AS STATED THE SYDNEY OLD CODGER WAS A USEFUL CRIMINAL NOT ISLAMIC STATE

If the purpose of the Sydney Siege was for NATO and its Antipodean allies to use it to declare war on Syria and Iran then so far it has been a spooktacular failure. All it appears to have provoked so far is an investigation into the police and intelligence forces in Australia themselves.

The only beneficiary is possibly Abbott who is appearing more statesman-like.

Remember that it was Abbott who threatened to 'shirtfront' Putin at the G20 in Brisbane. But Abbott didn't do this. Instead he and Putin laughed and played with Koala bears.

Was Monis sacrificed for Abbott to recover some face? But at the expense of a probe into the Oz police and intel?

Naagh.

So far it is all a mystery...unless Monis lost the plot and it was all his own bizarre but ultimately suicidal plot.