Sydney Hostage Siege Unfolding

[David Guyatt]

And concurrent with the Belgian hostage situation, now settled apparently.

[Albert Doyle]

A friend from work wrote me this afternoon - "False flag? Abbott tanking, govt seeming without direction..." This hostage drama is occurring just days after what many local media outlets had reported as the government's 'worst week' since the election, so the timing does make one wonder.

Don't forget potential timing with the release of the Senate Torture Report that they claimed would spark a reaction.

[Lauren Johnson]

Here's commentary from b at Moon of Alabama.

The Abbott regime sent its heavily armed regime forces and shabiha to storm a chocolatey place where a moderate anti-Abbott rebel was protecting peaceful protesters.
Standing under a black version of the flag of Saudi Arabia the protesters had presented (vid) simple and reasonable demands. Instead of agreeing to step down or to at least to offer a compromise Abbott coldly rejected all of them.
During the guns blazing assault (vid) by regime forces the honorable moderate guard, Mufti Sheik Haron, was killed and several peaceful protesters were severely wounded.
Why didn't Obama provide them with weapons to defend themselves?
Posted by b on December 15, 2014 at 10:55 AM | Permalink

Here's some video put out by hostages.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=91e_1418646394

[Peter Lemkin]

It is all over, except counting the bodies and wounded...of which there are many of both....

[Magda Hassan]

It's over. Police raided it with flash bombs and stun grenades. All hostages taken by ambulance to be checked. Two killed including gunman. Iranian an known to police. Sounds like he started killing people and that's why they raided. Police still searching premises for explosives.

[Magda Hassan]

Some information on the gunman by the UK tabloid. Seems a nutter.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...twork.html

Revealed: Gunman holding nine hostages in Sydney cafe is a self-styled Iranian sheik on bail for ex-wife's murder and compared dead war heroes to Nazis in letters to their families

• Man Haron Monis, 49, was known to police for some time before siege
  
• Was on bail for more than 40 sexual offences ahead of February trial
  
• Had posed as a spiritual healer in order to grope unsuspecting women
  
• Was previously accused of being an accessory to murder of his ex-wife
  
• Also given 300 hours community service for sending hate mail to the dead families of Australian soldiers killed fighting in Afghanistan
  

By John Hall for MailOnline
Published: 21:33 AEST, 15 December 2014 | Updated: 02:44 AEST, 16 December 2014


Police are investigating the Iranian links of the Sydney cafe siege gunman after it emerged he is a Tehran-born self-styled sheik named Man Haron Monis who has demanded officers bring him the black flag of the Islamic State.
Born Manteghi Bourjerdi, the 49-year-old extremist left Iran for Australia in 1996 and adopted various names before settling on Sheik Haron Monis. Already well-known to police, Monis is currently on bail until February next year for more than 40 sexual offences.
His accusers said posted a newspaper advert claiming to be an expert who specialised in astrology, numerology, meditation and black magic, but used his meetings with the women to sexually and indecently assault them, claiming his groping was key to his practice of 'spiritual healing'.
Monis has previously been investigated for sending vile hate letters to the families of Australian soldiers killed by insurgents in Afghanistan, and was last November accused of being an accessory to murder of his ex-wife after her body was found badly burned and suffering knife wounds.
Calling himself 'The Brother', Monis this morning held staff and customers hostage in a Sydney chocolate shop in what experts roundly believe to be a so-called 'lone wolf' attack.
While he was widely known as a practicing Shia Muslim, Monis is believed to have converted to Sunni Islam just last month when he posted a message on his now-suspended website rejecting Shiism and pledging allegiance to the Islamic State's terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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Gunman: Self-styled Iranian sheikh Man Haron Monis demanded police officers bring him an ISIS flag in a chilling phone call to a local radio station.


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Born Manteghi Bourjerdi, the extremist left Iran for Australia in 1996 and adopted various names before settling on Sheik Haron Monis


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Already well-known to police,Monis is currently on bail for more than 40 sexual offences relating to his work as a so-called spiritual healer

Man Haron Monis: The Sydney gunman holding people hostage





Monis first came to the attention of police after sending hate letters to the parents of Australian soldiers killed by Afghan insurgents, branding their children 'Nazis'.
In April he was arrested by Sydney's sex crimes squad detectives and charged with the 2002 indecent and sexual assault of a woman in the west of the city.
During a court appearance at Penrith in October he was charged with an additional 40 indecent and sexual assault charges, all of which relate to his time as a self-styled 'spritual healer' who apparently specialised in astrology, numerology, meditation and black magic.

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He was later bailed and scheduled to appear in court next February to answer the charges.
Following his arrest in April, the court as told that Monis was on bail after being charged last November with being an accessory before and after the fact to the murder of his ex-wife and mother-of-two Noleen Hayson Pal.
In September last year, shortly before his ex-wife's death, Monis was sentenced to 300 hours of community service after penning 'grossly offensive' letters to the families of dead Australian soldiers.He was also placed on a two-year good behaviour bond for 12 counts of using a postal service to cause offence.

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Militant: The gunman (pictured) is said to be calling himself 'The Brother' but it's not yet known whether he is a so-called 'lone wolf' fanatic or if he is part of a wider terror network such as ISIS or Al Qaeda

After officers confirmed Monis as the man in the video, his lawyer described him as an isolated figure who he believes was probably acting alone.
'His ideology is just so strong and so powerful that it clouds his vision for common sense and objectiveness,' Manny Conditsis told ABC News.
Mr Conditsis represented Monis last year when he was charged with being accessory to the murder of ex-wife.
'Knowing he was on bail for very serious offences, knowing that while he was in custody some terrible things happened to him, I thought he may consider that he's got nothing to lose... Hence participating in something as desperate and outrageous as this,' Mr Conditsis added.
'This is a one-off random individual,' he said. 'It's not a concerted terrorism event or act...It's a damaged goods individual whose done something outrageous.'
Monis is understood to have been a practicing Shia Muslim, but in a message allegedly posted on his now suspended website last month, he claims to have become a Sunni and pledged allegiance to ISIS.
'I use to be a Rafidi [Shia Muslim] but now I pledge allegiance to Amir al-Mu'minin,' he said, using an alternative name for ISIS' terror leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The headband Monis was seen wearing is highly unusual within Sunni militant circles, and pointed to his past as a Shia Muslim.
Likewise the flag he displayed earlier in the day featured a perfectly innocent religious slogan - although groups such as Islamic State and Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate Jabhat Al-Nusra have incorporated elements of it into their own banners.

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Calling himself 'The Brother', Monis this morning held staff and customers hostage in a Sydney chocolate shop in what experts roundly believe to be a so-called 'lone wolf' attack

Self-styled sheik Man Haron Monis with other scholars





Experts believe the siege was very much the work of a 'lone wolf' and that even if Monis had declared his allegiance to ISIS, he is unlikely to have had the support of the terror group.
'Certainly this appears to be the actions of a lone actor, perhaps not very well prepared, perhaps not very well planned,' Anne Aly, head of the counter terrorism research programme at Australia's Curtin University', told the BBC.
'The indications of the demands that he's making seem very odd for a hostage taking incident where you would expect materialistic or strategic demands to be made in connection with a particular group or cause, she added.
Officers are believed to be in direct communication with Monis, with negotiators attempting to convince him give himself up while investigators probe his extremists links.
The siege comes after ISIS singled out Australia for lone wolf attacks - urging sympathisers not to work in groups or even discuss their plans with fellow jihadis, and ordering them instead to just use guns, knives and improvised explosive devices to randomly murder innocent civilians on their own.

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Black banner: Dozens of people are being held hostage by a terrorist who stormed into a central Sydney cafe with a gun and forced crying women to hold a black Islamic flag up to the window

The 'lone wolf': Sydney gunman caught on camera inside cafe





Upon learning that a number of hostages had escaped from the shop, Monis is understood to have flown into a rage, becoming extremely agitated and shouting at the remaining captives.
He earlier claimed to be carrying a bomb in a backpack and said he has planted two other devices elsewhere in the city, according to escapees. However police say they believe the multiple device claim to be false and say they are focussing their full attention on the Lindt cafe.
Monis is understood to have demanded two hostages contact Australia's Channel 10 News to issue the bomb threat, and also to deliver a list of demands he wants met - including the ISIS flag.
According to the captives, he has offered to release five hostages in the event officers meet his demands, but has threatened to kill them if they are ignored.
Just moments before the hostage situation at Martin Place began, police announced the arrest of two Sydney men as part of a major counter-terrorism investigation.
At least thirteen people are currently being held hostage by at least one armed gunman at the Lindt cafe in Martin Place - a major business, legal and media centre in Sydney's central business district.
The Australian Federal Police apprehended a 25-year-old terror suspect in Beecroft in Sydney's leafy north-western suburbs this morning, reportedly as he was leaving a prayer hall.
In a statement early this morning, the Federal Police said the suspect was taken into custody 'as part of continuing investigations into the planning of a terrorist attack on Australian soil'.
The investigation also concerned the 'facilitation of travel of Australian citizens to Syria to engage in armed combat'. Another man is understood to have already been in custody.

