This is big news.
It should serve as a reminder that we are at war, that there are people that want us dead.
A terrorist plot was thwarted!
Lives were saved, thanks to a clerk at Circuit City.
FORT DIX, N.J. -- One drove a cab, three were roofers. The others worked at a 7-Eleven and a supermarket. Their alleged plot to attack Fort Dix was foiled by another blue-collar worker: a store clerk who had been asked to dub a videotape of the men to DVD.
That tip led to the arrest Tuesday of six foreign-born Muslims on charges of plotting an armed attack on Fort Dix with the objective of killing "as many American soldiers as possible."
The unidentified clerk is being credited with tipping off authorities in January 2006 after one of the suspects asked him to transfer a video to DVD that showed 10 men shooting weapons at a firing range and calling for jihad, prosecutors said.
"If we didn't get that tip," said U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie, "I couldn't be sure what would happen." FBI agent J.P. Weis called the clerk the "unsung hero" of the case.
A spokeswoman for Circuit City on Wednesday said the clerk was an employee at their Mount Laurel store. Spokeswoman Jackie Foreman said the store is not releasing the employee's name but confirmed the person still works for the company.
Thank God this clerk contacted authorities.
Does it matter that these terrorists didn't get their orders from Osama bin Laden?
Does that make their plans any less significant?
Terrorism is terrorism.
Murder in the name of Allah is murder.
...The six — Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, 22; Dritan "Anthony" or "Tony" Duka, 28; Shain Duka, 26; Eljvir "Elvis" Duka, 23; Serdar Tatar, 23; and Agron Abdullahu, 24 — were ordered held without bail for a hearing Friday.
Five were charged with conspiracy to kill U.S. military personnel; the sixth, Abdullahu, was charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigrants in obtaining weapons.
One of the suspects, Tatar, worked at his father's pizzeria — Super Mario's Restaurant — in Cookstown and made deliveries to the base, using the opportunity to scout out Fort Dix for an attack, authorities said.
"Clearly, one of the guys had an intimate knowledge of the base from having been there delivering pizzas," Christie said.
Tatar's father, Muslim Tatar, 54, said the accusations against his son were hard to accept.
"He is not a terrorist. I am not a terrorist," he told The Star-Ledger of Newark.
I disagree.
Muslim Tatar's son IS a terrorist.
The elder Tatar told ABCNews he had gotten no indication his son harbored a deep hatred of the United States.
"I came here from Turkey in 1992, and this is my country. I love this country," Muslim Tatar told ABC.
The elder Tatar doesn't know his son very well.
I feel sorry for the father. His son has disgraced him and now he is burdened with that. The son showed no respect for his father.
He's a terrorist and a bad son.
The group often watched terror training videos, clips featuring Osama bin Laden, a tape containing the last will and testament of some of the Sept. 11 hijackers, and tapes of armed attacks on U.S. military personnel, authorities said.
The men trained by playing paintball in the woods in New Jersey and taking target practice at a firing range in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, where they had rented a house, authorities said.
"We believe they are their own cell," said Christie. "They are inspired by international terror organizations. I believe they saw themselves as part of that."
...The six were arrested Monday night trying to buy AK-47 assault weapons, M-16s and other weapons from an FBI informant, authorities said. It was not clear when the alleged attack was to take place.
"We had a group that was forming a platoon to take on an army. They identified their target, they did their reconnaissance. They had maps. And they were in the process of buying weapons. Luckily, we were able to stop that," said Weis.
Obviously, they weren't kidding around.
It's frightening to think of all the other homegrown cells that may be planning attacks.
The arrests renewed worries among New Jersey's Muslim community. Hundreds of Muslim men from New Jersey were rounded up and detained in the months after the 2001 terror attacks, but none were connected to that plot.
"If these people did something, then they deserve to be punished to the fullest extent of the law," said Sohail Mohammed, a lawyer who represented scores of detainees after the Sept. 11 attacks. "But when the government says `Islamic militants,' it sends a message to the public that Islam and militancy are synonymous."
"Don't equate actions with religion," he said.
Here we go again with the backlash stuff.
The reality is these terrorists are members of the Muslim community.
They are Islamic militants.
الله أَكْبَر
Allahu Akbar!
There IS a connection between the terrorism and the religion.
That's undeniable.
The outrage among all the peace-loving, tolerant Muslims should be at the terrorists aiming to kill us, the infidels, in the name of God.
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Read about the "White Al Qaeda."
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