Sydney Hostage-Taker Says He is ISIL Member            
            Tue Dec 16, 2014 09:38:22
            
               Haron Monis, a 49-year-old man who was gunned down after taking dozens of people hostage in a cafe in Sydney for 16 hours, had expressed his allegiance to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi in a public statement on November 18.