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Sydney Siege Gunman Identified As Iran-Born, Self-Described Cleric Man Haron Monis
One of the very strange non-sequiturs in today's Syndey hostage siege, now approaching its 15th hour, is that the gunman who prepared for a long standoff with authorities somehow forgot to pack the ISIS flag and as reported earlier, has been said to demand it from the outside world. Strange to say the least.
But the bigger question remained: who is he? Now, courtesy of a report in Australia's The Age we know.
The man who continues to hold more than a dozen people hostage, placing Sydney's CBD into lockdown is no stranger to the NSW police or the judiciary.
Self-described cleric, Man Haron Monis, 50, first came to attention of police when he penned poisonous letters to the family of dead Australian soldiers seven years ago.
Last year he was charged with being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife and mother of two.
Most recently, he was charged with more than 50 allegations of indecent and sexual assault relating to time allegedly spent as a self-proclaimed "spiritual healer" who dealt with black magic at a premises in western Sydney more than a decade ago.
Monis, who has also gone by the names of Sheikh Haron and Mohammad Hassan Manteghi, was born in Iran and most recently has been living at Bexley North in Sydney's south.
He recently likened himself on his own webpage to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, claiming the most recent charges against him have been laid for "political reasons".
His website also carries a quote, posted earlier this month stating: "I used to be a Rafidi, but not any more. Now I am a Muslim, Alhamdu Lillah".
It has been Monis' on-going legal battle for his conviction for penning the poisonous letters to the families of dead Australian soldiers between 2007 and 2009 that has consumed him.
It is understood Monday's incident followed an unsuccessful, last-ditch attempted in the High Court on Friday to have the charges overturned.
Monis was sentenced to 300 hours of community service and placed on a two year good behaviour bond for the "offensive and deplorable letters" sent with the assistance of his girlfriend Amirah Droudis.
They were sent to the families of Private Luke Worsley and Lance Corporal Jason Marks, who were killed in Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008.
He also sent a letter in 2009 to the family of the Austrade official Craig Senger, who was killed in the bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta in 2007.
Monis claimed the letters were his own version of a "flower basket" or "condolence card".
Bree Till, widow of Sergeant Brett Till, killed while defusing a bomb on March 12, 2009, said at the time of his conviction: "We sat reading these letters (which) made out to be something supportive but then the juxtaposition of this man accusing my husband of being a child-killer while dictating how I should raise my children. It was scary," she said.
He fought the validity of the charges all the way to the High Court arguing they were political and only sought to persuade the families to oppose Australia's military involvement in Afghanistan.
But when he lost that battle, and had to stand trial, he pleaded guilty to all 12 charges against him in August 2013.
But his problems with the law did not end there. Monis is currently on bail in relation two separate, serious cases.
He was charged in November 2013 with being an accessory before and after the fact to the murder of his ex-wife Noleen Hayson Pal.
Ms Pal was stabbed and set alight in a Werrington apartment block.
Droudis has been charged with the murder.
And then in April this year, Monis was charged by sex crimes squad detectives with the indecent and sexual assault of a woman in western Sydney in 2002.
Police allege that Monis was a self-proclaimed "spiritual healer" who operated out of premises on Station Street at Wentworthville.
News of his arrest prompted more victims to come forward and Monis was hit with an additional 40 charges in October.
It is alleged that Monis placed ads in local newspapers offering "spiritual consultation".
He claimed to be an expert in astrology, numerology, meditation and black magic.
Monis has posted online that the police charges are part of a witch hunt against him.
"Since the Australian government cannot tolerate Sheikh Haron's activity, is trying to damage his image by these false accusations, and also for putting pressure on him to stop his activity and keep him silent, but God willing Man Haron Monis will not stop his political activity against oppression," he writes in a description of himself on his website, sheikhharon.com
His former Facebook page, pulled down on Monday night as the siege continued had 14,725 "likes" when it was shut down.
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Show me the Monis!
...Proxy WW#3 now in final warm up friends.
