Terror Arrests in Fort Dix Plot

May 8, 2007 - Six ethnic Albanians have been arrested in a plot to storm the Fort Dix installation in Burlington County.

Five of the suspects were arrested in Cherry Hill. They will be arraigned later today in federal court. Officials say it will happen in either in Camden or Newark.

Investigators say the suspects planned to use automatic weapons to storm the base and kill solders. The men were lured into a secret meeting to purchase AK-47s from an arms dealer, who was secretly cooperating with the FBI.

Officials say the suspects worked on a number of targets, including the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Fort Monmouth in Eatontown, and several Coast Guard stations.

A tip helped authorities arrest six New Jersey men Monday night in connection to an apparent terror cell, according to NBC 10’s sister station WNBC in New York.

Investigators said the men planned to use AK-47s to storm Fort Dix and open fire on soldiers and civilians stationed at the New Jersey base, noting that other military locations were scouted by the terrorist cell.

Three of the unnamed suspects are brothers who are all believed to be Islamic radicals, according to sources. Some of the six arrested men were also born in Albania and the former Yugoslavia, but they have spent a significant amount of time in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, according to authorities.

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 weapons 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. The terror suspects traveled over the last several months from New Jersey to the Poconos where they practiced firing automatic weapons, investigators said.

Investigators said the group discussed targeting numerous locations like Dover Air base, Fort Monmouth and several Coast Guard stations 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....

>>>Six ethnic Albanians have been arrested in a plot to storm the Fort Dix installation in Burlington County.

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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency says that by 1998, Kosovo Albanians had become the second most important group on the Balkan route, after the Turkish mafia. “Kosovo Albanians make the perfect mafia — even better than the Sicilians,” said Marko Nicovic, vice-president of the New York-based International Narcotics Enforcement Agency.

Anthony M. DeStefano, “Giuliani and Kosovo-Alb. Drug Mafia in NYC,” The Wall Street Journal,
(September 9, 1985), pp.1,18;

Eve-Ann Prentice, “Kosovo is Mafia’s ‘heroin gateway to West’ ,” The London Times, (July 24 1999).

“Thousands of Albanian children in hiding to escape blood feuds,” The Guardian, (September 30, 1998), p. 15; Misha Glenny

“Heart of Darkness,” The New York Review of Books, (August 14, 1997), pp.32-36.

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DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON
SECTION: THE STORY OF A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE
SUBSECTION: DRUGS
Revised 1/8/01

NewsMax.com 11/3/00 Carl Limbacher “…… New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said he believes that an allegation Vice President Al Gore once tried to pressure a friend to lie about his past drug use should “cancel out” any negative impact of Thursday night’s revelation that Texas Governor George Bush may have been less than candid about being stopped in 1976 for drunk driving. Guiliani made the comment on Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes Friday night:
HANNITY: Is it legitimate, when we have Al Gore’s best friend on tape saying that he was a regular pot smoker, that he asked him to lie about it if the press came to him — which he did; if they’re going to draw this blood is it then fair game for everybody?
GIULIANI: Maybe the thing to do is that it cancels — let’s cancel this all out and go back to who do you think is going to make a better president. ………
Minutes before Giuliani’s remark, Hannity played an audiotape from an interview of former Gore friend John C. Warnecke, Jr. conducted in September by WLAC Nashville, Tennessee talk radio host Phil Valentine. …..
VALENTINE: Was (Gore) doing more than marijuana when you were with him or was it just pot?
WARNECKE: Well, we smoked hashish together and we smoked a type of marijuana called “Thai sticks.” That’s a special high-grade marijuana that comes wrapped in a special stick from Thailand. And what they do is, after they wrap it around a stick they dip it in opium. So it’s an opium-laced marijuana.
VALENTINE: Now you’re asserting that Al Gore continued the drug use after you stopped 20 years ago.
WARNECKE: I’ll tell you the story. I know I smoked with him one time while he was actually campaigning.
VALENTINE: For Congress?
WARNECKE: For Congress, the first time around.
VALENTINE: That would be in ‘76?
WARNECKE: ‘76, correct. ……
Gore has claimed publicy that he stopped using drugs in 1972. …….”

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