A businessman from Blackburn, Lancashire took four people hostage at a synagogue in Texas before demanding an al-Qaeda prisoner was released – or he was going to shoot them, an inquest heard. Malik Faisal Akram fired a warning shot during a final call with the FBI and said he would “put a bullet” in the heads of the “Israeli mother******s”, the Preston inquest was told. The 44-year-old demanded that a female Pakistani scientist named Aafia Siddiqui – who had links to al-Qaeda – was freed from jail. Minutes later the synagogue was stormed by the FBI and Akram – who owed five pharmacies which ha…
