The White House has included the Lindt Cafe siege in Sydney and four other Australian incidents on a list of terrorism attacks that it claims did not get adequate media coverage, after US President Donald Trump accused the media of ignoring attacks by Islamic State.
Mr Trump said news outlets "have their reasons" for not reporting what he said was a "genocide" underway at the hands of the group.
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The President did not immediately offer evidence to support his claim, made during his first visit to the headquarters for US Central Command.
Later, the White House released a list of 78 attacks it described as "executed or inspired by" the Islamic State group since September 2014.
![Hostages flee the Lindt Cafe during the siege on December 15, 2014.](/web/20170209150232im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/2/7/t/z/j/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gu7m9x.png/1486499739296.jpg)
Five of the 78 incidents occurred in Australia, including Man Haron-Monis' 2014 attack on Sydney's Lindt Cafe - in which two innocent people died as well as Monis who was shot dead by police.
Experts at the coronial inquest into the December 2014 attack have been divided on whether Monis' actions was an act of terrorism or the result of Monis's mental illness and violent past.
At the time the siege made front page news across the world including on The New York Times, The Washington Post and the UK's The Independent and The Daily Telegraph.
The White House also lists the stabbing deaths of British backpackers Mia Ayliffe-Chung and Tom Jackson at a Home Hill hostel in August 2016.
![Experts at the coronial inquest into the attack have been divided on whether Monis' actions was an act of terrorism or ...](/web/20170209150232im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/3/k/5/k/z/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gu7m9x.png/1486499739296.jpg)
French national Smail Ayad, who has been charged with two counts of murder, was allegedly heard yelling "Allahu Akbar" during the attack but police found no evidence to link the Frenchman to extremism or radicalisation.
Police allege the 29-year-old had developed a romantic interest in Ms Ayliffe-Chung but it had not been reciprocated.
![Numan Haider, left, was shot dead after stabbing two police officers in September 2014.](/web/20170209150232im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/0/m/t/q/p/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gu7m9x.png/1486499739296.jpg)
The other three incidents are:
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the September 2014 stabbing of two counter terrorism police by Numan Haider, 18, outside Melbourne's Endeavour Hills police station
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the shooting death of NSW police accountant Curtis Cheng as he left NSW Police Headquarters at Parramatta in October 2015
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the south-westrn Sydney stabbing of Minto man Wayne Greenhalgh, 58 in September 2016. Ihsas Khan, 22, has been charged with attempted murder and committing a terrorist act.
![Police take aim at the teenage gunman who killed Curtis Cheng outside Parramatta police headquarters.](/web/20170209150232im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/k/0/o/h/c/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gu7m9x.png/1486499739296.jpg)
Police have alleged that those three attacks have links to, or been inspired by, Islamic State.
Also on the list is the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, the Bastille Day attacks in Nice in 2016 and the co-ordinated terror attacks in Paris in November 2015.
![Five of the 78 incidents occurred in Australia, including Man Haron-Monis' 2014 attack on Sydney's Lindt Cafe - in which ...](/web/20170209150232im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/m/p/d/9/v/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gu7m9x.png/1486499739296.jpg)
The White House said "most" on the list did not get sufficient media attention, although it did not explain how it defined the term. Some of the incidents on the list received widespread attention and deep reporting.
The list includes incidents like the truck massacre in Nice, France, that killed dozens and received widespread attention, as well as less high-profile incidents in which nobody was killed.
![CCTV footage shows the police "Charlie" team storming the cafe.](/web/20170209150232im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/5/n/n/s/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gu7m9x.png/1486499739296.jpg)
The list appeared to be hastily assembled, including several misspellings.
Mr Trump, who has made relentless criticism of the media a hallmark of his presidency, did not explain why he thinks news outlets minimise attention on such attacks.
Later, White House spokesman Sean Spicer tried to tone down the President's remarks, saying it was a question of balance: "Like a protest gets blown out of the water, and yet an attack or a foiled attack doesn't necessarily get the same coverage."
Mr Trump had said the "very dishonest" press chose not to report European terrorism attacks.
![Curtis Cheng, who was shot dead outside Parramatta police headquarters, with his son Alpha.](/web/20170209150232im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/n/y/a/5/i/image.related.articleLeadNarrow.300x0.gu7m9x.png/1486552999060.jpg)
The President has made defeating Islamic State a core goal of his presidency. He did not specify which attacks were going unreported, which news media organisations were ignoring them, or offer details to support his claims.
"All over Europe, it's happening. It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported," he told troops at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida.
"And, in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. They have their reasons, and you understand that," he added, without saying what those reasons were.
It was Trump's latest salvo against the news media, a favourite target for derision who he says broadly underestimated his chances during the presidential campaign. He has kept up the attacks since his January 20 inauguration.
