[Ellendra]

I suspect those teams are smarter than me but I honestly can’t see any way out of this except to kill the terrorist and hope he doesn’t kill all the hostages when they do.

Find an air intake vent, use it to fill the place with some kind of knock-out gas. I'll let someone more experienced with anesthetics suggest which kinds might work best.

There would be risks, yes. But those risks would be a lot milder than any kind of assault.

[tcrlaf]

Sydney Daily Telegraph, Special Edition:

[yarddog]

I thought about that too. There must be some type of agent which will put them to sleep without killing them.

On the other hand that is what the Russians tried and it ended up killing some of the innocents and the terrorists were able to kill a whole bunch more before they succomed.
Still they were in a no win situation as I suspect the Aussies are also.