Hostages taken in Lindt Chocolate shop by armed robber (Sydney Australia, ISIS flag seen displayed)

news.com.au ^ | 15th December 2014

[naturalman1975]

A hostage has been forced to hold up an Islamic State flag in the window of a shop in Martin Place that is currently under siege.

It is believed there are 12 hostages in the store and an ISIS flag has been placed in the window.

Martin Place is the main financial area of the Sydney CBD.

[caww]

I’ll be headed for bed soon....here it’s 6:00 am so I need to catch some shut eye before I fall on the computer!!! LOLOL I’m on an extended vacation time.

Course I did this throughout the Egyptian Revolution and I was working!!!... But there were enough Freepers actively posting we ended up covering for eachother ..and that without planning it so...it was quite remarable it worked out that way.

[caww]

Exactly!

[radu]

Email’s sent and that means I’m done . . . well, sort of. Still got cat dishes to make sure are full and litter boxes to empty. THEN I’m done and can head for bed. LOL!

I’m up all night every night so this is nothing new or difficult. But I usually shut off the computer at 4 and it’s after 5 now.

That’s one of the cool things about FR......when some have to work or sleep, there are others to run the next leg. Keeps the information flowing.

Sleep well!

[caww]

How does the world battle terrorism when the very ideology behind it is exempt from criticism? The debate has been silenced, and when debate is silenced truth is never revealed.

[caww]

Good night....

[naturalman1975]

I am off to bed (10.30pm here). Hopefully by morning, this will have been resolved peacefully.

Pray for Sydney. Pray for Australia.

WHERE'S the steward? - Bar-room steward? Berth? Oh, any berth will do -
I have left a three-pound billet just to come along with you.
Brighter shines the Star of Rovers on a world that's growing wide,
But I think I'd give a kingdom for a glimpse of Sydney-Side.

Run of rocky shelves at sunrise, with their base on ocean's bed;
Homes of Coogee, homes of Bondi, and the lighthouse on South Head.
For in loneliness and hardship - and with just a touch of pride -
Has my heart been taught to whisper, 'You belong to Sydney-Side.'

Oh, there never dawned a morning, in the long and lonely days,
But I thought I saw the ferries streaming out across the bays -
And as fresh and fair in fancy did the picture rise again
As the sunrise flushed the city from Woollahra to Balmain:

And the sunny water frothing round the liners black and red,
And the coastal schooners working by the loom of Bradley's Head;
And the whistles and the sirens that re-echo far and wide -
All the life and light and beauty that belong to Sydney-Side.

And the dreary cloud-line never veiled the end of one day more,
But the city set in jewels rose before me from 'The Shore.'
Round the sea-world shine the beacons of a thousand ports o' call,
But the harbour-lights of Sydney are the grandest of them all!

Toiling out beyond Coolgardie - heart and back and spirit broke,
Where the Rover's Star gleams redly in the desert by the 'soak' -
But says one mate to the other, 'Brace your lip and do not fret,
We will laugh on trains and 'buses - Sydney's in the same place yet.'

Working in the South in winter, to the waist in dripping fern,
Where the local spirit hungers for each 'saxpence' that we earn -
We can stand it for a season, for our world is growing wide,
And they all are friends and strangers who belong to Sydney-Side.

'T'other-siders! T'other-siders!' Yet we wake the dusty dead;
It is we that send the backward province fifty years ahead;
We it is that 'trim' Australia - making narrow country wide -
Yet we're always T'other-siders till we sail for Sydney-side.

[windsorknot]

I agree. These vermin need to be killed in their nests, otherwise they will soon be coming to your local theater.

[mware]

US Consultant has been evaluated according to Fox news.

[caww]

Australian mosque imams refer to Sydney Siege as a “criminal act”, NOT as a terrorist act. They always Refuse to renounce JIHAD.

[caww]

Radio host Ray Hadley who was gettting calls from Sidney Seige Hostage

[mware]

This guy sounds like a home grown terrorist.

You would think he would have taken all the electronic means of communication away from his hostages.

[Chgogal]

AKA the Fly Paper Strategy, which I thought smarter than the Idiocy that is going on now. And whose brilliant idea was to put the Muslim Brotherhood in charge of Egypt? And that Libya strategy a real left wing success story! Do not mention Obama’s Red line Strategy in Syria! Epic Fail can only describe Obama’s American foreign policy.

[caww]

Oh I don’t think so...this is pretty well planned out including the location....I think it was likely chosen because it’s opposite the 7 News building. As much media attention as possible. And he contacted three news stations to try and get his message on the news.

Further he utilized the hostages communication to put pressure on the PM to talk with him...he wants the public involved and exposure to.

[caww]

Sydney Hostage speaking with request from the gunman...from inside the cafe...this is not to go public at police request...

You can see this is genuine easily

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZwq5OMhT98

[maggief]

Looks like same patterned clothing as woman in window.

[caww]

Special Police there are very impressive how they handled this gal running to them.....note he signals to her and for a moment she’s ot sure if he’s friend or foe.

Would make sense they are trained to have the hostages come to them as they’re already traumatized from the gunman....seeing another one too quickly would more than startle them as this video shows as soon as she saw them just for a moment she was scared...

https://mtc.cdn.vine.co/r/videos_h264high/5C8AE0FF811156160585726054400_SW_WEBM_1418624341882a5657bb6c0.mp4?versionId=l0mucM3g3.32AjaZaW8Hgq_cuprbLs18

[who knows what evil?]

Same hair, as well.

[caww]

Yes...no doubt it’s ligit......other gal standing there looks like one of those who escaped earlier.

[maggief]

It does.

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Channel7.

an hour ago
UPDATE: Two of the hostages who escaped were taken to hospital.

One had a pre-existing condition that needed treatment, the other had shock. Both were treated and released.

St Vincent’s hospital is on standby and ready to go for any emergency to treat any casualties

[caww]

Just four days before the attack, intelligence officials in Australia warned the country’s Senate of the danger of an extremist carrying out a random act of terror – a single fighter, perhaps with a rudimentary weapon, launching an attack for “propaganda mileage”.