[all4one]

Informant In Fort Dix Case Linked To Bank Fraud (NJ - 11/27/07)

CAMDEN (AP) ― A paid government informant who infiltrated a group of men accused of plotting an attack on soldiers at the Army's Fort Dix was an Egyptian national on probation for bank fraud, an attorney in the case said Tuesday.

Less than two weeks after 38-year-old Mahmoud Omar was taken off probation and free to leave the United States, the FBI arrested the men who came to be known as the Fort Dix Six.

Until Tuesday, Omar was publicly known in court records only as CW-1 -- for Cooperating Witness No. 1 -- an Egyptian man older than the plot suspects who had been helpful to federal authorities in the past. A second paid informant remains unidentified.

The actions of CW-1 have raised questions of whether the government crossed the line and pushed the six men down a path they would not have otherwise followed.

During a court proceeding Tuesday, defense lawyer Michael Huff said that CW-1 was named Mahmoud Omar, and that on one tape he made for the government, Omar mentioned he was on probation............. According to court documents, CW-1 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.

The Fort Dix Six were arrested in May after a 15-month FBI investigation that relied heavily on two paid informants who secretly recorded meetings and telephone conversations in which the suspects talked of killing "in the name of Allah."

Prosecutors portrayed the six foreign-born men -- Serdar Tatar, 23; Agron Abdullahu, 24; Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, 22; Dritan "Anthony" or "Tony" Duka, 28; Shain Duka, 26; and Eljvir "Elvis" Duka, 23 -- as driven by hatred of America, a description disputed by relatives and acquaintances.................

http://cbs3.com/topstories/Fort.Dix.Bank.2.597291.html

[SlowBoat407]

Thanks, All4one. Sorry we missed you on our last trip out your way.

[MamaDearest]

The Fort Dix Six were arrested in May after a 15-month FBI investigation that relied heavily on two paid informants who secretly recorded meetings and telephone conversations in which the suspects talked of killing "in the name of Allah."

Paid informants typically are not the crem de le crem of society. Certainly activist organizations are working overtime to release these men back into America.

[Velveeta]

He hates America, but called himself “Elvis”?!?

[Donna Lee Nardo]

I appreciate it, all4one.

[Oorang]

Thanks for the ping all4one, most interesting.