Posted on 12/15/2014 7:44:27 AM PST by C19fan
Edited on 12/15/2014 7:50:02 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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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The 72 Helen Thomases are on their way.
Exactly!
If I were to be taken hostage and there was only one guy taking us hostage I would take the first opportunity to attack the jackass. Especially if he shot one of us. I would hope that once I made a move on him that my fellow hostages would join me. And unless he killed me during the fight he would most definitely NOT survive the incident.
Shooting muslims offends muslims.
OMG..ugly.
It's all part of the disgusting spin. If this person had done something good instead, he'd be described as a "prominent Muslim cleric."
The muzzle flashes and sounds on the video you can see that the police used automatic weapons inside the building.
http://nypost.com/2014/12/15/gunman-in-sydney-seige-idd-as-islamist-hate-preacher/
Were any bran muffins hurt?
Im told they used flash grenades..perhaps in addition...to the weapons fire
NO...he had claimed there were other bombs in area, and he was seen with two men right before the hostages were taken...so not sure, but I would be careful is I were Australia police.
I thought that was a flash bang device.
But did the rag head say “hands up don’t shoot” that’s real REAL question here!
Torture?
Burning his victim? Like Mississippi and others in this country?
no no no she was “allegedly stabbed and set on fire”
maybe she was smoking a cigarette and tripped and fell on a knife 20 times
“reasonable doubt” ya know
how these barbarians mock us
as they should
I wonder where his woman is - the one seen in photos of him from before this siege?
This Sheik was just in court Friday, and took the hostages on Monday in Australia, Sunday here.
They can’t get rid of them because they are not “bastardising” their religion, they are the FUNDAMENTALISTS of their religion... Their “religion” does not teach that all human life is sacred, it does not have a concept of “live and let live”. It literally means SUBMIT to the will of Allah, or be subjugated by those who do. If you do not, you can and should be killed for it.
Islam does not bother itself with your immortal soul, it is all about ensuring that you bow down to it in this world.
As long as people keep lying to themselves about what Islam is, nothing will change.
Sometime shortly the U.S. media will be crying about the plight of the misunderstood poor Muslim boy who was assaulted by the ‘nasty racist’ police in Australia. Boo - hoooooooooooo! Statement from CAIR any minute now....
America: “Morally” No Better than Our Enemies?
“How are we better than our enemies morally, in light of what we all read about today?...What if you, God forbid, members of your family, had to undergo some of the treatments we are reading about in this report?”
— Anchor Brian Williams on the December 9 NBC Nightly News, asking former CIA Director Michael Hayden about the Senate Democratic report on interrogation techniques.
“When you read this, if you envision Nazis doing this, and I even hate to say this, if you envision the Khmer Rouge doing this — it all — you can imagine it. It’s not that far removed from stuff they were doing.”
— CNN’s Anderson Cooper on AC360, December 9.
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