In December 2010 a jury found Wissam Fattal, Nayef El Sayed, and Saney Aweys, guilty of terrorism offences after a six-week trial in the Victorian Supreme Court. The three men were part of an Islamic terrorist cell that planned to enter the Holsworthy army barracks in Sydney, armed with military weapons and shoot as many people as possible before they were killed or ran out of ammunition. The men, who had all met at the Preston Mosque in Melbourne’s north, were arrested in August 2009 after undercover police infiltrated the group. Justice King said Fattal was the most dogmatic and outspoken, in terms of religious fervour, of the three. “All of you believe in the principle of martyrdom. All of you believe it is your obligation to oppose and deal with those you describe as infidels, being persons who are not of the Muslim faith or those of the Muslim…
Holsworthy army base
In December 2010 a jury found Wissam Fattal, Nayef El Sayed, and Saney Aweys, guilty of terrorism offences after a six-week trial in the Victorian Supreme Court. Wissam Fattal The three men were part of an Islamic terrorist cell that planned to enter the Holsworthy army barracks in Sydney, armed with military weapons and shoot as many people as possible before they were killed or ran out of ammunition. The men, who had all met at the Preston Mosque in Melbourne’s north, were arrested in August 2009 after undercover police infiltrated the group. Justice King said Fattal was the most dogmatic and outspoken, in terms of religious fervour, of the three. “All of you believe in the principle of martyrdom. All of you believe it is your obligation to oppose and deal with those you describe as infidels, being persons who are not of the Muslim faith or those of…