Jihad stirs in Australia's suburbs

Gladstone Park hardly seems the stuff of nightmares.

This is blue-collar Australia, where six out of 10 locals are Aussie-born and fall into the nation's inverting age pyramid, where the nuclear family dominates, and where most people work as tradies or labourers, or in shops.The suburb in Melbourne's northwest is struggle town. Families earn maybe A$100 ($125) below the national median income and most are battling to pay the mortgage. Almost half are Catholics, at least nominally.But last week Yacqub Khayre, a 22-year-old Somali-born Australian citizen from Gladstone Park, who had fallen off the rails in his teens, put his home on a different map. Rounded up before the winter sun roused Melbourne, he appeared in court accused with four others of planning martyrdom, slaughtering fellow Australians by machine gun in the name of Allah until himself cut down.
The plot as described by police was brutally simple. Influenced by the al-Shabaab organisation waging war to bring Somalia under a Taleban-style fundamentalist regime, Khayre and his colleagues intended to charge into Sydney's Holsworthy army barracks, killing everyone they could...more..http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10589342