Fort Dix, NJ the Target of Jihadi Terror Plot

[Sean Osborne]

http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/FtDix050807

Fort Dix target of terror plot

8 May 2007 UPDATE 9:30 PM: Based upon open source (OSINT) reporting the six arrests made last night by federal law enforcement officers constitutes only a partial apprehension of the active Al Qaeda-inspired terrorist cell. This information is derived from the video the terrorists had attempted to get converted into a DVD for further distribution. Videographic details within the recording reveal there were a total of 10 jihadists live-firing assault weapons, calling for jihad along with the traditional "allah hu akhbar" refrain. A remainder of at least 4 members of the cell are therefore still-at-large and, also based upon the video evidence of assault weapons training, must be considered heavily armed and extremely dangerous. Additionally other sources indicate that as many as 6 other individuals who acted in support roles for this cell also remain at-large. It must also be surmised that ongoing interrogations of the 6 arrested terrorists by federal law enforcement is focused upon locating the remnant cell members. Additionally, the cell members may all have known the location of the video store. That still unidentified business and its employees can be assessed be at great risk of potential terrorist retribution.

The suburban nature of this terror plot has been a continual focus of reporting of the Northeast Intelligence Netork over the past several years. It cannot be over-emphasized as it proves beyond any doubt that those who claim we engage in "fear mongering" or other such nonsense simply are clueless in the statements they habitually make.

These terrorists homes are in urban America. Places like Cherry Hill, New Jersey and YourTown, USA. Other terrorists of this exact same type are living in a neighborhood somewhere in suburban or urban America, perhaps, as the people of Cherry Hill learned this morning, they may be living nearby or literally across the street from your own home. Sulejman Talovic lived in such a neighborhood, as did John Muhammed (aka the "DC Sniper"). So did Mohammed Atta and the 9/11 highjackers. So did Hussein al-Husseini, both before and in the aftermath the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. He recently disappeared and is no longer to be found at his Boston, MA suburban residence imaged directly below.





Where is Hussein al-Hussaini?
The plan was quite simple, taking advantage of the malaise about potential terrorist attacks of not only the general public, but of our own military installations. Using the access pass from the Visitor Control Bureau at Fort Dix given to terror suspect Serdar TATAR for pizza deliveries to the base, he and his co-conspirators would be given access to the base and once inside, open fire on as many people inside of the installation as possible.

On-site investigation conducted by Northeast Intelligence Network associate director and military affairs specialist Sean Osborne verified that TATAR’S family owns and operates Super Mario's Pizza, 19 Wrightstown-Cookstown Road, Cookstown, NJ. The pizza shop is located just 200 yards from the main gate of McGuire AFB and just under a mile from the Fort Dix Wrightstown Gate.


TERROR SUSPECTS
Dritan Tony DUKA, 29, 215 Mimosa Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003 (also of 836 Cooper Landing Road, Apt 114E, Cherry Hill, NJ 08002)
Eljvir DUKA, Age/DOB unconfirmed
Shain DUKA, 836 Cooper Landing Road, Apt 114E, Cherry Hill, NJ 08002
Mohamad SHNEWER, 22, 1016 E Tampa Avenue, Cherry Hill, NJ 08034
Serdar TATAR, 27, 1200 Marlton Pike East, #1410, Cherry Hill, NJ 08034
Agron ABDULLAHU, Age/DOB unconfirmed

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VIEW COMPLETE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT
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8 May 2007: Six Muslim terrorists, part of an Islamic Albanian terror cell based in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, were arrested in a terror plot to storm Fort Dix, New Jersey, where they planned to use automatic weapons and explosives against the soldiers and facility. They planned to storm the base with automatic weapons and kill as many soldiers as they could on a "martyrdom mission." at the N.J. base. Fort Dix was just one of several other military and security installations under surveillance by this group. Other installations considered targets included Dover Air base, Fort Monmouth and several Coast Guard stations.

Sean Osborne, Associate Director and Military Affairs Analyst of the Northeast Intelligence Network, is "stationed" at Fort Dix and has been closely investigating this incident. In a conference of analysts this morning, Mr. Osborne questioned whether the FBI alerted the Force Protection Unit at Fort Dix at any time in light of the impending threat, citing no elevation of threat levels within the base.
Information concerning this plot confirmed that the terror suspects traveled from New Jersey to the Poconos and perhaps mountainous areas in New York where they practiced firing automatic weapons. The Northeast Intelligence Network has consistently reported that training by Muslim terror operatives have been using rural and desolate areas, including but not limited to such Islamic conclaves as located in Hancock, NY, for automatic weapons training.

