The man had reportedly asked for the infamous “Lady al-Qaeda” to be released. “It’s very likely this situation would have ended very badly early in the day if we did not have professional consistent contact with the subject,” DeSarno said. Police were in “constant communication” with the suspect, Colleyville Police Chief Micheal Miller said, and were encouraged when he released a male hostage from the synagogue in good condition around 5 p.m. The feds were tightlipped about specifics of Saturday’s rescue mission, and would not say if the suspect was armed with explosives, but said the outcome would not have ended well without “a long day of work by nearly 200 officers from across the region.” He also phoned a New York City rabbi in a bizarre bid for help, according to sources – but was “singularly focused on one issue and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community,” according to DeSarno. AP SWAT team members deploy near the Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. AP Authorities say a man has taken hostages at the synagogue near Fort Worth, Texas. Colleyville, Texas, police secure the area around Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on Jan. The hostage-taker demanded the release of Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, who was convicted in Manhattan Federal Court in 2010 of trying to kill US authorities in Afghanistan, and claimed to be her brother. It was unclear how the unidentified suspect - who claimed to have a bomb - died, but flashbangs and gunshots were heard as the SWAT team stormed the house of worship, more than 10 hours after the suspect took control of the house of worship. to deliver the fortunate update, minutes after an elite FBI hostage rescue team that was flown in from Virginia entered the Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, FBI Special Agent Matt DeSarno said in a press conference. Hostages at a Texas synagogue were safely rescued, and the hostage-taker was dead Saturday night, after holding a rabbi and his congregants for nearly half a day with demands that US authorities release a convicted terrorist known as “Lady al-Qaeda.”
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