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QuoteMore than a dozen hostages are being held inside a central Sydney, Australia cafe where a black flag with white Arabic writing could be seen in the window, local television showed on Monday, raising fears of an attack linked to Islamic militants.



Australia, which is backing the United States and its escalating action against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, is on high alert for attacks by radicalized Muslims or by home-grown fighters returning from fighting in the Middle East.



Part of Martin Place, home to the Reserve Bank of Australia, commercial banks and close to the New South Wales (NSW) state parliament, was closed off by armed police.



Live television footage showed an estimated 13 patrons inside the Lindt Chocolate Café in Martin Place standing with their hands pressed against the windows. A black and white flag similar to those used by Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria was also visible.



NSW Police tweeted: "A police operation is underway in Martin Place, Sydney's CBD. People are advised to avoid the area."



Dozens of police including a SWAT team were setting up and a couple of hundred people were being held back by cordons.



Trains and buses were stopped and roads were blocked in the area, with train operators saying there had been a bomb threat at Martin Place. Airspace over the area has also been closed.



An Australian Broadcasting Corporation reporter said gunfire had been heard at the scene, the BBC reported, but this has not been confirmed. Major landmarks in the city such as the Sydney Opera House have been evacuated.



The U.S. consulate issued a statement warning its citizens "of a security incident involving at least one armed person at Lindt Chocolate Café in Martin Place in Sydney. New South Wales and Australian Federal police are addressing the threat. Please avoid the area around Martin Place until further notice."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hostages-being-held-in-sydney-australia-cafe-1.2873068

QuoteChristmas came early for liberals last week. A report from the U.S. Senate confessed that the CIA engaged in torture, that it did so secretly and without government approval, and the torture didn't actually yield any useful intelligence information.



Enemy media like Qatar's state-controlled Al Jazeera and Russia's Kremlin-run RT were delighted to report this news. But they were reserved compared to the orgasmic excitement from Canada's journalists. At last, all of the Media Party's liberal fantasies were proved true: America was immoral, the terrorists were victims, the CIA and U.S. military were discredited.



Except none of that is true.



The report was not issued by the U.S. Senate. It was issued by the Democratic Party alone, under the direction of a far-left San Francisco liberal named Dianne Feinstein.



Republican senators disagreed with the report and opposed it – they wrote a refutation of it, pointing out obvious flaws, such as the Democrats condemned the CIA's interrogation procedures without bothering to interview a single person involved with them. They cherry-picked their way through documents to construct the most embarrassing depiction of the CIA possible. Of course they didn't interview anyone, including the CIA director himself. That could spoil their pre-planned narrative. Indeed, several Democrat CIA directors have since condemned the report as inaccurate.



The report is not a legitimate document. There is an important role for congressional oversight of the CIA, just as we in Canada have civilian oversight of CSIS. But that was not the purpose of this report. There are no recommendations in it for improved procedures. It is just a dump of classified military secrets, not much different from what Julian Assange or Edward Snowden did, except they don't pretend to be loyal Americans, like the U.S. Democratic Party does.



Sen. Feinstein herself acknowledged that one reason she released this smear now is that next month Republicans will take control of the U.S. Senate, including of the Intelligence Committee that Feinstein chairs. She's 81 – this is her last hurrah, her last chance to indulge old grudges and feuds.



But the program she denounces is the one that she and her party oversaw. For six years she has been the top congressional overseer of the CIA. No one other than Barack Obama himself had as much access or authority over what the CIA did.



The Democrats controlled the Senate Intelligence Committee from 2001 to 2003 – when the CIA was pressed into emergency service after 9/11. Democrats and Republicans alike demanded the CIA do everything possible to stop the next 9/11.



Not through rogue torture or secret prisons, as the Media Party's dark daydreams suggest. If they actually read the report, they would see that it was enhanced interrogation – the use of sleep deprivation, the use of white noise, disorientation – not torture. The CIA says a grand total of three terrorists were waterboarded – simulating the terror of drowning -- although the Senate report suggests there were more. They weren't drowned, of course – that wouldn't be much use for interrogating someone. These interrogation techniques were proposed by the CIA, reviewed by the Department of Justice, approved by the Senate Committee, and executed by the White House.



One of the terrorists who was waterboarded was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11 itself. His interrogation not only taught the CIA about al-Qaida's nature and structure, but also about specific operations that it was planning. It even helped point the way to the eventual raid on Osama bin Laden.



The 9/11 attacks were just 13 years ago. Have we really forgotten the horror of nearly 3,000 civilians murdered by Islamic terrorists, of men and women in the World Trade Center being forced to choose between being burned alive, or jumping 100 floors to their death?



Is 13 years really all it takes for us to rename terrorists as victims, and rename the CIA that protected us – Canadians too – as torturers?



