Posted on 12/14/2014 3:37:33 PM PST by 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.
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IMHO, the first video may have been shot by the hostage taker, and then the hostage filmed the subsequent videos. She was quite calm. (That’s not to say she’s a accomplice.) I didn’t hear a woman’s voice in the background of video 1, just a male’s.
No. 4 was up til a moment ago....i listened to it again but especially to the woman speaking at the end, not the hostage...remarkably clear with the same tone as the one filming the previous tape and cutting her off.
I heard no. 2. I agree she seemed accommodating.
If you see the video on social media push it anyway...I can still hear it because the replay button wasnt removed on no.4
I’ve been looking ...
How often do they say that? Unless the terrorists make clear and convincing statements that this is a jihad operation?
Why else would the Sydney terrorist have hostages hold up ISIS flags at the window? In order to ensure that this being a jihad operation could not be covered up.
Stuck at work...update please.
Muslim citizens from other country’s are reporting hostage takings in their countries and want to know why there isn’t the world wide media covering those....they don’t get it that they’re Islamic or Muslim country and standard practice for such.
The European Parliament is in Brussels, Belgium.
Listened to 1, 2 and 3 again. IHO, the female voice sounds similar to “Celine” (sp?) in video 1.
Sidney still in Seige
4 videos using hostages making known gunmans demands.....but they took them down.
I beleive possible there’s someone assiting him..a woman...but we can’t go over them again because they aren’t there ow.
No new hostages have been let go or escaped.
Muslims are in full mode on social networks to deesculate the fears of their own people as well as reassure the public this isn’t about them..of course.
Too many teens running thier mouths on the social networks now mom’s fed them breakfast...moving the “Lets all be friends” soapy mantra. Which is why I stay up late after their bed time.
I’m going to try again to get some sleep...on vacation time but I need a few hours.
did she not sound abrupt at the end when speaking to the girls?
There’s a name up on twitter. I’ll FReepmail it to you.
The media will turn anything into an argument for gun control. And worship for Obama. Hit your finger hammering a nail, before they are through reporting on it they will work in their argument for gun control. And their worship for Obama.
AN Iranian self-styled sheik who sent offensive letters to the families of dead Diggers and is on bail for accessory to murder was last night holding 15 people hostage in a Sydney cafe.
The 49-year-old, who lives in Sydney’s southwest, stormed the Lindt cafe in Martin Place yesterday morning, brandishing a sawn-off shotgun and sparking one of the biggest hostage dramas in the nation’s history.
The heart of Australia’s biggest city was locked down and thousands of office workers were evacuated or kept trapped in their buildings after a gunman stormed the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in the CBD about 9.40am.
The man, understood to be a fringe Islamist, is understood to have taken about 20 people hostage, a figure that dropped by five after three men and two women fled the cafe into the arms of heavily armed assault police. It is understood they were not released by the gunman but had escaped. One of the remaining hostages was last night identified as an Infosys worker.
The gunman, who arrived in Australia as a refugee in 1996, achieved notoriety after he sent letters to the families of Diggers who lost their lives in Afghanistan, accusing them of being murderers.
In November last year, he was charged with being an accessory before and after the fact to the murder of his ex-wife, who was allegedly stabbed and set alight in her apartment complex. In March, he was charged with sexually and indecently assaulting a young woman in 2002.
As police negotiators settled in for a night talking to the man, sources close to the incident urged caution in labelling the attack as one organised or inspired by al-Qa’ida or any similar terrorist group, such as Islamic State. Instead, they painted a picture of an unstable individual well known to NSW Police and the Australian Federal Police and whose motivations were not entirely clear.
I’m sick that the “I’ll ride with you” supporting muslims hashtag is trending more than the Seige itself....
Such a twisted world!
Martin Place, Sydney siege gunman identified as Man Maron Monis
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