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Terrified customers and employees stand with their hands against the window at the Lindt cafe in Sydney

Sydney terror siege: 5 hostages free, city still on lockdown





Earlier a Sydney father told of his terrifying brush with Monis just moments before he entered a downtown cafe and took dozens of people hostage.
Craig Stoker, from Eastlakes in Sydney's south, said he bumped into the gunman on the street just outside the cafe after he bought a coffee from the café on Monday morning, News Limited reports.
Mr Stoker described Monis as wearing a black shirt with white writing and similar headband, carrying a blue bag and walking with two other similarly dressed men.
'The bag bumped into me and there was something hard in it. I said 'watch where you are f***ing going',' Mr Stoker said.
'He turned round and said 'do you want me to shoot you too'. I looked into his eyes and they were crazy.'
Later, witnesses reported seeing one or two men walk into the café and pull a weapon from a blue bag. Seconds later police were on the scene.
Running to safety: Two hostages flee Martin Place Lindt cafe











A distraught female worker, cafe barista Elly Chen, bolted from the shop before taking cover with police


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A young female employee came running out of the Lindt cafe and was sheltered by waiting police

Experts believe Monis is almost certainly operating as a so-called 'lone wolf' fanatic.
This would suggest he may have carried out the attack without the funding, organisation or direct instruction of a wider terrorist network.
In September a senior ISIS militant urged an Australia based terror network to carry out public beheadings - an act that lead to more than 800 police officers carrying out terror raids in Sydney.
15 people were detained, leading to two men being charged.
One man, Omarjan Azari, 22, appeared in Sydney central court on Thursday afternoon to face charges of preparing to commit a terrorist act.
He allegedly conspired to commit the act with another man, Mohammad Baryalei, a former bouncer of Afghan origin who is now said to be a commander in the Islamic State.


A male employee wearing an apron frantically ran out of a side fire exit and hid behind police

The call for a lone wolf attacks in Australia followed calls by ISIS' leadership for the group's sympathisers around the world to kill non-Muslims.
'Rig the roads with explosives for them. Attack their bases. Raid their homes. Cut off their heads. Do not let them feel secure. Hunt them wherever they may be. Turn their worldly life into fear and fire,' a spokesperson said.
'Do not ask for anyone's advice and do not seek anyone's verdict. Kill the disbeliever whether he is civilian or military, for they have the same ruling. Both of them are disbelievers. Both of them are considered to be waging war,' the message added, urging terrorists to keep their plans secret.
Within weeks of the demands being issued, an Oklahoma Muslim convert named Alton Nolen allegedly beheaded co-worker Colleen Hufford at the care home where they worked, before going on to stab another woman. He is understood to have been radicalised by ISIS propaganda videos.
The following month a 32 year-old Canadian Muslim convert called Michael Zehaf-Bibeau fatally shot Corporal Nathan Cirillo - a soldier on ceremonial duty at the Canadian National War Memorial.
He then ran in to the nearby Centre Block parliament building at Parliament Hill, where he was shot dead by the before he was able to injure anybody else. Zehaf-Bibeau is also believed to have been inspired by ISIS' call for lone wolf attacks around the world.

SYDNEY SIEGE TIMELINE

9.30pm - Gunman wearing headband covered in Arabic writing storms Lindt cafe
10.09am - First images released showing hostages inside cafe with hands in air in surrender
10.15am - Two female hostages hold black Islamic flag containing Arabic writing against cafe window
11.43am - Man claiming to be hostage-taker calls Sydney radio station 2GB saying there are other explosive devices planted around city
Channel Nine Australia also said it had been contacted by three hostages, including one who had been 'forced by the gunman' to call its office
Meanwhile, Ten News report they received a video in which a hostage 'relays the gunman's demands'
11.49am - Reports from scene say police tactical assault team has entered building with gas masks and shotguns
3.37pm - Three male hostages escape cafe - one through a fire exit on Phillips Street and two others from the front door - before running to safety behind armed police
3.50pm - NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn confirms negotiators have spoken with gunman
5.00pm - Two female Lindt workers, including barista Elly Chen, run out of fire exit at back of cafe in Martin Place into arms of anti-terror police at the entrance of adjacent hotel in Elizabeth Street
7pm - Journalist Chris Reason, who has a direct line of sight into the cafe from the Seven Network newsroom directly opposite, says the gunman flew into a rage when he realised some of his captives had escaped
8pm Food and water seen being delivered to the hostages from the cafe's back kitchens
The lights in the cafe go out as a siege remains unresolved in its tenth hour

[Michael Barwell]

Some information on the gunman by the UK tabloid. Seems a nutter.

Ticks all the box's for British citizenship then.

[Magda Hassan]

I'll just add a couple of etra bits to the very good article below.
It is alleged he converted to Sunni Islam just recently maybe a week or two ago.
It's really hard to tell from the grainy photo of him in the cafe but his head band looks like it has the colours and stars of the Syrian flag. The official government one that is not the ISIS connected 'rebels' flag which looks similar but has 2 stars. It maybe something else altogether but I noted it as a symbol out of place of the narrative. Like Oswald's use of incompatible left wing publications in the BYPs.
He pleaded guilty to writing and sending the letters and was sentenced to 300 hours community service. However he also later decided to appeal the conviction and took it all the way to the highest court which just passed its judgement rejecting his claim to hae it overturned the other day.
There is also an Islamic 'wandering bishop' aspect to him as he set himself up in a shop as a 'spiritual counsellor' offering sorcery, astrology, exorcism and spells et. In this work he was also charged with sexual assault with many women.::prison::

Who Created Cartoon Character Man "Haron Monis" Behind "Sydney Siege" Circus?

Previously an outspoken critic of Iranian government, was interviewed by Australian media in 2001, loved Western society…

Tony Cartalucci (LD) : As predicted, the suspect amid the "Sydney Siege," has long been on the radar of Australian law enforcement, as well as a frequent visitor to Australia's court system. Before that, however, he came to Australia as a political refugee, an opponent of what he called the "Iranian regime," and was even interviewed by Australia's ABC network in 2001 as part of an ongoing anti-Iranian propaganda campaign. It has been revealed that long-time agitator, alias "Man Haron Monis," also known as "Manteghi Boroujerdi," was the suspect amid the so-called "Sydney Siege" hostage crisis. Monis/Boroujerdi claims to be a Shia'a religious leader and is often seen in press photos dressed as one.
Despite this, he was at the center of a hostage crisis requesting the flag of the "Islamic State" terrorist organization be delivered to him while claiming association with other ISIS "brothers." Neither Islamic nor a state, ISIS is led by US, Israeli, and Saudi-backed Wahabi terrorists, promoting a perversion of Sunni Islam the bane to both genuine Sunnis and Shia'a worldwide and against which both the nations of Syria and Iran are fighting. Monis/Boroujerdi rose to infamy amid two notable incidents one being his involvement in the stabbing death and burning of his ex-wife the other being his controversial campaign of sending hate-letters to the families of dead Australian soldiers killed during the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. The latter was used extensively to stir up division across the pro and anti-war political divide. The Australian in a September 2013 article titled, "Cleric' Man Haron Monis punished for offensive letters written to families of dead Diggers," reported that:

A SELF-styled Muslim cleric has been sentenced to 300 hours of community service for penning "grossly offensive" letters to families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Man Haron Monis, also known as Sheik Haron, was also placed on a two-year good behaviour bond. So too was his co-accused and partner, 34-year-old Amirah Droudis, who pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting him.

In December of 2013, the Australian Daily Telegraph would report in an article titled, "Hate' sheik Man Horan Monis and girlfriend Amirzh Droudis granted bail on murder charges," that:

Monis is charged as an accessory before and after the fact to the murder of Noleen Hayson Pal, 30, who was stabbed 18 times and set alight outside a western Sydney unit in April.

Monis/Boroujerdi's Origins Story But before Monis/Boroujerdi's recent run-ins with the law and his role as chief "Muslim boogeyman" in Australia, he was "Manteghi Boroujerdi," a "victim" of the "Iranian regime" who was in love with Western society. Australia's ABC in its "Religion Report" dated January 31, 2001, introduced Monis/Boroujerdi as follows:

…while in Sydney we talk to Ayatollah Manteghi Boroujerdi, an Iranian cleric espousing a liberal brand of Islam dangerously liberal, as his views have led to his wife and two daughters being held hostage in Iran.

The interview itself is used as yet another vehicle to carry along Western propaganda long-aimed at Iran. It claims Monis/Boroujerdi's family is in grave danger and that Monis/Boroujerdi himself would be executed should he ever return to Iran. It quotes Monis/Boroujerdi several times including claims he was formally associated with Iranian intelligence:

In Iran, mostly I have been involved with the Ministry of Intelligence and Security.

And was in contact with the UN regarding security issues in Iran:

…more than four years I have not seen my family, and the Iranian regime doesn't let them come out. In fact I can say they are hostage; as a hostage the Iranian regime wants to make me silent, because I have some secret information about government, and about their terrorist operations in the war. I sent a letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and somebody on behalf of Mr Kofi Anan sent the answer, and they want to do something. I have hope and always I pray and ask God to solve my problem.

