Posted on 12/15/2014 7:44:27 AM PST by C19fan
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Police stormed a cafe in central Sydney early Tuesday where a gunman held more than a dozen hostages for more than 16 hours, firing automatic weapons and throwing grenades moments after captives were seen fleeing the buidling in terror.
A scene of pandemonium erupted in the early morning just minutes after hostages started emerging from the cafe on their own or in small groups.
Eleven hostages were reportedly accounted for after the police raid - Nine News reported. Sky News reported four people were injured. Live TV footage showed at least two people being taken away on stretchers but there was no confirmation of details.
One hostage was seen being carried out of the building. The woman seemed quite distressed and in a lot of pain as blood gushing from her legs.
After the raid, a bomb disposal robot was seen entering the cafe.
The dramatic end stage of the siege came as the gunman holding the remaining captives was revealed as a self-proclaimed Islamic cleric Man Haron Monis.
Monis is a 49-year-old man living in southwest Sydney, but is originally from Iran and a self-proclaimed sheik, and also sent hate mail to the families of Australian dead soldiers between 2007 and 2009, according to The Daily Telegraph.
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What Islamophobia? #Illridewithyou Tops Global Trend
by Joel B. Pollak 15 Dec 2014, 4:54 AM PDT 13 post a comment
If the irrational fear of Muslims—”Islamophobia”—is a significant problem in the wake of widespread Islamist terror attacks against non-Muslims, the evidence is somewhat lacking. As a potential terror attack and hostage crisis unfolded in Sydney, Australia, the number one trending topic on Twitter worldwide is “#illridewithyou”—a hostage created to demonstrate solidarity with Muslims supposedly under greater threat than the hostages.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/12/15/What-Islamophobia-Illridewithyou-Tops-Global-Trend
....Or virgins looking like a certain Helen Thomas.
Looks like five dead! Per Fox, news App!
“One hopes he will now be living in a 5x8 prison cell. “.
Well, THIS ONE hopes he is being fitted for a pine box which is ultimately destined for 6’ under. Too bad they no longer allow “public’ hangings.
....Or 72 habit-wearing nuns with guns!
Oops sorry that’s the Pensylvania story!
Don’t yell at terrorist suspects, soldiers told
Army chiefs warn interrogations are being hampered by go-softly rules
By Robert Mendick and Tim Ross
10:30PM GMT 13 Dec 2014
British soldiers have “lost their capability” to interrogate terrorist insurgents because of strict new rules on questioning that even ban shouting in captives’ ears, military chiefs have warned.
The rules — detailed in court papers obtained by The Telegraph — also prevent military intelligence officers from banging their fists on tables or walls, or using “insulting words” when interrogating a suspect.
“Monis is a 49-year-old man living in southwest Sydney, but is originally from Iran and a self-proclaimed sheik, and also sent hate mail to the families of Australian dead soldiers between 2007 and 2009, according to The Daily Telegraph.
The seige in the Lindt cafe in Martin Place on Monday follows an unsuccessful attempt to have these charges overturned in the High Court on Friday, The Age reported.
Monis received 300 community service hours and a two-year good behaviour bond for the correspondence, which he claims were his version of sympathy cards, sent with the help from his girlfriend Amirah Droudis.
Arriving as a refugee in Australia in 1996, the hostage-taker was charged as an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife - who was allegedly stabbed and set on fire on a flight of stairs in her western Sydney apartment block in November 2013.
The man’s current partner was charged with murder but they both received bail as the case was deemed too weak.”
Typical muslim scumbag. HE should have been sent back to Iran after he killed his wife. Nice way to die, stabbed and then set on fire.
A pine box filled with pig entrails.
I think your suggestion is cruel and unusual punishment, you should be ashamed.
Next I suppose you think he should be deprived of sleep and forced to listen to Taylor Swift songs all day.
No capital punishment in Australia, unless I’m mistaken.
They have some terrible serial killer cases down there that have gotten prison terms.
They don’t even have “life without,” at least as far as I can tell.
NSW police have now confirmed that the Muslim gunman was killed.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/SydneySiege?src=hash
“Islam in Australia is a minority religious affiliation.”.....
Yea, the ISIS “JV” team, as odumbo calls them.
It only takes one or two like those to raise a lot of hell and kill a lot of innocent people.
They way these idiots are allowed to roam the streets of the US, you can expect another to be coming to a neighborhood near you..........Be prepared.
Well you made me laugh out loud.
Newsmax
Australian Siege: Hostage Taker Sent Hate Letters to Military Families
Monday, December 15, 2014 06:19 AM
By: By KRISTEN GELINEAU
An Iranian refugee convicted of sexual assault and known for sending hate letters to the families of Australian soldiers killed overseas is the armed man holding an unknown number of hostages in a Sydney cafe, a police source said on Tuesday.
Man Haron Monis, an Iranian refugee and self-styled sheikh, remained holed up in the cafe some 15 hours after the siege began.
“There’s no operational reason for that name to be held back by us now,” said the police source, who declined to be identified.
So far during the 15-hour standoff, five people escaped from the Sydney cafe.
Two people inside the cafe earlier held up a flag with an Islamic declaration of faith that has often been used by extremists, raising fears that a terrorist incident was playing out in the heart of Australia’s biggest city.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/AS-Australia-Police-Operation/2014/12/15/id/612983/
yerboutti?
Way to go, diggers!
What a culturally-insensitive thing to say.
/s
All it takes is one.
Once you hear the details, you will see he should have been in prison to begin with, and this would not have happened.
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