February 11, 2009 4:53 PM

Friend: Fort Dix Suspect Had Bomb Recipes

One of the six Muslim men suspected of plotting to massacre U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix had bomb recipes in his car and referred to Osama bin Laden as "Uncle Benny," a former co-worker said Thursday.

"He also, at times, would say things that you would think that, 'This guy can't be all there,' but I dismissed them as jokes," the former co-worker, Bob Watts, told ABC's "Good Morning America."

Watts said he and Agron Abdullahu worked together at bakery for more than two years and were "like brothers."

"He was an easygoing guy, made you laugh all the time, he was somebody you really enjoyed working with," Watts said.

Abdullahu sometimes made jokes about how the United States couldn't find bin Laden, saying, "U.S., no matter what they do, cannot catch my Uncle Benny," Watts said. He said Abdullahu also showed him bomb recipes that he had in his car.

He said he warned Abdullahu, "you have to watch yourself this day and age, with 9/11, you're going to get yourself into a lot trouble." But Watts said he never saw anything to indicate that his friend hated the country.

"That's what's puzzling me and making my stomach turn knots right now," he said.

Federal authorities said they detained Abdullahu and the other five men because they feared the group was on the verge of carrying out an attack on Fort Dix. The men were arrested Monday night as they tried to buy AK-47 assault weapons, M-16s and other weapons from an FBI informant, authorities said.

"They had training, they had maps, and I think they were very close to moving on this," U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie said Wednesday. "Our view was they had pretty much gotten to concluding the planning phase of this and were looking to obtain heavy weaponry — and if not from us, they were going to try to obtain it elsewhere."

The men — four born in the former Yugoslavia, one from Jordan and one from Turkey — lived in Philadelphia and its suburbs with their immediate and extended families. Three were roofers, one drove a cab, and the two others worked at food stores.

One of the six used his pizza delivery job to gain access to the Army base and scout it out, exposing what may be a security vulnerability, a congressman said Wednesday.

Serdar Tatar was on the fort's approved list of delivery people and given access to the base as part of his job with a nearby pizzeria run by his father, according to a Fort Dix spokeswoman.

Tatar's father, Muslim Tatar, 54, denied that his son had made deliveries to Fort Dix. However, Christie said the younger Tatar spoke of delivering pizzas on tapes made by informants.



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by lars008-2009 May 11, 2007 3:52 PM EDT
there are no moderate muslims...
there are fascist nazi islamic muslims and
fascist nazi islamic muslim Collaborators...

HASSAN EXPOSES THE MYTH OF MODERATE ISLAM

The Network

Hassan Butt Tells Bob Simon Killing In The Name Of Islam Is A "Cancer"

"The position of moderate Muslims is that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism. Do you buy that?" Simon asks.

"No, absolutely not. By completely being in denial about it's like an alcoholic basically. Unless an alcoholic acknowledges that he has a problem with alcohol, he's never gonna be able to go forward," Butt argues. "And as long as we, as Muslims, do not acknowledge that there is a violent streak in Islam, unless we acknowledge that, then we are gonna always lose the battle to the militants, by being in complete denial about it."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/23/60minutes/main2602308_page3.shtml

execute them now as spies under the geneva convention that all non uniformed combatants are spies... you can't have a trial for the millions of these fascist nazi islamic muslim nuts that have invaded the USA...
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by bayoudawg3 May 11, 2007 7:54 AM EDT
I have no doubt that the liberal left weenies will be coming out of the woodwork to support these poor, hardworking, illegals who want nothing more than the 'American Dream.' Michael Moore will probably make a movie about how the President conspired with the FBI to frame these guys
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by toolmangler-2009 May 10, 2007 10:37 PM EDT
The LA TIMES- has erased the names of the 54 innocent people killed in the 1992 riots , from their data base. All those days have been lifted from the search engines, reality too PC.
Posted by trueprogress at 02:42 PM : May 10, 2007



"In the end, 54 people were killed, and more than 2,300 were injured. More than 7,000 fires, along with window smashing, looting and attacks on vehicles resulted in an estimated $1 billion in damage. Los Angeles city courts were backed up for months dealing with the more than 12,000 arrests that resulted from the riots. "

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by trueprogress May 10, 2007 5:42 PM EDT
PC MEDIA DOES IT AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAin
The media seem to have down played the significnce of this story, of a failed plot of Islamic fascists who had planned to kill hundreds of innocent people, but were stopped because of the vigilance of citizens, and the Patriot ACT. Why ? Ans. That is how their nature.... for example.. The LA TIMES- has erased the names of the 54 innocent people killed in the 1992 riots , from their data base. All those days have been lifted from the search engines, reality too PC. For all students of hx, or who want to know the truth, some hx is just so far off the story line that it must be erased, and the LA Liberals hope, forgotten and retaught as an "economic uprising". I was there. I saw innocent people pulled out of their cars, on the way home, and shot. Where is the memorial ? Where is the retrospective update ? Is this 1984 ?
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by colonieny May 10, 2007 5:39 PM EDT
The media seem to have down played the significnce of this story, of a failed plot of Islamic fascists who had planned to kills hundreds of innocent people, but were stopped because of the vigilance of citizens, and the Patriot ACT. Why ?
The LA TIMES- has erased the names of the 54 innocent people killed in the 1992 riots , from their data base. All those days have been lifted from the search engines, reality too PC. For all students of hx, or who want to know the truth, some hx is just so far off the story line that it must be erased, and the LA Liberals hope, forgotten and retaught as an "economic uprising". I was there. I saw innocent people pulled out of their cars, on the way home, and shot. Where is the memorial ? Where is the retrospective update ? Is this 1984 ?
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by colonieny May 10, 2007 5:35 PM EDT
The media seem to have down played the significnce of this story, of a failed plot of Islamic fascists who had planned to kills hundreds of innocent people, but were stopped because of the vigilance of citizens, and the Patriot ACT. Why ?
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by secundus2 May 10, 2007 3:29 PM EDT
Illegals such as the Duka brothers have contempt for US law and even for state and local law (the Wash. Post reports 54 traffic violations, including speeding and driving w/o license, and for drugs paraphernalia). They have no respect for the rights of others; they take no responsibility as "Americans." They are scofflaws at every level. Why be surprised they play at Islamic terror? Don't waste money on a trial, just deport them.
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