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(AP) -- Federal prosecutors have asked that an anonymous jury be impaneled for the trial of six men accused of plotting to attack soldiers on Fort Dix. In a motion filed Monday, the U.S. attorney's office said potential jurors might fear for their safety because of the nature of the charges and the international publicity around the case. The request could be discussed at a meeting Friday before U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler. Attorney Rocco Cipparone, who represents Mohamad Shnewer, told the Courier-Post of Cherry Hill for Tuesday's editions that he opposes an anonymous jury, fearing it would only fuel...

I'm planning to attend the fourth of July concert there. It's headlined by Craig Morgan, and it's FREE!!! I have a couple of questions about Doughboy Field. - From looking at google maps, it looks like the field is just that: a vast open area where multiple soccer games can be played. Are there bleachers or stands as well, or do you think everyone will sit on the grass? - What "facilities" (i.e. restrooms) are nearby? Are they "real" restrooms, with indoor plumbing, or should I expect portable ones (ugh)? - They said we will take shuttle buses to the...

WASHINGTON, May 8, 2007 – FBI agents arrested five radical Islamists for allegedly plotting to “kill as many U.S. soldiers as they could” at the Army’s Fort Dix, N.J., and a sixth defendant is charged with aiding and abetting members of the domestic terror group, authorities announced today. The arrests occurred last night in Cherry Hill, N.J., as suspects tried to buy three AK47 assault rifles and four semi-automatic M-16s from a confidential government witness. These apprehensions culminate a 16-month FBI investigation into the groups’ alleged plot to kill soldiers with assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades, according to...

June 18, 2007 7:23 PM MOUNT LAUREL, New Jersey-Anti-FBI graffiti found in the prison cell of a man accused of aiding in an plot to attack soldiers at a military base in New Jersey adds further proof that the defendant is a risk and should remain in custody until his trial, authorities said in a legal filing Monday. Guards found two drawings in the one-person cell where Agron Abdullahu is being held in the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia. One had the letters "FBI" with a drawing of a gun pointing to them. The other had the phrase "Rainca Kosava...

Is this concert closed to general public, i.e. is it only for military-affiliated people? Thanks.

Listening to the recent debates among the candidates, monitoring their Websites and reading the poll numbers, one gets the impression that the Republican and Democratic primary electorates are living in two different nations -- or the same nation that faces two very different threats. The Republicans want to protect us against Islamist terrorists. The Democrats want to protect us against climate change.

Brian Morganstern, the Circuit City clerk whose tip led to the arrest of the “Ft Dix Six” appeared on CNN’s American Morning today. I’ve edited the interview for length. Roberts: You’re being hailed as a hero. How do you feel about that? Morganstern: I don’t feel like a hero, to be honest with you. I feel like I did the right thing. But the real heroes are our men and women overseas, and the people in our law enforcement who handled this situation.

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...

Perhaps the lamest bit of spin coming out of the Bush administration concerning the Iraq War is that line, "If we don't fight them over there, we'll have to fight them over here." But just how will they get in? Simple. They'll come over the Mexican border and stay for as long as they please. That description applies to three of the six men accused in the Fort Dix terror plot. The parents of the three Duka brothers brought them into the country illegally more than 20 years ago. They attended school, grew into adulthood and took advantage of good,...

Political correctness in a time of terror Steven Edwards, National Post Published: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 NEW YORK - The extent of our brainwashing by the politically correct has been exposed by follow-up reporting on the terror plot targeting a U.S. Army base. The teenaged clerk whose tip led to the arrests of six Muslim men on May 8 feared at first he would be accused of racism if he went to the authorities. Had he not overcome his initial PC reaction, the alleged plotters might well have gone undetected and succeeded in their supposed bid to kill as...

PALMYRA, N.J., May 18 — The man sat in the back row of the mosque, his arms folded, unsure whether his hard opinions would change.“I’m concerned about the Muslims,” the man, Richard Smekal, 68, said just before an open house at the mosque, the Islamic Center of South Jersey, where four of six men accused of plotting to kill soldiers at Fort Dix had worshiped. “Personally, I believe that Islam is a religion of the sword,” he said. But he admitted that he had never asked a Muslim.The meeting at the mosque — for community members, local officials and law...

