Presumed Islamic Gunmen Hold Hostages In Sydney Australia
BY Herschel Smith
10 years ago
NYT:
SYDNEY, Australia — Armed police officers surrounded a cafe in Sydney’s central business district Monday morning after one or more gunmen took hostages and displayed a black flag with Arabic script in white in the cafe window.
A police spokesman confirmed officers were called to the Lindt Chocolate Cafe, in Martin Place, a major shopping and pedestrian thoroughfare, at around 10 a.m.
A commercial television network, Channel Seven, which has a studio near the cafe, showed footage of people, wearing Lindt uniforms, pressed against the cafe windows, displaying the flag.
Reports say anything from 20 to 40 or 50 people are being held. You mean that the police weren’t able to anticipate it and stop it before it happened? You mean the police being armed isn’t enough to keep people safe? You mean that there are 40-50 people now in Sydney, Australia who wish they were concealed handgun carriers?
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On December 14, 2014 at 7:58 pm, Michael Schlechter said:
I wonder if it was a gun-free zone…oh, right – the whole freakin’ country is a gun-free zone.
On December 15, 2014 at 9:18 am, III J said:
The problem of course is racism, since they did not post a ‘No Firearms Allowed” sign written in Farsi or Arabic, how could the poor fellow have known he wasn’t to bring his bomb, gun and beheading tool in?