Blackburn was the terrorist that killed him while trying to blow up a synagogue. This had been previously known as Prevent.
MI5 also investigated Malik Faisal Akram (44), in 2020. Although the father of six was gunned down by FBI SWAT Teams last week, while he was trying to hold up a Texas synagogue in Texas, it was not considered terrorist.
These new revelations will put more pressure on Home Office to implement the anti-terror program, already being scrutinized following the passing of Sir David Amess.
Prevent had been previously referred Ali Harbi Ali (25) to whom the Tory MP was killed in Southend by a knife attack.
And there was outrage last year after it was revealed the anti-extremism programme had been warned by refugee groups that Reading terrorist Khairi Saadallah, 27, who stabbed to death three friends in the Berkshire town, would carry out a ‘London Bridge style’ attack.
The Home Office refused to comment, stating that Akram’s suicide is being investigated by police.
Blackburn, the terrorist who was killed while he was attempting to blow up a synagogue, was previously referred as Prevent counterextremism. It has now been made public
MI5 also investigated Malik Faisal Akram (44), in 2020. Although the father of six was gunned down by FBI SWAT Teams last week, while he was trying to hold up a Texas synagogue in Texas, it was not considered terrorist threat.
According to the FBI, he may have bought a gun off the street and then armed himself when he went into the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville (pictured), Texas.
According to the paper, Akram’s divorce in 2016 was the reason for referral.
Gulbar Akram’s brother told the paper that Farzana, Farzana’s ex was “bitter” about him after she got custody of her six children.
Prevent: How does it work?
The Prevent programme requires local authorities staff, as well as other professional such teachers, doctors, and social workers to raise concerns about a potential terrorist threat.
A local official will review the report and decide if the tip is worth a formal referral. Local police officers are trained to handle prevent referrals.
Diagram showing the Prevent process.
The case is then classified according to the nature of the individual’s alleged beliefs. This can be based on any evidence, from overheard comments or their history on social media.
People who don’t identify as far-right, Islamists or Islamists are classified as having a “mixed unstable or unclear” ideology.
Council services may receive less serious reports, such as parenting support for parents whose children are caught watching indecent videos online.
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Prevent’s Channel receives serious reports. A panel consisting of healthcare professionals, local police and social workers meets monthly to discuss the case.
Counter-terror police are involved at this point and will get information from counsellors or social workers working with the person concerned.
It was in 2004, in Jandala (about 70 miles from Islamabad), that the couple had arranged their marriage.
According to family members, Akram was the owner of a pharmacy chain in the north-west that helped finance their family’s home – which is said be the second largest house in the village.
‘He paid for all her brothers to get jobs abroad and paid for her father’s cancer drugs and treatments,’ Mr Akram said.
‘The pharmacy chain was in his wife’s name. He was angry because he believed she would take everything, even his children, when they separated.
It is understood that Akram was given a 28-day domestic violence protection order at a magistrates’ court in May 2016.
With the children, his wife moved from Liverpool to Manchester. He would be accompanied by his two oldest sons to Blackburn.
MailOnline had been told by family members that Akram had slipped into extreme religions and had controlled his behavior, which led to their marriage breaking down.
Due to the collapse, Akram closed down pharmacies and Prevent took over amid fears of extremism.
MI5 investigated Akram in 2020, but concluded that he wasn’t a threat.
A spokesperson for the Home Office said that it was inappropriate to respond to reports about ongoing investigations by police.
The latest claims come after it was revealed Akram had ranted about ‘f***ing Jews’ and urged more British Muslims to launch jihad in the United States in a disturbing final phone call to his family just minutes before he was shot dead, it was revealed today.
It is said his decision to kidnap a rabbi and three others at the Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville on Saturday was his own declaration of war on America, claiming: ‘I’ve come to die’.
In a recording of his last phone call to his brother Gulbar, 43, Akram said he had promised their younger sibling Gulzameer, who died of Covid last year, ‘that I’d go down a martyr’, adding: ‘I’ve told my kids to man up. Do not cry at my funeral. This is what I have been asking Allah for for the past two years. “I’m returning home with a bag of body.”