The CIA did not torture terrorists. They interrogated them to save us – gleaning information not available through Obama's preferred tactic of unmanned drone strikes.



Which also happens to kill nearby civilians. No document leak from Feinstein on that.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/2014/12/12/report-reveals-politics-not-torture

Quote from: "Shen Li"The religion of peace is at it again.

QuoteMore than a dozen hostages are being held inside a central Sydney, Australia cafe where a black flag with white Arabic writing could be seen in the window, local television showed on Monday, raising fears of an attack linked to Islamic militants.



Australia, which is backing the United States and its escalating action against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, is on high alert for attacks by radicalized Muslims or by home-grown fighters returning from fighting in the Middle East.



Part of Martin Place, home to the Reserve Bank of Australia, commercial banks and close to the New South Wales (NSW) state parliament, was closed off by armed police.



Live television footage showed an estimated 13 patrons inside the Lindt Chocolate Café in Martin Place standing with their hands pressed against the windows. A black and white flag similar to those used by Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria was also visible.



NSW Police tweeted: "A police operation is underway in Martin Place, Sydney's CBD. People are advised to avoid the area."



Dozens of police including a SWAT team were setting up and a couple of hundred people were being held back by cordons.



Trains and buses were stopped and roads were blocked in the area, with train operators saying there had been a bomb threat at Martin Place. Airspace over the area has also been closed.



An Australian Broadcasting Corporation reporter said gunfire had been heard at the scene, the BBC reported, but this has not been confirmed. Major landmarks in the city such as the Sydney Opera House have been evacuated.



The U.S. consulate issued a statement warning its citizens "of a security incident involving at least one armed person at Lindt Chocolate Café in Martin Place in Sydney. New South Wales and Australian Federal police are addressing the threat. Please avoid the area around Martin Place until further notice."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hostages-being-held-in-sydney-australia-cafe-1.2873068

Quote from: "ghost"The gunman holding people hostage in a Sydney cafe has been identified as an Iranian refugee who was on bail for a string of violent offences.



http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-30481241

Quote from: "Fashionista"

Quote from: "ghost"The gunman holding people hostage in a Sydney cafe has been identified as an Iranian refugee who was on bail for a string of violent offences.



http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-30481241

Good morning ghost.

 ac_smile

I hope everyone inside is safe.

Quote from: "Jimmy Hoffa"I thought cc la femme would have posted her usual hysteria by now about the Muslim enemy at the gate.

Quote from: "ghost"The gunman holding people hostage in a Sydney cafe has been identified as an Iranian refugee who was on bail for a string of violent offences.



http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-30481241

Quote from: "cc li tarte"Seems they got out of it with only one hostage killed.

An Iranian turned Sunni went all jihadi .... exactly as exampled by and instructed by Mo



Edit - make that at least 2 hostages murdered + others wounded + the Islamic perp shot daid



The cops did well to keep many more from being killed





Apparently the café was not his plan - rather he ran in there after being reported for hassling some females  - As it was in the  Aussie Fed building and also near the Premier's office they figure them to be his likely intentions  ... then things went sideways on him when he typical of islamists  shot off his mouth prematurely

Quote from: "Renee"3 hostages dead, 2 men and a woman.

Quote from: "cc li tarte"2 hostages dead, one injured



Here's an everyday example of  how many dim multicult bulbs in our fucked up society see the islam issue



MSNBC Host: "It's Too Early To Tell" If Muslim Man Asking For ISIS Flag Was Motivated By Islam...



The NBC journalist Diaz-Balart is talking with is the same one who recently claimed that Islamic lone wolf terrorism is "not a religious issue."



duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Quote from: "Shen Li"

Quote from: "cc li tarte"2 hostages dead, one injured



Here's an everyday example of  how many dim multicult bulbs in our fucked up society see the islam issue



MSNBC Host: "It's Too Early To Tell" If Muslim Man Asking For ISIS Flag Was Motivated By Islam...



The NBC journalist Diaz-Balart is talking with is the same one who recently claimed that Islamic lone wolf terrorism is "not a religious issue."



duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

That head in the sand shit bothers me too CC.

Quote from: "cc li tarte"I'm going by BBC as of now  ... Mohammed's latest puppet dead, 2 hostages dead, 4 people injured including cop hit by shotgun pellets

Quote from: "cc li tarte"Monis and Droudis (his sweet wifey)  sent letters to the families of Australian soldiers within days of their deaths between 2007 and 2009. The letters reportedly told families that their dead loved ones were child-murderers, and that they were going to hell. - The Australian

Quote from: "cc li tarte"Monis and Droudis (his sweet wifey)  sent letters to the families of Australian soldiers within days of their deaths between 2007 and 2009. The letters reportedly told families that their dead loved ones were child-murderers, and that they were going to hell. - The Australian

Quote from: "Shen Li"

Quote from: "cc li tarte"Monis and Droudis (his sweet wifey)  sent letters to the families of Australian soldiers within days of their deaths between 2007 and 2009. The letters reportedly told families that their dead loved ones were child-murderers, and that they were going to hell. - The Australian

Yeah, he was a class act for sure as most of Islam's followers are. I read something this morning about him having been charged with sexually assaulting women?