Will Russia supply Iran w/ nuclear arms or bomb Qatar to kingdom come?
xmas wishes....Peace and goodwill to all
Forget banning terrorists or guns; Australia needs to ban sharks:
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/foreign/15-Dec-2014/teen-killed-by-shark-in-australia
Sure might have been nice if a few of those Aussies had pistols.
albert pike...phase three
any first hand accounts? gene? robbie?
Yes. This was a confused guy, not some hardened terrorist. But of course Tony Abbottis using it as a way to drive even mpre fear so he can pass even more laws that make this place into a police state like America. Luckily we still have a long way to go and people here are not stupid. Abbott came in with a program of cuts to everything from health care to education...all of it died.
Smells like teen spirit a false flag
Yes and no.
There are/were 50 or so hostages and just a single 50 year old male of no athletic stature is controlling them. A gun is of no use when those 50 are pussies and unwilling to overpower him in the many opportunities they must have had.
BTW I am here in Sydney so I know the Lindt chocolate shop that the pussies are being held in. Most of the customers are office workers,majority females and the rest mostly gay/metrosexual/wimps.
women and gays pretty much covers everyone that lives in Sydney
Yeah. They aren't real people. Someone should just round them up and shoot them. /sarc
Grind him into sausage on the steps of the opera house and feed him to the sharks
No...Australians prefer to not live Zionists.
Your belief in WW3... that religious, too?
"He claimed to be an expert in astrology, numerology, meditation and black magic" - Well, and he claimed to be Muslim, too, though the mix is not compatible. Deranged
Seems odd. And rafida is a fairly insulting thing to say to an Iranian. Would he really have refered to himself in that way?
You could just tell by his choice of glasses that he is whacko.
Deport every bit of history of the crazy and his family too.
Man, you sure do love this show.
Man, you sure do love this show.
Yes he does! And best of all he gets paid to do it!
I'm convinced that the ones smart enough to visit ZH are never that stupid which leaves only the paid trolls!!!
Wish I did get paid. Maybe I would have more of ability NOT to work for the man....
Question: Which is worse stupid, self important posts or ironic, not so funny, sarcky posts?
Question: Which is worse stupid, self important posts or ironic, not so funny, sarcky posts?
Like a pastry cart...
I love 'em all, but the ones I love the most are when they get under the skin like yours!
Man Harun (=Aaron) Monis... Jewish Iranian?
I'm guessing his account is at least 38 weeks old then.
the dude has a funny name and wears a funny hat
What kind of mother would name her son "Man"?
... Man, eat your peas or there will be no dessert ...
... Man, start teasing your sister ...
NoVa
"You're no man with that sissy hat and funny looking glasses."
"Wanna bet."
It's time to carpet bomb those fucking Muzzies in Iran, 24x7.
Time to put them in their place again.....that is to say....in the dirt. Where they belong.
Let Allah take care of them.......oh....wait.
I'm just glad that all of these Islamic extremism episodes are fake... Never happened... CIA staged events to increase our Military Industrial Complex... The JOOOOOOOS!!!!
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This guy would be a shoe-in for the lead role in the Persian version of The Life and Times of Dick Cheney.
Even better fit: The Life and Times of Dear Leader Obama! LOL!!! What a hoot!...
Who are his handlers? If he's on bail and has spent so much time being interrogated by the Aussie intelligence services, then there's your handlers...
Yes...clearly a highly valuable asset. For a few more hours anyway.
Edit: those hours just ended. Far more useful dead now as they can decide what he says.
Exactly.
killem all
The hostages, too?
Meanwhile back in the city of Lost Angels Hollywood California those master Thespians from Dowton Abbey are helping our boyz in uniform "polish the turd"...
And we'll call it "Operation Preparation H"
'Realist Urban Training' Classic!
You can't make this shit up.
Why is he still breating at this point.....they have snipers.....
snipers are not PC. silly rabbit.
Dude.....it's Australia.
You get lost and drive up the wrong street in DC....they'll still be pumping slugs into you.
Bonus points if you're female with a baby in the back seat.
Why is he still breating at this point.....they have snipers.....
You're right! Somebody call this guy and this guy to help him!
The Lavon Affair and every one that proceeded it alive and well!!!!
"The man who continues to hold more than a dozen people hostage, placing Sydney's CBD into lockdown is no stranger to the NSW police or the judiciary.
