BBC News - Gunmen take hostages in Sydney shop
holy crap! http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/police-clear-martin-place-after-gunman-holds-hostages-at-lindt-chocolat-cafe-20141214-127824.html
some of the comments are concerning.... The flag says 'no god worthy of worship except Allah and Muhammad is his messenger" not an Isis flag but Islamic. Ray Hadley saying the man at the centre of the #siege has claimed to have devices all over the city and wants to speak to PM live on radio.
Are we surprised? It was only a matter of time before these monsters stuck there ugly heads out. Others are fleeing to war torn country Syria on the quiet. It's very concerning indeed.
I work at 60 martin Place, the Westpac building across the street from the cafe. I frequent it often with colleagues, so its very chilling. We are in lockdown, we cannot leave via fire exits or even catch a lift down to the ground floor foyer. I can see the stand off from my desk but we keep getting told to stay away from the windows !
Thankfully all my colleagues have been accounted for. Afew of them left this morning for meetings in other offices, and usually drop in there for a quick coffee before hand.
What do the terrorists expect?.......respect.... I can see,in this case,reasonable excuse to use force and not negotiation. I hope our snipers are one shot wonders'
This is horrible.....hoping every major city around the world are on a continuous vigilant watch ..hoping this ends asap without any major incident
Except the minor difference being one done by SWAT and the other done by random citizen playing self appointed "hero".. or worse some trembling shaking "I have to do something" action.. Thoughts and prayers to all concerned and no innocents harmed.
We were evacuated in an orderly manner around 4.30pm. Home safe and sound now. Hoping this ends favourably.
Don't think it's as easy as a single shot as just saw images of the apparent hostage taker by the window of the lindt coffee shop...if they wanted to take a shot, it would have been done