• Sydney Gunman Man Haron Monis Well-Known by Cops, Not on Terror Watch List

    Just one day after a hostage situation at a Lindt Chocolate Cafe in Sydney, Australia's financial district ended with three dead after law enforcement stormed in, the country is left to ponder how something so sinister could have even played out there. We now know that Man Haron Monis was the 50-year-old gunman who fancied himself a sheikh with a personal agenda, but what is not clear is how he was free in the first place. Monis had a long history of brushes with the law and he was charged with everything from sexual assault to sending hate mail to the families of fallen Australian solders who died in Afghanistan. Perhaps the most horrific thing he had been charged with before yesterday was being an accessory to his former wife's murder. Apparently, Monis's latest girlfriend stabbed his ex and then set her on fire and he was actually out on bail for his part in the crime when he decided to take 17 hostages yesterday morning and demand that a flag of ISIS be brought to him. Sydney locals's shock morphed into anger when they realized that not only did their own law enforcement seem to drop the ball with Monis, but even with his outward love of Muslim extremist behavior he actually was not on any kind of terror watch list. This fact has left Prime Minister Tony Abbott deeply disturbed.

  • Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Vows Country Won't 'Cower in Fear' After Terrorist Attack on Parliament Hill by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau

    Canada woke up a changed nation this morning, much in the same way Americans did the morning after 9/11. It does not matter if a coordinated attack is carried out or just one lone gunman on a personal mission succeeds, the end result is the same: The vulnerability creates the overall feeling that nothing is safe. It is now believed Michael Zehaf-Bibeau acted alone yesterday when he gunned down Cpl. Nathan Cirillo at Canada's National War Memorial before waging an attack that left Parliament Hill on lockdown for several hours. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said his country would not "cower in fear."
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