{"id":15000,"date":"2017-06-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/brighton-siege-being-treated-as-terrorism\/"},"modified":"2017-06-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T00:00:00","slug":"brighton-siege-being-treated-as-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/brighton-siege-being-treated-as-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton siege being treated as terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Victoria Police are treating Monday&#8217;s deadly Brighton siege as a terrorist incident.<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that this person was there with those sorts of intentions, albeit we don&#8217;t know whether it was something planned at this stage,&#8221; Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton told Seven on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; We are treating it as a terror attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Islamic State has claimed responsibility for Monday&#8217;s incident, that left an employee of the Brighton serviced apartments where the siege occurred dead.<\/p>\n<p>Police have confirmed the gunman was Yacqub Khayre, who was killed in a shootout with police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The attack in Melbourne, Australia was carried out by a soldier of the Islamic State in response to the call for targeting the subjects of the coalition states,&#8221; the group&#8217;s Amaq news agency said.<\/p>\n<p>IS blamed the attack on Australia&#8217;s membership in the US-led coalition against the militant group.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ashton said Khayre had been linked to the Holsworthy army barracks terror plot in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>He had taken a prostitute hostage and forced her to ring the Seven Network&#8217;s Melbourne newsroom on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>She said she was in a hostage situation before man came on the line saying &#8220;This is for IS, this is for al-Qaeda&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ashton earlier told Nine that the gunman had been known to police because of his background &#8220;in relation to terrorism matters, albeit some years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said there had been no information that he had been planning an attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is someone certainly known to us from his background but certainly as of yesterday there wasn&#8217;t anything that we had that suggested that he was planning on embarking on this, that this was anything more than a spontaneous act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Mr Ashton will hold a press conference at 8.30am on Tuesday to address fears of a terror link.<\/p>\n<p>Sources told the Herald Sun he was rated as &#8220;a low-risk person of interest&#8221; by anti-terror police.<\/p>\n<p>Khayre was acquitted over the terror plot to launch a suicide attack against Sydney&#8217;s Holsworthy army barracks in 2009 after a trial in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, he was charged with armed robbery after holding up passengers on a Melbourne train, leaving one man with knife wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to 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