Martin Place gunman deranged, deluded and dangerous

By Tim Elliott, Stephanie Wood
Updated December 17 2014 - 6:08am, first published December 16 2014 - 7:45pm
Outcast: Man Haron Monis. Photo: Nick Ralston
Outcast: Man Haron Monis. Photo: Nick Ralston

It was eerily prescient, a mangled missive from a man who never felt he belonged to this world and didn't believe he would be here long. "Sheik Haron is just a small soldier," wrote Martin Place gunman Man Haron Monis, in 2007, on the Muslim website, Austrolabe. Assuming his bogus clerical title, "Sheik Haron", and writing about himself in the third person, Monis said he "did not have permanent visa of this world, so he knows he is on tourist visa and soon or later he will leave. Permanent visa only for hereafter, so in that case why are we wasting our time?"

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