The Blackburn terrorist who held up a synagogue ranted about 'f***ing jews' and urged more British Muslims to launch jihad in the United States in a disturbing final phone call to his family minutes before he was shot dead, it was revealed today.
Malik Faisal Akram, 44, said his decision to kidnap a rabbi and three others at the Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville on Saturday was his own declaration of war on America, claiming: 'I've come to die'.
The father-of-six, who had been in the US for a fortnight and bought his gun 'off the street' in Texas, said: 'I've told my kids to man up. Don't cry at my funeral. I've been praying to Allah for two years for this. I'm coming home in a body bag'.
In a recording of his last phone call to his brother Gulbar, 43, Akram said he had promised their younger sibling Gulzameer, who died of Covid last year, 'that I'd go down a martyr'.
The extraordinary rant, leaked to the Jewish Chronicle, he said: 'I'm opening the doors for every youngster in England to enter America and f*** with them'. And in a message for fellow jihadists he said: 'Live your f***ing life bro, you f***ing coward. We're coming to f***ing America. F*** them if they want to f*** with us. We'll give them f***ing war.'
The 44-year-old from Blackburn arrived in the US at New York's JFK airport on a tourist visa in late December. But new details show that despite having been investigated by MI5, no red flags were raised and he was allowed to enter the country
Police are piecing together the terrorist's final movements after arriving at JFK airport by January 2 before staying in a homeless hostel run by a Christian charity in Dallas before launching the attack on January 15
Gulbar Akram told him what he was doing was a 'sin' and urged him to give himself up, claiming he could 'do a little time' in prison and come back to Blackburn.
But Faisal exploded with rage, screaming: 'I'd rather live one day as a lion than 100 years as a jackal. I'm going to go toe-to-toe with [police] and they can shoot me dead. I’m coming home in a body bag.
'I’m bombed up, I've got f***ing every ammunition', raving: 'I've asked Allah for this death, Allah is with me, I'm not worried in the slightest'.
Turning on America's involvement in Afghanistan he yelled: 'Why do these f***ing motherf***ers come to our countries, rape our women and f*** our kids? I'm setting a precedent'.
He also demanded the release of jailed female terrorist Aafia Siddiqui - known as Lady Al Qaeda for attempting to kill US military personnel in Afghanistan - and that she be brought to the synagogue so they could both 'die together'.
He said: 'She's in [prison] for 84 years, they f***ing framed her', adding: 'We'll go toe to toe with them (police) in the yard. Shoot me dead. Shoot her dead'.
As it became increasingly clear that he was not going to give himself up - and was using calls with his family to say goodbye, Akram insists he is ready to die.
The call to Gulbar ends suddenly, shortly before his death, where he says simply: 'I've got to go' before hanging up'.
MailOnline has learned he also warned 'I have hundreds of bullets' in calls to his family as he threatened hostages.
The 44 year old from Blackburn - seen here with young members of his family in a new picture - could also be heard ranting about American involvement in Afghanistan in calls home as he held hostages in a Texas synagogue.
He was shot dead by an FBI SWAT team police shortly after the calls home to Lancashire.
His father Malik Akram revealed the distressing phone calls to family friends - and said his jihadist son had 'destroyed his own life and the lives of his family too.'
His grieving father, speaking in Urdu at his terraced home in Blackburn said: 'What my son has done, I have no words to explain it or to understand what he did and why he did it.
'It came as the biggest shock of my life when I heard he was in America and in a
