The Jewish community was NOT happy at all when the FBI claimed the hostage wasn't anti-Semitic. Michael points out that is a sign of corruption. There's a video from Fox News further down. I took part of an article by the New York Post and put it below. Read the full article here.
Jewish leaders ripped the FBI on Monday and said the bureau “got it wrong” when they said theterrorist who took hostages at a Texas synagoguedidn’t make demands that were “specifically related to the Jewish community,” reports said.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno made the comments late Saturday when addressing reporters after four people, including a rabbi, were taken hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville byBritish national Malik Faisal Akram.
DeSarno noted that Akram was specifically focused on Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted in Manhattan federal court in 2010 oftrying to kill US authoritiesin Afghanistan, and his primary demand was her immediate release from prison.
“We do believe from our engagement with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community. But we are continuing to work to find [the] motive,” DeSarno said.
Kenneth Marcus, founder and chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, said “the FBI got it wrong” and the attack was “obviously a matter of anti-Semitism.”
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