Self-described cleric, Man Haron Monis, 50, first came to attention of police when he penned poisonous letters to the family of dead Australian soldiers seven years ago.
Last year he was charged with being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife and mother of two."
it is definitely a false flag using a deranged man well known to the police -------> "Classic"
Sometimes it's for good reason they're well known to police. I'd buy in on everything you said except he forgot his ISIS flag. Guy is a wack-a-doodle, not a terrorist, at least not above the wanne-be level.
Why does Sheik Man Haron Monis look like a jew?
Down vote? I must be over israel. Voltair said "To learn who rules over you, simply jind out who you are not allowed to criticize,"
Sheik Mustafa Leak...
Step 1) Let in terrorists
Step 2) Disarm the population.
I'll let you figure out that end game. Thank your politicians, Aussies.
one quarter the murder rate of the USA. I'll take it
Take out the heavy Dear Leader Obama voter districts in the U.S. and the U.S. murder rate is lower that Australia's. We need to ban Dear Leader Obama voters, not guns.
is that randy quaid????
sort of -
also bears resemblance to Henry Kissinger -
just saying -
this dude is a neo-con wet dream......
See if anyone was packing heat this wouldn't be an issue. Try this in a conceal carry state u Fuck
agreed, need to kill him then go after his family
The wimp held up the Lindt chocolate shop full of females, gays and wimps. It wouldn't matter if we were allowed to be armed as that clientele would never pack heat.
Just spitting distance from this shop is a popular bar, lots of booze, bimbos and booze guzzling men. So what is so unislamic about chocolate that he didn't target that den of sin/booze instead?
The wannabe jihadist is also a pussy who chose a pussy target as he would have had his arse handed to him by the men (and maybe the bimbos as well) had he pulled his stunt in a bar.
Drunks have been known to become disorderly.
Iranians are SHIA and ISIS wants to SLAY each and every Shia Muslim. This guy sounds like a deranged dirt bag.
Yet it was a DIFFERENT religious group that dismantled the WHITE AUSTRALIA immigration policy:
It is often said that when the old immigration policy was scrapped in 1965, scarcely anyone knew, and no one predicted, that the new law would change the racial makeup of the country. Prof. MacDonald disputes this, arguing that this had been the objective of Jewish groups from the beginning.
Prof. MacDonald finds that Jews have been the foremost advocates of immigration in England, France, and Canada, and that Jewish groups were the most vocal opponents of independence for Quebec. Australian Jews led the effort to dismantle the "white Australia" policy, one reason for which was cited in an editorial in the Australian Jewish Democrat: "The strengthening of multicultural or diverse Australia is also our most effective insurance policy against anti-Semitism. The day Australia has a Chinese Australian Governor General I would feel more confident of my freedom to live as a Jewish Australian." Like Earl Raab writing about the United States, this Australian Jew is prepared to sacrifice the traditional culture, people, and identity of Australia to specifically Jewish interests.
Source
Yeah but the west doesn't know that. To them, all Muslims are the same.
Skip: "...prepared to sacrifice the traditional culture, people, and identity of Australia..."
What...you mean like what happened to the Australian Aboriginals from 1788 onwards?
Note: don't get me wrong...I despise the Zionists (along with all similarly evil people) but it is somewhat hypocritical for one race to complain about their new masters...when they did the same thing to their own predecessors.
Didn't Darwin have a name for this?
Cos' let's face it, those yids have collectively outsmarted the rest of us...
(Collectively...but not individually).
Why am I not surprised.
Someone give that dude a big fat piece of bacon! Or a rope.
Incompatible with the NWO. Staged for Moar Woars.
"He claimed to be an expert in astrology, numerology, meditation and black magic."
Chances of him being shot dead to end this farce: Close to zero. They need nutjobs like him to perpetuate the war. The aussie govt comes out looking like a bed of tolerant roses, fans the flames of hatred against brown neighbours (Don't get a tan this year mate) and sets up yet another excuse to brown nose the MIC and their endless war against nouns. We had a comical nutjob just like this bloke in Blighty - Abu Hamza, I think his name was. He even had a milky eye and a hook for a hand with a penchant for making vile vindictive statements. He was, of course, protected like the Pope by the police and wheeled out for the politicians to show how lovely and tolerant we were.
