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THE man who held four people hostage at a Texas synagogue was identified by US authorities as a British citizen, while UK police later arrested two teens over what President Joe Biden called an

“act of terror” The captor, who died in the 10-hour siege in the small town of Colleyville on Saturday, was named by the FBI as Malik Faisal Akram, 44. The four hostages, including a rabbi, were all freed unharmed. Biden appeared to confirm reports that the hostage-taker was seeking the release of convicted terrorist Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist detained in Afghanistan in 2008.