there s been these two terrible and dramatic standoffs in today s news. one national one international. the international was the sydney, australia, situation. a gunman took hostage 17 employees and customers, held them for more than 16 hours. the man put up a black islamic banner of some kind in the window of the cafe. but he does not seem to have been tied to any known terrorist groups. as an individual, he had lots of legal trouble. he was out on bail on un-related but serious legal charges. that hostage standoff ended with the hostage taker and two of his hostages killed. four other people were wounded. that siege was a terrible
on today s news, one international, one national. the international was the sydney, australia situation. a gunman took hostage 17 employees and customers, held them for more than 16 hours. the man put up a black islamic banner of some kind in the window of the cafe. but he does not seem to have been tied to any known terrorist groups. as an individual, he had lots of legal trouble. he was out on bail on un-related but serious legal charges. that hostage standsoff ended with the hostage taker and two of his hostages killed. four other people were wounded. that siege was a terrible overnight ordeal that broulgt out a huge police presence in sydney, all central ya. that one is over. the gunman in that case is killed. that one is resolved. that s the international one. the domestic standoff is already significantly more lethal and, at this hour, not resolved.