More to Cherry Hill, NJ than meets the eye? Sean Osborne interviewed on WIBG AM 1020 -- AUDIO: WIBG AM 1020 update (2 minutes)
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RELATED: In his newly released book The Day of Islam, Dr. Paul L. Williams devotes a chapter to the on-site investigation and surveillance of Islamberg, a Muslim enclave of Jamaat ul-Fuqra members in Hancock, NY by the Northeast Intelligence Network. Douglas J. Hagmann, a multi-state licensed investigator and director of the Northeast Intelligence Network, spoke with residents of that area, all who spoke of hearing the sounds of automatic weapons being fired and paramilitary-style weapons practice. The enclave is located in a remote and very rural area at the western base of the Catskill Mountains.

"We hear bursts of gunfire all of the time, and we know that there is military like training going on there. Those people are armed and dangerous."-- Hancock, NY area resident

When reports of this activity were first published by the Northeast Intelligence Network, they were met with some skepticism by individuals unwilling to confront the uncomfortable truth. Through FBI affidavits, we have confirmation that the Islamic terrorists plotting an attack on Fort Dix and other military installations practiced weapons training in remote areas of the Pennsylvania Pocono Mountains. Will this be enough to erase the skepticism that Islamic terrorists are not only embedded in our society, but actively engaged in the planning of Islamic jihad?

[Sean Osborne]

I suggest everyone read that FBI Criminal Complaint in its entirety and pay attention to the details. Those details are astounding and show exactly what the modus operandi of this cell was. It was the early mistakes which placed them in the federal law enforcement cross hairs - were it not for those errors - there might very well have been a lot of dead soldiers and civilians on Ft. Dix in the near-term. And had they not missed their window of opportunity, the December 2, 2006 Army-Navy game at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia might have been the mass-casualty attack vice the attack planned to occur at Ft. Dix in the very near term. We dodged a bunch of bullets with the takedown of this cell. Thank God the FBI's OpSec was superior to that practiced by this cell.

Still... there are armed cell members and half a dozen supporters still at large in the Cherry Hill-Ft. Dix region.

[Sean Osborne]

Here's a link to the approximately 15-minute segment I did live on KTRH 740 AM Houston, TX this afternoon. My segment leads off hour 3 of the Chris Baker show.

http://www.ktrh.com/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=ChrisBaker.xml

[Sean Osborne]

http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/node/996


The Reality of the "Ft. Dix Six"

By Sean Osborne, Associate Director, Military Affairs
As a civilian contractor employee based at the US Army PEO C3T Northeast Regional Response Center, Ft. Dix, New Jersey, I want to make clear the specifics I have determined to be true concerning the radical islamist cell now exposed by the diligent work of federal law enforcement.

1. The now infamous "Ft. Dix Six" was actually a cell of 10 Al Qaeda jihadists-in-training.

2. The members of this cell were specifically inspired by Osama bin Laden and swore an oath to the Al Qaeda vision of jihad against the United States of America. Period. The cell members were in possession of numerous Al Qaeda media and jihad training products.

3. Their specific intent was to mimic Al Qaeda ambush tactics executed against US troops in Iraq and apply those tactics here in my home state of New Jersey, ultimately resolving their long-term planning to a target environment in which I work in on a daily basis - the cantonment area of Ft. Dix.

These statements are my own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, positions, policies, or sentiments of the United States Army, the Department of Defense, or any branch or variations thereof.

[Malsua]

Ethnic Albanians is the catch word I heard all day.

How about MUSLIMS. Why can't these friggin animals be described as who they are.

They bring nothing to this world except death.

[Aplomb]

Right on cue there's an answer for you, Mal...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070509/.../fort_dix_plot

Store clerk key to Fort Dix plot arrests


By WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press Writer 43 minutes ago

FORT DIX, N.J. - One drove a cab, three were roofers. Another worked at a 7-Eleven and a sixth at a supermarket. Their alleged plot to attack Fort Dix was foiled by another blue-collar worker: a video store clerk.

