Do You Think The War On Terror Will End If Our Troops Come Home?
This entry was posted on May 9, 2007 9:01 AM and is filed under Freedom.
The following is a re-print from an article sent to me by a news agency that I subscribe to.
FORT DIX, NJ. (May 9) -- One drove a cab, three were roofers. Another worked at a 7-Eleven and a sixth at a supermarket. Their alleged plot to attack Fort Dix was foiled by another blue-collar worker: a video store clerk.
Six foreign-born Muslims were accused Tuesday of planning to assault the Army base and slaughter scores of U.S. soldiers with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades.
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.
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.
Several of them said they were ready to kill and die "in the name of Allah," prosecutors said in court papers.
"These homegrown terrorists can prove to be as dangerous as any known group, if not more so. They operate under the radar," Weis said.
Four of the arrested men were born in the former Yugoslavia, one was born in Jordan and one came from Turkey, authorities said. Three were in the United States illegally; two had green cards allowing them to stay in this country permanently; and the sixth is a U.S. citizen.
The six - Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, 22; Dritan Duka, 28; Shain Duka, 26; Eljvir 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 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.
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. In addition to plotting the attack on Fort Dix, the defendants spoke of assaulting a Navy installation in Philadelphia during the annual Army-Navy football game and conducted surveillance at other military installations in the region, prosecutors said.
After the video clerk's tip, investigators said they infiltrated the group with two informants and bided their time while they secretly recorded the defendants.
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.
The other day on this blog, we all read how some of our troops in Iraq feel and how we are breaking the backs of the insurgents, thanks to a "frontline report" from Eric Jazak, USMC, currently serving in Iraq.
We read that the Iraqi people have had enough of the murdering and are finally stepping up to help the coalition and doing re-con missions of their own to rid their country of insurgents. Mose importantly Paul Daniel, USMC, currently serving in Iraq asked, "Do you want to fight them here, or there?"
I understand that there are "peace loving" Americans who love our country and love and support our troops and simply want them out of harms way. Those people believe that if our troops come home, everything will end and life in America will resume the way it was before September 11th. It truly is a beautiful thought. I'd be all for it if I thought the killing would end. Who really loves war? Every single Marine, Soldier, Airman and Sailor I have talked to hates war as much as anyone on earth. But when you have an enemy, who will kill Americans because we do not fall in line with their ideals, all bets are off.
It's not like we are fighting a uniformed Army from a certain country. We are fighting an ideology, ... the battle ground just happens to be Iraq.
Being a father of four, one of my worst fears was realized yesterday, ... that ideology is here in America, and followers and believers in that ideology are trying to kill Americans. Our planning and surveillance, that has been in place since September 11th, paid-off this time. An American citizen who saw something suspicious made a call, and by doing so, helped stopped the slaughter of possibly hundreds of American troops.
The Patriot Act worked, ... FBI profiling worked, ... secret surveillance worked, ... seeing something suspicious and reporting it worked. But they all worked together, and that's how you beat these cowards.
If you think because you are for peace and want the war in Iraq and Afghanistan to end and want our troops home ASAP that these cowards will not target you and you will be saved, ... you are wrong! We are all in this together.
Like September 11th, this current group of thugs were trying to use our own resources against us. America, ... we need to back our troops and work together. The battle is now here and we can all help.
Ohhhh, ...by the way, ... four of the cowards were illegal aliens, ... but that a whole new set security problems that need to be addressed at a different time.
One of the suspects, Tatar, worked at his father's pizzeria 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.
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. In addition to plotting the attack on Fort Dix, the defendants spoke of assaulting a Navy installation in Philadelphia during the annual Army-Navy football game and conducted surveillance at other military installations in the region, prosecutors said.
After the video clerk's tip, investigators said they infiltrated the group with two informants and bided their time while they secretly recorded the defendants.
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.
The other day on this blog, we all read how some of our troops in Iraq feel and how we are breaking the backs of the insurgents, thanks to a "frontline report" from Eric Jazak, USMC, currently serving in Iraq.
We read that the Iraqi people have had enough of the murdering and are finally stepping up to help the coalition and doing re-con missions of their own to rid their country of insurgents. Mose importantly Paul Daniel, USMC, currently serving in Iraq asked, "Do you want to fight them here, or there?"
I understand that there are "peace loving" Americans who love our country and love and support our troops and simply want them out of harms way. Those people believe that if our troops come home, everything will end and life in America will resume the way it was before September 11th. It truly is a beautiful thought. I'd be all for it if I thought the killing would end. Who really loves war? Every single Marine, Soldier, Airman and Sailor I have talked to hates war as much as anyone on earth. But when you have an enemy, who will kill Americans because we do not fall in line with their ideals, all bets are off.
It's not like we are fighting a uniformed Army from a certain country. We are fighting an ideology, ... the battle ground just happens to be Iraq.
Being a father of four, one of my worst fears was realized yesterday, ... that ideology is here in America, and followers and believers in that ideology are trying to kill Americans. Our planning and surveillance, that has been in place since September 11th, paid-off this time. An American citizen who saw something suspicious made a call, and by doing so, helped stopped the slaughter of possibly hundreds of American troops.
The Patriot Act worked, ... FBI profiling worked, ... secret surveillance worked, ... seeing something suspicious and reporting it worked. But they all worked together, and that's how you beat these cowards.
If you think because you are for peace and want the war in Iraq and Afghanistan to end and want our troops home ASAP that these cowards will not target you and you will be saved, ... you are wrong! We are all in this together.
Like September 11th, this current group of thugs were trying to use our own resources against us. America, ... we need to back our troops and work together. The battle is now here and we can all help.
Ohhhh, ...by the way, ... four of the cowards were illegal aliens, ... but that a whole new set security problems that need to be addressed at a different time.