At one point during the interview Monis/Boroujerdi professes his love of Australia, Canada, the US, and UK claiming:

…we can say Australia, Canada, England, USA, so many western countries, they are religious societies. They don't say We are religious', but in fact the spirit of religion, we can see the spirit of religion in these societies. And some other countries in the Middle East, in Asia, they say We are Islamic' they have a name of Islamic, but in fact they are not religious societies and religious governments. Whenever I walk in the street, whenever I go out in Australia, I feel I am in a real religious society. I don't want to say it is perfect, we don't have a perfect society on the earth, but when we compare, if we compare Australia with Iran and other countries in the Middle East, we can say it is heaven.

However, later in 2008, Monis/Boroujerdi's activities drew the attention of real Shia'a religious leaders in Australia who asked Australian security agents to investigate him. In an Australian article titled, "Call to probe mystery Shia cleric," it was reported that:

FEDERAL agents have been urged by the nation's senior Shia leader, Kamal Mousselmani, to investigate an Iranian man purporting to be a prominent Islamic cleric. Sheik Mousselmani told The Australian yesterday the mystery cleric who has been identified as Ayatollah Manteghi Boroujerdi on his website after appearing under the name Sheik Haron was not a genuine Shia spiritual leader. He said there were no ayatollahs supreme Shia scholars in Australia and none of his fellow spiritual leaders knew who Ayatollah Boroujerdi or Sheik Haron was. "We don't know him and we have got nothing to do with him," Sheik Mousselmani said. "The federal police should investigate who he is. It should be their responsibility."

But it was the Australian media itself who introduced him publicly as an "Ayatollah" and the Australian government that vetted him and allegedly granted him political asylum. He was allegedly in contact with the UN and was used to stir up anti-Iranian sentiment in Australia. It is then highly suspicious that now both the Australian media and the Australian government appear to have no knowledge of who he is or where he came from. For someone used as part of the West's anti-Iranian propaganda campaign, and who was granted political asylum into Australia, but who is now supposedly unknown to those who invited him in and used him, there is clearly more to the story of Monis/Boroujerdi a story that may then offer insight into his latest performance. Perhaps most ironic of all is the fact that the "Iranian regime" he was used to demonize apparently did not kill his wife instead, he himself is suspected of doing so.
Whatever the case is, Monis/Boroujerdi is certainly no "loan wolf terrorist." He, at best, is yet another Frankenstein of the establishment run amok after an abortive attempt to cultivate and use him to advance Western foreign and domestic policy. At worse, he is directly involved in an intelligence operation to further inflame division in Australian society and promote the long stalled war in Syria aimed at regime change there, before heading to Iran the scorn of Monis/Boroujerdi. An omnipresent all-invasive surveillance state that is constantly "blindsided" by terror attacks carried out by criminals and characters possessing extensive criminal records and who are well-acquainted with that state's law enforcement, media, and even government, is testament to the fact that such surveillance hasn't been and never was intended to serve the public's best interests nor to keep them safe but rather another system of control and manipulation to allow true dangers to human civilization to endure with impunity. Tony Cartalucci, Land Destroyer Report

[Paul Rigby]

Cui bono? Why 12-15 Was an Inside Job

by N Wahid Azal

Posted on December 30, 2014

Centre for Syncretic Studies

http://syncreticstudies.com/2014/12/30/c...nside-job/

The Australian deep state, manufacturing domestic consent, gearing for a future war with Iran, fueling Islamophobia, the patsy "mad sheikh" Man Haron Monis and the Lindt café siege

…An act of terror generally…[is]…capable of rippling waves of public indignation, and accordingly provides the adversarial faction(s) with the pretext for commencing war. Recruiting terrorists never seems a problem: these appear at the basic level to be a loose collection of desperadoes, who end up being easily trained, provisioned, and oriented by the undercover intelligence services…

In general, the art of terror entails the (state's) underground promotion of a fractious grouping: say, an ethnic army of liberation,' or a radical militia…Meanwhile the higher levels of this conspiratorial franchise feature a mix of intelligence officers in charge of disinformation, organization and cover-up, and hired consultants' themselves intelligence officers on loan' from other state agencies, foreign and otherwise, or former soldiers of fortune, whose expertise runs the gamut of recruitment, financial shuffle, subversive methods and like techniques of destabilization.

In the simplest configurations, the subterranean instruction of the terrorist cell' by the state's secret services is part of a maneuver aimed at implicating this phantom organization' into a more or less spectacular act of sabotage. Sabotage either against the state itself, or against the targeted enemy', that is, a nation whose ruling clans are to be antagonized by the terrorist recruits in the name of ethnic or religious rivalry. In the first case, while the wounded government in the vengeful heat of retaliation clamps down on the terrorists,' a variety of prearranged ends, all congruent in point of social control and surveillance, is swiftly implemented.

Guido Giacomo Preparata, Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America made the Third Reich, London, 2005, 20-1.

Nothing about the official Australian story regarding the sixteen hour Lindt café siege that occurred in Martin Place, the Sydney CBD, on Monday, 15 December 2014[1] makes any sense. All the elements making up its "official" narrative have been so clumsily cobbled together, are so blatantly inconsistent, embarrassingly porous, conceitedly fake and outright contrived yet simultaneously so obviously orchestrated and staged that to believe in the official corporate presstitute MSM line (or, rather, lies) about any of it requires a total suspension of belief, not to mention reason. As demonstrated in subsequent days, the only level at which this story maintains any level of consistency (albeit, still without any actual credibility) is on the level of the memeocracy[2] itself, which is to say on the level of hype, wilful misinformation and disinformation perpetrated by the Australian corporate state's propaganda apparatus which in this case are the duopoly of the Fairfax Media group[3] controlled by Australian mining queen Gina Rinehart[4] and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Australia (formerly News Limited).[5]

This whole debacle, even before it began, maintains all the classic hallmarks of a false-flag staged by powerful, behind the scenes interests within Australia itself; namely, the entrenched Australian plutocracy which together with the Australian intelligence establishment (particularly ASIO)[6] and assorted powerful Zionist lobbies[7] and organizations properly constitute the unelected Australian deep state'. This is the main constituency that practically installed the current Liberal-National Coalition party (Tory art-Abbott_Parliament-620x349conservative) government of Tony Abbott on 7 September 2013 and has stood behind this government's nasty culture wars, its draconian (even criminal) anti-asylum policy, as well as, above all, its policies of economic neo-liberalization on steroids and casino-type deregulations solely benefiting the corporatocracy. However hastily concocted and clumsily executed, perhaps due to an urgency of some sort, nevertheless it appears that this false-flag was undertaken by the Australian deep state with intent in order to clear several decks. That a counter-terrorism training exercise was conducted by the Australian Defence Force in Martin Place, the Sydney CBD in May 2013 only bolsters the case for the staged nature of 12-15 and that something had already been planned by the system long before.[8]

12-15 could also not have come at a more opportune time for the Abbott government whose electoral fortunes have been consistently sinking in the polls ever since (and even before) it handed down its May 2014 national budget; a situation increasingly going from bad to worse with each fortnightly electronic polling result revealing a palpable sense of genuine hatred rising among significant portions of the Australian electorate for the Abbott government: an electorate who only fourteen months prior could not get rid of the former Rudd-Gillard-Rudd ALP (Labour) government fast enough, itself plagued by rotating leaderships, paralysing internal destabilization and electoral back-flips.

In fact, on the very same day that this spectacle unfolded, Abbott government Treasurer Joe Hockey was to release his mid-year economic report that reveals the Australian national budget deficit to be a further $100 billion AUD in the black than anticipated back in May 2014.[9] Had the Lindt café siege not occurred, most certainly this would be the issue dominating the news cycle and its headlines in Australia on that specific day. On that score alone, the "mad sheikh" Man Haron Monis threw the Abbott government a providential life-line (a veritable life-raft, to be sure) to its fast sinking electoral fortunes. But this hasn't been the first occasion that "Muslim extremism" and the threat of home-grown "Islamic terrorism" have salvaged the Abbott's government's declining fortunes in the past fourteen months of its term so far.[10] It was merely the most publicized and most hyped of such occurrences yet, and one thoroughly capitalized and milked for every last contrived element of it by the Australian deep state establishment and its chief estates, particularly the Australian corporate presstitute media.

Besides the strategic consensus building exercise this event was designed to be for purposes of shoring up official justifications for future "interventions" and wars in the Middle East (together with the expected enactment of tougher, more punitive "anti-terror" security measures to follow), there are other background and noteworthy elements to this story that further reveal its transparently orchestrated nature: issues which pundits so far have not given adequate attention to. Indeed 12-15 has been a literal gift from heaven on a whole litany of issues to the Australian deep state establishment and the Abbott government specifically, and this is why none can take the MSM's official narrative seriously. As the old Persian adage goes, the tail of the rooster shows.