Six foreign-born Muslims were accused Tuesday of planning to assault the Army base and slaughter scores of U.S. soldiers with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades.

The unidentified clerk is being credited with tipping off authorities in January 2006 after one of the suspects asked him to transfer a video to DVD that showed 10 men shooting weapons at a firing range and calling for jihad, prosecutors said.

"If we didn't get that tip," said U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie, "I couldn't be sure what would happen."

FBI agent J.P. Weis called the clerk the "unsung hero" of the case.
Authorities said there was no direct evidence connecting the men to any international terror organizations such as al-Qaida. But several of them said they were ready to kill and die "in the name of Allah," prosecutors said in court papers.

Weis said the U.S. is seeing a "brand-new form of terrorism," involving smaller, more loosely defined groups that may not be connected to al-Qaida but are inspired by its ideology.

"These homegrown terrorists can prove to be as dangerous as any known group, if not more so. They operate under the radar," Weis said.

Four of the arrested men were born in the former Yugoslavia, one was born in Jordan and one came from Turkey, authorities said. Three were in the United States illegally; two had green cards allowing them to stay in this country permanently; and the sixth is a U.S. citizen.
The six — Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, 22; Dritan "Anthony" or "Tony" Duka, 28; Shain Duka, 26; Eljvir "Elvis" Duka, 23; Serdar Tatar, 23; and Agron Abdullahu, 24 — were ordered held without bail for a hearing Friday.

Five were charged with conspiracy to kill U.S. military personnel; the sixth, Abdullahu, was charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigrants in obtaining weapons.

One of the suspects, Tatar, worked at his father's pizzeria — Super Mario's Restaurant — in Cookstown and made deliveries to the base, using the opportunity to scout out Fort Dix for an attack, authorities said.

"Clearly, one of the guys had an intimate knowledge of the base from having been there delivering pizzas," Christie said.

Tatar's father, Muslim Tatar, 54, said the accusations against his son were hard to accept.

"He is not a terrorist. I am not a terrorist," he told The Star-Ledger of Newark.

The elder Tatar told ABCNews he had gotten no indication his son harbored a deep hatred of the United States.

"I came here from Turkey in 1992, and this is my country. I love this country," Muslim Tatar told ABC.

The group often watched terror training videos, clips featuring

Osama bin Laden, a tape containing the last will and testament of some of the Sept. 11 hijackers, and tapes of armed attacks on U.S. military personnel, authorities said.

The men trained by playing paintball in the woods in New Jersey and taking target practice at a firing range in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, where they had rented a house, authorities said.

"We believe they are their own cell," said Christie. "They are inspired by international terror organizations. I believe they saw themselves as part of that."

Fort Dix last was in the international spotlight in 1999, when it sheltered more than 4,000 ethnic Albanian refugees during the

NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia.

In addition to plotting the attack on Fort Dix, the defendants spoke of assaulting a Navy installation in Philadelphia during the annual Army-Navy football game and conducted surveillance at other military installations in the region, prosecutors said.

After the video clerk's tip, investigators said they infiltrated the group with two informants and bided their time while they secretly recorded the defendants.

The six were arrested Monday night trying to buy AK-47 assault weapons, M-16s and other weapons from an FBI informant, authorities said. It was not clear when the alleged attack was to take place.

"We had a group that was forming a platoon to take on an army. They identified their target, they did their reconnaissance. They had maps. And they were in the process of buying weapons. Luckily, we were able to stop that," said Weis.

The arrests renewed worries among New Jersey's Muslim community. Hundreds of Muslim men from New Jersey were rounded up and detained in the months after the 2001 terror attacks, but none were connected to that plot.

"If these people did something, then they deserve to be punished to the fullest extent of the law," said Sohail Mohammed, a lawyer who represented scores of detainees after the Sept. 11 attacks. "But when the government says `Islamic militants,' it sends a message to the public that Islam and militancy are synonymous."

"Don't equate actions with religion," he said.

Mario Tummillo lives near Tatar's father in Cookstown and said he worked with Tatar at the pizza parlor. Tummillo, 20, described Tatar as a religious man who "wasn't violent at all."

The restaurant's chef, Joseph Hofflinger, 35, quit after learning the owner was the father of one of the suspects.

