re: #289 Dr Lizardo

If indeed this is the guy behind the hostage-taking incident in Sydney, he’s a real fucking headcase.

theguardian.com

You aren’t kidding. Just saw this:

Haron has had a sordid history since emigrating to Australia in 1996, and appears to consider himself a recent convert to Sunni Islam from Shiite Islam. […]

Until now, Haron achieved a minor amount of criminal notoriety in Australia. He mounted a Westboro Baptist Church-style campaign against the widows and loved ones of Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan, sending offensive letters to them and also to the survivors of an Australian official murdered in the terrorist bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta in 2009. He received 300 hours of community service for those actions.

He has frequently behaved strangely in court, appearing draped in chains for one court date in 2009, and chaining himself to the Sydney courthouse steps, and seeking to represent himself despite repeated warnings from the judge that that would likely increase his chance of conviction. […]

Last year he was charged as an accessory in the April 2013 murder of his ex-wife Noleen Hayson Pal, who was stabbed and set on fire in the stairwell of an apartment building in the Sydney suburb of Werrington. His current wife or girlfriend, Amirah Droudis, was charged with carrying out the murder. At trial, Haron said that the Iranian government and the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) were framing him. […]

csmonitor.com

Wait, what? You mean it wasn’t the Zionists/Mossad framing him??

Definitely a headcase.