Hostage Standsoff News Today

On todays news, one international, one national. the international was the sydney, australia situation. a gunman took hostage 17 employees and customers, held them for more than 16 hours. the man put up a black islamic banner of some kind in the window of the cafe. but he does not seem to have been tied to any known terrorist groups. as an individual, he had lots of legal trouble. he was out on bail on un-related but serious legal charges. that hostage standsoff ended with the hostage taker and ...