Al Tompkins, at The Poynter Institute, a Florida-based journalism school, dismissed Mr Trump's criticism.
"To suggest that journalists have some reason not to report ISIS attacks is just outlandish," Mr Tompkins said.
WHITE HOUSE LIST OF 78 UNDER-REPORTED TERRORISM ATTACKS
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
Date: September, 2014
Target: Two police officers wounded in knife attack
Attacker: Abdul Numan Haider
Deaths: 0
TIZI OUZOU, ALGERIA
Date: September, 2014
Target: One French citizen beheaded
Attacker: Jund al-Khilafah in Algeria
Deaths: 1
QUEBEC, CANADA
Date: October, 2014
Target: One soldier killed and one wounded in vehicle attack
Attacker: Martin Couture-Rouleau
Deaths: 1
OTTAWA, CANADA
Date: October, 2014
Target: One soldier killed at war memorial; two wounded in shootings at Parliament building
Attacker: Michael Zehaf-Bibeau
Deaths: 1
NEW YORK CITY, NY, USA
Date: October, 2014
Target: Two police officers wounded in knife attack
Attacker: US person
Deaths: 0
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA
Date: November, 2014
Target: One Danish citizen wounded in shooting
ATTACKERS: Three Saudi Arabia-based ISIL members
Deaths: 0
ABU DHABI, UAE
Date: December 2014
Target: One American killed in knife attack
Attacker: Dalal al-Hashimi
Deaths: 1
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Date: December, 2014
Target: Two Australians killed in hostage taking and shooting
Attacker: Man Haron Monis
Deaths: 2
TOURS, FRANCE
Date: December, 2014
Target: Three police officers wounded in knife attack
Attacker: Bertrand Nzohabonayo
Deaths: 0
PARIS, FRANCE
Date: January, 2015
Target: One police officer and four hostages killed in shooting at a kosher supermarket
Attacker: Amedy Coulibaly
Deaths: 5
TRIPOLI, LIBYA
Date: January, 2015
Target: Ten killed, including one US citizen, and five wounded in bombing and shooting at a hotel frequented by westerners
Attackers: As many as five ISIL-Libya members
Deaths: 10
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA
Date: January, 2015
Target: Two US citizens wounded in shooting
Attacker: Saudi Arabia-based ISIL supporter
Deaths: 0
NICE, FRANCE
Date: February, 2015
Target: Two French soldiers wounded in knife attack outside a Jewish community center
Attacker: Moussa Coulibaly
Deaths: 0
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
Date: February, 2015
Target: One civilian killed in shooting at a free-speech rally and one security guard killed outside the city's main synagogue
Attacker: Omar Abdel Hamid el-Hussein
Deaths: 1
TUNIS, TUNISIA
Date: March, 2015
Target: 21 tourists killed, including 16 westerners, and 55 wounded in shooting at the Bardo Museum
Attackers: Two ISIL-aligned extremists
Deaths: 21
KARACHI, PAKISTAN
Date: April, 2015
Target: One US citizen wounded in knife attack
Attackers: Pakistan-based ISIL supporters
Deaths: 0
PARIS, FRANCE
Date: April, 2015
Target: Catholic churches targeted; one civilian killed in shooting, possibly during an attempted carjacking
Attacker: Sid Ahmed Ghlam
Deaths: 1
ZVORNIK, BOSNIA
Date: April, 2015
Target: One police officer killed and two wounded in shooting
Attacker: Nerdin Ibric
Deaths: 1
GARLAND, TX, USA
Date: May, 2015
Target: One security guard wounded in shooting at the Prophet Muhammad cartoon event
Attackers: Two US persons
Deaths: 0
BOSTON, MA, USA
Date: June, 2015
Target: No casualties; one police officer attacked with knife
Attacker: US person
Deaths: 0
EL GORA (AL JURAH), EGYPT
Date: June, 2015
Target: No casualties; camp used by Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) troops attacked in shooting and bombing attack
Attackers: Unknown number of ISIL-Sinai members
Deaths: 0
LUXOR, EGYPT
Date: June, 2015
Target: One police officer killed by suicide bomb near the Temple of Karnak
Attacker: Unidentified
Deaths: 1
SOUSSE, TUNISIA
Date: June, 2015
Target: 38 killed and 39 wounded in shooting at a beach frequented by westerners
Attackers: Seifeddine Rezgui and another unidentified attacker
Deaths: 38
LYON, FRANCE
Date: June, 2015
Target: One civilian killed in beheading and explosion at a chemical plant
Attacker: Yasin Salhi
Deaths: 1
CAIRO, EGYPT
Date: July, 2015
Target: One killed and nine wounded in VBIED attack at Italian Consulate
Attacker: Unidentified ISIL operatives
Deaths: 1
CAIRO, EGYPT
Date: July, 2015
