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Prosecutor: Al-Qaida inspired Fort Dix plot
AP on Yahoo ^ | 10/20/08 | AP

Posted on 10/20/2008 9:01:57 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

CAMDEN, N.J. – Five men who planned an attack on a New Jersey military base were inspired by al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden, a prosecutor said Monday during opening statements in their terrorism trial.

The government has presented the case as one of the most frightening examples of homegrown terrorism since the Sept. 11 attacks.

Authorities said that in 2006 and 2007, the men turned paintball games into terrorist training sessions and met to discuss a plot to sneak onto the Army's Fort Dix base and kill soldiers. No attack was carried out.

"Their motive was to defend Islam. Their inspiration was al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden. Their intent was to kill members of the United States armed services," Deputy U.S. Attorney William Fitzpatrick told the jury of eight women and four men.

Fitzpatrick said the jury would see jihadist videos that the defendants watched and would learn many details of the alleged plot, including assertions by the government that one of the men went on reconnaissance missions to Fort Dix and other military installations.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: 2006; 2007; abdullahu; alqaida; ayers; dohrn; fortdix; fortdixplot; ftdix; ftdixplot; globaljihad; inspired; jihad; njcell; obama; obamabinlyin; obamasama; osamabama; osamabinladen; prosecutor; weatherunderground

1 posted on 10/20/2008 9:01:59 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Interestingly William Ayers wanted to bomb Fort Dix too!


2 posted on 10/20/2008 9:03:10 AM PDT by avacado (Barack Obama, the Cloward-Piven candidate)
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On the Net:

Court Web site with trial information: http://www.njd.uscourts.gov/FortDixTrial/index.htm l


3 posted on 10/20/2008 9:03:10 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "You know, when you can't ask a question of your leaders anymore, that gets scary,")
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To: avacado

Hang ‘em by their pinkies .. and pour honey all over them .. add fire ants .. rinse .. repeat.

Ayers. What a creep.


4 posted on 10/20/2008 9:04:55 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "You know, when you can't ask a question of your leaders anymore, that gets scary,")
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To: NormsRevenge

Now.... I seem to recall reading somewhere that someone named Bill Ayers had a similar plot back in the early ‘70s. Wasn’t it the Weather Underground who was planning to hit Fort Dix while young soldiers were attending a dance with their civilian Jersey girlfriends. Hey AP — Now that you’ve reported on Osama’s friends’ plot, how about a report on Obama’s?


5 posted on 10/20/2008 9:07:44 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: avacado
Fort Dix, a familiar locale for Obamabuddies...

What a wonderful opportunity to listen and see William Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dorhn, then and now.  The Ayers and Dorhn of the old Weather Underground.  The 1960’s radical leftist group responsible for bombings at the Capitol and the Pentagon.   The Ayers that remained unremorseful of the bombings, and did not rule out the possibility of doing it again, as of 2001.

Sound clips from then and now, 1970’s and 2007 courtesy of Powerline Part 1 and Part 2.

Videos and commentary from McNorman, Uppity Woman, and No Quarter.



Image courtesy of http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2097817/posts.

From David Horowitz’s FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
March 6, 1970: “three members of the Weather Underground accidentally killed themselves in a Manhattan townhouse while attempting to build a powerful bomb they had intended to plant at a social dance in Fort Dix, New Jersey – an event that was to be attended by U.S. Army soldiers. Hundreds of lives could have been lost had the plot been successfully executed.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

“The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer’s dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
The bomb was packed with nails to inflict maximum casualties upon detonation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)#Chronology_of_events

See:


6 posted on 10/20/2008 9:12:28 AM PDT by XR7
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To: avacado
The John McCain ad you'll never see
7 posted on 10/20/2008 9:15:26 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( God doesn't wear a wristwatch.)
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To: NormsRevenge; backhoe; piasa; All
RECAP and UPDATES:

