News Item:
Terror attack foiled at Fort Dix
The Cooper River in Camden County, NJ, empties into the Delaware River at a point that is directly opposite center city Philadelphia. If you were to follow the river upstream, within a couple of miles, you’d travel through the city of Camden, wind around a waterfront driving range as you enter Pennsauken, paddle along a collegiate rowing course that holds national regattas, ease your way out of the course as you pass through the Philly suburb of Cherry Hill, and then meander through tree lined parks where the river narrows approaching the colonial style town of Haddonfield.
We know the area well. We live on the river. In a cluster of apartments and riverfront townhomes that we pass by every day, a plot to kill American soldiers was taking shape. The plan to stage an attack on Fort Dix was put on hold yesterday, when the FBI arrested six conspirators. Four of them lived in Cherry Hill. The arrests marked the end of a 16 month investigation. The FBI had been onto these guys that long. They actually had an informant infiltrate the group, and work with them for over a year. Four months after that, a second informant was in place, and participated in training missions held in the Pocono Mountains.
Of the six arrested, four hailed from Albania, one came from Turkey, and another from Jordan. All were muslims, all had sworn to partake in a holy jihad, all professed to carry out their plan in the name of Allah. It’s ironic that the Albanians would target Fort Dix. Eight years ago, almost to the day, Albanian refugees began arriving at Fort Dix, escaping the ethnic cleansing that swept over Kosovo. Over 4000 muslims were brought to the base in the Jersey Pines, and all were given sanctuary here, while American GI’s were dispatched to Eastern Europe to fight those who were intent on wiping them out.
You just never know who your neighbors are.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI agree that it is very ironic that Albanians would attack anything American. Albania/Kosova (and their people) are probably the staunchest US allies in Europe. American’s can do no wrong when it comes to Albanians. I know that because I am an Albanian-American and frequently visit Kosova. In fact, Albania is one of the very few countries that still have troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It is also ironic because the US is about to assist Kosova gain its independence. And it is also ironic because, as you said, Fort Dix was the first point of safety for many Albanian refugees from Kosovo. I remember volunteering there and seeing their faces experience safety and freedom for the first time.
It is important to realize that every nation and country has its idiots. It’s imperative not to let these clowns paint all Albanians in one color. Albanians remain US supporters. Thank God these couple of bad seeds were stopped before they could cause any harm to our troops.
Thanks very much for the comment, KRS, point well taken. We have enough home-grown idiots of our own here in the states. No need to paint anyone else with that broad a brush.
It is horrendous to have people of your own ethnicity try to commit these acts and especially against the country which saved your own people, your own region, the same region that you are now trying to make a State, going against any principles of international law, and any previous standards of how should a State come to existence. I want to thank KSK for what he/she wrote and I just don’t know what to add. What I have always known since I was a kid is that Albania has been a great supporter of peace in the Balkans, and if it wasn’t for the general crisis in 1997 maybe the international community (I mean the media) wouldn’t have any clue about its whereabouts, and I am not saying this in a bad meaning, but just because of its previous isolation and the fact that it is a tiny country in quite a small continent (quantitatively speaking). But one thing that I have learned from my country is that people respect each-others religion and moderation and secularity are the mottos of the Albanian constitution. I don’t know about the origin of these four guys whether they are from Albania or from the ethnic Albanian community in FYROM and Kosovo. This matters on a detailed observation, but the unchangeable fact is that they are Albanians and that makes me be ashamed, for the first time of my own people. Obviously they do not represent the majority, and they are a tiny fraction whose existence I didn’t know until today. I don’t know, these people do not deserve to be called Albanians, not because being Albanian is some kind of divine privilege, but because I refuse to call them Albanians.
I cannot accept in my own community such repulsive people who do nothing else but ruin our fragile reputation and do nothing else but help those who want to see the Balkans suffer endlessly.
Great snapshot perspective here. Ungrateful little pigs, I wonder what evil ideology could make them go so insane…
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absurd thought –
God of the Universe says
grow terrorists at home
breed sick ideology
blend in planning jihad
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