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Breaking: Shots fired in Sydney jihad hostage crisis

Dec 15, 2014 10:25 am By Robert Spencer

LindtworkerescapesIt is apparently over. More details as they become available. “Shots Fired in Sydney Hostage Situation,” Arutz Sheva, December 15, 2014:

Multiple shots and/or bangs have been heard in Sydney outside the cafe where hostages are being held.

The fire appears to be coming from police.

ABC video: More hostages escape, police enter building

“Gunshots at Sydney hostage scene,” CNN, December 15, 2014:

SYDNEY (CNN) —Gunfire erupted early Tuesday at the Sydney cafe where a gunman has been holding hostages.

Police could be seen throwing flash-bang grenades into the cafe in video aired by CNN affiliate Seven Network.

At least one person has been shot, Australian state broadcaster ABC reported. Medics were performing CPR on two people, the broadcaster reported.

The fate of the hostages and the gunman, identified by an official with direct knowledge of the situation as Man Haron Monis, was unclear Tuesday.

Hundreds of police officers, including snipers, had surrounded the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in Sydney’s central business district shortly after the gunman took over the building at 10 a.m. Monday (6 p.m. ET on Sunday).

Chilling images from Australian media on Monday showed people, believed to be hostages, with their hands pressed against the cafe’s windows. They were holding up a black flag with Arabic writing on it reading, “There is no God but God and Mohammed is the prophet of God.”

Five hostages sprinted out of the cafe toward heavily armed police officers several hours into the standoff, sending the gunman into an agitated tirade, according to an Australian reporter.

Chris Reason, a correspondent for CNN affiliate Seven Network, said the gunman became “extremely agitated” when he realized what had happened and “started screaming orders” at the remaining hostages.

Reason said he could see the gunman pacing past the cafe’s windows from his vantage point at the network’s nearby offices. He described the man as unshaven, wearing a white shirt and black cap and carrying a shotgun.

The gunman made his demands for a flag and phone call through hostages who contacted several media organizations, CNN affiliate Sky News Australia reported.

Why not report the fact that he asked for an Islamic State flag?

Some had also reportedly posted messages to social networking sites and the YouTube online video service. Police urged media early Tuesday not to show the videos.

The gunman has been identified as Man Haron Monis, an official with direct knowledge of the situation told CNN.

Also known as Sheikh Haron, he pleaded guilty in 2013 to writing letters to Australian service members saying they were “Hitler’s soldiers,” according to Australian media reports.

He is probably acting alone and does not appear to be part of a broader plot, additional U.S. law enforcement and intelligence sources say.

Beyond the demands for the flag and phone call, precisely what he wants remained murky late Monday….

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  1. Ashley says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 10:29 am

    “Gunman down!”

    Phew!

  2. jihad3tracker says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 10:32 am

    Well, it looks like the Aussie police actually have testicles in their combat fatigues . . .

    • Godwin says

      Dec 16, 2014 at 9:21 am

      Man Haron has violent past. Why did the police allowed him to run around freely.

  3. Lookmann says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 10:38 am

    Further info here:-

    Sydney siege : Live updates as hostages are being held in cafe

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/sydney-siege-live-updates-hostages-4812334#

  4. Ferdinand (@StFerdinandIII) says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 10:40 am

    My Priest is an Aussie. One day he declaimed in a homily that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam and that he had read the Koran and it promotes peace and love.

    I am sure he is getting ready for this Sunday’s homily expunging the fascist cult of Moh from terrorism in Sydney…..

    • SpiritOf1683 says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 10:49 am

      Obviously your priest is different from John Wesley, and it seems that priests no longer know their history of just how many priests have been murdered in the name of Islam. Does he know the congregation at Hagia Sophia were murdered in cold blood after Constantinople fell?

      Here’s John Wesley on Islam:

      Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it…have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth; that numberless cities are raised from the foundation, and only their name remaining; that many countries, which were once as the garden of God, are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished from the earth! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of human kind. – John Wesley, The Doctrine of Original Sin, Works (1841), ix. 205.

      • Islamisdeath says

        Dec 15, 2014 at 6:55 pm

        Sadly Methodists, at least where I live, are huge muslim hiny kissers. I recently left the Methodist church.

