{"id":1218216,"date":"2022-01-15T16:19:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T21:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1218216"},"modified":"2022-01-15T16:19:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T21:19:38","slug":"alleged-hostage-taker-claims-to-be-brother-of-terrorist-convicted-of-trying-to-kill-troops-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alleged-hostage-taker-claims-to-be-brother-of-terrorist-convicted-of-trying-to-kill-troops-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Hostage Taker Claims To Be Brother Of Terrorist Convicted Of Trying To Kill Troops In Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falleged-hostage-taker-claims-to-be-brother-of-terrorist-convicted-of-trying-to-kill-troops-in-afghanistan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1218216&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The alleged suspect who took hostages at a synagogue in Texas on Saturday claims to be the brother of a terrorist who is incarcerated in Texas after she was convicted of trying to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/armed-man-takes-hostages-texas-synagogue-source\/story?id=82285896\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>The suspect\u2019s sister is a known terrorist who is incarcerated at Carswell Air Force Base near Fort Worth and he is demanding to have the sister freed, according to the source.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne suspect has taken the rabbi and three others hostage at a synagogue in Colleyville, TX. The hostage-taker is claiming to be armed and says his sister is Aafia Siddiqui, who was convicted in New York of trying to kill US military personnel,\u201d ABC News correspondent Aaron Katersky tweeted. \u201cHostage taker is Muhammad Siddiqui and claims to be Aafia Siddiqui\u2019s brother. He is demanding her freedom from an 86-year prison sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aafia Siddiqui is \u201clinked to al Qaeda and was convicted in 2010 of attempting to kill Americans in Afghanistan,\u201d Foreign Policy <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2014\/08\/26\/lady-al-qaeda-the-worlds-most-wanted-woman\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cSiddiqui \u2026 who\u2019s known in counterterrorism circles as \u2018Lady al Qaeda,\u2019 has been linked to 9\/11 ringleader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and was once on the FBI\u2019s most-wanted terrorists list. Educated in the United States \u2014 she studied at M.I.T. and received a doctorate from Brandeis \u2014 Siddiqui was arrested in 2008 in Afghanistan carrying sodium cyanide, as well as documents describing how to make chemical weapons and dirty bombs and how to weaponize Ebola. When FBI and military officials tried to question Siddiqui, she grabbed a weapon left on the table in her interrogation room and fired upon them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The gunman says he is muslim and holding atleast 6 people says &#8220;he will kill people if anyone gets close to the synagogue&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4yBnQhQd34\">https:\/\/t.co\/4yBnQhQd34<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l3liPypch2\">pic.twitter.com\/l3liPypch2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmichaiStein1\/status\/1482444390522101769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alleged suspect who took hostages at a synagogue in Texas on Saturday claims to be the brother of a terrorist who is incarcerated in Texas after she was convicted of trying to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. ABC News reported: The suspect\u2019s sister is a known terrorist who is incarcerated at Carswell Air Force &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}