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "Camden, N.J. - "MUMBAI IN THE U.S.? FORT DIX SUSPECTS WERE TRAINING FOR 'JIHAD'" (December 1, 2008)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "NEFA FOUNDATION: EXHIBITS FROM THE FT. DIX TRIAL" (SNIPPET: "This makes an excellent follow up to the forensic data from the Madrid Bombings indictment.") (November 7, 2008)

FOX NEWS.com (AP): Camden, N.J. - "FORT DIX TERROR TAPES: PLOTTER CALLED FOR 'SUICIDE ATTACK' ON BUILDINGS" (October 30, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (STAR-LEDGER): "FORT DIX JIHAD VIDEO DEPICTS GORY DECAPITATIONS AND JIHADI CELEBRATIONS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "An FBI language specialist, Gassan Hajjar, then described for jurors what happened next: Using a knife, the captors sliced off the hostages' heads, taking four to six minutes to complete the decapitations, he said. They held the severed heads aloft, placed them back on the bodies and celebrated.") (October 24, 2008)
FOX NEWS.com (AP): "JURORS IN FORT DIX TRIAL VIEW JIHADIST VIDEOS FOUND IN DEFENDANTS' HOMES" (October 23, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (TELEGRAPH.co.uk): "FORT DIX JIHADIST: "They are the ones, we are going to put bullets in their heads, Allah willing."" (October 20, 2008)

NY DAILY NEWS.com: "OSAMA BIN LADEN 'INSPIRED' N.J. PLOT ON FORT DIX" by Owen Moritz (October 20, 2008, 9:12 pm)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "POTENTIAL JURORS IN FORT DIX JIHAD CASE GRILLED ON WHETHER THEY THINK ISLAM TEACHES VIOLENCE" (October 7, 2008)

FOX NEWS.com (AP): Camden, N.J. - "POTENTIAL JURORS KEPT SECRET IN FORT DIX PLOT TRIAL" (September 29, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): Camden, N.J. - "FORT DIX JIHAD UPDATE" (September 29, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "PROSECUTORS IN FORT DIX JIHAD CASE CHALLENGE MOVE BY DEFENSE TO PURGE 'JIHAD' AND 'AL-QAEDA' REFERENCES" (July 19, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (STAR LEDGER): "'SOUTH JERSEY MAN' GETS 20 MONTHS FOR SUPPLYING GUNS TO FORT DIX JIHADISTS" (April 1, 2008)

ADNKRONOS.com (AKI): New York - "TERRORISM: ETHNIC ALBANIAN KOSOVAR GETS 20-MONTH SENTENCE FOR PLOT" (April 1, 2008)

Philadelphia.FBI.gov - DOJ Press Release: Camden, New Jersey - "ABDULLAHU SENTENCED 20 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR SUPPLYING GUNS AND AMMUNITION TO ILLEGAL ALIENS" (March 31, 2008)

Link

COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org: "NEW NEFA FOUNDATION 'TARGET AMERICA' REPORT: 'THE FORT DIX PLOT'" by Evan Kohlmann (January 28, 2008)

Link (pdf)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "NEW CHARGES IN FORT DIX JIHAD CASE -- ATTEMPTED MURDER" (January 15, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (REUTERS): "ACCUSED FORT DIX JIHADISTS DENIED BAIL, BUT NOT OPPORTUNITY FOR PRISON DAWA" (January 4, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "FORT DIX ATTACK PLOT SUSPECTS PROMOTING JIHAD IN JAIL" (December 12, 2007)

Video - Link

ICE.gov: Camden, N.J. - "ABDULLAHU ADMITS SUPPLYING GUNS AND AMMUNITION TO ILLEGAL ALIENS INVOLVED IN PLOT TO ATTACK FORT DIX" (November 2, 2007)

