Posted on 05/08/2007 6:39:43 AM PDT by Gritty
NEW YORK -- Six men from New Jersey have been arrested in an alleged terror plot against soldiers at Fort Dix, according investigators.
Investigators said the men planned to use automatic rifles to enter Fort Dix and kill as many soldiers as they could at the N.J. base. Fort Dix was just one of several military and security locations allegedly scouted by this group, authorities said.
Investigators told Newschannel 4's Jonathan Dienst that these arrests are the result of a tip to the FBI and use of an informant to track the suspects. Authorities were alerted in January 2006 after the terror suspects traveled to the Pocono’s for a training exercise where they practiced firing automatic weapons, investigators said.
Sources have told Newschannel 4's Brian Thompson that the suspects tried to have a their training video tape converted to DVD at a store in Cherry Hill, N.J., but the store owner alerted authorities.
Authorities then inserted a cooperating witness into the alleged terror cell to be a go between in their attempt to purchase M16 and AK-47 semi-automatic rifles. Arrests were made Monday night after the informant delivered dummy weapons paid for by the alleged terror cell suspects.
Investigators said the group discussed targeting numerous locations like Dover Air base, Fort Monmouth, a Coast Guard building in Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Federal building before deciding on Fort Dix as their intended target. Fort Dix is run in part by the Army and is a reserve-training center, but active units take part in training, including some which focuses on counter-terrorism.
Sources tell Newschannel 4's Brian Thompson that the family of one of the suspects owns a pizzeria near Fort Dix and claimed to know the base "like the back of his hand." The same suspect told the alleged terror group it would be easy to penetrate to "get the most soldiers killed."
Investigators said the group of suspects have been discussing and planning for much of the last year. They allegedly pooled their savings to pay for the operation targeted at soldiers stationed here at home.
The six suspects arrested Monday night will face terror conspiracy charges. Three of the men are brothers, all believed to be Islamic radicals. Authorities have told Newschannel 4 that some of the men were born in Albania and the former Yugoslavia. Investigators said most of the suspects have spent several years here in the U.S.
Some of the group's alleged planning was caught on videotape, investigators said. On the videotape there is significant discussion of Martyrdom.
"Who is going to take care of my wife and kids," one suspect asks. Another responds, "Allah will take care of your wife and kids." The alleged terror cell is described by investigators as disciples of Osama Bin Laden. Among the evidence seized was the downloaded will and testament of two Sept. 11 hijackers.
Spokesmen for U.S. Attorney Chris Christie and the FBI in New Jersey and Philadelphia could not be reached for a comment.
The suspects will be arraigned this afternoon in front of a Federal Magistrate at 1 PM.
Oh, they’re here alright. Be vigilant, very vigilant.
Im sure the democratic candidates are pissed they didnt follow through with it so they would blame bush.
You ain't seen nothin' yet. With the President's joyful allowing for 25,000 Iraqi "refugees" into our country and 10,000 Saudi "students", and wide open borders for his "guest workers", we can expect much more of this horse s--t.
How long will it be until we hear some DemocRat complaining about how the FBI used illegal wiretaps, or illegal surveillance techniques, or some other reason why mean old Amerika violated these poor fellow’s Civil Rights??
Wait for it...
...the suspects tried to have a their training video tape converted to DVD at a store in Cherry Hill, N.J., but the store owner alerted authorities.
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I am grateful that this group was not so smart. But how many cells are there in the US — besides the Congressional Democrats — that are more savvy?
Bet they all voted Democrat...
You kind of wonder what the really dedicated and really skilled AQ with lots of bucks are doing at the moment?
Albanian Muslim terrorists: Destroy the Serb homeland, come to America, repeat.
Do we ever learn????
Doesn't this suggest a strategy for dealing with these lying scumbags who are here "enjoying" the rewards of a free society?
Wouldn't it be nice to announce clearly and often that the family of these murderers will be deported immediately after they are caught?
Just retuen them to the hell holes from which they came and let "allah" and their fellow killers take care of them.
Please note that the plot was not discovered due to a phone call from these sterling muslim families; or other muslim friends.
The ever emntioned "not all muslims are terrorists BS..."
Albanians muslims? Friends of bill? Looks like that unauthorized unilateral military action in Kosovo to protect the muzzies and the KLA isn't very highly appreciated by the folks bill wanted to help.
Yes. The tri-state area is going to be hit very hard I believe.
I wouldn’t be surprised if intelligence has been done on just about every target imaginable by Iran and their allies.
Good thing this story is going to stay in the local news...Wouldn’t want word of this to get beyond that and Free Republic...
It might cause a resurgence in concern across the country if word got out beyond these sources...
Or not...It appears all the news about Paris Hilton going to jail is almost too much for the pop culture folks to bear...I don’t think they can take anymore pressure...Much less comprehend this “real” threat...
/sarcasm
That place had better be closed down because of the lack of business.
Local FReepers should encourage a boycott.
Doesn't this suggest a strategy for dealing with these lying scumbags who are here "enjoying" the rewards of a free society?
Wouldn't it be nice to announce clearly and often that the family of these murderers will be deported immediately after they are caught?
Just retuen them to the hell holes from which they came and let "allah" and their fellow killers take care of them.
Please note that the plot was not discovered due to a phone call from these sterling muslim families.
The ever emntioned "not all muslims are terrorists BS..."
Most of the time, you hear about the Albanian pizza mafia of New York and environs financing terrorism and corrupt Serbophobic politicians. But now they are directly carrying out terrorist acts!!!!
Especially if you live in greater NYC, BOYCOTT muslim pizza!!!! Greek pizza--if you can get it anymore--is much better, anyway.
