Well, looks like we stopped a terror attack on a US military base in the United States. I can hear the neo-Copperheads now – “US out of New Jersey!”

And at the risk of stereotyping, all six are foreign-born young male Muslims, and some are in the US illegally.

Federal authorities in New Jersey have arrested six men who allegedly plotted for 17 months to attack the Fort Dix military base with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, federal officials said today.

The plan, first reported this morning by New York's WNBC television, involved four men from Albania, one from Jordan and one from Turkey, said Greg Reinert, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey. They intended to storm the World War I-era base and kill as many military and other personnel as possible.

Charging document filed in federal court in Camden yesterday and unsealed today portray an ambitious and cold-blooded -- but somewhat bungling -- cadre who hoped to kill at least 100 soldiers, but also dropped training videos off at a local store to be copied, and spoke openly to a Philadelphia police sergeant about obtaining maps of Fort Dix.

According to the documents, U.S. authorities were alerted to the group's existence by a video store employee, who said a man had brought in a recording of 10 young men shooting assault weapons and shouting jihadist slogans. The man asked for the videotape to be copied onto a DVD, the charging documents said.

The store complied, but also turned the material over to the FBI. In March of 2006, an FBI informant established a relationship with one of the men believed to be in the videotape, the charging documents say. Eventually, two informants infiltrated the group, recording numerous conversations and events over the next year.

And they have been among us for a number of years.

Four of the men were born in the former Yugoslavia, one in Jordan and one in Turkey, officials said. All had lived in the United States for years. Three were in the country illegally; two had green cards allowing them to stay permanently; the other is a U.S. citizen.

Besides Shnewer, Tatar and Eljvir Duka, the other men were identified in court papers as Dritan Duka and Shain Duka. Checks with Immigration and Customs Enforcement show that the Dukas were illegally in the U.S., according to FBI complaints unsealed with their arrests.

Five of the men lived in Cherry Hill, a Philadelphia suburb about 20 miles from Fort Dix.

Here are the identities of the terrorists.

Officials identified the men as Dritan Duka, 28, Eljvir Duka, 23, Shain Duka, 26, Serdar Tatar, 23, Mohamad Shnewer, 22, and Agron Abdullahu, 24. They are described as being in their early 20s.

It remains unclear if the men in question are Muslim converts or lifelong Muslims, and where they worship. If this follows the usual pattern of such Muslim terrorist plots, we will likely find a connection back to some local mosque where jihad is preached.

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1 These were simply young men attempting to express themselves...

Posted by: T F Stern at Tue May 8 12:39:32 2007 (/XKHe)

2 Another thwarted terrorist plot? When did Bush's approval rating drop below 30% again? Has it been six months already? Oh thats right, daylight savings time change and the approval rating below 30%.

Posted by: Syntax at Wed May 9 16:47:10 2007 (QqVLv)

3 It must be nice being a leftist, Syntax. If the FBI manages to stop a terrorist attack, you can claim it is all a hoax designed to boost the bush poll numbers. If, God forbid, they fail to stop one, it's all the fault of an incompetent Bush administration -- or you can claim he knew all about it and sacrificed American lives for political purposes. So no matter what happens, you have a ready-made line to use to justify your hatred of George W. Bush!

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Wed May 9 21:06:15 2007 (7qGzY)

4 Oh, the angst of being a "disenfranchised youth" in America! Why didn't they just burn a few cars like they do in Paris? No jihad connection here. Move along, now! Return to your media-induced brain-dead coma. And, oh yeah, blame Bush.

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