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Opinion: Sydney Siege: Why Didn’t the Snipers Shoot?

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Vanson Soo
Dec 17, 2014
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The Sydney siege at the Lindt Chocolate Café in Martin Place ended in the early hours of Dec. 15 with 3 fatalities and 3 injured. But why did it have to conclude with any fatalities besides that of the gunman?

It is now known that it was Man Haron Monis, an apparently-deranged gunman called by a newspaper columnist a “fake sheik, a pretend spiritual heal…

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