18-05-2016 23:22 via theguardian.com

FBI warned Sydney siege gunman was violent threat five years before incident

Man Haron Monis, who held 18 people hostage in cafe, had ‘potential to incite others to violence’, FBI memo told Australian authorities in 2009Five years before he held 18 people hostage inside a Sydney cafe, Iranian-born Man Haron Monis attracted the attention of the FBI as someone who had “the potential to incite others to violence”, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press.A November 2009 memorandum from an FBI office in Australia to agency counterterror
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