"My son is in the 82nd Airborne," Hofflinger told ABC. "I won't work for a place that supports terrorism so I'm out."
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Associated Press Writers Kathy Matheson in Cherry Hill, Chris Newmarker in Trenton, Matt Apuzzo and Ben Feller in Washington, Geoff Mulvihill in Mount Laurel, Tom Hester Jr. in Trenton and Jeffrey Gold in Newark contributed to this story.

[Backstop]

I'm thinking 'Tip Of The Iceberg' here.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wi...on-apnewjersey

Timeline of events in Fort Dix attack plot

May 8, 2007, 3:13 PM EDT
AP New Jersey

A timeline of events leading up to the arrest Monday night of six Islamic militants who allegedly planned to attack Fort Dix:

Jan. 31, 2006: A shopkeeper alerted the FBI about a "disturbing" video he had been asked to copy onto a DVD. The video showed 10 young men in their early 20s shooting assault weapons at a firing range earlier that month. The group called for jihad (a holy war) and shouted in Arabic 'Allah Akbar' (God is great).

_ March: An FBI informant infiltrated the group by developing a relationship with Mohamad Shnewer.

_ May 26: Shnewer told the informant to look at particular DVD files on his laptop. One file contained what appeared to be the last will and testament of at least two of the hijackers involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; another contained images of Osama bin Laden and other Islamic extremists calling on the viewer to join the jihadist movement.

_ July 7: A second informant was approached by six men, one of whom, later identified as Eljvir Duka, invited the informant to his home.

_ July 29: In a meeting recorded by the second informant, Shnewer showed several videos on his laptop computer that depicted armed attacks on U.S. military personnel.

_ Aug. 1, 2 and 5: Shnewer told the first informant that he, Serdar Tatar, Dritan Duka, Eljvir Duka, Shain Duka and others were planning to attack a U.S. military base, and Shnewer specifically named Fort Dix, explaining that they could kill at least 100 soldiers by using rocket-propelled grenades.

_ Aug. 5: Shnewer told the first informant they need to conduct surveillance of military bases to decide which one to attack.

_ Aug. 11: Shnewer and the first informant traveled to Fort Dix to conduct surveillance. During the trip, Shnewer told the informant the plan was to "hit four, five, six Humvees and light the whole place (up) and retreat completely without any losses." The two also drove to Lakehurst Naval Air Station. Law enforcement officers also observed Shnewer drive by himself to Fort Monmouth later that day.

_ Aug. 13: Shnewer and the first informant drove to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. While there, Shnewer decided the base would be too difficult to attack because of its high security. The two left the base and drove past the U.S. Coast Guard building in Philadelphia.

_ Oct. 31: Serdar Tatar discussed Fort Dix with the first informant and said he would supply a map of the Army post.

_ Nov. 12: Tatar told the first informant he would acquire a map of Fort Dix from his father's restaurant and described an area of the post which they could attack and cause a power outage, making it easier to mount the attack on military personnel. At the end of the meeting, Tatar asked if the informant was a federal agent. (It was unclear how the informant responded.)

_ Nov. 15: In an attempt to find out if the informant was a federal agent, Tatar told a sergeant with the Philadelphia Police Department that he had been approached by an individual who asked him to provide maps of Fort Dix and that he thought the incident was terrorist-related.

_ Nov. 28: Tatar told the first informant that he would provide a map of Fort Dix even though it could lead to his being deported. He expressed his continuing suspicions about the informant, saying, "I'm gonna do it. Whether you are or not (FBI), I'm gonna do it. Know why? ... It doesn't matter to me, whether I get locked up, arrested, or get taken away, it doesn't matter. Or I die, doesn't matter, I'm doing it in the name of Allah." Later that evening, Tatar left a map of Fort Dix in an area near the informant's residence.

_ Nov. 29: The first informant gave the map to law enforcement officers, who made copies and returned the original to him.

_ Dec. 7: FBI agents interviewed Tatar, who denied being part of the plot, providing the map or knowing any of the parties involved.

_ Dec. 8: Shnewer told the first informant that the group had missed an opportunity to attack military personnel at the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia the previous weekend.

_ Dec. 29: Shnewer told members of the group that he had hidden the map of Fort Dix in his mother's car.

_ Jan. 31-Feb. 1, 2007: Law enforcement officers observed members of the group going in and out of Dritan Duka's residence in Cherry Hill, at times carrying dark-colored, rifle-style bags. In conversations taped by the second informant, several members were heard testing the action on the weapons.