“Investigators said the men planned to use automatic rifles to enter Fort Dix and kill as many soldiers as they could at the N.J. base....”
“....Authorities then inserted a cooperating witness into the alleged terror cell to be a go between in their attempt to purchase M16 and AK-47 semi-automatic rifles.”
Once again the media is more obsessed with getting the scoop/hype than presenting reliable facts.
The story is sensational enough without thier agenda injected for drama.
Luckily, the people willing to spontaneously do this stuff are generally idiots.
Even the 9/11 murderers had that moron Zacarias Moussaoui involved in their crew - and that was a group that was carefully handpicked and trained over years by people who knew what they were doing.
This story contains two messages:
(1) Vigilant citizens defeat terrorists and save lives;
(2) American Muslims simply cannot be trusted. Dozens of these bastards' family and friends had to have had a pretty good clue about what they were up to. But no one said anything.
No problem here. They are just Temporary Guest Workers doing jobs Americans aren’t doing.
We need a lot of Islamic jihad immigrants and refugees or we won’t get our pizzas delivered. It’s all in the memo from the Wall St Journal and the Bush White House. Open borders are good for your health and they make you richer.
“Greek pizza—if you can get it anymore—is much better, anyway.”
But of course!
bttt
thought you might be interested in this highlighted part of the article at post #14
Outstanding performance gentlemen, now go hunt down some more.
There are no terrorist in the US. It is all a plot to scare us. (sarcasm)
BUT Chuck Rangel (D-ipsh!t) mocked the idea that the terrorists would strike on American soil if we left Iraq and surrendered.
Our FBI surveillance did nothing. They always need a tip to make the case.
Let's be real...
New York City is going to get hit very hard...if not [IMHO] straight up nuked. I am nobody's alarmist but we gotta be serious about this junk.
Cuz Muslims are....meanwhile, we're steady debating red vs. blue.
Wake up folks.
Wonder which legislator will stand up and push for letting THESE felons vote.
Oh relax, Fox News has got it.
A ping to the guys on the wrong side of this conflict.
Do we know yet how they got here? student visas?
Clinton probably relocated them here.
About 10,000 Albanian refugees were housed at Fort Dix during the Clinton Kosovo Adventure. It would not be surprising if a few hung around...
The quesiton is how did they get in?
Albanian Muslims...aren’t they the ones that the Clintonistas allowed to infest our shores?
They a re bringing their bloody ideology here...with the help of the State dept.
I didn't leave it out. It was not in the article when I posted it at 09:39.
It was added in a story update on the website at 10:48.
But it is an important piece of information, probably getting out the blockbuster information before it had to be addressed at the official afternoon briefing.
But the democrats and Ron Paul say we should not be fighting the WOT.
I suspect it was left out intentionally by a PC MSM that likes to omit anything that might be negative pertaining to “undocumented workers” as Chertoff calls them. They couldn’t once it was known that the the Duka brothers have been charged separately with being illegal aliens in possession of firearms.
These people are freakin' delusional.
The Serbs were right
Europe needs another Charles Martel
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FYI...all I am back in the states away from the box.
hey...I’m back too from Afrika......and here we are with this Ping......interesting bit of news. What is your best guess? A set up? Another Virginia tech operation to effect gun control, and of course the last sentence.....
“The description of the suspects as “Islamic militants” renewed fears in New Jersey’s Muslim community. Hundreds of Muslim men from New Jersey were rounded up and detained by authorities in the months following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but none was connected to that plot.
“If these people did something, then they deserve to be punished to the fullest extent of the law,” said Sohail Mohammed, a lawyer who represented scores of detainees after the 2001 attacks. “But when the government says ‘Islamic militants,’ it sends a message to the public that Islam and militancy are synonymous.
“Don’t equate actions with religion,” he said.
SAY WHAT???????
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070508/ap_on_re_us/fort_dix_plot
The biggest supporters of the Balkan campaign are not cheerleaders in the Iraq war. In fact, many of the "neo-cons" pointed out correctly that we did not have a strategic interest in the Balkan conflict, that the KLA and many of the "ethnic Albanian moslems" were guilty of atrocities themselves, and the so-called ethnic cleansing that was supposedly being committed was grossly overstated. Of course when clinton's claims that tens of thousands of Albanians were being slaughtered and left in mass graves turned out to be completely unfounded, there were loud choruses of "clinton lied and people died", remember? Oh wait, the republicans didn't resort to that kind of demogoguery did they.
I had to crack up at this part of it . . . "Conservatives voting against deployment will find themselves in league with Pat Buchanan and Henry Kissinger. This alone should give conservatives with any memory of past foreign policy debates pause."
If you really want an eye-opener, do some research on a group called the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC) -- I believe they may now be called the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus -- and check out some of the preposterous positions this group has taken over the years. They've basically come down on the side of radical Muslim separatists in Chechnya against the Russian government.
Then take a look at their membership list and notice all of the familiar names on it.
Then tell me honestly if you still think this disastrous conflict in Iraq was ever intended to be part of some "war on terror" at all.
Ditto to all of your points.
Associated Press/ 2003
“Eight MORE arrested at Fort Dix in social security card scam
Eight more workers at Fort Dix were arrested Wednesday for using fake Social Security numbers in their applications to get clearance to work on base. — The workers were either private contractors or worked for contractors who had dealings with the military. They used the numbers to get contractor badges that granted them access to all areas of the base.”
No firearms are illegal...
There’s also a Dukas Pizza in Blackwood NJ on a restaurant review website that lists Dritan Duka as “Your Host”.
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