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BREAKING NEWS: Dramatic end to Sydney siege as police storm cafe with guns and stun grenades
UK Daily Mail ^ | December 15, 2014 | Staff

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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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
That's a loaded question. Loaded with what? Pork? Or full of S***?
161 posted on 12/15/2014 11:49:02 AM PST by ExSoldier (Stand up and be counted... OR LINE UP AND BE NUMBERED...)
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To: KeyLargo

Move along. Nothing to really see here. Just more Obama Workplace violence. No Ferguson riots to report on. No “I can’t breath” T-shirts hanging on thugs like LeRonLeBron T-Shirt James Tweet??? ESPN has not reported it today. ESPN, the LeBron James Tweet Reporting Site. No, LeBron, next time your fat ass needs a cop to get the mob away so you don’t have to sign autographs, I hope the cops tell you it is coffee and donuts break time and tell you to kiss their butts.


162 posted on 12/15/2014 11:49:53 AM PST by RetiredArmy (MARANATHA, MARANATHA, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!! Father send thy Son!! Its Time!)
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To: Kozy
The man’s current partner...

Isn't that usually code for "same-sex-partner"?

163 posted on 12/15/2014 11:50:59 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: Steely Tom
They don’t even have “life without,” at least as far as I can tell.

Irrelevant in this case, as the man is dead, but we certainly do.

Most life sentences carry a minimum term (sometimes quite a low one), but a person can be sentenced to "the term of their natural life" and classified as "never to be released".

164 posted on 12/15/2014 12:05:21 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: Charles Martel
I recall reading that Australian citizens who are ex-military could carry handguns. I'm not sure it that's true or if so, how common it is.

Being ex-military doesn't matter (except for a few people who are considered at special risk because of their service). Any law abiding Australian citizen can apply for a handgun licence. It's not easy to get one, and it can be refused quite readily, but it is possible to do it. Very few people bother. I have but it's less than 1% of people.

165 posted on 12/15/2014 12:08:16 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: RJS1950
Unfortunately, the Aussies banned handguns last year. No chance to defend oneself.

No, they didn't.

This is my local gun shops handgun page:-

Miall's - Handguns.

166 posted on 12/15/2014 12:11:09 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: Tzimisce
My local gun shops range of handguns:

Miall's - Handguns.

This myth that guns are banned in Australia is dangerous and makes Australian's less safe - because it leads to a lot of people not even trying to own firearms, that they legally can. It's harder to own a handgun in Australia than the US - much harder than in some parts - but a lot more people could do it, if they wanted to. People choose not to - and a lot of that is because they are mislead by people telling them they can't.

167 posted on 12/15/2014 12:14:56 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: ExSoldier

Well, we know they don’t eat pork.


168 posted on 12/15/2014 12:27:25 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian ((I once was blind but now I see...))
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To: Steely Tom
One hopes he will now be living in a 5x8 prison cell.

A 3 x 6 foot coffin would be better.

169 posted on 12/15/2014 1:21:13 PM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: Lazamataz

Agreed.


170 posted on 12/15/2014 1:22:23 PM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: WayneS

It is a common term for opposite sex partner too, at least according to the British TV series I watch on DVD. I think it covers everything such as spouse or boyfriend/girlfriend or whatnot.


171 posted on 12/15/2014 2:30:04 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: C19fan
How can this be? Aren't guns strictly outlawed in Australia?

Kind like Chicago.

172 posted on 12/15/2014 3:16:39 PM PST by dearolddad (/i>)
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To: C19fan
 photo 540x293_1418654853_635542545704123879w.jpg.................The killer
173 posted on 12/15/2014 3:22:50 PM PST by mandaladon (To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an)
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To: C19fan

Horrible. Simply horrible.


174 posted on 12/15/2014 3:24:14 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: matt04

But use pig (pork) for the bbq, so as the land is defiled and the Muzzies will not be able to use the land , property again.


175 posted on 12/15/2014 3:26:57 PM PST by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: C19fan

Sounds like Cleaver Greene has a new customer.


176 posted on 12/15/2014 3:29:03 PM PST by Mashood
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To: MeshugeMikey

177 posted on 12/15/2014 3:35:57 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: Rodamala

AMEN AND AMEN!


178 posted on 12/15/2014 3:38:37 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: mandaladon
THE EXAGERATED facial espression reminds me of somebody....




179 posted on 12/15/2014 3:39:56 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: mandaladon

“.................The killer “

And, fortunately the killee!


180 posted on 12/15/2014 3:41:21 PM PST by Batman11 (Obama is not American.. he has no clue what it is to be American.)
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