Target: One Croatian national kidnapped; beheaded on August 12 at an unknown location
Attacker: Unidentified ISIL-Sinai operative
Deaths: 1
PARIS, FRANCE
Date: August, 2015
Target: Two civilians and one US soldier wounded with firearms and knife on a passenger train
Attacker: Ayoub el-Khazzani
Deaths: 0
EL GORA, EGYPT
Date: September, 2015
Target: Four US and two MFO troops wounded in IED attack
Attacker: Unidentified
Deaths: 0
DHAKA, BANGLADESH
Date: September, 2015
Target: One Italian civilian killed in shooting
Attacker: Unidentified
Deaths: 1
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
Date: September, 2015
Target: One police officer wounded in knife attack
Attacker: Palestinian national
Deaths: 0
EL GORA, EGYPT
Date: October, 2015
Target: No casualties; airfield used by MFO attacked with rockets
Attacker: Unidentified ISIL-Sinai operatives
Deaths: 0
PARRAMATTA, AUSTRALIA
Date: October, 2015
Target: One police officer killed in shooting
Attacker: Farhad Jabar
Deaths: 1
RANGPUR, BANGLADESH
Date: October, 2015
Target: One Japanese civilian killed in shooting
Attacker: Unidentified
Deaths: 1
HASANAH, EGYPT
Date: October, 2015
Target: 224 killed in downing of a Russian airliner
Attacker: Unidentified ISIL-Sinai operatives
Deaths: 224
MERCED, CA, US
Date: November, 2015
Target: Four wounded in knife attack on a college campus
Attacker: US person
Deaths: 0
PARIS, FRANCE
Date: November, 2015
Target: At least 129 killed and approximately 400 wounded in series of shootings and IED attacks
Attackers: Brahim Abdelslam, Saleh Abdeslam, Ismail Mostefai, Bilal Hadfi, Samy Amimour, Chakib Ahrouh, Foued Mohamed Aggad, and Abdelhamid Abaaoud
Deaths: At least 129 killed
DINAJPUR, BANGLADESH
Date: November, 2015
Target: One Italian citizen wounded in shooting
Attacker: Unidentified
Deaths: 0
RAJLOVAC, BOSNIA
Date: December, 2015
Target: Two Bosnian soldiers killed in shooting
Attacker: Enes Omeragic
Deaths: 2
SAN BERNADINO, CA, US
Date: December, 2015
Target: 14 killed and 21 wounded in coordinated firearms attack
Attackers: Two US persons
Deaths: 14
LONDON, ENGLAND, UK
Date: December, 2015
Target: Three wounded in knife attack at an underground rail station
Attacker: Muhyadin Mire
Deaths: 0
DERBENT, RUSSIA
Date: December, 2015
Target: One killed and 11 wounded in shooting at UN World Heritage site
Attacker: Unidentified ISIL-Caucasus operative
Deaths: 1
CAIRO, EGYPT
Date: January, 2016
Target: Two wounded in drive-by shooting outside a hotel frequented by tourists
Attackers: Unidentified ISIL operatives
Deaths: 0
PARIS, FRANCE
Date: January, 2016
Target: No casualties; attacker killed after attempted knife attack on Paris police station
Attacker: Tarek Belgacem
Deaths: 0
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
Date: January, 2016
Target: One police officer wounded in shooting
Attacker: US person
Deaths: 0
HURGHADA, EGYPT
Date: January, 2016
Target: One German and one Danish national wounded in knife attack at a tourist resort
Attacker: Unidentified
Deaths: 0
MARSEILLES, FRANCE
Date: January, 2016
Target: One Jewish teacher wounded in machete attack
Attacker: 15 year-old Ethnic Kurd from Turkey
Deaths: 0
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Date: January, 2016
Target: 12 German tourists killed and 15 wounded in suicide bombing
Attacker: Nabil Fadli
Deaths: 12
JAKARTA, INDONESIA
Date: January, 2016
Target: Four civilians killed and more than 20 wounded in coordinated bombing and firearms attacks near a police station and a Starbucks
Attackers: Dian Joni Kurnaiadi, Muhammad Ali, Arif Sunakim, and Ahmad Muhazan bin Saron
Deaths: 4
COLUMBUS, OH, US
Date: February, 2016
Target: Four civilians wounded in machete attack at a restaurant
Attacker: US person
Deaths: 0
HANOVER, GERMANY
Date: February, 2016
Target: One police officer wounded in knife attack
Attacker: Safia Schmitter
Deaths: 0
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Date: March, 2016
Target: Four killed and 36 wounded in suicide bombing in the tourist district
Attacker: Mehmet Ozturk
Deaths: 4
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
Date: March, 2016
Target: At least 31 killed and 270 wounded in coordinated bombings at Zaventem Airport and on a subway train
Attackers: Khalid el-Bakraoui, Ibrahim el-Bakraoui, Najim Laachraoui, Mohammed Abrini, and Osama Krayem
Deaths: 31
ESSEN, GERMANY
Date: April, 2016
