want to see anyone hurt and that he believed he was going to die, the newspaper said.<\/span><\/p>\n

President Joe Biden was briefed on the crisis, and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Twitter he was praying for the safety of the hostages.<\/span><\/p>\n

Barry Klompus, a member of the congregation since it opened in 1999, said he tuned into the livestream.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was horrible listening and watching,\u201d Klompus said in a telephone interview.<\/span><\/p>\n

A US official briefed on the matter told\u00a0ABC News<\/em>\u00a0the hostage-taker had claimed to be the brother of Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, who is serving an 86-year US prison sentence for her 2010 conviction for shooting at soldiers and FBI agents, and that he is demanding she be freed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said Saturday that the group had been tracking Siddiqui for more than a decade.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe has been open and explicit in her antisemitism and it is worth noting that Islamic terrorist groups, including ISIS, have attempted to exchange hostages for her release,\u201d he said in an emailed statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Siddiqui is being held at a federal prison in the Fort Worth area. A lawyer representing Siddiqui, Marwa Elbially, told CNN in a statement the man was not Siddiqui\u2019s brother. He implored the man to release the hostages, saying Siddiqui\u2019s family condemned his \u201cheinous\u201d actions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Klompus said he did not know of any significant previous threats to the congregation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have a security officer on staff but we have what I would say is a very good relationship with the local police,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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