If I remember correctly President Bush had a love affair with his God, who spoke to him daily on world problems at the time with disastrous results for Iraq.
It is time for all religious nutters including war mongering Presidents and Governments to consider common sense for a change that there is no such thing as a superior being who guides them into killing people, God or Allah is on my side, not yours, so here take this as many bombs drop, or a lone gun kills innocent people along the way.

...and so it seems the Howard government gave Mr Terrorist the nod for his asylum bid and consequent Permanent Residence...see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Sydney_hostage_crisis. Yes Herr Fuhrer Abbott so you should undertake an urgent examination into the facts as to why the cabinet YOU served on gave this coward a ticket into the country! But I suppose now you will blame it on the Rudd/Gillard government for taking him off the Terror Watchlist. Excuse me...but wasn't it your Liberal Government who brought in all these wonderful and EFFECTIVE Terror Laws and watch-lists hot on the aftermath of 9/11 ?

yep the killing of the 132 kids in Pakistan overnight was the work of a few mentally ill people. Secularist have lied for decades about Christ and His teachings so why would they be in total denial about Islam. Moral relativism at its best. Thats why you get complete hypocrites approving of murdering the unborn and then condeming the gunman in Martin Place.

There are reports saying Monis The Bastard had about 14,000 social media followers and 63,000 likes on his Facebook before the accounts were taken down on Monday, he's no lone wolf.
It's also hard to make the case that he was a nutcase if you read his letters, it's all rational, he may have been a rapist, a swindler and a murderer but he knew what he was doing.
I'm left wondering if maybe he would have surrendered Tuesday morning or at least let all the hostages go before his last stand but that's of no importance now.

The noxious and naive Left-Miranda Devine.
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/mirandadevine/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/the_noxious_and_naive_left/
Sydney Siege: The Left Responds with Its Usual Sensitivity...
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/12/15/Sydney-Siege-the-left-responds-with-its-usual-sensitivity
I Wish That Bird Would Fly Away...
http://www.steynonline.com/6711/i-wish-that-bird-would-fly-away

runner,

"yep the killing of the 132 kids in Pakistan overnight was the work of a few mentally ill people...."

We're not discussing the deplorable event in Pakistan.

We're discussing the unstable antecedents of the man who took hostages in Martin Place.

But you knew that....

For those who are trying to paint this man as any thing other than a delusional, dangerous clown please remember his first demand was for an ISIS flag. He either forgot it or was making it up as he went.

As to a head shot the discussion I had with a knowledgeable relative was that a major concern would have been in the backpack. Was it filled with explosives? Was there a dead man switch?

Actually as I am writing this channel 7 has mentioned these exact points plus talked about the thickened glass. The also have related there were wires observed hanging from the pack. It seems it was an old stereo speaker.

A bumbling dangerous fool.