“This is for IS, this is for al-Qaeda”: Muslim takes hostage, KILLS TWO MEN DEAD, 3 police shot “for ISIS” in Australia
Two men are dead and three police officers injured after a siege in Melbourne.
The jihadi called a TV newsroom to claim he was acting for “IS and al-Qaeda.”
“Terrorism is one line of inquiry.”Geniuses.
The gunman responsible for the act was well-known to terror police in Victoria, with investigations ongoing about the link of terror to the attack. Same old story.
UPDATE: Now it has been revealed that Khayre was previously charged, and acquitted, with planning a suicide attack against Sydney’s Holsworthy army barracks in 2009, the Herald Sun reports.
REVEALED: ISIS-inspired killer ‘was on parole and known to counter-terrorism cops’ when he murdered one man and took a woman hostage in Melbourne apartment before he was shot dead by police
- Two men are dead and three police officers injured after a siege in Melbourne
- The gunman called a TV newsroom to claim he was acting for ‘IS and al-Qaeda’
- He was shot dead by police in a hail of gunfire shortly after 6pm on Monday
- Residents on Bay St, in the suburb of Brighton, were forced to run for their lives
- At 4.30pm a loud explosion rang out from inside block of serviced apartments
- Police arrived at the apartments and found a dead body lying on the foyer floor
- A woman was held hostage by the suspected gunman inside an apartment
- She escaped the scene uninjured with police now investigating terror links
- Gunman had reportedly been let out on parole recently on a criminal offence
REVEALED: ISIS-inspired killer ‘was on parole and known to counter-terrorism cops’ when he murdered one man and took a woman hostage in Melbourne apartment before he was shot dead by police
Two men are dead and three police officers injured after a siege in Melbourne
The gunman called a TV newsroom to claim he was acting for ‘IS and al-Qaeda’
He was shot dead by police in a hail of gunfire shortly after 6pm on Monday
Residents on Bay St, in the suburb of Brighton, were forced to run for their lives
At 4.30pm a loud explosion rang out from inside block of serviced apartments
Police arrived at the apartments and found a dead body lying on the foyer floor
A woman was held hostage by the suspected gunman inside an apartment
She escaped the scene uninjured with police now investigating terror links
Gunman had reportedly been let out on parole recently on a criminal offence
By Josh Hanrahan For Daily Mail Australia, 5 June 2017
A gunman who took a woman hostage and is suspected of killing another man called up a TV newsroom during the siege to claim: ‘This is for IS, this is for al-Qaeda’.
And it has now been revealed that the man who carried out Monday’s attack was out on parole, having been rated a low-risk of reoffending by counter terrorism police.
‘Severe gunfire’ rang out inside ‘The Buckingham’ serviced apartments on Bay Street, in the affluent east Melbourne suburb of Brighton, shortly after 6pm on Monday.
The hostage situation came to an end after the gunman stepped out of a hotel room and fired at officers – injuring three – before himself being killed in the exchange.
But moments before police shot the man dead, he called Channel 7’s newsroom to claim he was carrying out a terrorist attack on behalf of Islamic State and al-Qaeda.
As he made the chilling phone call at around 5.41pm, a woman, believed to be the female hostage, was heard screaming desperately in the background.
At 5.40pm, some 20 minutes before he died, the
gunman called up a TV newsroom to claim: ‘This is for IS, this is for
al-Qaeda’ (pictured)
Monday’s incident began with locals reporting an ‘explosion’ inside
the serviced apartments. Police believe this was the sounds of the
gunman shooting dead his first victim
The expert bomb disposal teams entered ‘The Buckingham’ before 9pm to deal with a package inside
The expert bomb disposal teams entered ‘The Buckingham’ before 9pm to deal with a package inside
The gunman
responsible for the act was well known to terror police in Victoria,
with investigations ongoing about the link of terror to the attack.
‘Terrorism is one line of inquiry,’ Victoria police deputy commissioner Andrew Crisp said.
‘We’re extremely concerned about terrorism… we’re very attuned to the threat of terrorism here in Melbourne.’
Mr Crisp said when police arrived at the
serviced apartments not long after 4:00pm they found a man dead on the
floor of the foyer.
‘A short time later a phone call was made to triple-zero by a female
stating there was a hostage situation and a deceased male,’ he said.
The female hostage were both employees of
‘The Buckingham’, but police are not yet sure if there is any
relationship between them and the gunman.
While the gunman’s identity is yet to be
released, they have confirmed the phone call to Channel Seven came from a
mobile belonging to him.
‘That’s all part of the investigation… we
will certainly be working with Channel 7 in relation to that phone
call,’ Mr Crisp said.