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Yeah, we're getting a bit more detail on the man you're looking at there who wrestled that shotgun away from one of the gunmen
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An incredible story of bravery really was. He's a local shopkeeper, a fruit and veg seller by the name of Ahmed Ahmed, a 43-year-old man
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and say we were showing you the images of him going in very bravely
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running through the parked cars there and just tackling a gunman who just a split second earlier was opening fire on the crowds
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at the Hanukkah celebration there and then pointing the gun at the gunman
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ensuring that that gunman sidles off, I think, then puts his shotgun down and picks up a stone
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and throws it at the gunman as well. Knowing that the police were turning up
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I'm sure wanting to ensure that the gun was not in his hands at that time. sadly
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he was shot though because he was hiding behind that palm tree where the gunman had been just moments earlier opening fire from as the gunman colleague the other shooter on the bridge was firing down towards him
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and we were told that this 43-year-old shopkeeper was wounded in the leg and the shoulder
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so he is one of the 29 people with serious injuries now being treated in hospital but
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obviously we do wish him a safe and speedy recovery after the incredible action undoubtedly
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saved more lives because that gunman at that time was right down there in amongst the people that
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were trying to take shelter and to avoid the hail of bullets
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But he'd come down of the bridge where he was with the other attacker
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to get up close to try and pick off more people at that Hanukkah event
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So undoubtedly the actions of this local shopkeeper saved more lives there
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We can tell you as well again about the attacker there that you see on the bridge
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That is 24-year-old Navid Akram. We got his driving license that we can show you as well that was recovered from the scene Now we don know if Navid Akram is one of the shooters that was injured or was killed
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because we know that one of the shooters was fatally injured and the other shooter, according
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to the police, was shot, was critically injured. but they have intelligence on at least one of the shooters as well
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in terms of the person was known to the security services. Mike Burgess who is the spy chief if you like
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the head of intelligence in Australia said that one of the gunmen
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was known to the security services. He added, though, that they don't believe that he was known in terms of any information suggesting he was posing an immediate imminent threat, but he was known to the security services
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So all of that will have to be you know in the fullness of time explored to determine as we always have to do after these terrible tragedies whether actually there were opportunities that maybe should have been acted on and were missed To that end we been hearing from sources that the Israeli intelligence service Mossad had warned the Australian authorities
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on a number of occasions in recent months about a growing threat to Australia's Jewish community
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a threat that according to Mossad was being instigated, encouraged, potentially funded by Iran
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But we don't know at this stage how seriously the Australians took the threat
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whether they followed up on that intelligence, but clearly that is of concern as well
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We know right around the globe, Don, that the Jewish community has faced a significant uptick in the threat that they face ever since the massacre on October the 7th, two years ago
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And that threat has only grown with, here in this country, just recently the attack on the synagogue in Manchester by another Islamist attacker on that occasion and multiple other incidents in countries right around the world
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There is growing concern amongst the Jewish community that they are being targeted today
