Somali Muslims planned to carry out large terror attack in Australia. Full audio of the sentancing here

Terror trial Saney Edow Aweys and Nayef El Sayed

Saney Edow Aweys (left) and Nayef El Sayed (right) were jailed on terror charges today alongside Wissam Fattal. Herald Sun

THREE would-be terrorists who plotted an armed attack on a Sydney army base remained defiant after they were jailed for 13 years today.

Justice Betty King told Wissam Fattal, 35, of Melbourne, Saney Edow Aweys, 28, of Carlton, and Nayef  El Sayed, 27, of Glenroy they planned a horrific and evil attack on the Australian community.

Justice King said it was troubling that none of the three had renounced their extreme Islamic views and they would remain a threat to the community even after they are released.

“None of you, not one, has recanted from any extremist view you held,” said the judge.

“The protection of the community remains a very significant factor.”

In her Supreme Court sentence, Justice King said the planned attack on the Holsworthy army base would have resulted in the deaths of a number of innocent people.

Terror plot trio sentenced in Supreme Court     

She said one of the trio was born in Australia to refugee parents, one came as a 15-year-old refugee and the third, Fattal, chose to come here to further his kickboxing career.

“The fact that Australia welcomed all of you and nurtured you and your families is something that should cause you all to hang your heads in shame that this was the way you planned to show your thanks for that support,” the judge said.

Justice King said the group was operating at an “amateur level” and the planning had not advanced to a level where they obtained weapons or explosives.

“Your plans were deadly serious,” Justice King said.

“It was to kill as many personnel that could be found on the army base at Holsworthy in the time prior to you being killed as martyrs.

“Your plans were evil. Your views about Australia and Australians and the attitude towards this country’s armed forced, its civilians and its government were made clear in your (secretly recorded) statements.”

The judge said the lack of planning and advancement of the plot had to be taken into account but she also had to consider the seriousness of what was being planned and the consequences if it was every carried out.

None had exhibited contrition or remorse or renounced extremist views that were behind the plot and this was also a factor in sentencing and for the community to deal with when they are released from jail, she said.

Fattal, who has caused trouble consistently in court, had to be removed before the sentence commenced after he started shouting about “Jews, Palestine and Afghanistan”.

He was dragged out by security officers.

At the end of the sentence El Sayed shouted “God is with us” as a woman wept hysterically in the public benches.

Justice King set maximum terms of 18 years.

Almost a year after they were convicted, Fattal, Aweys and El Sayed faced justice.

Family members, friends and supporters of the trio packed the public benches and balcony of Supreme Court number three.

As the men were led into court they laughed, waved and gestured to the supporters, looking completely unconcerned.

Their trial heard that Operation Martyrdom was planned to create mayhem at Sydney’s lightly guarded Holsworthy army base, with the men using high-powered weapons to gun down as many army personnel as possible.

The Supreme Court jury, which convicted the trio but found two other men not guilty, deliberated for more than 45 hours after a marathon trial that lasted 12 weeks.

The jury heard the home-grown terror plot was designed to bring a fatwa down on Australia and it had its genesis in the seething anger among a small group of Muslim men, some of them refugees, over their belief Islam was under attack from the West.

In secretly recorded conversations, the plotters, all of whom attended inner city mosques, talked of their contempt for Australians and their plans to take out “five, six, eight or 10” soldiers.

Fattal was recorded saying:”If I find a way to kill the army, I’m gonna do it.”

The men were found guilty of conspiring with each other and people unknown between February 1 and August 4, 2009 to do acts in preparation for, or planning a terrorist act or acts.

They were believed to be connected with the Somali-based terrorist group al-Shabaab, and it was alleged the group tried to obtain a fatwa, or religious decree, justifying the attack.

The jury viewed CCTV footage of Fattal taking a train to the Holsworthy base and walking along a perimeter fence and towards the blockhouse at the front gate.

Fattal later told his co-conspirators: “The work is easy”.

Audio: Listen to the dramatic sentencing here

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3 Replies to “Somali Muslims planned to carry out large terror attack in Australia. Full audio of the sentancing here”

  1. And yet, how f-ing stupid we all are, as we continue to encourage scumb like this into our countries through immigration and refugee programs, it is sooooooo easy to fool the low IQ bureaucrats who work in all these programs in free democracies, those who continue to perpetuate the types of immigrants and refugees that will eventually eat us, the sharks who will destroy our systems from within…

  2. The type of people who gravitate to government jobs consider it their job to let people into their countries, not protect their countries.