The Texas synagogue attacker was a member of Al Qaeda, according to what was published in the gang’s magazine, “Lobos de Manhattan”, which moves in the environment of the jihadist gang. On the other hand, the attack has had the “virtue” of uniting the jihadists with the North American right-wing extremists in their antisemitic targets.
Malik Faisal Akram, 44, of Blackburn, Lancashire, England, was gunned down by an FBI team on Saturday night at the end of a more than 10-hour hostage-taking uninjured. Akram arrived in the United States through New York’s JFK International Airport two weeks ago and acquired a firearm. Authorities are investigating how he traveled to Texas, where he spent three nights at the homeless shelter, HSTODAY reports.
The Jaysh Al-Malahim Al-Electroni, which supports Al-Qaeda and publishes the “Wolves of Manhattan” magazine, who encourages jihadist activity alone and in cells, published an article in English and Arabic in which he calls Akram “Malik al-Britani” and says he was attempting “sister’s revenge” by referring to a militant of the gang , condemned in the United States and whose release he demanded.
The group praised Akram for entering the “Temple of the Descendants of Monkeys and Pigs” and detaining four Jews while “asking the Christians to release sister Afia Al-Siddiqui, may God release her.”
“And with this, Brother Malik’s achievements in this operation are many, the most beautiful of which is the terror that Malik [que sembró] in the hearts of God’s enemies,” the statement continued. He stresses that the attack had “many effects” including grabbing world headlines “so that the enemies of God can understand that this Pakistani sister Aafia is supported by brother Malik Al-Britani…and many of the other greats”; and prompted a reaction from Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who spoke with Rabbi Cytron-Walker and Texas Governor Greg Abbott after the incident.
The latest issue of “Wolves of Manhattan” commemorated the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks and encouraged solo attackers or pairs to try to emulate the operation carefully planned for years by al-Qaeda, arguing that the tactic of using planes as weapons is “an open door even for lone wolves”.
Jaysh Al-Malahim Al-Electroni insisted that “perhaps a simple group of two or more” would be “capable of humiliating the infidels with an operation similar” to the 9/11 hijackings.
The group published an issue of the magazine in April offering a $60,000 Bitcoin reward to any attacker in the West who killed a Jewish, Christian or atheist police officer, and advocated taking advantage of the protests to carry out vehicle attacks or the chaos. Days after the article was published, Jamel Gorchene fatally stabbed a female police department officer in Rambouillet, France; Although the investigators did not say if there was a connection to the reward offer, they did note that Gorchene was a consumer of terrorist propaganda online.
American extremists also reacted to the attack online, with a poster on the neo-Nazi Stormfront forum saying they were “relieved it wasn’t one of our own who did this, as it only makes the enemy exponentially more powerful.” A user replied that it will happen soon. Another called the attack a “false flag so Jews can get six million hate laws passed.” Another claimed that “attacks on places of worship are not as effective as attacks on ‘Holocaust’ museums, monuments and memorials could be” because “the message would be much clearer.”.
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