The al-Shabab terrorist group responsible for the Westgate shopping mall massacre in Nairobi has links with home-grown Australian terrorists. In August 2009, Australian security agencies foiled an al-Shabab associated plot to attack Holsworthy Army Barracks in Sydney. Codenamed Operation Neath, the counterterrorism operation disrupted the mass-shooting plot in its early stages. Five men were charged, and three—Wissam Fattal (pictured), Saney Edow Aweys and Nayef el-Sayed—were convicted of planning to attack the barracks. The men had sought weapons, dispatched others for training, conducted reconnaissance of Holsworthy Barracks and asked senior al-Shabab religious figures in Somalia for permission to attack Australian targets. See: Multiculturalism failure: Australian jihadists jailed Saney Aweys, the key link to al-Shabab, was from a Somali background; Wissam Fattal and Nayef el-Sayed were of Lebanese descent. Prior to the Nairobi teror attack, the Holsworthy Barracks incident marks one of the few al-Shabab associated plots in the West, yet it…