we understand that there were regular phone calls into british intelligence agencies in london and other western capitals to try to find out what more could be gleaned about this individual and whether this could be part of an international plot. now that it s over, all signs are pointing to a man acting really on his own and not as part of any jihadist or terrorist organization. joy, he is somebody with a very long police record. australian police sources saying that he was approximately 50 years old, an iranian immigrant, with a very troubled and criminal past. his name man haron monis, but on his website he went by the name of sheikh haron, sheikh in this sense meaning cleric or spiritual leader. haron was apparently out on bail facing charges in australia on at least a dozen sexual assault cases. he was also found guilty back in
followed by a few other people. as i said, at least six people. and the police shortly after went in. there was gunfire or some sort of explosives. you could see pops of light coming out of the front window of the cafe. and probably transpired for probably another 15 to 20 seconds. there was a second wave, again, with gunfire. and, again, at that point ambulances rushed to the scene and paramedics began taking out some of the hostages on gurneys. thank you very much to courtney from the daily beast. for more on the gunman we re joined by nbc s jim massceda.
everyone had gone home. it s still unclear if this is something that was an operation or if they were responding to something that happened inside, but it certainly was the right time to go in considering the rest of the district was completely dead. do we know how many do we know how many hostages were initially taken? they still have not confirmed how many hostages were initially taken. five did escape yesterday. there are reports of up to at least six that were able to escape just before the police stormed the cafe. we re now learning but we re still unsure. tell us a little about the raid and sort of how it played out. sure. again, it escalated very quickly. the media was reporting images of a man running out of the cafe
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