This is the new face of terrorism! Two dead after gun battle in Sydney Australia

In Australia, security forces stormed a cafe where a gunman was holding several hostages, ending a 16 hour siege.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Australian media has reported that two people, including the gunman, were killed after the security forces stormed the building-a Lint chocolate cafe-with stun grenades and automatic weapons, it is unclear if the second fatality occurred during the rescue operation or beforehand.

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At least six people were able to escape from the cafe prior to the assault, and medical personnel were seen attempting to resuscitate one person following the raid, and several other people were seen on stretchers.

The gunman has been named by police sources as Man Haron Monis, a refugee from Iran, who was facing multiple charges of sexual assault, and was an accessory to murder. In 2012 he was found guilty of sending threatening letters to the families of eight Australian service members who had died in Afghanistan, something he called a protest against the conflict.

Monis was well known to authorities, who also believed he could pose a threat, but experts say that preventing a single, driven individual, from succeeding in an attack is still difficult.

Today's crisis throws into sharp relief the dangers of lone wolf terrorism," said Jens David Ohlin, a Cornell University law professor. "There are two areas of concern. The first is that (Islamic State) fighters with foreign passports who return to their home countries to commit acts of terrorism.

"The second is that (Islamic State) sympathizers radicalized on the internet who take it upon themselves to commit terrorist attacks to fulfill their radical ideology."

Ohlin, like many security experts, believes that these individual attacks are more dangerous than the larger attacks that groups like al-Qaeda attempt.

"We are entering a new phase of terrorism that is far more dangerous, and more difficult to defeat, than al-Qaeda ever was."

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