Akram, who had been in the US for a fortnight and bought his gun ‘off the street’ in Texas, said: ‘I’m opening the doors for every youngster in England to enter America and f*** with them’. And in a message for fellow jihadists he said: ‘Live your f***ing life bro, you f***ing coward. We’re coming to f***ing America. F*** them if they want to f*** with us. We’ll give them f***ing war’.
His ranting about ‘f***ing Jews’ further undermines the FBI’s initial bizarre and insulting claims that the British terrorist’s attack wasn’t ‘specifically’ anti-Semitic, despite his decision to target a synagogue 4,500 miles from home and threaten to blow it up after two years of planning.
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of Boris Johnson immediately called the 10 hour hostage-taking incident a “terrible and antisemitic terrorist act.” However, it took nearly 48 hours for the FBI to reverse their course and reach the same conclusion.
The extraordinary rant, revealed in audio leaked to the Jewish Chronicle and where he claims to have been planning an attack on US soil for two years, also piles further embarrassment on MI5 and their failure to put him on a transatlantic no-fly list.
British intelligence officers viewed him throughout December 2020. They concluded that he wasn’t a threat, despite numerous reports that he was radicalised.
He had also ceased to worship at his father’s mosque and began attending meetings of a sect set up to ‘purify’ Islam and Saudi Arabia banned it as “one of the terrorist gates”. Akram also had a criminal record dating back more than 25 years.
Two men were detained in Manchester and Birmingham, by British counterterrorism officers who work with the FBI.
Blackburn, 44 years old, arrived in America on December 31st with a tourist visa. However, new information shows that the 44-year-old Blackburn man arrived in America on a tourist visa.
After arriving at JFK on January 2, the terrorist stayed for two nights in Dallas, Texas. He then went to a homeless shelter run by the Christian charity Dallas. The attack was launched by the terrorist on January 15, 2007.
Gulbar Ashram informed him of his sins and advised him to stop doing it.
Faisal raged and shouted: ‘I would rather live 100 years as a jackal than one day as a lion. With whom are you going to be toe-toe? [police]They can even shoot me. I’m coming home in a body bag.
‘I’m bombed up, I’ve got f***ing every ammunition’, raving: ‘I’ve asked Allah for this death, Allah is with me, I’m not worried in the slightest’.
Turning on America’s involvement in Afghanistan he yelled: ‘Why do these f***ing motherf***ers come to our countries, rape our women and f*** our kids? “I’m creating a precedent.”
Aafia Siddiqui, a female terrorist who tried to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan was also released by him. He demanded that they both be brought together to the synagogue to ‘die together.
He declared: “She is insignificant.” [prison] for 84 years, they f***ing framed her’, adding: ‘We’ll go toe to toe with them (police) in the yard. Shoot me dead. Shoot her dead’.
Akram maintained that he is willing to go to his death, even as it became clearer that he wouldn’t give up on himself.
Gulbar’s call abruptly ends just before his death. He then says, “I have to go” before hanging up.”
MailOnline discovered that he warned his family, “I have hundreds” in phone calls. He threatened hostages.
Blackburn, 44 years old, could also be heard bashing America for its involvement in Afghanistan through calls home. He was held hostage in Texas by a synagogue.
An FBI SWAT team officer shot him dead shortly after he called home from Lancashire.
Yesterday, his father Malik Akram told MailOnline about the disturbing phone calls to his friends and that his son was a jihadist. He also said that his son had ‘destroyed both his life and those of his family’.
The father of his grieving son, speaking Urdu in Blackburn’s terraced house, said that he could not explain or understand the actions and reasons he took.
“It shocked me to hear that he was visiting America from a synagogue.
“When I heard it, I was thinking that somebody was playing a joke. He’s destroyed himself, and we are destroyed. He has made my wife cry.
He stated that his son phoned him several times throughout the siege. During those calls, he rant about the US war on Afghanistan and threatened to kill himself with ‘hundreds upon bullets’.
It was clear that Akram had a falling out with the majority of his family members in the years before his Texas terror bid. He also alienated them by his extreme views.
