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Phone call shows brother pleading with Texas hostage-taker

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By DANICA KIRKA, SYLVIA HUI AND JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — A British man who held four people hostage in a Texas synagogue ranted against Jews and American wars in countries like Afghanistan as his brother pleaded with him to give up and free the captives. The expletive-filled recording, posted on the website of The Jewish Chronicle, indicates the motivation of Malik Faisal Akram, 44, who said he was “bombed up” and equipped with “every ammunition” as he talked to his brother on Saturday from inside Congregation Beth Israel in Coleyville, Texas. Gulbar Akram desperately tried to get his brother to lay down his weapons and return to his children alive. 

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