Posted on 05/08/2007 4:58:57 AM PDT by all4one
Terror Arrests in Fort Dix Plot FORT DIX, N.J.
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.
Federal agents made the arrests when the suspects zeroed in on Fort Dix.
Officials say some of the suspects were caught on tape.
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Terror Suspects Arrested In N.J. After FBI Foils Fort Dix Attack
POSTED: 6:41 am EDT May 8, 2007
UPDATED: 7:31 am EDT May 8, 2007
A tip helped authorities arrest six New Jersey men Monday night in connection to an apparent terror cell, according to NBC 10s sister station WNBC in New York.
Five of them were arrested in Cherry Hill, according to reports.
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.
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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....
Getting arrested saved these nuts from suicide.
My thought is that they figger that the public relations value of hitting military base is much better than attacking a mall, where some of the victims may even be Arabs.
Albanian terrorists are supported by Condi too.
Why save them???
BUMP
Those are my thoughts too, the soldiers at Ft. Dix need target practice.
Ditto that... Especially since I still wait for that Million Muslim March against terror or more speaking out/working undercover/translating. If you’re silent, you’re complicit. I don’t care about Islam, i’ll be killed, blah, blah; Either they should realize something’s truly wrong with the religion, or go live where that Shariah Law will make their lives pure and heaven-like (not my view, may be theirs).I called for deporting or at the very least not letting anyone else in from terrorist countries, it would have cut it down some. Check every student visa, the paintball spots where they rent to train... etc.. It takes a lot of people, but it has to be done.
I lot of folks have been here for quite a while (decade or more), or moseyed across the border.
God bless the agent/arms dealer.
Not if they become convicted felons in time. Remember Hillary wants all of them to be able to vote.
Let’s hope that was a counter-op post.
CAIR has their own... trust me.
Congressman Saxton just said it was a joint operation between NJ and Federal departments.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t that kid who shot up the mall a couple months ago an “ethnic” Bosnian refugee?
Wow, that makes me want to go find a box of tinfoil.
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
How Did The Get Here? How Were They Stopped?
Posted by Hugh Hewitt | 9:31 AM
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/ccaa718f-d06b-4654-8b57-8c0a8ca84780
Some key questions in the aftermath of these arrests:
[Federal authorities have arrested six New Jersey men for allegedly plotting a terrorist attack against the Fort Dix military base, senior FBI officials have confirmed.
The plot, reported this morning by New York’s WNBC television and confirmed to the Washington Post by FBI officials, involved storming the base with automatic weapons and attempting to kill as many soldiers and other personnel as possible.]
Is it possible that they were contacted from abroad and that contact picked up under the surveillance program so detestable to the left?
It is possible that the interception of contacts from abroad had nothing to do with this prevention of a major terror attack, but if it had, would that matter to the critics of the Bush Administration?
>>>Correct me if Im wrong, but wasnt that kid who shot up the mall a couple months ago an ethnic Bosnian refugee?
That was in Pennsylvania, right?
These terrorists were practicing in Pennsylvania. One of them was from Philly.
“According to CNN radio, this was not terror related.”
CNN BREAKING NEWS-Kansas Tornados not Weather-Related!!
I find the location extremely amusing, since Cherry Hill is very proud that it just broke ground on Sunday, May 7 for its first mosque. Here are links to two articles: courier post article one, courier post article two
Some of the would-be attackers have been illegally in the United States, while others are illegal immigrants, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Four are ethnic Albanians, one was born in Turkey, and a sixth was born in Jordan, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates/2007/05/6_arrested_in_plot_to_kill_sol.html
I think it was out west. St. Lake maybe. Off to google...
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