_ Feb. 1: The second informant traveled with several members of the group to a house the Duka brothers rented in Gouldsboro, Pa.

_ Feb. 2: Law enforcement officials observed several members of the group firing weapons at the same firearms range in the Poconos they had used in the Jan. 3 video. The following day, an undercover FBI agent who had observed the group at the range encountered Eljvir and Dritan Duka at a local convenience store. Eljvir Duka asked the undercover agent if he knew where to purchase AK-47 and M-16 firearms.

Feb. 4: Shnewer and the first informant arrived at the house in Gouldsboro. During their trip back to New Jersey the next day, Shnewer spoke of attacking two American warships next year when they docked in Philadelphia.

_ Feb. 18: In a discussion with the first informant, Dritan Duka discussed training for the attack by playing paintball. Eight days later, several members of the group participated in a paintball training exercise in the woods near the Duka's house in Cherry Hill.

_ Feb. 26: Eljvir Duka told the first informant that Dritan Duka attempted to buy an AK-47 machine gun in Camden but did not go through with the purchase because he thought the seller was a federal agent.

_ March 10: Shain Duka told the second informant that Tatar wanted to join the U.S. Army so he could kill U.S. soldiers "from the inside." Duka also told the informant that the group had decided to wage jihad in the United States rather than overseas because "as far as people we have enough, seven people. And we are all crazy. That's what is needed."

_ March 16: After members of the group traveled back to Cherry Hill, Shnewer discussed with the first informant the possibility of attacking the Navy base in Philadelphia during the annual Army-Navy football game, saying the location made it vulnerable to attack from New Jersey.

_ March 28: At a meeting at a convenience store on Route 38 in Cherry Hill, the first informant gave Dritan Duka a list of weapons that could be acquired. The list, which the informant copied for law enforcement officials, included "AK-47, M-16, M-60 machine gun, RPG, Rocket, Handgun semiautomatic, Sig Sauer 9mm, Smith Wesson 9mm, Smith Wesson revolver."

_ March 28-April 27: In various conversations and meetings recorded by both informants, members of the group discussed the types of weapons they needed, how much they would cost and when they would be delivered.

*Source: Federal complaints filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Camden.

[Sean Osborne]

I'm thinking 'Tip Of The Iceberg' here.

Yup, you're right... this is the tip of an iceberg. It's also the exposed end of a network which traces directly to Al Qaeda cells in Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia.

Can you say Sulejman Talovic?


Check this report out.

http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20070...2120-7699r.htm


And here's a directly related Bill Gertz report from todays WashTimes. I got this through the grapevine - will get a link asap.