For example, the public distraction role these events of 12-15 may have played in diverting attention from the Australian government and corporatocracy's ongoing secret negotiations in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)[11] - the greater Pacific region's version of the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA),[12] both of which are effectively ceding state sovereignty and rights over to globalist corporatocracy and its looting - is something that will certainly need to be explored more fully in the near future. Although nothing is apparent online as yet palpably demonstrating as much, some are however privately speculating as to whether something important having to do with the TPP was occurring in mid-December 2014 (on or just after the event) and which may have prompted the Australian deep state to orchestrate the events of 12-15 during this time. Watch this space, but no need to point out that any false-flag event that would predictably beef-up the surveillance state and increase court and government gag order powers would certainly help the plutocrats and their government lackeys who are deeply engaged in this process and who wish to continue keeping both its ongoing negotiations as well as its provisions secret.

Now, given Australia's role on the geopolitical front as the Empire's stooge, as a specifically Iranian refugee who left Iran in 1996 under questionable circumstances and was granted asylum in Australia in 2001 under even more questionable circumstances; Man Haron Monis' role in 12-15 provides the perfect justification (dare one say, ploy) for the Australian establishment to now begin smearing Iran more aggressively than ever before, even though Australia and Iran officially maintain diplomatic relations and there is an Iranian embassy in Canberra, ACT. No need to mention that on one level this all has the stench of similar developments in Canada during 2011-2012 and appears to be following a script straight from the Stephen Harper playbook in 2012 when his Canadian conservative government unilaterally cut off all diplomatic relations with Iran, closing down the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Ottawa and expelling all diplomatic staff for totally bogus, trumped up reasons and with obvious and deliberate Zionist engineering.[13] But more than the Islamic Republic of Iran itself, the immediate target here is more explicitly Iranian asylum seekers and especially those incarcerated in processing and detention facilities on the island nation of Nauru or Papua New Guinea's Manus island. Tangentially, and possibly in the long term, such a target may also include the relatively well integrated, successful and materially affluent immigrant Iranian-Australian community itself as a whole.

Up until now, usually the targets of either the social Islamophobia of those racist "bogan" Australians, or official police and security probes and raids, have been Arab, South-Asian, some Turkish, Sudanese, Bosnian and Albanian Muslim immigrant communities with some white converts here and there (all generally Sunnī by creed and always Salafī/Wahhabī). As of 12-15 this has now been augmented and implicitly extended to also include Iranians, where an engineered and manufactured consensus-building exercise casting suspicion on Iranians and Shiʿi Muslims alike is presently in the works; this, irrespective of the fact that Australian Shiʿi Muslims have themselves been victims of hate-crime attacks perpetrated by local Sunnī takfīrī extremists in Sydney and elsewhere as recently as the 2014 commemorations for the Shiʿi holy day of ʿAshūrā.[14] Moreover, while Iranian immigrant communities (other than the now single case of Man Haron Monis), including religious ones, have more or less remained distant and aloof from the circumstances, conflicts and politics plaguing other Australian Muslim immigrant communities many of whose internal circumstances and mosque cultures have produced such hotbeds for "extremist" recruitment and activity this will not stop them from being cast in a negative light from here on out by the system as of 12-15.

The figure of Man Haron Monis, now elevated to the official personfication of evil' meme, allows the Australian deep state and the Abbott government specifically to smokescreen and shift the Australian public's attention and further whitewash the deplorable, criminally inhumane conditions Iranian asylum-seeking refugees presently face within these island detention facilities, not to mention having to answer any further for the 1418688714248publicized case of Hamid Kehazaei[15] or similar. 12-15 has provided the Abbott government just such a perfect foil, and so the implied justification for a wider cover-up by giving it this golden opportunity it otherwise would not have possessed in order to implicitly cast all of these Iranian asylum seekers as being potential Man Haron Monis'. Here the present government or its supporters would not even need to articulate anything explicitly because these orchestrated events (as reinforced by the corporate media spin) have already seeded such notions into the greater mainstream Australian collective conscience. By extension, all immigrant Iranians in Australia (guilty by ethnic' and national' association) have likewise been made suspect as well here, implied scapegoats, as it were; and one will have to watch closely from now on to see how such manufactured hysteria and Iranophobia will be further cultivated by the Australian corporate media. There is ample evidence of it already as some of the stories being put out as of the week of 22 December 2013 by the MSM amply demonstrate.

Yet the deliberate and quite transparent social engineering going on is quite unmistakable, nor can a straightforward causality implicating the Australian deep state be denied since it ultimately benefits from such polarization within the greater Australian polity, as the past decade and a half has abundantly shown. Indeed an action-reaction-solution dialectic is palpably at play here, and one which can be easily graphed and mapped out. That the event has already claimed the political scalp of a prominent New South Wales state parliamentary leader also speaks to it.[16]

The long-term benefit to the Australian deep state lies especially in the event of a future build-up to a war with Iran which Australia, as a key Five-Eyes Transatlantic partner of the United States in the southern Pacific (and as recent conflicts from Afghanistan to Iraq have amply demonstrated), would certainly participate in. 12-15 allows the Australian establishment to draw upon the event, together with the predictable mythos they are presently erecting around it, in order to galvanize future domestic public opinion in order to sell such a conflict to the wider Australian masses. This manufactured consent would seek to further demonize Iran and Iranians (both domestically and overseas), while simultaneously muting or otherwise dampening anti-war sentiments against that segment of the Australian population who would likely dissent and protest - and particularly if there happened to be any outspoken Iranian-Australians amongst such future dissenters, where the official narrative about Man Haron Monis would be conveniently trotted out in order to serve as a means to discredit them with the mainstream, if even by innuendo.

Some of the questionable stories the MSM has put out, such as Man Haron Monis' purported connection to the Iranian military, security and intelligence establishment, or those claiming his association with the founders of the Islamic Revolution and members of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, are solid proof of what we say.[17] Such evidently fake stories are being solely put out for purposes of a manufactured consensus building exercise targeting Iran. One correspondent privately pointed out to us in email that with 12-15 there is every indication that something is actually afoot and may be building up behind the scenes against Iran as we speak such that this event constituted a sort of domestically manufactured casus belli, as it were, that others elsewhere can also draw upon (private communication, 17 December 2014).

Moreover, given Man Haron Monis' public antics over Australia's military involvement in both Afghanistan and Iraq in the last decade, and especially the publicity stunt and brouhaha in 2007-2008 over his inflammatory letters to the families of Australian servicemen killed in Afghanistan;[18] it would appear that if the Australian establishment had not succeeded in generally de-legitimizing dissenting opinions at home regarding Australia's involvement among a greater mass of its electorate up to that point (particularly as it has now re-entered the fray in Iraq once again, this time to fight ISIS), they very well may have succeeded now after 12-15. Anything with even a whiff of protest or dissent regarding Australia's former involvement in the Empire's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (and now Iraq once again) will henceforth be opportunistically seized by the establishment and its media agents against such dissent, with projections of the ghost of Man Haron Monis following suit whose manufactured' shadow is now made to hang long over any such criticisms. Given how the Australian establishment has behaved in the past in other scenarios, it is not difficult to predict their future behaviour here either.

Now let us turn to the dubious character of the "mad sheikh" Man Haron Monis himself. But first let us say that rarely does one come across a better typecast for a proverbial "useful idiot" or patsy better than he was. If he was indeed mentally ill, as all indications lead one to believe, then it makes the case for his useful idiocy and patsy status all that more compelling, not to mention visible. But a few things about this patsy's biography currently circulating in the Australian and global MSM need to be addressed and ruled out before proceeding further. Some of these stories put out by the Australian media are without any doubt carefully constructed sleights of hand and discursive subterfuges planted by the Australian deep state itself whilst attempting to deliberately smokescreen and muddy waters while shifting blame from the real culprits, who are none other than the Australian intelligence agencies, and ASIO specifically.

(1) Man Haron Monis was unlikely to have been an Iranian Intelligence officer, or even an asset, before he left Iran in 1996.[19] Arguably this idea would have first been incubated by Man Haron Monis' ASIO handlers for use at a later time. It first appeared in his media biography in the 2001-2002 period when the Iranian government began asking for his extradition back to Iran to face criminal fraud and embezzlement charges. (2) Whatever being claimed by dubious sources after the fact, there is no evidence now, nor previous to 12-15, that Man Haron Monis was ever an eminent figure in the Islamic Republic of Iran well connected to the founders of the Islamic Revolution or anyone high-up in the government over there.[20] Had this been the case, then the Australian establishment would have certainly known about it in the 1996-2001 period during his asylum application process. This feature alone would also have been an indelible part of his media biography in 2001-2002 when Australian authorities and media first paraded him nationally as some kind of "reformist Ayatollah" taking asylum in Australia from persecution in the Islamic Republic of Iran;[21] but it has only been in the week after 12-15 that we have first heard anything about it at all, which in itself discredits any veracity to the story. (3) Man Haron Monis was not a seminary trained Shiʿi cleric, let alone an Ayatollah. At only 32 when he left Iran in 1996 he was far too young to be an Ayatollah, nor did he author a major, independent treatise on Shiʿi jurisprudence recognized by other Ayatollahs in the Shiʿi seminary system (hawza) in order to qualify for the rank. In fact, not one shred of evidence has ever been put forward showing Man Haron Monis even spent a single day in the religious seminary in Iran. (4) It is questionable whether Man Haron Monis first came to Australia in 1996 on a business visa and then obtained asylum. Up until 19 December 2014 this matter had never been mentioned as a feature of his official biography at all.[22] If true, bureaucratic bungling or oversight in no way explains it.[23] Watch now as the Australian government uses this issue as a pretext to place even more draconian visa restrictions on Iranians legitimately travelling to or doing business with Australia.

