Who is the British citizen of Syrian descent accused of synagogue terror attack?

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The suspect behind the deadly car and knife terror attack outside a synagogue in Manchester in the United Kingdom on Thursday has been identified by police as Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent.

Police said Al-Shamie entered the United Kingdom as a young child and became a citizen in 2006. He had no previous criminal record. Al-Shamie translates into English as “the Syrian,” and authorities are unsure whether that is his birth name.

The Metropolitan Police in London declared the assault a terrorist attack. It came on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, as large crowds of worshipers gathered at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, an Orthodox synagogue.

The attacker’s exact motive is stil