By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published May 9, 2007

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The six foreign-born Muslims accused of planning a shooting attack at the U.S. military base included four ethnic Albanians, and U.S. officials say their arrests highlight how Islamist groups are using the Balkans region to help in recruiting and financing terrorism.
Prosecutors described the men as "radical Islamists," with four coming from the province of Kosovo in the former Yugoslavia, where the ethnic Albanian population of Muslims fought one of the several wars that grew out of the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Suspect Agron Abdullahu, who faces only weapons violations in the case, was described in court papers as a "sniper in Kosovo."
U.S. officials said the Islamists were motivated by al Qaeda sympathies and that ringleader Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, who was born in Jordan, had copies of the wills of two September 11 terrorists on his laptop computer.
The other suspect in the group -- accused of seeking to kill hundreds of soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J. -- was born in Turkey.
U.S. officials said intelligence reports from the Balkans have identified a support structure for several terrorist groups, including al Qaeda, among the Muslim communities in Albania and in the former Yugoslavia, including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia.
"When it comes to extremists, we're talking about very, very small pockets in Albania, as well as among the ethnic Albanian populations in Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and other parts of the Balkans," said one official with access to intelligence reports.
The official pointed out that the Albanian government has been supportive of U.S. efforts to counter Islamic terrorist activities, including curbing logistics and financial aid, and working to prevent terrorists from receiving training and weapons.
But a Congressional Research Service report produced in 2005 said instability in Albania during the 1990s gave al Qaeda a "foothold" there.
"Poor internal security, lax border controls, and high rates of crime produced an environment conducive to terrorist activity," said the report by CRS specialist Steven Woehrel. "Some foreign Islamic extremists used Albania as a safe haven and gained Albanian citizenship."
Balkan Muslims also have been targets of al Qaeda recruitment efforts because they have an easier time blending in or evading U.S. and European security measures and border controls, which often are geared to identifying Middle Eastern extremists.
The State Department's latest annual report on international terrorism said the Albanian government has taken steps to stop terrorism financing but noted that "government and police forces faced substantial challenges to fully enforce border security and combat organized crime and corruption."
The Albanian government identified seven financial holdings by terrorist groups last year that were frozen.
Israeli government sources have said that agents for the Palestinian militant group Hamas, as well as the Shi'ite Hezbollah, have been actively buying weapons from organized-crime groups in the Balkans.
Bosnia also has a large Muslim community that in the past has provided a base of support for al Qaeda and other terrorists. After the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords, most Islamic radicals, who were helping Bosnia's Muslims fend off the Orthodox Christian Serbs, left the Balkans, but some remained behind.
"It is estimated that several hundred former fighters stayed behind in Bosnia after the war and became Bosnian citizens by marrying Bosnian women," the CRS report said. "Some al Qaeda operatives in Bosnia reportedly had connections to members of Bosnia's intelligence service."
European intelligence agencies estimate that as many as 750 Muslim former fighters remain hidden in Bosnia and have acted as a supply network to send guns, money and documents to terrorists passing through the region.
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders often mention Bosnia as an important example of jihad, or holy war.
"Terrorist recruiting videos often include footage of combat in Bosnia," the CRS report said.
According to the Associated Press, a joint U.S.-Croatian intelligence report produced last year stated that Algerian extremists were active in the Balkans. Bosnia's intelligence service last year published information on 15 extremists living in that country: eight Algerians, two Syrians, two Tunisians and an Egyptian, Kuwaiti and Yemeni.
Officials also said the nongovernmental organization Revival of Islamic Heritage Society remains active in the region and spreads the radical Wahhabi form of Islam that animates al Qaeda.

[Backstop]

Great Op-Ed, Sean.

[Backstop]

After a bit or research, reading, and listening, I have to wonder if employees of the US Government now outnumber the civilian residents of Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

At least I hope that's the case.

[Sean Osborne]

http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/node/998

The Timing of the "Ft. Dix Six" Arrests: Operation Thunderbird??


By Sean Osborne, Associate Director, Military Affairs

What was not explained by federal officials during the press conference Tueday afternoon at the Federal Courthouse in Camden, New Jersey, was the need for the timing of the arrests of the "Ft. Dix Six" on Monday evening and early Tuesday morning.

The media has been alluding to items "m" and "n" on page 5 of the criminal complaint as being the initiator of the arrests. Specifically those items are:

m. On or about April 6, 2007 DRITAN DUKA ordered four AK-47 Kalishnikov fully-automatic machine guns as well as M-16 firearms and handguns.

n. On or about April 27, 2007 MOHAMED SHNEWER ordered an AK-47 fully-automatic machine gun.

Was the impetus for the arrests of these Al Qaeda jihadists the proximity of an event tied to the assault weapons purchase dates which would have yielded a target-rich target-of-opportunity environment similar to that of the "missed opportunity" at the Army-Navy football game at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on Saturday, December 2, 2006?


Could the impetus for the arrests have been the upcoming scheduled performances of the USAF Thunderbirds precision flying team at McGuire AFB this coming weekend, May 12 and 13, 2007?


The air show at McGuire AFB typically draws tens of thousands of unarmed civilian and military infidel visitors.

[Sean Osborne]

Regarding my NEIN post "Operation Thunderbird" above, I began to recieve a lot of questions on how I arrived at such an assessment.

Instead of answering each question from multiple individual queries I decided that the prudent thing to do would be to post a more complete assessment; that that the level of detail I was prepared to offer required a stand-alone post.

The bold portion, assessment item #2, stands a very strong chance of being linked to other islamofascist perps and acts of islamic terror, possibly state sponsored by Iraq (those familiar with Dr. Laurie Mylroie's work have a head start on this aspect).


http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/node/1000

The Ft. Dix Terror Cell: A 7-Point Assessment

By Sean Osborne, Associate Director, Military Affairs

May 10, 2007-Based upon my analysis of the specific points in the FBI criminal complaint, OSINT reporting as well my intimate knowledge of the chosen target at Ft. Dix/McGuire AFB, New Jersey, an assessment on this terrorist cell is as follows:

1. This cell of Macedonian, Turkish and Jordanian-born islamofascists, which were training in the mold of Al Qaeda-inspired warfighting doctrine, was apparently focused on killing as many soldiers and civilians as they could, and would attack military and civilians when a given opportunity arose. They demonstrated a most “bang-for-the-buck” mentality in their planning.

