Six militants have been arrested in New Jersey for plotting to “kill as many soldiers as possible” at the Fort Dix Army training base.
The suspects have been planning this attack for more than a year and were caught attempting to buy automatic weapons from an FBI informant. The FBI began to investigate when a video tape was delivered to a shop in January of 2006 to be transferred to DVD. This tape contained disturbing footage of 10 men training for Jihad and a store worker notified the authorities. Six of the 10 seen in the video are the suspects who were apprehended on Monday.
Four of the six militants were from the former Yugoslavia, one from Jordan and one from Turkey. Three of the six were illegally in the U.S and all six had been living in the states for “some time”.
Training was being conducted by the militants in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania and they were studying and mapping out the bases at Fort Dix and Fort Monmouth in New Jersey, also Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, and the U.S. Coast Guard Building in Philadelphia.
Press Secretary Tony Snow stated that “there is no direct evidence” that the suspects have ties to Al Qaeda. That’s good since we have been fighting The War on Terror in Iraq to keep from fighting it here at home. It would be terrifying to think that somehow that strategy didn’t work.
Sources: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/08/fortdix.plot/index.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyID=1–72697
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackCorrection has to be made in the article where it is mentione that some of the suspect are from former Yugoslavia. The correct place of origin of some of the suspects is KOSOVO. They are muslim /Kosovo Albanians, the same people NATO and US helped by bombing hell out of Serbia in 1999. US is also supporting their fight for independence from Serbia in order for them to form their own “secular/democratic muslim” country.
Yes, but that is still the former Yugoslavia. Kosovo used to be part of Yugoslavia. The article is not incorrect. You also fail to mention that the Serbians were slaughtering ethnic Albanians and the U.S. intervened to stop the slaughter. It’d be nice if we were that considerate of the human rights of Muslims everywhere in the world.
Serbia was dealing with Kosovo Albanian extremists since early 80’s. These extremists eventualy grew stronger with support of the Western Erope and US and caused total civil war within KOSOVO. Yes within civil war chaos, Serbians extremists and Albanians extremists did slaughter civilian population of oponent ethnic group.
The real problem here is illegal immegrants who come here and become second class citizens and end up hating Americans for whatever reason. This is basically the same problem that caused the leaders of the Al queda 9/11 attacks, to go over the hill - they felt despised in Germany, lacked social contacts in Germany and were easy targets for radical clerics. This is part of the hidden cost of having second class citizens carry out all of the tasks that were once done by Americans, because it makes our businesses more competitive abroad. The day will come when either America as we know it no longer exists. When my ancestors came over here from Eastern Europe, they quickly assimilated, learning the language and everything else about our wonderful country that they could. The folks that are coming in today under the fence are entering for one reason, and one reason only, and it is not to assimilate, and some of them in the end will turn to violence out of frustration for their station in life.
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