Australia - Martin Place siege: 2 Hostages killed in Lindt Chocolate shop, Dec 2014 - #2

[Ellmau]

According to this the brother and mother live in California.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-si...re-all-nnn-nnn-vars-o&sa=D&usg=ALhdy28zsr6qiq

I'm not sure if they have custody though - I read somewhere (that I can't find) that Monis was trying to get visitation with his children. I would imagine that if they lived in the USA he would have no chance, but not sure.

ISTR reading that Noleen's parents and the children live in Sydney.

I have a feeling that the "brother" may be the son of Noleen's godfather rather than her blood brother.

 

[SouthAussie]

A gathering organised by the Muslims and Friends community group will be held outside the Lindt cafe in Martin Place.

It's an opportunity for "all the Muslim and non-Muslim brothers and sisters who condemn this revolting act ... to pay their respects", the group says.

The NSW government is encouraging mourners to continue leaving tributes and condolences, and has opened a fourth site to cope with the ever-expanding memorial.

The gathering is set to start at noon.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/fragment/commemoration-be-held-siege-site

 

[SouthAussie]

All flowers laid in Martin Place will eventually be collected by the Red Cross and put into clean compost and laid at an appropriate memorial site, while cards and notes will be collected and preserved.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/fragment/commemoration-be-held-siege-site

 

[Estelle]

Tori, the Captain of the Ship

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...refused-to-leave/story-fnmx0wm1-1227161383857

 

[Estelle]

Inside the mind of a monster

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...ind-of-a-monster/story-fnmx0wm1-1227161380280

 

[Estelle]

A Day of Reckoning

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...ird-and-scipione/story-fnmx0wm1-1227161390640

 

[Estelle]

Our proud city

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...e-face-of-terror/story-fnmx0wm1-1227161034874

 

[zoran]

The irony is that we the Australia tax payer will be paying for a state funeral since no ones has claimed the body

 

[bellz]

Sickening that the taxpayers have to pay to bury this "person" if you can call him that.

 

[SouthAussie]

Wow ... this is what the flowers look like today!

"By Saturday, it was so large there were two separate sites, one directly outside the Lindt Cafe and another, bigger site, across Elizabeth street."

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/12/20/03/34/siege-tributes-to-be-collected-and-kept

 

[SouthAussie]

ABORIGINAL elders held a traditional cleansing smoking ceremony outside the Lindt Cafe today.

Cadigal elder Max Eulo, 72, known as Uncle Max, brought a piece of bark carrying smoking gum leaves to ward off the evil which found itself in Martin Place on Monday.

A man beating clapsticks followed Mr Eulo as he made his way around the floral tribute and spread smoke over mourners and the cafe.

“We’re the Aboriginal elders of this area, the Cadigal people, and we don’t like the atrocity that happened to those wonderful people on our lands,” Mr Eulo said.

“This is a traditional cleansing smoking ceremony to clean evil spirits away and to take everyone here that gets in the smoke on a safe journey home.”

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...-man-haron-monis/story-fni0cx12-1227161814044

 

[sleepinoz]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...ore-sydney-siege/story-fnpn118l-1227163109222

National security hotline tipped off to check gunman Man Haron Monis’ website 48 hours before Sydney siege

AN anonymous caller rang Australia’s National Security hotline on the weekend before the Lindt cafe siege to tip off authorities about Man Haron Monis’s extremism, urging them to “look at this man’s website’’.

The Sunday Telegraph can reveal that Australia’s Security Intelligence Organisation and the Abbott government is aware of a call within the 48 hours leading up to the siege.

 

[sleepinoz]

Video at Link: Warning Confronting Images

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...utm_source=DailyTelegraph&utm_medium=Facebook

Final minutes of the Sydney siege: How the siege unfolded and led to 39 seconds of hellfire

 

[Ausgirl]

The flowers are amazing. They say so much more than words, in a way. I find those pics very uplifting.

sleep, that's shocking - wonder what he had up on the site at time, to prompt the call. All his past crap, PLUS this.. :facepalm:

A friend of the woman who started #illridewithyou apologises for invading privacy:

On Monday, I spotted the posts Rachael made about her experience on the train and, without thinking, I acted. I took that information, inspired and moved by her actions, and I put it out on Twitter without a second thought for her privacy and her motives.

Instead I took that decision out of her hands. My intentions were pure. I wanted to share a lovely story and hers was lovely, resonating with hundreds of thousands of people.

What followed was an avalanche of goodwill amongst the public. She was heaped with praise and lauded for her good deed. However, she also found herself unwillingly thrust into the media spotlight in the midst of a dramatic, confrontational and controversial event unfolding in the mainstream media.

As I've watched it unfold I've seen the love and the hate towards her on social media. I read the article she wrote in response to the incident and my heart smiled, then sank. My actions forced her to speak out and become involved in the dialogue, something she never wanted or asked for.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/que...s-about-facebook-privacy-20141219-12agyg.html

 

[Ausgirl]

Monis was highly controlling and erratic, he said. "He was trying to manipulate them, being nice one moment, authoritarian the next, or trying to explain that his were reasonable requests. He was trying [at times] to win the hostages over." Joel's father said Monis had reacted sharply to noises. "Every time [the ice machine churned] every hour he would turn around and say, 'someone is trying to break in – someone must die.' "

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-siege-how-the-hostage-drama-played-out-20141220-12b1km.html

:frown:

 

[Ausgirl]

John Lehmann Editor at Large
The Daily Telegraph

Let’s be honest: Man Haron Monis was an IS terrorist

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...158489614?nk=017cc8b53f3215cc8be5449aea8fc9f5

Am I alone in thinking this is irresponsible journalism?

 

[SouthAussie]

I found it to be an interesting perspective, Ausgirl. I read a different, similar opinion piece yesterday .. and have spent some time pondering it.

Was he a terrorist? Yes, by definition, he was.

Did he do it in the name of IS? Yes, he apparently did.

Was this an IS planned siege? Was he sanctioned to do it? No, evidently no leader of IS called for this particular attack (though they have been calling for random beheadings of innocent civilians), and I don't believe he was an official member of IS, as far as I know. Just had leanings in that direction.

:thinking:

 

[sleepinoz]

AMIRAH Droudis has arrived at court ahead of an urging bail review, lodged following her partner’s fatal siege of the Lindt cafe.
Accompanied by an unidentified male, Droudis refused to answer any questions from a large media pack.
Last week, Attorney General Brad Hazzard asked the DPP to lodge a review of her bail ahead of a trial for the murder of Noleen Hayson Pal, the ex wife of her partner Man Haron Monis.

http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw...is-bail-reviewed/story-fnii5s3x-1227163993815

 

[Estelle]

AMIRAH Droudis has arrived at court ahead of an urging bail review, lodged following her partner’s fatal siege of the Lindt cafe.
Accompanied by an unidentified male, Droudis refused to answer any questions from a large media pack.
Last week, Attorney General Brad Hazzard asked the DPP to lodge a review of her bail ahead of a trial for the murder of Noleen Hayson Pal, the ex wife of her partner Man Haron Monis.

http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw...is-bail-reviewed/story-fnii5s3x-1227163993815

Good I hope it is her last walk as a free woman! I wonder who that guy is with her?

 

[Estelle]

More about Amirah Droudis.....

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-si...dresser-called-anastasia-20141219-12av8n.html