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One, accessory of murder to his wife hes facing. >> right. i think thats going to be a point of major investigation for the authorities. i do believe when you look at the individual like this who is want as a suspect in the killing of his ex-wife, known to authorities, out on bail, there is the first inclination to think that he is obviously -- obviously this is criminal but im talking more from the perspective of nonpolitically motivated attack. what makes it unique in this case, hes a person w...

Will. what youre saying, bob, is that this is highly unusual for an iranian shiite to convert to become a sunni muslim, is that right? >> its very, very rare. i cant think of another case, wolf, where this has happened. and also the whole idea this was probably what they call a martyrdom operation, he knew he was going to die and didnt put down his gun when the police came to the windows, and that is unusual, too, because iranians just dont do that. so this phenomenon of self-conversion and turn...

Ex-wifes murder and then walking the streets of sidney and the obvious question is why? how? >> absolutely. this man was on bail. hes already been convicted of sending offensive letters to the families of deceased soldiers who lost their lives in afghanistan and since then had been charged with a string of violent offenses as you say, sexually related offenses and also being accused of being the accessory to the murder of his ex-wife. charged with those offenses and out right now on bail. so cer...

And it wasnt until the middle of the night that we heard this step up to the next level, loud bangs ringing through the city, flashes in the middle of martin place. and then all of a sudden, police making this decision to move in, storm the cafe and bring the people out that they could. we saw people being carried out an stretchers, some being carried out in peoples arms. and then we understand, as we know, two of them unfortunately passed away. and others were injured, including a police office...

Sydney with reporter kathy novak. tell us more, kathy. >> we are, we are learning now its about 2:00 a.m. in sydney. police have identified this hostage taker, hes named man haron moniz, a self-proclaimed sheik haron. in 2007 he was convicted of writing offensive letters to the families of soldiers who died while fighting in afghanistan. he has been fighting those charges all the way up until last year and he has been convicted on those letter-writing charges but is currently on bail on two othe...

Like what happened yesterday and today will happen here as well. >> i guess this is almost lone-wolf defined. somebody who is inspired, at least given the information we have so far. aside from the fact that we know the lone wolfs are hard to stop, is there any knowledge drop on us here we ought to heed? >> i think one thing to consider -- every act of every , after its over we all say, we knew about that guy. we knew he was strange inch this case the authorities knew about this map. he probably...

Assault, getting into position, going over possible signs from the hostage-taker that he was about to get violent. theyd already gotten one indicator. a witness saying the gunman got extremely agitated when five hostages escaped earlier in the standoff. >> he may have said, for example, if another hostage escapes or makes a certain movement, at that point in time im going to make everyone pay. >> reporter: a national security source tells cnn police were concerned about the gunmans thick black v...

Been hurt. were trying to bring you a few more details on that. certainly someone is in grave danger outside on the street. just outside the cafe being treated at the moment. and yet again more ambulances are leaving this zone to head to the cafe to see what they can do. >> sean, its been interesting with the revelations of the identity of this man and his history of violence. we know he was, before the court last week. hes on bail for being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife. maybe that ...

Released the name of the individual involved. its a gentleman whos an iranian cleric out on bail for violent sexual offenses in and around australia. he was also actually was arre arrested in april being charged with being an accessory before and after the murder of his ex-wife. so this is why this individual is actually known to the police in and around sidney. theyve dealt with him in the past. hes 49 years old and clearly has a history of sexual assault which hes conducted within sydney. ther...

Afghanistan and pled guilty to that charge and was sentenced to 300 hours of community service. that was in 2013. but he was also facing a charge of accessory to the murder of his former wife, and on top of that most recently, he was also charged with several sexual assault charges dating back to 2002. so he did have a number of these outstanding charges that he was dealing with. but even though he was very political politically active, you see him on the streets draped in chains, chained himsel...