    • William says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 11:35 am

      There are always those infidels who say they read the Koran and find that it promotes peace and love. To them I would say that they are being dishonest by not telling the whole truth. If they read Mein Kampf, would they say that it promotes love and social justice? It is full of Hitler’s declaration of love for his parents, the native German people and the beloved fatherland. He declared his desire for the shared love and pride among the German natives and wanted to plant social justice in the heart of the young. Would it be truthful to say that Mein Kampf promotes love and social justice?

      • William says

        Dec 15, 2014 at 11:46 am

        The essence or the essential message of the Koran, as well as Mein Kampf, as far as I can discern, is a call to a chosen people to destroy or subjugate all others who are not of that chosen group.

  5. Rezali Mehil says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 10:44 am

    That’s one Sunni who won’t be preaching for some time.

    As you all know …he will be resurrected on the day of Judgement …but for now …tourrar a bit (as they say in the West Midlands).

    More Later…

    Rezali

    • Islamisdeath says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 6:57 pm

      Rezali,
      He was Shia.

  6. Lacho says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 10:49 am

    The terrorist was an Iranian refugee and a self-proclaimed sheik who had been in Australia since 1996. He was on bail for sexual assault and for being an accessory to the murder of his ex wife. I hope he burns in hell.

  7. cs says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 10:52 am

    You see the mess this “Budhists monks” perpetrate in the countries they emigrate to?
    Open you eyes guys.

    you can substitute for Asians if you will, or even Mormons. Just do not use the I word or the word who starts with a M and finishes with uslim. ok?

  8. dsinc says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 10:57 am

    He is probably acting alone and does not appear to be part of a broader plot, additional U.S. law enforcement and intelligence sources say.

    He is not acting alone. He is part of a broader plot called the Islamic Jihad.conquest of the West.

    • Champ says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 11:45 am

      He is not acting alone. He is part of a broader plot called the Islamic Jihad.conquest of the West.

      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      Exactly!

    • Shmooviyet says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 12:40 pm

      Do these ‘additional U.S. law enforcement and intelligence sources’ really believe the majority of the folks is buying their gutless ‘We are not ‘Islamophobic’ garbage?
      ( What a relief he was acting alone– nothing more to see here, move along… )

  9. Barook says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 12:05 pm

    I’ve read the Koran 3 times and the Holy Bible 5 times and I compared the contents. I have to tell you that the contents in the Koran are horrific to say the least. There are 114 suras (chapters) that make up the Koran. All I read in that evil book we hate, murder, rape, slavery, beastiality (yes BEASTIALITY), pedophilia, honor killings etc., etc. I could go on and on about all the horrid, sick and demented contents.

    Anyone saying that islam is a “Religion of Peace” or Islam preaches love, peace and harmony are LYING THROUGH THEIR TEETH and that includes Christian preachers and priests. Denying the fact that islam is an evil ideology have given the muslims the upper hand over the non-muslims.

    High time we put an end to this once and for all.

  10. Mo says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 12:06 pm

    @ cs

    This is satire, right? I just want to be sure, before I give you a few choice words.

  11. Mo says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 1:21 pm

    @ Christy

    Can you show me where Jews are murdering anyone in obedience to their religious texts? Can you show me their religious texts that command or condone any such behavior? (You KNOW you won’t answer me, you coward. You know it!)

    “Islam understands its earthly mission to extend the law of Allah over the world by force.”
    Robert Spencer.

    That’s standard Islamic teaching. It’s not like RS made it up.
    http://quran.com/8/39

    “2 The Left enables Muslims/Jews.
    “The principal organs of the Left…has consistently been warm and welcoming toward Islamic supremacism.”
    Robert Spencer”

    That’s fact, as can be seen by opening any newspaper and reading the left’s coverage of Islamic terror attacks.

    That’s as much time as I will waste on your lies and filthy accusations.

  12. Salah says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 1:56 pm

    @Christy

    “There is no punishment for having intercourse with a dead woman or with an animal.”
    Al Iqna’a fi Hal Alfaz Abi Shja’a, Al-Khatib Al-Sherbini 2/521

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/03/necrophilia-in-islam-necrophilie-en.html

  13. maryG says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 5:38 pm

    sorry to say..it was difficult, but i think this is a good lesson to wake people up (if they want it to)…

    • Islamisdeath says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 7:02 pm

      Nah the Aussies are tweeting their support of their beloved muslim invaders. They fear the inaders will suffer a backlash! No sorrow for the victims however.

  14. pumbar says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 10:57 pm

    Copied and pasted from;

    http://middleclassdub.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/islamophobia-and-antisemitism-same.html

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