2. Their upward radicalization from apostate Muslim's to full fledged islamofascist jihadi’s was due to the influence of an un-named uncle of the Duka family. This uncle had apparently been an apostate or secular muslim prior to a 1990s prison term served in New York State. He was radicalized during that incarceration and upon release began to preach Islam to his impressionable young nephews, apparently while they were in high school.

3. The Islamic radicalization process continued with cell members attending the Al Aqsa Mosque, 1501 Germantown Rd., Philadelphia, PA which is near Serdar Tatar’s Philadelphia home of record.

4. As with any Al Qaeda-trained cell their emphasis was A) to cause terror in America, and B) to inflict as much damage as possible in doing during the attack for the glory of Allah.

5. The Islamic practice of al-Taqiyya, or dissimulation, of lying to infidels to cover or disguise the truth of a given matter, is emanating from some family members of the terrorists. This is very apparent in OSINT reports. Muslim Tatar, the father of Serdar Tatar and owner of Super Mario’s Restaurant is on record as claiming that the arrest of his son is based upon nothing more than “religious persecution.” This stands out in stark contrast to other quotes of Muslim Tatar saying during the same media interview, “I'm not a religious person, I don't want my son to be a religious person, but he was a religious person." Muslim related that while Serdar was in high school he brought one of the other terrorists to the family restaurant and Muslim allegedly told him at that time, “'I don't like this kid, I don't want you together.” At that early stage Muslim Tatar apparently recognized true Islam when it stood directly before his eyes and ears.

6. According to the criminal complaint (Case 1:07-mj-02046-JS) filed on Monday, May 7, 2007 the primary terrorist assault team of this cell had missed a target of opportunity in the Army-Navy game on December 2, 2006. According to recorded terrorist admissions a strike could have been launched from the New Jersey side of the Delaware River due to the “beauty” of the location of Lincoln Financial Field and utilizing the “proper weaponry”. There terrorists implied that such an attack profile provided a stand-off, minimal exposure strike for the cell members. US military service members are guaranteed attendees at an Army-Navy game, as are civilian men, women and children in their thousands.

7. In my assessment such a target of opportunity would make its appearance in the upcoming USAF Thunderbird precision flying team air show scheduled to occur at McGuire AFB on Saturday and Sunday, 12-13 May, 2007. A massive US military presence along with tens of thousand of men, women and children spectators would be guaranteed to attend. It would mimic most of the important conditions or specifications set by the cell as prerequisites for such an opportune attack. I suggest this scheduled event as a primary possibility with respect to the timing of the arrests of these heavily-armed terrorists last Monday evening. Federal law enforcement officers may have deemed the risk unacceptable given all the information they had collected on this terror cell over the previous 15 months.

[Jag]

Fort Dix suspect applied for police jobs

By GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press Writer Wed May 23, 6:30 PM ET



MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. - One of the men accused of plotting to attack soldiers at Fort Dix had recently applied to be a police officer in two big cities — a move some authorities believe may have been an effort to infiltrate law enforcement agencies.

Serdar Tatar, 23, applied for a job in Philadelphia last month, police spokesman Sgt. D.F. Pace said Wednesday.

"Based on what we know now, I don't think his intentions were good," Pace said.

Tatar also applied for a job in the Oakland, Calif., Police Department, according to a law enforcement official speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

Roland Holmgren, an Oakland police spokesman, said he could not immediately confirm whether Tatar had applied there.

Tatar's lawyer, Richard Sparaco, would not comment on the job applications Wednesday, and neither would U.S. Attorney Chris Christie.

Philadelphia police rejected Tatar, a Turkish citizen and legal U.S. resident, because he was not a U.S. citizen and had not lived in the city long enough to be eligible, Pace said. Tatar had lived there for about eight months when he applied, less than the city's one-year requirement.

He applied at a police job fair on April 10.

