Posted on 06/05/2017 4:49:52 AM PDT by naturalman1975
A gunman who took a woman hostage and is suspected of killing another man called up a TV newsroom during the siege to claim: 'This is for IS, this is for al-Qaeda'.
'Severe gunfire' rang out inside 'The Buckingham' serviced apartments on Bay Street, in the affluent east Melbourne suburb of Brighton, shortly after 6pm on Monday.
The hostage situation came to an end when the gunman stepped out of a hotel room and fired on officers, injuring three, before himself being killed in the exchange.
But moments before police shot the man dead, he called Channel 7's newsroom to claim he was carrying out a terrorist attack on behalf of Islamic State and al-Qaeda.
As he made the chilling phone call at around 5.41pm, a woman, believed to be the female hostage, was heard screaming desperately in the background.
The gunman responsible for the act was reportedly well known to counter terrorism police in Victoria, with investigations ongoing about the link of terror to the attack.
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Beachfront tourist area...I was there in Feb of last year. Probably the best overall town in the world.
Why are these people there in the first place?
Liberals
Same reason they are everywhere else. Years of politically correct approaches to immigration. Being corrected in some places, but not in others - and even when there’s some correction, there’s nowhere near enough.
Gee in gun free Australia how did this terrorist get a gun?
For some reason, a lot of bull has been spread in the US about a supposed gun ban in Australia, but it's garbage. We don't have the same level of gun freedom as the freest parts of the US, but's it's not that bad.
And then there are illegal guns as well.
Thanks for posting. FReeper BUMP!
I lived in Sale during the late 60’s and early 1970s, Victoria is a beautiful place. That was back in the day when Aussies told us bloody yanks to go home! I was a kid, my dad was working on the Esso plant at Longford.
“But moments before police shot the man dead, he called Channel 7’s newsroom to claim he was carrying out a terrorist attack on behalf of Islamic State and al-Qaeda.”
Wow, I wonder what he meant by that cryptic message.
The motive for this incident will perplex the powers that be.
A quandary for sure.
***well known to counter terrorism police***
Like so many “on their watch list” but can’t be touched till they do something BAD.
Muslim terrorists.........
“Why are these people there in the first place?”
“Same reason they are everywhere else. Years of politically correct approaches to immigration”........
EXACTLY why Trump is trying to stop the migration into the U.S.
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