Terrorist attack in Sydney

[Ridge]

Some men with guns have taken over a cafe in Sydney. One of them is wearing a bulky vest of some sort, and they appear to be using radios to communicate with others offsite. A suspicious package at the Opera House, and the folks inside the cafe say there are many more bombs placed around the city. They are demanding to talk to the Prime Minister.

LiveStream from the local news: http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/



The group have a flag for Shahada, an offshoot group of al Qaeda.

[Zundfolge]

Thank GOD Australia has strong gun control, otherwise those poor Muslim men might get hurt!

[HoneyBadger]

Thank GOD Australia has strong gun control, otherwise those poor Muslim men might get hurt!

^this. That's a hard situation. Even if you had a gun and you were a hostage, with the threat of other bombs and more gunmen, you might tip off an ugly massacre. There are a lot of variables and unknowns.

[Dave_L]

Interesting it's happening in Australia where the threat of a citizen having a gun is minimal. Seems a lot of terrorist stuff is happening down under. Didn't they just thwart a plan to attack random civilians? It may have nothing to do with their gun laws but interesting none the less.

[BushMasterBoy]

the answer is in .50 caliber

[Ridge]

Interesting it's happening in Australia where the threat of a citizen having a gun is minimal. Seems a lot of terrorist stuff is happening down under. Didn't they just thwart a plan to attack random civilians? It may have nothing to do with their gun laws but interesting none the less.

Australia is a softer target in general. Their government hasn't put as many programs in place to avoid this sort of thing as the US or UK.

[ChunkyMonkey]

^^ they pretty much had open border policy til couple years back too.

[jerrymrc]

They still have guns but just with some strange restrictions.

[Bunny]

I can't find anything on the news about it

[Ridge]

Local news? Of course not. It's on the front page of CNN.com and FoxNews.com