Born 19 May 1964, currently nothing is known about the early life of Mohamad Hassan Manteghi Borujerdi, our mad sheikh. According to Persian language sources, on the very same year of its establishment, in 1982 he enrolled at Imām Ṣādiq University in Tehran as an entering undergraduate.[24] Towards the conclusion of his graduate studies for a Masters degree, he was expelled from the university due to mental health issues. During this time he married the daughter of one of the university administrators before separating from her some time later. It was only after he had already left Iran when this woman obtained court dissolution of their marriage on grounds of absence.[25] In 1996 Mohamad Hassan Manteghi Borujerdi fled Iran for Australia after embezzling two-hundred thousand US dollars (U$200,000.00) from a travel agency he had set up. In 2001 Australia granted him political asylum. Based on what documented evidence this asylum was granted, we will never know, but it probably would have come with some help from Iranian opposition groups such as the MEK/MKO, who would have certainly helped him with his manufactured profile[26] (and who are known to be working under the thumb of ASIO within Australia), not to mention the Bahā'īs who are deeply entrenched within some of the upper echelons of the Australian system and particularly its high level Commonwealth government bureaucracies and security agencies, and who have their own axe to grind with the Iranian government.[27] And so began his rather bizarre, sordid and shady public career in Australia as first an establishment saint and then finally an establishment demon, solid testimony to the mutual psychosis of subject and patron alike.

At this very early juncture, and before he was officially granted asylum, Iran began requesting his extradition, but the Australians refused on grounds that they had no extradition treaty with Iran.[28] The deep state's management of their puppet-in-the-making at that time demonstratively did not appear to care one iota for the pre-existing criminal background of Man Haron Monis in Iran itself. According to Iranian Chief of Police Brigadier General Esmail Ahmadi Moqadam, Man Haron Monis possessed a long and dark history of violent crime and fraud in Iran, and that he had first fled to Malaysia before coming to Australia.[29] Moqadam further revealed that Iranian authorities had provided all of Man Haron Monis' criminal file to Australian authorities during the four years while his application was in process all the way to his being given formal political asylum by the Australians in 2001.[30] The Iranians additionally revealed that they had submitted international warrants for his arrest via Interpol,[31] which the Australians also knew about and ignored. Australian authorities simply waved away all of these, thus bolstering the case further that for them Man Haron Monis constituted a person of interest whose sordid background in Iran did not bother them in the least. In fact, it may have even helped him get his political asylum given the potential' they found in the figure of Man Haron Monis.

In these first years, particularly during the 2001-2002 period, Man Haron Monis was paraded by Australian authorities and the media as a pro-Western religious renegade (whose family in Iran, he claimed, were being detained by the Iranian government because of his flight and political dissidence). The implied meme at that time about him was that he was a political asset to the Empire's early stages of crafting its assault upon one of the members of its designated "Axis of Evil," or as Tony Cartalucci aptly put it as "…the perfect poster child for the ongoing anti-Iran, pro-war propaganda…"[32] Seven and a half months before 911, the Australian Broadcasting Association (ABC) introduced him to the wider public in these terms:

People in Sydney walking past the State Parliament buildings on Macquarie Street in recent weeks might have noticed a tall Muslim cleric who has taken up residence in a tent on the footpath outside. He is Ayatollah Manteghi Boroujerdi, a liberal cleric who fled Iran four years ago after being very critical of the Iranian regime. Ayatollah Boroujerdi's wife and two daughters are now under house arrest in Iran, and he's hoping the Howard government will put pressure on the regime there to let his family join him here in Australia.[33]

In this interview, Man Haron Monis, prompted parrot-fashion, says:

…the Iranian regime wants to make me silent, because I have some secret information about government, and about their terrorist operations in the war. I sent a letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and somebody on behalf of Mr Kofi Anan sent the answer, and they want to do something…If we explain about the meaning of the word Islamic' as a religious society, if we say Islamic society is a religious society, and a society which has a relation with God, and wants to be honest, we can say Australia, Canada, England, USA, so many western countries, they are religious societies. They don't say We are religious', but in fact the spirit of religion, we can see the spirit of religion in these societies. And some other countries in the Middle East, in Asia, they say We are Islamic' they have a name of Islamic, but in fact they are not religious societies and religious governments…Whenever I walk in the street, whenever I go out in Australia, I feel I am in a real religious society. I don't want to say it is perfect, we don't have a perfect society on the earth, but when we compare, if we compare Australia with Iran and other countries in the Middle East, we can say it is heaven.[34]

Of course, as far as this specific public profile and meme was concerned, such a honeymoon oozing with platitudes was to be short-lived as the expendable nature of Man Haron Monis (due perhaps to his erratic, loose-canon behaviour and mental health issues) became more apparent to his ASIO handlers. So now he would be used and built up by the Australian deep state for future use in a much more sinister capacity, blackmailing him to play such a role being the easiest part. 911 and Australia's entry into both the Afghan and Iraqi theatres provided the means for just such an opportunity.

We should now note that one motivation by the Australian deep state for this back and forth, moderate-extremist dialectic displayed in the choreographed public portrayal and presentation of Man Haron Monis was an attempt by them to nullify all typologies of the "moderate Muslim" or "moderate Islam" in the mainstream Australian public's consciousness in order thereby to conflate all Islamic persuasions under the single and convenient rubric of "extremist;" this, while simultaneously pushing the mainstream of the Australian Muslim community into a position of increasing servility towards the system's policies and its involvement in the Empire's wars, blunting its discourse of dissent lest they be branded with the "extremist" moniker, thereby pushing large segments of this community and their leadership into a state of social and political (and dare one say, paralytic) acquiescence in the face of starker realities. In other words, albeit subtle, we are dealing with a very sophisticated and multifaceted system of institutional blackmail of an entire religious and immigrant community. Such are the classic divide, conquer and control strategies and tactics perfected and employed by the imperial British colonial presence which indigenous Aboriginal Australians know all too well in their own experience.

Nevertheless this in itself reveals the social engineering mechanisms at play behind the Islamophobia in Australia and how the system ultimately benefits from it together with those powerful Australian Zionist lobbies and organizations fueling it from both the background as well as within the corporate media establishment wherein the system succeeds simultaneously in both muzzling the Australian Muslim community from engaging in real activism as well as pummelling it (in demonizing it further in the media and public opinion) if it should protest over anything. In other words, this is the Australian corporate state's aggressive mechanism of foisting a panopticon reality over the Australian Muslim community where only two options remain to it: silence or opprobrium. Such a reality, which naturally elicits serious resentment among certain segments of this community, then inevitably generates the necessary fertile environment for "extremist" preaching and recruitment, to which the system in one way or another also then becomes the beneficiary. Throughout every phase and facet of this process the system itself, of course, while always present in the background, maintains its plausible deniability.

Let us now fast forward to the next phase of our mad sheikh's Australian career. Publicly protesting on the streets of Sydney in dramatic fashion, and as Australia's own role in the Empire's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq increased, in the period between 2007 and 2008 Man Haron Monis re-emerged into the Australian media spotlight, this time as a bad guy, after authoring, together with partner Amirah Droudis, a series of inflammatory letters which were sent to families of fallen Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. In these letters he described the soldiers as "murderers" and "pigs" whilst simultaneously urging these families to call on the Australian government to leave the Empire's war in Afghanistan and bring home the troops.[35] This cause celebre further enflamed the ever rising Islamophobia in Australia at the time, whose flames are ever carefully stoked and facilitated by the Australian deep state at each juncture. But no one publicly challenged a key aspect to this narrative by asking the pertinent question as to how he and his partner so easily obtained these contact details in the first place? Why has this facet of the story been accepted as a given?

Withal, Man Haron Monis' new profile as a "dangerous Islamic extremist" (directly opposite to the choreographed profile his handlers had constructed for him only seven years before) was now in full swing, with him still in character playing the role of an Iranian Shiʿi cleric no less. We should also pause and draw the appropriate parallel here with Lee Harvey Oswald and his passing out pro-Cuban, pro-Communist pamphlets in the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana just a few months before the Kennedy assassination. Here Man Haron Monis' public antics are to the events of 12-15 what Lee Harvey Oswald's pamphleteering was to the events of 22 November 1963.[36]

These antics by Man Haron Monis earned him expected trouble with the Australian law enforcement and legal system as well as the predictable widespread media opprobrium[37] which in turn further stirred existing community tensions (particularly coming on the heels of the Cronulla riots of 2005[38]), muddying waters even further between the mainstream Australian and Australian-Muslim communities; this, with Australian Muslim community leaders being increasingly pushed into unenviable defensive positions of having to explain (or even sometimes grudgingly forced to defend and justify or otherwise dissimulate) Man Haron Monis' actions and behaviour at the time, since condemning him outright would compromise their own stance against Australia's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, where fellow Muslims (and not even combatant Muslims) where being butchered or brutalized daily by the Empire's onslaughts, evidence then constantly emerging regarding the Empire's unmitigated war crimes in both the Iraqi and Afghan theatres (the revelations about prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib was already a fixture of the public discourse at this point). Yet, to reiterate, and as events showed, none but the social engineers of the Australian deep state benefitted from these specific actions of Man Haron Monis, and arguably they may even have put him and his partner up to it in the first place.

