And we Westerners have no effective plan in place to stop this.An Islamist flag is seen in the window of the cafe.The chocolate cafe is in the business district in Sydney.Hundreds of police officers have sealed off Martin’s district in central Sydney.At least 13 people are being held hostage in a central Sydney cafe Monday afternoon. The suspect is wearing a headband covered in Arabic.
The Daily Mail reported:At least 13 people are being held hostage by terrorists who stormed into a central Sydney cafe with a gun and forced crying women to hold a black Islamic flag up to the window.Witnesses described how a man wearing a headband covered in Arabic walked into the Lindt cafe in Martin Place and produced a shotgun from a blue bag at around 9.45am.Shortly afterwards hostages were seen with their hands pressed against the windows holding up the Shahada flag belonging to the extremist group Jabhat al-Nusra, which is fighting the Assad government in Syria.There are claims that the terrorists are also armed with a machete and may have explosives but this has not been confirmed by police.One of the hostage-takers has made contact with officers saying that he has ‘devices all over the city’ and ‘wants to speak with the prime minister live on radio’, according to Ray Hadley, from 2GB.Armed police have sealed off streets around the cafe and Martin Place station is shut. Planes have been diverted away from the city centre.Police have handcuffed a man 200m from the cafe with reports an officer has hit foot on what appears to be a small black handgun.The incident began just hours after a 25-year-old suspect was arrested in a terror raid in Sydney.
UPDATE: We now know a bit about the perp in this situation:
The main way the term "rafidi" is used to day is as the Salafist designation for Shiites. So it seems the guy cast his lot with Sunni jihad after arriving in Australia.The man who is still holding hostages in the Lindt cafe in Sydney has been identified as an Iranian cleric with a history of brushes with the law since arriving to Australia as a refugee in 1996.Islamic accounts on Twitter identified the headband worn by the terrorist as saying “Labbayk ya Muhammad,” or “at your service, Muhammad,” leading many to believe he’s Shiite. He carried a Shahada flag.identified the gunman as Sheikh Man Haron Monis, who went to court over sending offensive letters to the families of Australian soldiers who died in Afghanistan. It became a freedom-of-speech debate in the country’s High Court.Earlier this year, he was charged as an accessory in the stabbing and burning death of his ex-wife, but released on bail. “Man Monis then stood outside the court wearing chains and holding a sign claiming he has been tortured in custody,” reported the ABC. In the spring, he was charged with sexual assault while acting as a “spiritual healer.”Haron began the siege with a pump-action shotgun at 9:45 a.m. Sydney time. Three men and two women managed to escape in the hours left, leaving about 15 hostages left.He has demanded a live, on-the-air phone call with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and has also said he’ll release one hostage in exchange for an ISIS flag.“I used to be a Rafidi, but not anymore. Now I am a Muslim, Alhamdu Lillah,” Haron announced on his website in a message marked December 2014.
That's the way it goes with terrorism. Nobody and no country has figured out how to do it, but how not to do it has been plainly proven by our invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq,
ReplyDeleteRead more here if you want to: http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/10-years-later-was-the-iraq-war-worth-it/the-invasion-of-iraq-was-an-engine-of-terrorist-growth
ReplyDeleteHorse shit. Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the forerunner of ISIS, was a spent force after our surge. It was when post-America, under the Most Equal Comrade, signaled that it was bringing all its troops home that the jihadists saw their opportunity.
ReplyDeleteCan that bullshit about post-America too.
ReplyDeleteTerrorism is a tactic used by individuals with specific ideologies. Killing an ideology is nearly impossible. The war on terror is a complete misnomer. A war cannot be waged against a tactic. And proving to be an ideological war, evidence demonstrates that today, the tactic of terrorism is actually growing world-wide.
ReplyDeleteRead more at http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/kerry-patton/why-terrorist-attacks-have-quadrupled-since-2001/
We can't even stop our crazies here in your alleged post-America, wonder why that might be?
ReplyDeleteThe rate of people killed by guns in the US is 19.5 times higher than similar high-income countries in the world. In the last 30 years since 1982, America has mourned at least 61 mass murders. Review a timeline of mass shootings in the US since the Columbine High massacre here at http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/12/14/1337221/a-timeline-of-mass-shootings-in-the-us-since-columbine/
It appears they shot this alleged jihadist, but somehow this is all post America's fault, right?
ReplyDeleteNo, but we need to knock it off with making nice with jihadist front groups and inviting them to be part of Interfaith Forums and such. We need to breathe down the necks of red-flag individuals, such as the Ft. Hood jihadist, the Times Square guy, the Boston Marathon brothers. Use the term "jihadist" always and only use the term "terrorist" when it's appropriate as a characterization of something particular jihadists are doing at a given time.
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