This week we found out that six Muslim men were arrested and charged with plotting to attack Fort Dix in New Jersey, with the intent of killing as many soldiers as they possibly could in the name of Islamic jihad. They were undone when they brought a video they had made to a retail store to be burned onto a DVD. A store employee's suspicions were aroused by the content - the men shooting assault weapons while shouting "Allah Akbar" (God is great) - and he alerted authorities. Will CAIR get involved in this "violation" of the men's civil rights...

It all began on a frigid January day with 10 bearded Muslim men huddled in the parking lot of a Circuit City debating who would go inside to have a copy made of a tape showing them firing guns and praising jihad. Eventually, the group - who'd been seen standing outside earlier that January 2006 week - selected two men to go inside while the rest waited in the parking lot, an employee who was outside smoking at the time recalled. Once inside, the two men approached the television section of the electronics store where videos could be transferred to...

The founder of AMERICA'S TRUTH FORUM, a website dedicated to exposing the terrorist threat to America, who is also a Freeper Lurker, Jeff Epstein, will be on FOX news TODAY. America's Truth Forum's president, Jeffrey Epstein, will be appearing on FOX News Channel Saturday May 12, 2007 at 2:30pm ET when host Jamie Colby discusses the critical expose currently offered on ATF's Terrorism Update, Paintballing for Allah, with regard to the recent planned attack on Ft. Dix by jihadis. Be sure to tune in to FOX News Channel for this important interview!

Media: In covering the Jersey Jihadists case, pundits did their best to play down the religious factor that screamed as loud as the suspects' "Allah Akbar!" shouting and shooting in the Poconos. Others yawned at the news of several Muslims plotting to kill 100 soldiers on U.S. soil. "Lot of hoopla," sniffed a spokeswoman for the NYU Center on Law and Security during a segment on the "CBS Evening News." Such skepticism was music to the ears of left-wing bloggers who posit that such publicized arrests are part of a Karl Rovian conspiracy to frighten Americans into supporting the Iraq...

CHERRY HILL, N.J. - He railed against the United States, helped scout out military installations for attack, offered to introduce his comrades to an arms dealer, and gave them a list of weapons he could procure, including machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. These were not the actions of a terrorist, but of a paid FBI informant who helped bring down an alleged plot by six Muslim men to massacre U.S. soldiers at New Jersey's Fort Dix. And those actions have raised questions of whether the government crossed the line and pushed the six men down a path they would not...

ICE Arrests 12 Illegal Aliens (On National Guard Base) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Release: LITTLE ROCK, Ark.– Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today [Thursday] arrested nine males, two females and one juvenile male, all illegal aliens, employed by two different companies performing contract work at Camp Joseph T. Robinson Army National Guard Base. One of the companies who hired the workers was identified as El Nopal, a dining facility contractor. The other company, contracted to do landscape work, was not immediately identified. All of those arrested are Mexican nationals. All have been placed in...

The New Jersey store clerk whose tip led to the arrest of six terror suspects needs legislative protection from being sued as a "John Doe" or whistleblower, lawmakers said yesterday. "The events in Fort Dix are just another reminder of the need for this legislation," said Rep. Steve Pearce, New Mexico Republican and author of legislation to protect "John Doe" passengers being sued by a group of Muslim imams for reporting their suspicious behavior that got the imams removed from an airline flight. "We owe a debt of gratitude to this individual for alerting authorities to this potential terrorist attack...

The aborted terror plot to kill American soldiers at Fort Dix in New Jersey reminds us all of the imminent threat of attack in today’s dangerous world. It will remind Republican primary voters that terrorism, and our response to it, is still the issue of the day. After the Republican presidential debate, Rudy Giuliani was clearly on the defensive, trying to compensate for his pathetic “that would be OK” answer to questions about the possible overruling of Roe v. Wade. His passivity and seeming acquiescence in either a pro-life or pro-choice outcome appeased none of the partisans on either side...

The six foreign-born Muslims accused of planning a shooting attack at the U.S. military base included four ethnic Albanians, and U.S. officials say their arrests highlight how Islamist groups are using the Balkans region to help in recruiting and financing terrorism. Prosecutors described the men as "radical Islamists," with four coming from the province of Kosovo in the former Yugoslavia, where the ethnic Albanian population of Muslims fought one of the several wars that grew out of the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Suspect Agron Abdullahu, who faces only weapons violations in the case, was described in court papers...