Yet it was also in this very same period when Australian Shiʿi Muslim leaders, led by senior cleric Kamal Mousselmani (then head of the Supreme Islamic Shiʿite Council of Australia[39]), began publicly questioning Man Haron Monis' official narrative about himself and his credentials as an Iranian Shiʿi cleric specifically, calling upon Australian authorities, and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) particularly, to conduct an official inquiry regarding such claims.[40] Kamal Mousselmani stated to a correspondent of The Australian that "there are no Ayatollahs in Australia" and that "…From the way he [Man Haron Monis] writes his (fatwas or religious edicts), I don't think he is Shia Muslim…"[41]

The matter was even separately investigated by the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, a mainly Sunnī body, who could find no credible information as to the real identity, credentials or background of "sheikh Haron."[42] Even though Man Haron Monis now found himself in the middle of a highly publicized legal and political battle over his inflammatory letters, no inquiry or official investigation into this aspect of his official biography was ever forthcoming by Australian high officialdom, the reasons being obvious since they were responsible for creating it in the first place. Instead, as with earlier complaints by Iranian authorities during his asylum application process, they were roundly ignored. Interestingly enough, Ikebal Patel of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils even called out Man Haron Monis as a possible shill whose antics were specifically being put up to stir anti-Islamic sentiments within the greater Australian community.[43]

Clearly, therefore, as of 2007 the Australian Muslim leadership, from both Sunnī and Shiʿi camps, were well aware of Man Haron Monis' true provocateur nature and so were on to him. This also demonstrates by implication that some within this community may have privately held suspicions that there were shadowy, behind the scenes players at work in Man Haron Monis' activities here. The silence and inaction of Australian authorities in properly investigating his purported religious credentials when called upon to do so would have only reinforced such notions even more firmly.

That said, in late November 2009 Man Haron Monis day in court over the inflammatory letters finally arrived. Through his lawyers he first described himself as being a "peace activist," and appearing in costume as the Iranian cleric, he then chained himself to the entrance of the court house to protest the charges.[44] The Sydney, New South Wales court predictably banned him from mailing further inflammatory missives, and clearly overstepping its jurisdiction, likewise banned him from communicating with UK families of fallen British soldiers.[45] Upon what legal basis or how a New South Wales court possesses any mandate to ban communication outside of its jurisdiction - a legality which would fall more appropriately either under the purview of an Australian Federal court or the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - is another aspect of this narrative that makes little sense. To any legal expert, this alone suffuses this specific part of the spectacle with the element of farce. Yet Man Haron Monis' handlers would need this slant in the story in order to build up their narrative regarding Man Haron Monis' international level menace-hood, despite the fact that at this point of the story to any actual, objective observer of events Man Haron Monis appeared more as a clown than as any "international menace."

Predictably Man Haron Monis appealed the court's verdict to the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeals in Sydney, maintaining that the charges brought against him "were invalid because they infringed on his implied constitutional freedom of political communication."[46] The appellate court, however, dismissed the appeal. Further appealing to the High Court of Australia, but due to the absence of a single judge, the High Court was split 3-3 and so the NSW appellate court's decision was automatically upheld.[47] Another, final appeal to the High Court of Australia over the charges of "his criminal use of the postal service" was rejected for a hearing by the court on 12 December 2014, only three days before the Lindt café siege.[48]

Now, where Man Haron Monis obtained the needed funding for such a lengthy, grinding and obviously expensive court battle is a question that will one day open up a whole pandora's box of answers directly implicating the Australian deep state puppeteering all sides of this public circus, since it appears our mad sheikh's main source of income was actually as a social security welfare recipient.[49] That aside, this gruelling process would have also taken its personal toll even further upon someone of Man Haron Monis' already volatile and generally unhinged psychological make-up. Arguably the system expected it and actively encouraged it because Man Haron Monis' essential use-by-date, the purpose for which he had been cultivated and groomed, and whose "extremist" persona had been incubated and ever carefully choreographed since 2007, was now beginning to approach.

This growing psychological meltdown on Man Haron Monis' part can be seen during this period especially in the events surrounding the murder of his ex-wife Noleen Hayson Pal in April 2013 where she was found stabbed to death and set on fire.[50] In December 2013 Man Haron Monis' partner Amirah Droudis[51] (a dubious character in her own right and possibly being the Australian deep state's very own infiltrated honey-pot) was formally charged with the murder, with Man Haron Monis charged in the capacity of an accessory before and after the fact.[52] During the bail hearing, taking a page from an earlier script, our mad sheikh first declared that he was being set-up for the murder by the Iranian intelligence apparatus who, he claimed, had actually committed the murder and were framing him.[53] When that was rejected by the court, he then blurted out that it was in fact ASIO who were responsible,[54] which is probably closer to the real truth of the matter given what we believe about the role of Amirah Droudis. While the court rejected both these arguments, inexplicably it granted bail to both Amirah Droudis and our mad sheikh: a convicted murderer and her purported companion-accessory in the murder, with both walking.

Later in January 2014, again appearing in court, Man Haron Monis this time declared that he had evidence that ASIO were "conspiring against him to have him jailed," urging the judge to force a legal disclosure of all documents about him by the intelligence organization, which the judge promptly indicated he did not have the power to do.[55] Yet here, on this point, we can take our mad sheikh's word for it about the actual responsible parties, albeit maybe not as to their specific intent. The patsy was now fully in loose cannon mode and so events needed to be brought ever closer to their denouement conclusion where the useful idiot would play his final, assigned role. While all the above was underway, in March 2014 our mad sheikh was now arrested, arraigned and then released over an incident from 2002 involving an alleged sexual assault of a woman who had responded to an add he had put in the local papers advertising his services as a "spiritual healer," where Man Haron Monis claimed to be an expert in "astrology, numerology, meditation and black magic."[56] In October 2014 further charges were laid against him over this including "22 counts of aggravated sexual assault and 14 counts of aggravated indecent assault," with six more women subsequently coming forward to make the same allegation against him.[57]

Clearly the system was putting the proverbial squeeze before the upcoming grand finale for which our mad sheikh had been groomed for some time. But with all of these serious criminal charges, convictions and court verdicts against him, it is utterly inexplicable to all reason, nay beyond comprehension, as to how a convicted criminal such as he would be allowed to roam and walk freely in any modern Western Anglo-American, Five-Eyes society, especially one in the post-911/post-Bali world: a man who was also a purported "controversial Muslim cleric" and deemed to be "extremist" by the system and corporate media establishment, no less. Any suggestions as to systemic oversight, bureaucratic failure or breakdowns is utterly preposterous, to say the least. No, that Man Haron Monis was not locked up in April 2013 (if even in December 2013) after the murder of his ex-wife is solid, irrefutable testimony to the fact that the Australian deep state possessed an agenda and had a direct hand in keeping him on the streets whilst preparing those necessary conditions before the main event when he would be unleashed for his final act in the play they were staging. This was their way of keeping him on a short leash and the manner in which they could simultaneously maintain their plausible deniability. And then, all of a sudden, to trudge up old allegations from 2002 (whether with a basis or without it, being tangential to the plot) from the period when he was the system's proverbial golden boy for their anti-Iranian war propaganda memes, further stretches credulity but also makes perfect sense to those who understand how these patterns unfold and how the deep state system predictably behaves at such junctures of the narrative.

So here now we enter the timeline on the eve of 12-15 itself. We should first note that forty-eight hours before the events at the Lindt café even got underway that is on Saturday, 13 December 2014 an anonymous tip-off to the Australian National Security hotline was made about the recent "extremist" content appearing on our mad sheikh's website.[58] Predictably authorities did nothing, demonstrating no intention or compunction whatsoever in picking him up, since that was not part of the plan. The anonymous caller had responded to recent changes made by our mad sheikh to his website only five days prior where just like that! he had dramatically renounced his lifelong Shiʿism (so much for being an Ayatollah!) and reverted to the radical, takfīrī Wahhabī Sunnīsm of the Islamic State (IS/ISIS/ISIL/Daesh), while (without mentioning him by name) in Arabic formally pledging allegiance to its CIA-MOSAD puppeteered "caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadī, referring to him as the Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-mu'minīn).[59]

In English the reversion is even more explicit, where he says, "I used to be a Rafidi [i.e. the pejorative term in which Shiʿi Muslims are referred to by Sunnī fundamentalists], but not anymore. Now I am a Muslim, Alhamdu Lillah," dated December 2014. The die was finally cast and the "expected" event was about to unfold. What chain of events specifically set-off his reversion to takfīrī Wahhabī Sunnīsm, and then how this built into his decision to play his final, assigned role as the Lindt café hostage-taker - particularly what actors besides his honey-pot ASIO mole partner Amirah Droudis may have played a part will be a tale all unto itself. With rumours abounding for years that the Sydney Sunnī takfīrī scene is riddled with ASIO, AFB and other Australian law enforcement and intelligence moles and shills swelling its ranks from top to bottom, it is not difficult to envisage how this reversion may have transpired (and at whose hands) as the system geared up and formally put its final, anaconda-like death-coil-embrace around our mad sheikh where he was pushed to, and over, the breaking point and so had nothing more to lose. And yet his total psychological meltdown is fully in evidence at this point with his reversion and so why he would be even more malleable than ever (prone to suggestibility and outright psychological manipulation) in order to perform his assigned task in this defining, final act of these staged events. The only question which will always remain is what he thought to himself he was actually going to accomplish with these theatrics and whether he believed he would even survive the ordeal.