Target: Three wounded in bombing at Sikh temple
Attackers: Three identified minors
Deaths: 0
ORLANDO, FL, US
Date: June, 2016
Target: 49 killed and 53 wounded in shooting at a nightclub
Attacker: US person
Deaths: 49
MAGNANVILLE, FRANCE
Date: June, 2016
Target: One police officer and one civilian killed in knife attack
Attacker: Larossi Abballa
Deaths: 2
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
Date: June, 2016
Target: 14 killed in suicide attack on a bus carrying Canadian Embassy guards
Attacker: ISIL-Khorasan operative
Deaths: 14
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Date: June, 2016
Target: 45 killed and approximately 240 wounded at Ataturk International Airport
Attackers: Rakhim Bulgarov, Vadim Osmanov, and an unidentified ISIL operative
Deaths: 45
DHAKA, BANGLADESH
Date: July, 2016
Target: 22 killed, including one American and 50 wounded after hours-long siege using machetes and firearms at holy Artisan Bakery
Attackers: Nibras Islam, Rohan Imtiaz, Meer Saameh Mubasheer, Khairul Islam Paye, and Shafiqul Islam Uzzal
Deaths: 22
NICE, FRANCE
Date: July, 2016
Target: 84 civilians killed and 308 wounded by an individual who drove a truck into a crowd
Attacker: Mohamed Bouhlel
Deaths: 84
WURZBURG, GERMANY
Date: July, 2016
Target: Four civilians wounded in axe attack on a train
Attacker: Riaz Khan Ahmadzai
Deaths: 0
ANSBACH, GERMANY
Date: July, 2016
Target: At least 15 wounded in suicide bombing at a music festival
Attacker: Mohammad Daleel
Deaths: 0
NORMANDY, FRANCE
Date: July, 2016
Target: One priest killed in knife attack
Attackers: Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Nabil Petitjean
Deaths: 1
CHALEROI, BELGIUM
Date: August, 2016
Target: Two police officers wounded in machete attack
Attacker: Khaled Babouri
Deaths: 0
QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
Date: August, 2016
Target: Two killed and one wounded in knife attack at a hostel frequented by Westerners
Attacker: Smail Ayad
Deaths: 2
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
Date: September, 2016
Target: Two police officers and a civilian wounded in shooting
Attacker: Mesa Hodzic
Deaths: 0
PARIS, FRANCE
Date: September, 2016
Target: One police officer wounded in raid after VBIED failed to detonate at Notre Dame Cathedral
Attackers: Sarah Hervouet, Ines Madani, and Amel Sakaou
Deaths: 0
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Date: September, 2016
Target: One civilian wounded in knife attack
Attacker: Ihsas Khan
Deaths: 0
CLOUD, MN, US
Date: September, 2016
Target: 10 wounded in knife attack in a mall
Attacker: Dahir Ahmed Adan
Deaths: 0
NEW YORK, NY; SEASIDE PARK AND ELIZABETH, NJ, US
Date: September, 2016
Target: 31 wounded in bombing in New York City; several explosive devices found in New York and New Jersey; one exploded without casualty at race in New Jersey; one police officer wounded in shootout
Attacker: Ahmad Khan Rahami
Deaths: 0
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
Date: October, 2016
Target: Two police officers wounded in stabbing
Attacker: Belgian national
Deaths: 0
KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT
Target: No casualties; vehicle carrying three US soldiers hit by a truck
Attacker: Ibrahim Sulayman
Deaths: 0
MALMO, SWEDEN
Date: October, 2016
Target: No casualties; mosque and community center attacked with Molotov cocktail
Attacker: Syrian national
Deaths: 0
HAMBURG, GERMANY
Date: October, 2016
Target: One killed in knife attack
Attacker: Unknown
Deaths: 1
MANILA, PHILIPPINES
Date: November, 2016
Target: No casualties; failed IED attempt near US Embassy
ATTACKERS: Philippine nationals aligned with the Maute group
Deaths: 0
COLUMBUS, OH, US
Date: November, 2016
Target: 14 wounded by individuals who drove a vehicle into a group of pedestrians and attacked them with a knife
Attacker: US person
Deaths: 0
N'DJAMENA, CHAD
Date: November, 2016
Target: No casualties; attacker arrested after opening fire at entrance of US Embassy
Attacker: Chadian national
Deaths: 0
KARAK, JORDAN
Date: December, 2016
Target: 10 killed and 28 wounded in shooting at a tourist site
Attackers: Several gunmen
Deaths: 10
BERLIN, GERMANY
Date: December, 2016
Target: 12 killed and 48 wounded by individual who drove truck into a crowded market
Attacker: Anis Amri
Deaths: 12
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