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Authorities visited the home of three men allegedly involved in a plot to attack Fort Dix numerous times over complaints ranging from loud parties to farm animals on the property, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Sunday. According to the newspaper, police and Cherry Hill township officials visited the Duka home in the Philadelphia suburbs on at least ten occasions over a seven year period before the men were eventually arrested in the terrorism plot. The Duka brothers - Dritan, Eljvir and Shain - are accused, along with Serdar Tatar, and Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer of conspiring to kill military personnel at the...

The Alabama Department of Homeland Security has taken down a Web site it operated that included gay rights and anti-war organizations in a list of groups that could include terrorists. The Web site identified different types of terrorists, and included a list of groups it believed could spawn terrorists. The list also included environmentalists, animal rights advocates and abortion opponents. The director of the department, Jim Walker, said his agency received a number of calls and e-mails from people who said they felt the site unfairly targeted certain people just because of their beliefs. He said he plans to put...

OMAHA, Nebraska - Dozens of Somali meatpacking workers who quit their jobs because they were not given enough time off for Muslim prayers have returned to work, but the issue could resurface as sundown inches later through the summer, a union official said Friday. About 70 of 120 Somali workers are back on the job at the Swift & Co. meatpacking plant after abruptly quitting last week. The workers complained that existing break time rules did not let them leave lines to pray at sundown. Similar requests for workplace accommodations of Muslim religious obligations have become common around the country,...

One in four younger U.S. Muslims say suicide bombings to defend their religion are acceptable at least in some circumstances, though most American Muslims overwhelmingly reject the tactic and are critical of Islamic extremism and al Qaeda, a poll says. The survey by the Pew Research Center, one of the most exhaustive ever of U.S. Muslims, revealed a community that in many ways blends comfortably into society. Its largely mainstream members express nearly as much happiness with their lives and communities as the general public does, show a broad willingness to adopt American customs, and have income and education levels...

Grand Island, Neb. - Nearly 100 Muslim workers have quit their jobs at a Swift & Co. meatpacking plant because their prayer times weren't accommodated. "They kind of issued the company an ultimatum," said Dan Hoppes, president of Local 22 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. "They went in before the shift started (Monday) and said that they'd go unless they could pray when they needed to," Hoppes said today. Sean McHugh, a spokesman for Swift at its Greeley headquarters, said breaks are governed by a labor contract and that all employees are told about them during orientation...