Arrests over US army base 'plot'

[OrangeEmpire]

BBC NEWS | Americas | Arrests over US army base 'plot'

Six men have been arrested on charges of plotting to attack Fort Dix army base in the US state of New Jersey.

The men, all foreign-born and described as "Islamic militants", planned to use automatic weapons to kill as many US soldiers as possible, prosecutors say.
The FBI says it infiltrated the group after a video shop alerted the police to being asked to copy onto DVD footage of the men firing guns and chanting.
Officials say there is no evidence of links to international terror networks.
Four of the suspects were born in the former Yugoslavia, one in Turkey and one in Jordan.
The six, some of whom were in the US illegally, were due to appear in court in Camden, New Jersey, on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the US Attorney's Office in New Jersey, Michael Drewniak, said they would face charges of conspiracy to kill US servicemen.
'Dodged the bullet'
Speaking at a press conference in Camden, US attorney Christopher J Christie thanked the video store clerk who had alerted police after seeing the suspicious footage in late 2005. It apparently showed 10 young men, including the six suspects arrested, firing guns as they shouted "Allah Akbar" (God is great).

Thoughts?

 

[Lexvol]

You go through all the trouble to plan Jihad, and you only bring one VCR?

 

[jakez4ut]

i heard about this this morning and immediately thought about TRUT's post yesterday about how "when was the last time a terrorist used a gun" statement in the NRA thread.........

i would love to know if they had the guns already, where they got 'em and then were any of these guys on the so called watch lists.....

and lastly, they were here illegally, how and where did they get in?

If any of that is in the linke, apologies, didn't read it. just going off what i heard on the news this a.m.

 

[jakez4ut]

You go through all the trouble to plan Jihad, and you only bring one VCR?

ah, levity........a beautiful thing. can't put a price on stupidity can you?

 

[vol_in_ar]

i heard about this this morning and immediately thought about TRUT's post yesterday about how "when was the last time a terrorist used a gun" statement in the NRA thread.........

i would love to know if they had the guns already, where they got 'em and then were any of these guys on the so called watch lists.....

and lastly, they were here illegally, how and where did they get in?

If any of that is in the linke, apologies, didn't read it. just going off what i heard on the news this a.m.

I agree, I hope the NRA revises their stance on suspected terrorist buying firearms..

 

[allvol123]

Why?

 

[jakez4ut]

oh, here we go again........opcorn:

 

[allvol123]

I know. Still waiting on a good response.

 

[Lexvol]

I agree, I hope the NRA revises their stance on suspected terrorist buying firearms..

....and VCRs.

 

[vader]

....and VCRs.

:idea:

 

[WA_Vol]

The FBI is very lucky they were tipped off, otherwise it would have probably caught them off guard again.

 

[MG1968]

I know people get tired of the Clinton Administration being brought up whenever there's a story regarding terrorism, but at least one of the ethnic Albanians involved here was a refugee allowed into the US in 1999 by Clinton.

6abc.com: Co-worker Stunned by Abdullahu's Arrest

A trained sniper during the war in Kosovo, Abdullahu and his family were among thousands given safe haven in the U.S. under the Clinton administration to protect them from the Serbs. For months, they would be housed in refugee camps at Ft. Dix , a circumstance which now points to a terribly ironic twist.

 

[f1ip]

.........and many in our government still want to give citizenship to the undocumented/illegals.