"Nice People Look": Recordings of the kidnapper from a synagogue in Texas | Israel today

New details were revealed today (Monday) from moments of terror at a synagogue in the city of Colville in the state of Texas in the United States, where an armed man abducted four worshipers in a synagogue.

"I can see they are good guys," Malik Faisal Akram, the kidnapping terrorist, was heard saying in a segment recorded during the abduction.

The remarks could be heard on the synagogue's livestream after he was invited in by community rabbi Charlie Citron Walker.

"They let me in. I looked not nice. They let me in. I said, 'Is this a night shelter?'

"And they let me in. And they gave me a cup of tea. So I feel bad," said the man who held four Jews hostage until he was killed in an exchange of gunfire after security forces broke into the scene at the end of 10 nerve-wracking hours.

"It's a glass door. I knocked on it. He (the rabbi) let me in. And I go, oh, my word. Because yes I prayed. First of all, I prayed, I said God, I do not want to shoot anyone to get in," Faisal Akram explained. The sense of relief he felt after members of the community let him into the place, an act that apparently caused no casualties.

Faisal Akram, a British Muslim from Blackburn, Lancashire County, arrived at New York's JFK Airport on Dec. 29, according to details from the investigation published this morning in the Washington Post.

It was also reported that the terrorist stayed for about 16 hours in the area of ​​the synagogue in the town of Colville.

"I walked around with what I had in my bag and my ammunition," he told agents.

Faisal Akram - with no known connection to terrorists so far - appears to have studied the place in advance, according to some in synagogue, and chose it because of its proximity to the federal prison in Texas where Afia Sidiki, a Pakistani neurologist, is being held on suspicion of links to the terrorist organization. Al-Qaeda that the man with British citizenship demanded her release.

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