Quote from: "cc li tarte"The Fed Attorney General is a far out wefty waco and let him on the streets. More unnecessary deaths from moonbeams. Not sure how he remained in his job as Abbot is a pretty solid realist but I'm not sure how the system works in OZ

Quote from: "cc li tarte"Here's a bit more on this islamic



The man behind the shocking siege in a Sydney café was Man Haron Monis (//http), a notorious 49-year-old self-proclaimed sheikh and his girlfriend, were well known for multiple crimes including sending offensive letters to grieving families of dead Australian soldiers and allegedly murdering his ex-wife.



In October, he was chanrged with 40 indecent and sexual assault charges, including 22 counts of aggravated sexual assault and 14 counts of aggravated indecent assault relating to six women.  In 2002 he faced charges of sexually assaulting a woman and of joining with his current girlfriend to stab his ex-wife to death in Sydney last year.

Quote from: "Shen Li"

Quote from: "cc li tarte"The Fed Attorney General is a far out wefty waco and let him on the streets. More unnecessary deaths from moonbeams. Not sure how he remained in his job as Abbot is a pretty solid realist but I'm not sure how the system works in OZ

I hope this either is or will become widespread public knowledge. These lefties are putting their stupid ideology ahead of public safety.  acc_angry  ac_wtf

Quote from: "Renee"
Yep, these radicals are the kind of nutjobs that Hillary (the vile murdering prog bitch) recently talked about and stated that we should try to "empathize" with so we can better understand their plight.



Personally I believe any person who votes for Hillary in 2016 is certifiably insane or just too butt fucking stupid to be allowed to vote. These far left PC halfwits are almost as dangerous as the murderous Islamic radicals. Leftwing, moonbean, tards are a detriment to public safety and the security of every nation that they infect with their naive and idiotic ideology. acc_angry

Quote from: "Shen Li"

Quote from: "Renee"
Yep, these radicals are the kind of nutjobs that Hillary (the vile murdering prog bitch) recently talked about and stated that we should try to "empathize" with so we can better understand their plight.



Personally I believe any person who votes for Hillary in 2016 is certifiably insane or just too butt fucking stupid to be allowed to vote. These far left PC halfwits are almost as dangerous as the murderous Islamic radicals. Leftwing, moonbean, tards are a detriment to public safety and the security of every nation that they infect with their naive and idiotic ideology. acc_angry

I did not know that HC was shilling for those dangerous far left radicals? I thought the far left wanted Liz Warren and not Hillary to be the jackass candidate in 2016? I don't follow US politics that closely anymore though.



No argument from me though about the far left moonbeams being a danger to public safety. I just didn't know HC was one of them. ac_unsure

QuoteElizabeth Warren,  ac_lmfao Please, no jokes. She is another one of these prog loons that honestly believes that you as a business owner "didn't build that". Because you shipped your goods over tax payer funded roads everyone who pays taxes should share in your success. I guess no one ever told her that probably 75% of her voter base DON'T PAY ANY TAX'S other than sales tax that they pay with their monthly welfare check. That bitch is crazier than Odumbo.

QuoteHillary will be the Dems candidate in 2016. I'd stake my life on it.



Hillary made some really dumb comments a week or so ago stating that we should "empathize" with our enemies. She said and I quote:



"Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security. Leaving no one side on the sidelines. Showing respect even for one's enemies. Trying to understand and in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view."

Quote from: "cc li tarte"islam continues being islam everywhere in the world and every day now



BBC - The Pakistan Taliban launch their deadliest attack ever, leaving 132 children and nine adults dead at a school in Peshawar.



All emulating their slaughter prophet MO

Quote from: "cc li tarte"islam continues being islam everywhere in the world and every day now



BBC - The Pakistan Taliban launch their deadliest attack ever, leaving 132 children and nine adults dead at a school in Peshawar.



All emulating their slaughter prophet MO



Common Querk. Remind me why we want vile islam in our society

Quote from: "Jimmy Hoffa"

Quote from: "cc li tarte"islam continues being islam everywhere in the world and every day now



BBC - The Pakistan Taliban launch their deadliest attack ever, leaving 132 children and nine adults dead at a school in Peshawar.



All emulating their slaughter prophet MO



Common Querk. Remind me why we want vile islam in our society

Almost two years ago today a white Christian walked into a school in Conneticut and shot to death 21 first graders. I don't recall cc la femme saying the shooter was emulating the Apostle Paul.