No Bail For Fort Dix Six
Foreign-Born Men Charged With Plotting Attack On Army Base Considered A Flight Risk
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Play CBS Video Video Weapons Amassed In Terror Plot Police say the suspects in a New Jersey terror cell bought automatic assault weapons to carry out a planned attack on military personnel at the Fort Dix army installation. Bob Orr reports.
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Video Fort Dix Terror Plot Foiled A plot to attack U.S. soldiers at New Jersey's Fort Dix ended in the darkness of early morning when six Muslims were captured by federal authorities. Bob Orr reports.
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A transport van with blacked out windows is directed into a garage at the Mitchell H. Cohen United States Courthouse in Camden, N.J. Friday, May 11, 2007. United States Marshal James Plousis confirmed that the van carried six Muslim men accused of plotting to massacre U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix military base. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)
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Serdar Tatar, left, is seen in an artist's drawing during a court appearance before Magistrate Joel Schneider, right, at the U.S. District Courthouse in Camden, N.J., Tuesday, May 8, 2007. Tatar is one of six men accused of plotting an attack on Fort Dix Army base. (AP Photo/Andrea Shepard)
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U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie, center, surrounded by federal and state police officials, holds a news conference on the steps of the U.S. District Courthouse in Camden, N.J., on May 8, 2007, to announce the arrests of six men accused of plotting to attack Fort Dix. (AP)
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Interactive Target: Fort Dix Authorities say they foiled plot by six men to attack troops on U.S. Army post.
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Timeline Fort Dix Plot Unravels Events leading up to arrest of six men who allegedly planned to kill U.S. military personnel.
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Prosecutors argued that the men, all born outside the United States, pose a flight risk.
The men — four of them ethnic Albanians from the former Yugoslavia, one from Jordan and one from Turkey — have been held at a federal detention center in Philadelphia since their arrest Monday night.
Five of the men are charged with conspiring to kill uniformed military personnel, an offense punishable by life in prison. They are Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, 22; Serdar Tatar, 23; Dritan "Anthony" or "Tony" Duka, 28; Shain Duka, 26; and Eljvir "Elvis" Duka, 23,
Agron Abdullahu, 24, is charged with helping illegal immigrants obtain weapons, and could face 10 years in prison if convicted.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Stigall argued against letting Shnewer be released on bail to the custody of his parents while awaiting trial.
"The problem with this package is that the actions that are alleged were going on at that house," he said.
Friends and relatives of Shnewer offered to post several properties they own worth a total of about $600,000 as collateral to support bail for him.
A more detailed bail hearing will be held next Thursday for Abdullahu, who faces the least serious charges of the six.
Authorities say the men were preparing to buy automatic weapons to use in an attack on Fort Dix when they were arrested. They targeted the Army post, which is 25 miles east of Philadelphia and primarily used to train reservists, partly because one of them had delivered pizzas there and was familiar with the base, according to court filings. The objective: to kill "as many American soldiers as possible."
The men, all in their 20s, have lived in and around Philadelphia for years, worshipped at moderate mosques, have family members close by and worked blue-collar jobs installing roofs, driving a cab, delivering pizzas and baking bread.Read the federal criminal complaint (.pdf)
Defense lawyers for some of the men said they are considering attacking the prosecution's heavy reliance on two paid informants who infiltrated the group more than a year ago and recorded conversations with the defendants.
Attorney Rocco Cipparone, who is representing defendant Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, whom he described as a "hardworking cab driver," said he'll look into "the role of paid informants and how aggressive they were in potentially prodding or moving things along."
Authorities said they first learned about the men in January 2006 after a tip from a clerk at a Mount Laurel electronics store. The clerk called local police because a home video the men wanted transferred to a DVD looked like it might have terrorist links, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie said.
Earlier this year, authorities said, the men took a training trip to the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, where they fired weapons and played paintball to prepare for an attack.
In the wake of 9/11, more than 400,000 names have come under one form of government surveillance or another, from watch lists to wiretaps, reported CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian.