It isn't known when or where Tatar applied to join the Oakland police force or why he would try to join an organization thousands of miles away.

Tatar may have also wanted to join the Army, according to conversations recorded in March by an

FBI informant during the investigation. A second suspect in the case told the informant that Tatar wanted to join the Army so he could kill soldiers from the "inside," according to a court filing.

"He had only one mind," a third suspect, Dritan Duka, told the informant, according to the court documents. "How to kill American soldiers."

Army spokesman Lenny Gatto said Wednesday that he did not know whether Tatar had applied to join the Army, which does not require U.S. citizenship.

Tatar, an out-of-work clerk whose last job was at a Philadelphia convenience store, and five others were arrested May 7 and charged with planning an attack on Fort Dix, which is 25 miles east of Philadelphia and is primarily used to train reservists.

Tatar was a key player in the plan, authorities said, because he knew his way around the base from his time delivering pizzas there for the shop his father owns nearby. According to court filings, Tatar told an FBI informant last November that he would take a map of the base from his father's restaurant.

Tatar then called Philadelphia police and reported that he was being pressured to obtain a map of Fort Dix — and feared it was terrorism-related, according to court filings. Authorities have said that they believe he made the call in an effort to learn whether the informant was a law enforcement agent.

Philadelphia police told the FBI about the call.
According to the court filings, he also got over those feelings quickly, despite worries about the informant's reliability.


"I'm gonna do it. Whether you are or not (FBI), I'm gonna do it," he told the informant, according to the document. "Know why? It doesn't matter to me, whether I get locked up, arrested, or get taken away, it doesn't matter. Or I die, doesn't matter, I'm doing it in the name of Allah."

Later that evening, Tatar delivered the map, authorities said.

Authorities have said the men went to the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania in February to train for an attack. Sparaco said Wednesday that his client did not make that trip.

Tatar is charged, along with Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer and the brothers Dritan, Eljvir and Shain Duka, of conspiring to kill military personnel. They could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted. A sixth man, Agron Abdullahu, is charged with providing weapons to illegal aliens, a crime punishable by up to 10 years in federal prison.
All six men are being held without bail.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070523/.../fort_dix_plot

Jag

[American Patriot]

Hannity had the guy that originally discovered these guy, when they came into his store (A Circuit City) to convert an 8mm tape over to DVD. He said he didn't normally watch the things he was converting, but something caught his eye, and he watched some more of it.

Eventually he went to the authorities and the rest is apparently history.

[Sean Osborne]

I think the other unsung hero's are the eyewitness guys at the Gouldsboro, PA shooting range who initially reported on the activities of the 10 jihadi's-in-training to the FBI.

What the TWO alert Circuit City employees (Brian Morgenstern and another who remains anonymous) did was dial 911 to connect with the local Mount Laurel, NJ police who viewed a copy of the video and who then called in Homeland Security investigators who viewed the video, who then in turn called in the FBI. This led to the providing of the FBI with videographic proof of the original eyewitness reports from the Gouldsboro shooting range.

EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR: A teenage clerk at this N.J. Circuit City expressed alarm when he was asked to make a transfer of a tape onto DVD in which Mohamad Shnewer and other men extolled jihad.

Details on what the two Circuit City employees saw on the 90-minute tape, and another employee outside having a smoke witnessed:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/05132007...respondent.htm

[Backstop]

I heard Mr. Gingrich on Sean Hannity yesterday.

Man, this is all kinds of messed up.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art..._gingrich.html

I'm Chris Wallace former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
June 03, 2007

SNIP

Newt Gingrich: You learn that there are three illegal terrorists in New Jersey who were in the U.S. for 23 years illegally, intercepted by the police 75 times in the last six years, and it was never indicated that they were here illegally.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...0902695_3.html

They were also no strangers to the police. Tatar and the Dukas were habitual offenders, stopped dozens of times a year for speeding, illegal passing and driving without a license. Dritan Duka pleaded guilty in 2000 to possession of drug paraphernalia and Shain Duka to possession of marijuana -- low-level charges that at the time did not trigger immigration background checks.

Only one brother had a driver's license, and only briefly. But they drove anyway and were ticketed regularly by Cherry Hill police -- including four citations in one five-week period for Dritan Duka. The three had their driving privileges suspended -- meaning they could not even apply for a license -- 54 times in less than a decade.