Originally Posted by
CINDERS
Thanks Peter I am not going to go into depth but safe to say there was an opportunity for a police sniper to take out Mann Monis but was not given clearance to fire for fear of an explosive device in a backpack, the siege went on for a protracted time nearly 16+ hours I think. The bar manager tried to disarm Monis but failed which cost him his life in the end as he was shot execution style with a 12 gauge to the head. It was only after the fact that the police TRG entered the cafe and shot Monis but also killed a woman by a ricochet.
The Army had done up a complete mock up of the cafe, the commando's it was felt were better trained to deal with this type of scenario (please lets not get drawn into a bloated thread of what if's guys).
It was felt after the inquest there were flaws in the way the whole situation was handled by the police commander and the definite lack of communication between the HQ and front line.
Anyway it was a terrible act and hopefully good will come out of it and the woman's relatives may have some closure.