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See all 39 Commentsthey say.Illegals who help illegals obtain
weapons.Other news states 3 are born here 2 were
illegal.Are they going to release an illegal
to his illegal mommy and daddy?or WHERE will they release him? Sad when illegals can own
$600,000 worth of proberty.Thanks to thier
friends Bank of a America.Bottom line here
foreigners.Close the borders.
One more note: I don't consider the neo-fscists that have infested our government to be "conservative".
Re: "Are you insinuating CBS has become a propaganda tool for the conservatives?"
CBS is a part of the large Western Corporate media empire, Viacom. To think that they don't have a tendency to toe the pro-Corporate line seems pretty naive to me.
Besides, CBS regularly gives voice to overwhelmingly discredited neo-fascistic propaganda publications like the Weekly Standard, and the National Review Online.
CBS also regularly presents unchallenged reports from groups like the SITE Institute, as though these reports are credible, even though the SITE Institute is a pretty obvious and amateurish disinformation factory.
To answer your question. I don't know why CBS is allowing comments on this "propanganda" story you feel is ridiculous and irrelevant, but not allowing comments on the 23 dead.
Are you insinuating CBS has become a propaganda tool for the conservatives? If so, there probably a couple CBS staffers monitoring this site that are laughing their a$$es off right now.
This story has a lot of gaping holes in it.
Poor reporting ?????????????
Authorities say the men were preparing to buy automatic weapons to use in an attack on Fort Dix when they were arrested. They targeted the Army post, which is 25 miles east of Philadelphia and primarily used to train reservists, partly because one of them had delivered pizzas there and was familiar with the base, according to court filings. The objective: to kill "as many American soldiers as possible."
From the previous article
The video showed 10 young men in their early 20s "shooting assault weapons at a firing range ... while calling for jihad and shouting in Arabic 'Allah Akbar' (God is great)," the complaint said. The 10 included the six men who were arrested, authorities said.
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...In other news, U.S. and German agencies are investigating a potential terror plot against U.S. military bases, buildings and citizens in Germany%u2026..the official said counterterrorism authorities believed Islamic extremists were behind the planning, but the official had no reason to suspect al Qaeda specifically.
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the harshest punishment, Death to the devils who
want to destroy this country, and again stop
the illegals, send them home! Or kick their *****
out of here.
cannonball
the harshest punishment, Death to the devils who
want to destroy this country, and again stop
the illegals, send them home! Or kick their *****
out of here.
cannonball
the harshest punishment, Death to the devils who
want to destroy this country, and again stop
the illegals, send them home! Or kick their *****
out of here.
cannonball
Kill them like the rats they are!
Posted by KEITHGARDNER at 03:14 PM : May 11, 2007
Maybe that will make these people think twice about terrorizing us. I doubt it but it's time we start fighting back. My mom always said 2 wrongs don't make a right but in this case I think we have to fight back every way we can!!!
Kill them like the rats they are!
Posted by KEITHGARDNER at 03:14 PM : May 11, 2007
Maybe that will make these people think twice about terrorizing us. I doubt it but it's time we start fighting back. My mom always said 2 wrongs don't make a right but in this case I think we have to fight back every way we can!!!
Kill them like the rats they are!
Posted by KEITHGARDNER at 03:14 PM : May 11, 2007
Maybe that will make these people think twice about terrorizing us. I doubt it but it's time we start fighting back. My mom always said 2 wrongs don't make a right but in this case I think we have to fight back every way we can!!!
Arizona has Proposition 100-This is a law that denies bail to illegal immigrants who commit serious crimes; mostly felonies. The immigration status of the accused is supposed to be determined by the court, which then either allows bail to be posted or not. Although any criminal could become a flight risk, those who are here illegally often use their home countries as a safe haven from escaping justice. If illegal immigration is stopped, this country just might
be safer from potential criminals, and those with terrorist intent on their minds.
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