Guilty Plea In Plot To Attack Fort Dix

Man Admits Providing Weapons To Group Accused Of Plotting Raid On N.J Army Base

(AP)  A man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to providing weapons to a group of men accused of plotting an attack on a U.S. Army base in New Jersey.

Agron Abdullahu, 25, faces up to five years in federal prison when he is sentenced Feb. 6.

Federal prosecutors have portrayed Abdullahu as having the smallest role among the six men arrested earlier this year in the Fort Dix case. While the others are charged with conspiring to kill military personnel - a crime punishable by life in prison - Abdullahu was charged only with weapons offenses.

Abdullahu was born in what is now Kosovo and worked in a bakery. The others involved in the case include three ethnic Albanians from the former Yugoslavia, a Jordanian and a Turk. All are in their 20s.

Authorities said that while Abdullahu provided weapons to the other men and joined them for target practice in Pennsylvania, he resisted the idea of participating in an attack. The government said he told the others at one point that it would be against Islam to kill civilians and that it would be "crazy" to attack the military installation.

The men scouted out East Coast military installations to find one to attack but settled on Fort Dix largely because one of them knew his way around from delivering pizzas to the base for his father's restaurant, authorities maintain.

The installation was not attacked, and the other five men have pleaded not guilty. They are scheduled to go on trial in January.