With those sort of qualifications...he could take over from Christine Lagarde whe she's found forcing a bell-hop to blow her.
With those sort of qualifications, he could take over any Marvel antagonist position. These false flags are getting more and more laughable by the day...
LOL! Iran - born! Well of course he was!!!
LOLOLOL
Jesus the simulations are more transparent now than ever. Enjoy the show, complete with Israeli Mossad crisis actors. Where is Gene Rosen? Robbie Parker? And where is the fucking "Nancy Lanza" character, who was shown to be none other than "Annie Haddad." "Dawn Hochsprung," the principal is "Mary Maloney," the principal of St. Rose of Lima next door to the school. Come on! How about that one broad who was interviewed at Sandy Hook AND at the Boston Bombing?! LOL!
Well of course this was all done by Iran, who hasn't started a war for, oh I don't know, five hundred years? Versus Amerika / Mossad / Israel who murder for sport every single day?
Enough of this.
What about the identity of the supposed second terrorist? I suspect he will have really significant connections.
On Wednesday 17 December, a UN convention will discuss the issue of Israel and the occupied territories. Fortunately, this purely coincidental act of Muslim terrorism in Sydney will encourage sensible states to see the reality of the situation and vote accordingly.
The world press, led by CNN, is ensuring that there will be more of these nutjobs committing these acts
Yeah well, they could be right this time.
"His former Facebook page, pulled down on Monday night as the siege continued had 14,725 "likes" when it was shut down."
"The Xmas Eve Sieges"
Coming to a no ratings, dollar a holler cable news channel soon.........
Man I can't wait for the ground force to invade this dude's home country.
Will make killer TV ratings.
"Monis was sentenced to 300 hours of community service and placed on a two year good behaviour bond...."
They were joking right ?
No. Oz is a big Nanny State.
Just ask the man behind the curtain
It is a shame that he is shot dead or else it would have cost him another 900 hours of community service.
aren't there any pictures of him and Putin on his Facebook page.
So he can just about fuck up a 2 car funeral but not quite
That he wrote those letters and killed his wife and child is all an Illuminati, Jooo, NWO, Red Shield FF.
Is he firmware version Gitmo 1, Gitmo 2 or Gitmo 3?
Report of shots fired
Shots fired, people coming out on stretchers.
Cops inside the store.
So he has tons of charges and he's out on bail?
Just like the USSA!!
Is this guy a 'terrorist' or one of the new style of 'revenge seekers'.
There's a big difference.
A terrorist is just that. But a revenge seeker is somebody who's pissed off at the continuing permanent war, perhaps his innocent baby brother or cousin got droned so he wants revenge. He never wanted to get involved, but now he wants to.
Permant war leads to just that as more and more normal people get converted to revenge seekers.
So the more they try to 'protect' us and our 'freedom' the more they put us at risk so the more MONEY needs to be spent to protect us. Hmmm, some are getting rich off all of this, many a job created etc. Rob Hustle is right when he states 'nobody gets rich if the voilence stops'.
So next time you're reminded of the terrorist threat, realise that it's now as much of a 'revenge seeker' threat as anything else.
And before many of you warmongering nutjobs attack me think about this. If you were an innocent and your faimly or friends were blown away simply because of wrong time wrong place, would you sit back and take it up the ass or would you become a revenge seeker? See, most of your would become a revenge seeker as you have little if anything to live for.
Propaganda at it's finest. When did Operation Sandy Hook occur, again?
Sydney hook appears to be over
Guy looks retarded. What's he doing with that ashtray on his head.
Jews are the down syndrome race. They all look alike. Not my fault. Just saying.
The only terrorists that matter are the ones in D.C. with your money!
Keep your eye on the biggest terrorists of ALL!!!
It's against the law to write someone an offensive letter???
That's what jumped out at me from the article.
Attention seeker.
Job done, next please.
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We Jihad'd some folks
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A no Muslim policy and a second amendment would solve this problem.