Posted on 05/11/2007 2:08:13 PM PDT by Kaslin
CAMDEN, N.J. - Six Muslim men suspected of plotting to massacre U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix were ordered held without bail Friday.
Prosecutors argued that the men, all born outside the United States, pose a flight risk. They are being held at a federal detention center in Philadelphia.
The men were arrested Monday night during what the FBI said was an attempt to buy AK-47 machine guns, M-16s and other weapons. They targeted Fort Dix, a post 25 miles east of Philadelphia that is used primarily to train reservists, partly because one of them had delivered pizzas there and was familiar with the base, according to court filings. Their objective was to kill "as many American soldiers as possible," the documents said.
The men have lived in and around Philadelphia for years, worshipped at moderate mosques and worked blue-collar jobs installing roofs, driving a cab, delivering pizzas and baking bread. Four are ethnic Albanians from the former Yugoslavia, one is from Jordan and one is from Turkey.
As they were led into the courtroom, each of the suspects smiled to relatives and friends, many of whom wept and blew kisses to them.
Only one of the men, Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, 22, asked to be released on bail, and friends and relatives offered to post properties they owned as collateral.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Stigall argued against letting Shnewer be released to the custody of his parents while awaiting trial. He said many of the illegal actions that the government alleges Shnewer committed happened or were planned at his parents' house.
Defense lawyers for some of the men said they are considering attacking the prosecution's reliance on two paid informants who infiltrated the group more than a year ago and recorded conversations with the defendants.
Authorities said they first learned about the men in January 2006 after a tip from a clerk at a Mount Laurel electronics store. The clerk called police because a home video the men wanted transferred to a DVD looked like it might have terrorist links, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie said.
Earlier this year, authorities said, the men took a training trip to the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, where they fired weapons and played paintball to prepare for an attack.
Five of the men — Shnewer; Serdar Tatar, 23; Dritan "Anthony" or "Tony" Duka, 28; Shain Duka, 26; and Eljvir "Elvis" Duka, 23 — are charged with conspiring to kill uniformed military personnel, an offense punishable by life in prison.
Agron Abdullahu, 24, is charged with helping illegal immigrants obtain weapons. He could face 10 years in prison if convicted.
Abdullahu, who faces the least serious charges of the six, will have another bail hearing next Thursday.
Time to go door to door to root out these illegal vermin.
One weekend is all we need....
(Read tag line)
I listened to that Ibraham Hooper on Dennis Miller last night. He and his CAIR brethren should be rounded up too.
I wonder if the illegals would have qualified for amnesty under President Bush’s “Guest Worker” program.
Harkens back to prior Administration treating terrorism as a criminal matter ... but if it works and no Constitutional challenges they should be spending a lot of their future in jail. Wonder what our ‘hardened criminals’ think of terrorist? Any thing like child molesters?
I know where they all are in my neighborhood... let me know when it’s go-time.
Since they are illegals and terrorists, why should they have any rights for counsel and a speedy trial. We should detain them indefinately and deport there parents.
Seems so
Exactly
Ft Dix firing squad should take care of the problem and send a clear message.
Not exactly, if they are found guilty it isn’t a life sentence, which is usually 20 years. They will have life imprisonment, which means they will be in prison until they die. But what they need to do after the trial is to take them out back and shoot them. Then we don’t have to worry about imprisonment or deportation.
He's been talking about Clinton letting 20,000+ Albanians in without ANY screening or background checks. He also had sound bytes of Hillary talking about how she (back in the 90's after Bill let them in) had arranged to get them a website so they could communicate with Europe, Macedonia, and Kosovo.
In a nutshell - the clinton administration probably brought these raghead pos's into the country, and then gave them the means to communicate with their superiors at home.
My girlfriend gets me Rush 24/7 every Christmas, so I listen to him everyday, but it’s always yesterday’s show. Sometimes I skip a day so I get 2 shows.
You may want to think about doing that, even if it's only for the drive to and from work.
I seem to remember that, back in the Clinton era, we sent troops to Kosovo to get Millisovich and his CHRISTIAN forces to quiit exiling (not killing) Muslems in an “Ethnic Cleansing “ campaign . In Clinton’s (Democrat) day, the Muslims were the “good guys” and the Christians were the “bad guys” . Go figure .
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