There is a hostage situation in a Sydney cafe under way at the moment. It seems that at least one Islamist has taken staff and customers hostage and forced some of the hostages to hold up the now infamous black flag at the cafe windows.
There are hundreds of state and federal police personnel surrounding the cafe and nearby buildings have been evacuated. Roads have been blocked and a nearby rail station has been closed. At this stage no communications between the Islamist(s) and negotiators have been disclosed.
Personally I believe this one will be a protracted situation as the cafe has plenty of food, drinks and toilets. If I were one of the hostages I would be worried that once world-wide media coverage has been achieved the ‘terrorist’ may well blow himself and the hostages up.
Whatever the outcome, he/they have done no good for integrated Muslim Australians.
PS: Tuesday morning. It's over; three dead including the hostage taker. Now comes some debate about how the two hostages died.
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