Sydney siege triggers security review

Tony Abbott will urgently review how a lone gunman known to authorities was able to take hostages. Source: AAP

TONY Abbott will urgently review how a lone gunman known to federal police and ASIO was able to take hostages in a Sydney cafe.

SELF-PROCLAIMED cleric Man Haron Monis and two of his hostages died at the end of a 16-hour siege in Sydney's CBD, in the Lindt cafe before dawn on Tuesday.

Monis was bailed last year in NSW on an accessory-to-murder charge and was also facing a series of indecent and sexual assault charges.He had also threatened the families of dead Australian soldiers and publicly challenged Mr Abbott to a debate over the merits of the Afghanistan war.The prime minister said the national security committee of cabinet was seeking answers to questions on the minds of all Australians, as the tragedy echoed around the world."How can someone who has had such a long and chequered history not be on the appropriate watch lists and how can someone like that be entirely at large in the community?" Mr Abbott told reporters in Sydney."These are questions that we need to look at carefully and calmly and methodically, to learn the right lessons, and to act upon them."Mr Abbott said agencies and the government had been responding effectively since terrorists began threatening acts of random violence against Australians.But had the "sick and disturbed" individual behind the siege been on a watchlist it was still possible the incident could have occurred."The level of control that would be necessary to prevent people from going about their daily life, would be very, very high indeed."Government MPs have questioned why Monis was not already in jail.Liberal MP Alex Hawke wrote on Twitter: "We must also ask our judicial system why a known criminal who hated our country was not in prison."Mr Abbott and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten laid flowers at a makeshift memorial in Martin Place on Tuesday.Mr Shorten joined the prime minister in expressing the heartfelt condolences of the nation."There is still a lot to learn about why this happened and indeed what happened. We need to also learn how we can ensure that this doesn't happen again," he said.Australia's intelligence partners have been working with agencies such as ASIO to get a more detailed picture of how the incident occurred."It's a reminder, albeit on the other side of the world but a country very close to all our hearts, of the threat we face from Islamist extremist terror," British PM David Cameron said.Former FBI counter-terrorism analyst Matthew Levitt said it appeared to be more a case of "lone offender violence" than an act of terrorism.Despite Monis being known to authorities it would not have been possible to keep tabs on him."Outside of the movies, in the real world no law enforcement agency, not locals, not AFP, not FBI, has the resources to track everybody who's of any interest whatsoever 24/7," Mr Levitt said.ASIO and AFP officials will appear at a parliamentary inquiry in Canberra on Wednesday to discuss the third tranche of anti-terrorism laws, dealing with mandatory data retention.

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