Terrorists Arrested In Plot To Attack Fort Dix Army Base
At least five people were arrested on charges they plotted to attack the Fort Dix Army base and "kill as many soldiers as possible," federal authorities said Tuesday.
The suspects were scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Camden later Tuesday to face charges of conspiracy to kill U.S. servicemen, said Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey.
Five of them lived in Cherry Hill, about 10 miles east of Philadelphia and 20 miles southwest of Fort Dix, he said.
"They were planning an attack on Fort Dix in which they would kill as many soldiers as possible," Drewniak said.
The suspects were described as "Islamic radicals" by Greg Reinert, a spokesman for the United States Attorney's Office. A law enforcement source told FOX News that all of the suspects are recent converts and were not born Muslims.
The source told FOX News that there were between five and six arrests; the exact number is unclear.
The Associated Press reported that those captured were nationals of the former Yugoslavia, but the law enforcement source told FOX News that not all of them are of Albanian ethnicity. Federal sources also said the group is from the "Balkans."
Ft. Dix was used as a "refugee" camp for Albanians during the Kosovo war. When the war ended they were either allowed to go back or apply for citizenship. So, it looks like these filthy pigs are an ungrateful lot. We should have left them in Kosovo to play dodgeball with bombs.
Law enforcement officials said the attack was stopped in the planning stages and that the men were arrested while trying to buy automatic weapons in a sale set up by law enforcement authorities.
"While the group's alleged actions are alarming, it may not have gone beyond the concept stage," a federal source told FOX News.
Authorities believe the men trained for the attack in the woods in the Poconos and allegedly conducted surveillance at other area military institutions, including the Army's Fort Monmouth, the official said. Federal sources told FOX News the alleged targets went beyond military installations "to other targets of opportunity in the area."
The official said the men had lived in the United States for some time and were arrested as part of a joint federal and local investigation.
Now that this has seemingly been ended, we need to find out the chain of events which led this to occur (i.e. mosques, imams, etc). If these people were refugees at the base, sometime between 1999 and now, they converted to a new religion and believed in it so deeply they would kill people over it.
