Osama Bin Laden 'inspired' N.J. plot on Fort Dix

Five men who planned an attack on Fort Dix got their inspiration from Osama Bin Laden and their terror training from paintball games, a prosecutor charged Monday.

"Their motive was to defend Islam," Deputy U.S. Attorney William Fitzpatrick told a federal jury in Camden, N.J.

"Their inspiration was Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. Their intent was to kill members of the United States armed services."

The men turned paintball games in 2006 and 2007 into terrorist training sessions and discussed a plot to sneak into the New Jersey Army base and kill soldiers, the government says. No attack was carried out.

The five, all foreign-born Muslims in their 20s, are charged with attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and weapons offenses.

The jury of eight women and four men was told it would see jihadist videos the defendants watched and would hear bone-chilling details of the plot.

Fitzpatrick said one defendant, Mohamad Shnewer, told an informant that Americans are arrogant and believe "no one can hit us. ... We will change this, God willing."

RECAP AND UPDATED:

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)

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

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Undercover agent Larry Grathwohl discusses the Weather Underground's post-revolution governing plans for the United States.

Ayers' Weathermen planned "re-education", genocide
[25 million pro-capitalist American citizens would be 'eliminated']
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJn5b8_weUY

From the 1982 documentary "No Place to Hide" (available in its entirety as a playlist on my homepage [wptg's homepage on youtube]:
http://www.youtube.com/user/wptg (Video courtesy of user: Seahorse1776)

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