Lindt Chocolate Café Sydney Hostage Situation: 'Damaged Goods Individual Committing Heinouse Crime,' Not An Act Of Concrete Terrorsim

Lindt Chocolate Café Sydney Hostage Situation Ends. The hostage taker in the Sydney Hostage Situation Haron Monis managed to hold down the police for 16 hours years before the Sydney hostage crisis ended. The hostage posted demands made by Monis on social media monitored by the police before Monis asked to speak to Prime Minister Abott. Some of the hostages managed to find their way to the police wearing riot gear and this resulted in Monis giving orders to the rest of the hostages. He became agitated and Tuesday morning there was an exchange of gunfire that killed Monis and two hostages in the Lindt Chocolate Café Sydney Hostage Situation .

The 'self-styled' cleric involved in the Lindt Chocolate Café Sydney Hostage Situation was also known by the title 'Sheik Haron' and he was known to the police for writing disturbing letters to the family of Australian troops.

PM Tony Abott told the media, "He had a long history of violent crime, infatuation with extremism and mental instability," and "posted graphic extremist material online," CNN reports.

Manny Conditsis, Monis former attorney during a trial involving the murder of his ex-wife told Newsweek, "His ideology is just so strong and so powerful that it clouds his vision for common sense and objectiveness. Knowing he was on bail for very serious offences, knowing that while he was in custody some terrible things happened to him, I thought he may consider that he's got nothing to lose."

Conditis continued to say, that Monis appeared to be acting by himself and that the Lindt Chocolate Café Sydney Hostage Situation was not a well-planned terror attack. "This is a one-off random individual. It's not a concerted terrorism event or act. It's a damaged goods individual who's done something outrageous," Newsweek said.