Reports being vague as to precisely when he appeared on the scene, at approximately 8:45-9:00am on the morning of Monday, 15 December 2014, Man Haron Monis had already stepped into the Lindt café in Martin Place, the Sydney CBD: an area with as many CCTV cameras in place as the most heavily surveillanced area of London, where local Channel 7 TV station security cameras from across the street had recorded a glimpse of our mad sheikh pacing up and down the area just minutes before he entered the premises.[60] With him, when finally entering the café, was a duffle bag with effects and, more lethally, a sawed off shot-gun. Where and how he had obtained the weapon, or whether he even knew how to use it, we do not know. Reports say when he entered Lindt café he first ordered himself a coffee and then sat quietly sipping it away before commencing the deep state orchestrated festivities that promptly unfolded next. By 9:45am the siege was already underway where clientele and staff were being held hostage in the Lindt café by our mad sheikh, with a black on white takfīrī flag (donning the calligraphic Arabic of "no god but God; Muḥammad is the Messenger of God") - used primarily by the Syrian al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nuṣra and the Nigerian Boko Harām, among others - prominently displayed at the front window of the café for maximum dramatic effect.

Within a short space of time after the siege commenced heavily mobilized police with police military vehicles, together with the entire Sydney based Australian counter-terrorism taskforce, had arrived on the scene armed to the teeth surrounding the area. Then came the most bizarre feature of this story with our mad sheikh sending out video recorded messages from his hostages inside the café demanding the ISIS flag and a phone conversation with Tony Abbott while designating the siege an ISIS operation (a point which was promptly denounced as lacking any authorization by it).[61] Contradictory reports also said he had claimed at one point to have planted bombs in the area.

We will not recap all the remaining details and minutia of the siege, but as the hours tolled away and hostages began to be released, the hollywoodesque nature of this whole spectacle was not lost on some. This whole event had an eerie feel to it of Al Pacino's 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon' with the Black takfīrī flag and self-association with ISIS a substitute for the film's famous clarion call (invoking the Attica prison riot): "Attica, Attica!"[62]

As the hours wore on, with weariness obviously setting in with both hostage taker and remaining hostages alike, the zero-hour and moment of reckoning now arrived. Sixteen hours into the siege and the police finally stormed the premises clearing it and ending the siege in an obvious, one-way shooting spree, killing our mad sheikh and the two remaining 10884747_10152521951557927_990549908_nhostages in the café along with him. All of the reports emerging in the first few hours, however vaguely worded by the local news organizations, clearly but implicitly show that that the police did all the shooting,[63] thus making of the finale of this staged event nothing more than a police execution with hostages Katrina Dawson (38) and Tori Johnson (34) as collateral damage in a police killing spree. For example, the initial SBS report after the siege - which was later post-dated to 10:03am the next morning (16 December 2014) states: "Both hostages died when heavily armed police stormed the Martin Place cafe early this morning. The 50-year-old gunman, self-described Muslim cleric Man Haron Monis, was also killed."[64] All subsequent reports, however tortured their attempts in articulating transparent vagaries, have in so many words asserted the same.

With not a single statement or brief forthcoming by either local or national police, or by national counter-terrorism taskforce representatives or the state and national elected governments, about what actually transpired at the conclusion of the siege; on Sunday, 28 December 2014, local news organizations themselves began partially confirming the true locus of blame for the killings.[65] Given this, 12-15 was no terrorist event perpetrated by Man Haron Monis in the name of radical Islam at all. Indeed the event was a terrorist event, alright, except the real terrorist culprit would be the Australian deep state itself and its police and security apparatus staging a false-flag for ulterior motives while using the opportunity to permanently decommission and dispose of one of their own patsy assets.

To further add to this tragicomic farce, the next morning Tony Abbott was briefed by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) regarding Man Haron Monis' possession of a firearm license only to be contradicted by the New South Police some hours later where they unequivocally retorted that he had possessed no such license.[66] Clearly in all the post-fracas haste and hustle and bustle, and before the smoke had fully cleared, the various levels of the Australian deep state had gotten their wires crossed on key elements of their official story, which indicates a developing, albeit even clumsier, cover-up. More aptly, Peter Symonds, writing for Global Research, points out:

…As of today, neither the Abbott government nor the New South Wales (NSW) state authorities has provided any official explanation for, or account of, the police storming of the Lindt cafe. None of the many questions surrounding the decision to activate the entire counter-terrorism apparatus on Monday have been answered. Instead, following his "query" on Tuesday, Abbott announced a joint review with the NSW government on Wednesday…the Abbott government's review seeks to deflect attention from the central question that must be posed: why was a terrible, but relatively straightforward, police matter elevated to the status of a national emergency involving the entire security apparatus? The political purpose of that decision, like the review, is to inflate the "war on terror" in preparation for greater Australian commitment to US-led conflicts and a deepening assault on…social and democratic rights…[67]

While the mainstream Australian public consciousness has generally been anesthetized by the power of the Australian corporate state propaganda machine from believing in conspiracy facts when it stares them in the face; with the ever ballooning surveillance state apparatus unfolding more and more in Australia and intruding its tentacles into every nook and cranny of their personal lives and futures, events may give pause to some who are more conscientious than others to reflect on the cloak and dagger reality of the deep state which indeed surrounds them and ultimately victimizes them as much as it callously does so to its assets as well as its targets. More will certainly be written on this case in coming years and much, much more will certainly be revealed as well. But given the facts right now (most glaringly of all, the consistent silences and do-nothingism by the system at crucial parts of the narrative) and as countless pundits in the alternative media have independently conceded, the staged nature of 12-15 together with the useful idiocy and patsy status of its claimed perpetrator Man Haron Monis - who now stands alongside names such as Gavrilo Princip, Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan - will be difficult to deny.

For years this same mainstream Australian public opinion (against the judgement of actual on-the-scene eye-witnesses as well as later court findings that dismissed earlier expert testimony and proved one of its earlier court experts from England to have been a fraud) was also firmly convinced of the established guilt of Lindy Chamberlain in the murder of her baby Azaria at Uluru in 1980; that is, until years later when events and especially developments in zoology and forensics finally proved beyond doubt that indeed a dingo had taken her baby after all and that indeed Lindy Chamberlain was innocent of the crime initially attributed to her by corrupt officialdom of the Northern Territory government who (at the moment of tragedy over the loss of their child) instead set her and her family up in the territory's court system in order to deflect from negative publicity falling upon its tourism industry.[68] Here in the events of 12-15 a wild, ravenous, diseased and mangy demonic-dingo, which is the unelected Australian deep state, has in broad daylight assaulted the baby that was the remaining innocence, good faith, sincerity (and dare one say, gullibility) of mainstream Australia and forever destroyed whatever was left of the illusion of the "lucky country." It is perhaps time for the Australian public to wake up from their slumber, stop blaming the wrong people, and realize how they themselves have been massively hoodwinked and bamboozled in this situation by the sinister forces of the Australian "corporate" deep state who have stood to actually benefit from 12-15, the Lindt café siege, and thereby use the event as a pretext to disenfranchise mainstream Australia in even greater proportions than ever before.

N Wahid Azal is a specialist in Islamic esotericism and the occult, an independent scholar, political commentator and critic. He resides in Germany.

[1] As a shorthand, here we will be using the Americanized date 12-15 rather than the more accurate Australian one 15-12. Our reasons should be obvious.

[2] This is a neologism coined by us in our article on the Reyhaneh Jabbari case, see http://syncreticstudies.com/2014/10/30/t...-too-much/ (accessed 25 December 2014).

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfax_Media (accessed 26 December 2014).

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Rinehart (accessed 26 December 2014).

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit..._Australia (accessed 26 December 2014).

[6] The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian...ganisation (accessed 26 December 2014).

[7] http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/p...36dys.html (accessed 26 December 2014).

[8] http://www.news.com.au/national/australi...6633535675 (accessed 26 December 2014).

[9] http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014...MP=soc_567 (accessed 25 December 2014)

[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Austr...rror_raids (accessed 25 December 2014)

[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership (accessed 28 December 2014).

