Report: ‘Dreadful’ Border Error Allowed Suspected Texas Synagogue Terrorist Into US

Yesterday, in the suburbs of 📍Dallas, a British national named Malik Faisal Akram took four hostages at a synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel. After a 10-hour standoff with the police, Akram was shot and killed.

In the aftermath of the situation, security services in both the U.S. and the U.K. are looking into how Akram was able to enter the United States and carry out the attack on the synagogue, according to the U.K. Daily Mail.

Security services of both countries are being blamed for an “intelligence failure.”

Akram was 44 years old, from Blackburn, Lancashire, and had a criminal record. He had also been branded as a “menace” by the Blackburn magistrates’ court for raving about the 9/11 attacks 20 years ago, according to the Daily Mail.

“The terror suspect was given a rare Exclusion Order at Blackburn’s magistrates’ court – the first in 25 years – for abusing staff about 9/11 on the day after the attack that claimed more than 2,750 lives,” the Daily Mail reported.

This led to questions of how Akram was able to enter the U.S. two weeks ago and whether intelligence agencies in Britain or the U.S. were aware of him.

One Tory Member of Parliament, Bob Seely, told the Daily Mail that there appeared to have been a “dreadful” error at the U.S. and U.K. borders that seems to have been caused by an “intelligence failure.”