'Deluded' hostage-taker saw himself as a martyr
SYDNEY (AP) — He wrote letters to the grieving families of troops killed in Afghanistan that compared them to "Hitler's soldiers." He was accused of assisting a woman kill his ex-wife, whose body was found stabbed and set alight./ But the social media postings of 50-year-old Man Haron Monis, the man who was killed Tuesday in a police operation to rescue 17 people he had held hostage in a Sydney cafe, indicate he thought of himself as something of a martyr. The self-styled Muslim cleric, who came to Australia as a refugee from Iran, ...
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