Hostage Situation - Martin Place, Sydney

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Mate of mine is military, apparently the tactical police crews cross train with the SAS, Commando Regiment and Navy Clearance Divers; and often have members of them on loan to them.
This. Make no mistake, these guys that make up the states tactical police units are ******* good. They may not be suited to traipsing through the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan on LRRP missions like the SAS-R, but they are most definitely suited to handling urban hostage situations. Like you say, they often train with, and participate with the military in things such as NATEX, and in addition to what you've said in regards to members being on loan to these teams, it is not uncommon for the permanent members of these units to be former Army SAS-R or Commando operators. These people aren't just police officers taking a break from writing out speeding tickets wearing body armour and carrying assault rifles.

If shit really does hit the fan, and the situation becomes something deemed too sophisticated for the police to handle, then TAG East (made up of 2CDO soldiers) and the Australian Special Operations Command centre (SOCOM) is based in Sydney anyway.
 

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OK, you're the gunman. What's your game plan now?
surrender, some of those cops have been training for years to go rambo and this is their first and possibly only chance.
hasn't killed anyone.........say you had a mental break and hope for 10-12 year sentence.

of course i'm sane and don't want to die.
 

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This will surely end soon. If it's just the one guy, he will need shut eye sooner or later

Pretty amateur move by this so called terrorist if he has gone in on his own and has no backup. He will have gained absolutely nothing from this other then being seen as an absolute dickhead in front of the world

Seriously hope they get to him before he injures or kills any of the hostages.
 

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This will surely end soon. If it's just the one guy, he will need shut eye sooner or later

Pretty amateur move by this so called terrorist if he has gone in on his own and has no backup. He will have gained absolutely nothing from this other then being seen as an absolute dickhead in front of the world

Seriously hope they get to him before he injures or kills any of the hostages.
He is in a cafe....lots of coffee available. No shut eye needed.
 

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Bad shit happens sometimes.

Should we just let the government basically control us?

Moronic comments.
Passing off innocent people being held hostage at gunpoint is hardly in the "Bad shit happens" category.

Moronic is something which aptly describes this and nearly all your previous posting history.
 

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Bali isn't a country.....




I have no idea the proportion of Indonesians that are Muslim though
I imagine Islam makes up about 90% of the religious in Indonesia.

You have to specify which religion you are on your ID card (KITAS), so I'd also assume majority of Indonesians are religious.
 

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There's probably a good reason for it, but try as I might, I cannot imagine why police refuse to divulge how many hostages are inside the café. How can that possibly alter anything apart from how they deal with getting them out? Any theories?
 
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