[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlan...Trade_Area (accessed 28 December 2014).

[13] http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2...13503.html (accessed 28 December 2014)

[14] http://rt.com/news/201767-isis-supporter...australia/ (accessed 26 December 2014)

[15] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-03/as...al/5716292 (accessed 26 December 2014)

[16] http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/12...ign-report (accessed 27 December 2014)

[17] http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/martin-place-g...2c9ny.html (accessed 26 December 2014)

[18] http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nat...6713441205 (accessed 25 December 2014).

[19] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...liefs.html (accessed 26 December 2014).

[20] Ibid.

[21] http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/prog...in/3478556 (accessed 26 December 2014)

[22] http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth...7161198324 accessed from https://www.facebook.com/theaustralian/p...3995119978 (accessed 26 December 2014).

[23] And this, in same year which the Howard government had no compunction whatsoever of watching Afghan and Iranian asylum seeking children being thrown overboard sinking smuggler boats in the Indian ocean while the Australian Navy was ordered not to interfere and just watch as all of these children (as well as adults) went to their deaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_Overboard_affair (accessed 26 December 2014).

[24] http://fararu.com/fa/news/217176 (accessed 26 December 2014).

[25] Ibid.

[26] http://ashraf-news.com/news_view_2479.html (accessed 27 December 2014)

[27] See http://bahaicultfaq.blogspot.com (accessed 26 December 2014).

[28] http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/12/17/...ge-crisis/ and http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-17/ir...is/5972288 (accessed 27 December 2014)

[29] http://en.mehrnews.com/detail/News/105117 (accessed 26 December 2014).

[30] Ibid.

[31] http://en.irna.ir/News.aspx?Nid=81428520 (accessed 26 December 2014).

[32] http://landdestroyer.blogspot.de/2014/12...ydney.html (accessed 25 December 2014).

[33] http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/prog...in/3478556 (accessed 27 December 2014).

[34] Ibid.

[35] http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/...ers-advice (accessed 28 December 2014).

[36] Compare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1F_G5ku7KM with http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...otest.html (accessed 28 December 2014).

[37] http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/mu...6713467150 (accessed 27 December 2014)

[38] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Cronulla_riots (accessed 26 December 2014).

[39] http://www.shiitecouncil.org.au/ (accessed 28 December 2014)

[40] http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national...1115413357 (accessed 25 December 2014)

[41] Ibid.

[42] Ibid.

[43] http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national...6151d3619e (accessed 25 December 2014).

[44] http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2009/...side-court (accessed 25 December 2014).

[45] http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2010/...nsive-mail (accessed 25 December 2014).

[46] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-06/cl...il/3715612 (accessed 25 December 2014).

[47] http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/prog...transcript (accessed 26 December 2014).

[48] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/15...27220.html (accessed 27 December 2014).

[49] https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2014...enterlink/ (accessed 28 December 2014).

[50] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-22/se...ch/5111744 (accessed 26 December 2014).

[51] That this woman was only finally taken into custody, with her bail revoked, after the events of 12-15 is more than just a little suspicious and eyebrow raising, especially as regards to who she ultimately answers to, http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stori...voked.html (accessed 28 December 2014).

[52] Ibid.

[53] http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/ns...6781623998 (accessed 25 December 2014).

[54] Ibid.

[55] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-22/co...er/5212862 (accessed 25 December 2014).

[56] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-14/sp...lt/5388332 (accessed 27 December 2014).

[57] http://www.skynews.com.au/news/local/syd...aler-.html (accessed 26 December 2014).

[58] http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/ns...912bcfc6ce (accessed 26 December 2014).

[59] https://web.archive.org/web/201412151413...haron.com/ (accessed 26 December 2014).

[60] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1_EjsGBP1o (accessed 27 December 2014).

[61] http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=12a_1418655542 (accessed 28 December 2014).

[62] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Day_Afternoon (accessed 28 December 2014)

[63] http://www.sbs.com.au/news/fragment/sydn...tims-named (accessed 28 December 2014)

[64] Ibid.

[65] http://www.news.com.au/national/sydney-s...7167655143 (accessed 26 December 2014).

[66] http://www.afp.gov.au/media-centre/news/...monis.aspx (accessed 26 December 2014).

[67] http://www.globalresearch.ca/australian-...or/5420757 (accessed 28 December 2014)

[68] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Cham...-Creighton and http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/ju...hamberlain (accessed 28 December 2014).

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[Magda Hassan]

The following articles are from Max Ellis a pretty mainstream political observer and even he can see there is some thing wrong with the very stage managed event.

The siege at Martin Place ended at 2am last night with the police storming the cafe, numerous shots being fired https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PbYy3OuU4sand two hostages being killed, along with the alleged "terrorist". Bob Ellis considers the things that will now be covered up or glossed over.



"Shotgun pellet wounds". '"Out on bail". "The Prime Minister refused to speak to him". These are some of the things that should be talked about and will be covered up or fudged in the next few days.
Did the "terrorist" have a non-lethal weapon? Why was this not known? Was the initial gunfire non-life-threatening!? Was it police gunfire, not his, that killed the "innocents" who died?
He was a man charged with sexual assault this year and, before that, with complicity in the murder of his ex-wife, who was burned to death. He had written insulting letters to the families of dead Australian soldiers in Afghanistan.

Man Haron Monis: fringe figure whose crime record and erratic behaviour made him notorious http://t.co/1d6IHIz3B2
Lenore Taylor (@lenoretaylor) December 15, 2014

He was a "self-styled cleric" preaching hate in a time of a Red Alert. He was accused of sexual offenses. Yet he was out on bail.
Why did the Prime Minister refuse to speak to him? Why has the Prime Minister not done a press conference this morning?
Is it, indeed, a "terrorist incident" any more than, say, the killings at Sandy Hook? Was there a "death cult" inviolved, as the Daily Telegraph alleged, or, as his lawyer suggests, a 'nutcase'?

It's official, @TonyAbbottMHR has labelled #sydneysiege as an "ISIL DEATH CULT" after the Daily TeleCraps did pic.twitter.com/6g4F644Itj
Lord Finnigania 平大王 (@Thefinnigans) December 15, 2014

The 'Red Alert' in New South Wales has been worse than useless. The Whitlam funeral boasted five prime ministers and five hundred celebrity 'prime targets' and I, for one, was able to get in with a radio and a laptop that could have been bombs. It would have been easy to smuggle a pocket-knife in. There was no electronic device we had to go through. There was, moreover, no search of the crowd outside. There were no snipers on any balcionies or roofs, as there might be at a public meeting addressed by Barack Obama. There was no significant 'security' at all, plus five hundred prime targets and a nationwide Red Alert.

Tune into @Channel9 for the latest details on #SydneySiege or Live Stream: http://t.co/zLbH87cNQK #Today9 pic.twitter.com/s5BygEns5o
The Today Show (@TheTodayShow) December 15, 2014

There were no body-searches at any Opera House opening night. And Man Haron Monis, proven a violent, crazy man, was allowed out on bail.
The is incompetence here and millions wasted, on a cocked-up populist Chicken Little operation, that failed to note that a man involved in the murder of his ex-wife and the persecution of dead soldiers' wives might be dangerous.
Baird said:

"We will get through this. We will get through this."

But some officials won't.

The rate at which we're learning things about the Lindt Cafe fire-fight is among the slowest in modern history.
We don't know yet whose bullets, or stun grenades, killed Katrina Dawson. We don't know yet whose weaponry wounded four others. We don't know the others' names.
We don't know why there were so many shots fired; and whether, in the dark, they knew who they were shooting at. We don't know why this has not been revealed.
We don't know why the police forebade the hostages to give any detailed media interviews. We don't know why the prime minister refused them help when two of them begged for it. We don't know why a Muslim cleric was not allowed to talk to the 'terrorist', as has happened in similar situations, hundreds of times, thousands of times across the world.
We don't know much about anything. And we can only surmise an enormous cover-up is taking place.
Kate McClymont is nowhere to be seen. Somehow this case, involving Liberals, does not interest her in the way the Craig Thomson case did. Somehow she finds in it nothing to care about.
A plausible scenario is that both Man Haron Monis and Tori Johnson were alive when the cops came blam-blamming in, and both dead a second later and Katrina Dawson gravely wounded. Another is that Johnson was dead, and the 'cross-fire' of police bullets, in startling numbers, wounded Dawson and four others. If Monis's weapon wounded six people, we would have known of it and the survivors would have been on television by now.
Or there may be some other explanation.
Were there helmet-cameras, as there were in the raid on the home of Osama Bin Laden? What has happened to that videotape, if any? What has happened to the footage shown on Russian television, and nowhere else?


Why have the witnesses been told they can't speak? Even John O'Brien, who left the premises eleven hours before?
It is almost certainly something to do with the prime minister's refusal to help the hostages out and thus let five of them, the women, probably, out of there. It is a massive cover-up, probably, of the Abbott cowardice, last seen when he cuddled koalas with Vladimir Putin. Or it may be something else.
It would be good if we knew something soon.