Minutes. So when that statement comes, well, of course bring it to you. And of course all of this ongoing in sydney as it comes up on 6 00 local time. This siege going on now for more than eight hours. Im john vause at the cnn center in atlanta. And im natalie allen. We have been with you for several hours, and we will push on as this situation in australia continues. It is breaking news of a siege there in a coffee shop that has been ongoing. A gunman Holding People hostage at the lindt coffee shop in downtown sydney. Sky news has just informed us that the gunman is calling himself the brother, and has contacted a Radio Station and two tv stations via hostages
with demands, a conversation with the Prime Minister and an isil flag. We do know five people have managed to get out. Three men were seen running out two hours ago. Two of them were customers. The man in the blue jacket, the man in the white zirs and a few moments later there was a man wearing an apron who appeared to be a work
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they re losing territory in syria, iraq, libya, afghanistan, and other places. for their most hardline supporters, this energizes them. they re a huge amount of anger from that point of view that children are being killed in british strikes and western strikes, u.s. strikes in syria and iraq and for them, it s an eye or an eye, it s retaliation. this is the show of strength. children purposely, ali? yeah. i think he intentionally targeted that. last saturday a statement was issued for an attack to avenge the attacks on children in the middle east. he asked for a martyrdom operation that would create a lot of damage in the west. this is something not only isis
cnn cannot independently verify the authenticity of this frame grab. turkish officials apparently releasing two photos of the suspect. they tell us they have his fingerprints from the scene but so far have not given us a name of the suspect. there is also dramatic surveillance video of the gunman entering the nightclub. take a look at this. he is firing as he goes in. in some frames you can even see bullets ricocheting. he killed 39 people inside the nightclub and wounded dozens of others. the victims were from 14 different countries. isis has claimed responsibility for this attack but has given no clues about the identity of the gunman. terror experts tell us, if isis actually directed the attack, it may have been more likely to have been a martyrdom operation with the perpetrator either taking his own life or confronting police and dying in a hail of gunfire. the information that this man slipped away leads some experts to believe this might have been an isis-inspired attack by a man
have detained eight people. isis has claimed responsibility saying a soldier of the caliphate targeted the nightclub. experts say it could be the work of an isis sympathizer rather than an attack directed by the group. typically this would be a suicide mission. they don t tend to say alive as we saw in brussels and paris. the isis inspired attacks, these guys tend to be less professional or less beholden to the isis mantra of going on a martyrdom operation. reporter: a key question tonight, isis, how responsible is it for this attack. to what degree was it involved. isis has the resources if it wants to to possibly help this gunman get away. former u.s. marshal james shields says the more he moves around the more vulnerable he is possible to be captured.
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