US DOJ.gov/usao/nj - Press Release: "ABDULLAHU ADMITS SUPPLYING GUNS AND AMMUNITION TO ILLEGAL ALIENS CHARGED WITH PLANNING ATTACKS ON MILITARY PERSONNEL" (October 31, 2007) (pdf)

Link (pdf)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): Mount Laurel, New Jersey - "FEDS: FORT DIX BASE PLOT SUSPECT THREATENS FBI" (June 19, 2007)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com (AP): Camden, New Jersey - "6 FORT DIX SUSPECTS ENTER NOT-GUILTY PLEA" (June 15, 2007)

Newark.FBI.gov - DOJ Press Release: Camden - "FIVE INDICTED IN PLOT TO KILL SOLDIERS AT FORT DIX; SIXTH CHARGED WITH AIDING THE POSSESSION OF WEAPONS" (June 5, 2007)

"www.usdoj.gov/usao/nj/press/files/pdffiles/duka0605rel.pdf"

"www.usdoj.gov/usao/nj/press/files/pdffiles/Indictment0605.pdf"

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): Mount Laurel, N.J. -"FORT DIX SUSPECT APPLIED FOR POLICE JOBS" (May 23, 2007)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "THE 'PRO-AMERICAN' TERRORISTS" by Julia Gorin (May 22, 2007)

OSINT.INTERNET-HAGANAH.com (AP, May 17, 2007, Camden, NJ): "SUSPECT DENIED BAIL IN FORT DIX CASE" (May 18, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (THE STAR-LEDGER): "FORT DIX JIHAD SUSPECT ASKS FOR QUR'AN" (May 11, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): Camden, New Jersey - " FORT DIX SUSPECTS ARE ALL DENIED BAIL" (May 11, 2007)

CNS NEWS.com: "TERROR-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION LINK HIGHLIGHTED IN THWARTED NJ PLOT" by Kevin Mooney (May 11, 2007)

CNS NEWS.com: "FBI LACKS EVIDENCE TO CHARGE FOUR OTHER JIHADISTS" by Kevin Mooney (May 10, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (MSNBC): "FORT DIX JIHAD PLOTTERS RECRUITED THROUGH INTERNET" (May 9, 2007)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "INTERNET"

MEMRI.org: "JIHAD AND TERRORISM STUDIES PROJECT"

FOX NEWS.com: "BROTHERS CHARGED IN TERROR PLOT LIVED ILLEGALLY IN U.S. FOR 23 YEARS" (May 9, 2007)

ADNKI.com (AKI): Belgrade - "TERRORISM: U.S. ARMY BASE PLOT 'CONFIRMS EXISTENCE OF WHITE AL QAEDA' BALKAN EXPERTS SAY" (May 9, 2007)

Google - Search Term: "WHITE AL QAEDA"

Google - Search Term: "WHITE AL QAIDA"

CHRONICLES MAGAZINE.org: "KOSOVO BLOWBACK REACHES AMERICA" by Srdja Trifkovic (May 8, 2007)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "BALKIN MUSLIM GRATITUDE" by Julia Gorin (May 9, 2007)

DEFENSElink.mil (AMERICAN FORCES PRESS SERVICE): Washington - "SIX ARRESTED FOR PLOTTING TO KILL SOLDIERS AT FORT DIX, N.J." by John J. Kruzel (May 8, 2007)

Newark.FBI.GOV - DOJ Press Release: Camden, N.J. - "SIX INDIVIDUALS CHARGED WITH PLOTTING TO MURDER U.S. SOLDIERS AT NEW JERSEY MILITARY BASE" (May 8, 2007)

FBI.gov: "ATTACK FOILED Undercover Probe Busts Terror Plot" (Note: Includes Additional Links) (May 8, 2007)

THE SMOKING GUN.com: "FORT DIX TERROR PLOT FOILED FBI: New Jersey jihadists targeted servicemen at Army base" (May 8, 2007)

8 posted on 12/01/2008 7:02:35 PM PST by Cindy
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