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Hostage standoff at Texas synagogue ends with hostages freed, terrorist dead
A British-born jihadist terrorist entered the Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday during services and held the rabbi and three worshipers hostage for nearly 11 hours, before an FBI hostage-rescue SWAT team from Washington rescued them unharmed and the terrorist was dead. Read more
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The long jihadist-extremist quest to free Aafia Siddiqui
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