Farzana, his wife of 20 years, was devastated by his extreme views. A close friend revealed that Farzana complained about his controlling behavior.
A family source stated that he was an controlling husband. As his marriage fell apart, his mental condition deteriorated and his views of Islam became more extreme.
The couple said that he was extremely controlling of his wife, whom he had married in Jhelum (Pakistan) around 2004. The husband made his wife wear the Purdah, and he wouldn’t let her go to her GP unless she requested it.
“He had a heated argument with his family about their lifestyles, and things such as the beards of men not conforming to Islamic standards. He wanted a Caliphate Britain.
He stated that he had never worked or earned a steady income. It is still a mystery how he became such an extreme man.
“He was a critic of anyone who did not live up to his Islamic faith. He believed that women should remain at home, and not leave their husbands.
He said that he had had problems with police. His father was a respected local member of society and had close connections to mosques. His son, however, became an issue because of his religious views, and his desire to have a Caliphate Britain.
American officials should release Mr Akram’s body to allow him to have his remains buried at a Blackburn cemetery, which is where another son was buried a few weeks ago following a Covid related death.
“I arrived in this country in 1963. Everything I did here was work hard to support my family.
“I couldn’t, ever imagine harming anyone or taking anybody’s lives.”
Malik Faisal Akram (pictured), 44, could be heard ranting about American involvement in Afghanistan in calls home as he held hostages in a Texas synagogue
The hostage at Texas Synagogue flees under the watchful eye of a SWAT officer, perched on an armored car.
He was a father to six children and attended the funeral for his brother Gulzameer, who died of Covid-19.
His parents will bury their son alongside Gulzameer in Pleasington Cemetery.
Their father was a Lancashire farmer who had worked as a pensioner before he retired. He added, “We lost our son. What a beautiful and handsome boy.
“Now we have also lost a son.” Can you picture our pain?
The terrorist said he had moved around Lancashire between addresses following his divorce, but remained near two of his children who visited him regularly and attended mosques together.
The two teens were arrested by police in Britain investigating the background of extremists. They have since been released.
One of the places he stayed was without furniture. He also slept on the floors.
Malik Akram stated that he did not know the origin of his son’s arrival in America, and that his family is still searching for answers.
After he had spent six months in Pakistan, 2020, MI5 began to probe his past.
Also, he was linked to Syria. He reportedly told his family he visited Dubai.
Malik Akram, who had a criminal background and was called a “menace” for bragging about the World Trade Centre attack 20 years earlier than usual, had been convicted.
Blackburn’s magistrates granted a rare Exclusion Order for the terror suspect. It was the first such order in 25 years. The exclusion order was issued because the victim had abused staff regarding 9/11, the attack which claimed more than 2,750 victims.
He also had convictions for drug dealing, violent disorder, driving offences.
Six months imprisonment was served for his 1996 attack on a relative by baseball. A year later, he was sent to prison for property destruction.
He was able to get around the US’s restrictive entry requirements for convicted criminals. On January 2, he arrived in New York and stayed in Queens at a low-cost hotel.
After the last hostages fled the synagogue and were freed, the standoff was over. A FBI SWAT team arrived 10 hours later and killed Akram. They were all uninjured. Photo: Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue Colleyville.
According to the White House Press Secretary, Akram was not given any ‘derogatory information by the federal government before his landing in the United States.
Malik Faisal Akram was a synagogue terrorist and is being held outside of his Blackburn house. He was bundled in a police van by 2018
He traveled to Dallas Texas where he spoke out about meeting a Mexican bride while living in shelters.
FBI believes he purchased a gun off the streets, and was armed with the weapon when he entered Colleyville’s synagogue last Saturday.
Sky News was told by Gulbar, his brother. He said the terrorist had mental issues and that it was impossible for him to do this if there was more support in the UK.
He claimed that he traveled all the way across the Atlantic to press for Aafia Siddiqui’s release.
Gulbar stated that he felt strongly about the incarceration of her, and that it was an injustice. However, he didn’t do this alone.