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December 13, 2007
Fort Dix Attack Plot Suspects Promoting Terror in Jail
U.S.: Fort Dix Attack Plot Suspects Promoting Terror in Jail
HADDONFIELD, New Jersey
Fox News
Federal authorities say one of the men accused of planning an attack on soldiers at the Fort Dix army base gave another inmate in a federal detention center an Al Qaeda recruitment video and another wrote a note referring to the fight "we weren't able to finish."
The U.S. Attorney's Office made the allegations in a brief filed in U.S. District Court late Tuesday to oppose the suspects' request to be granted bail.
A lawyer for one of the men said the government is misrepresenting an incident in the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia.
The suspects contend that the detention center staff has not allowed them adequate access to evidence in the case against them as they prepare for trial. That is why they have asked a judge to either allow them to be free on bail or come up with alternate arrangements to allow them to review materials for the trial, which is scheduled to begin March 24.
The five men — all foreign-born Muslims in their 20s — were arrested in May and charged with conspiring to kill uniformed military personnel. Authorities said they planned to sneak onto Fort Dix, a base in New Jersey used primarily to train reservists for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A sixth man later pleaded guilty to providing weapons to some of the five charged in the alleged conspiracy.
In the legal filing, the government said Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer gave another inmate a copy of an Al Qaeda-produced DVD last month. Guards found the disc in a book in the detention center's law library.
Government lawyers said in the filing that "the fact the defendant Shnewer and, perhaps, his co-conspirators may be spreading jihadist recruitment videos to other inmates clearly raises grave security concerns for the warden, and, again, supports the reasonableness of continued administrative detention for these defendants."
The government also said that suspect Eljvir Duka and another inmate were passing notes.
In one note, the government said, Duka wrote, "Now you see why we were going to sacrifice all for the sake of Allah in jihad" and referred to the fight "we weren't able to finish."
The government said detention center staff confronted Duka about the notes. According to the filing, he acknowledged he was passing them but said they only dealt with "issues such as the quality of the food" behind bars.
Duka's lawyer, Troy Archie, did not immediately return a voice mail or e-mail message Tuesday night.
The government also said the five men have had access to the evidence when they requested it.
The five suspects include three ethnic Albanians from the former Yugoslavia, a Jordanian and a Turk.
A hearing on the men's bail motion is scheduled for Dec. 20.
Wild Thing's comment........
Doesn't anyone check this stuff before it goes into the prison library? So how long will it take till we hear the calls for their release. sheesh
Posted by Wild Thing at December 13, 2007 12:55 AM
Comments
Ship them to a super max security facility. Our US prisons are full of muzzies and wannabe muzzies. The inmates - when released - recruit more 'Death to America' advocates! This is WHY the democrats want inmates to be able to ... VOTE!
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at December 13, 2007 04:57 AM
I don't know what to think anymore, I used to think that most Americans would put it on the line, when push came to shove. But there is a certain faction here, in the U.S,, that are more concerned, for themselves or some communist agenda and would rather see their country go down in flames.
They scream about 'Water-boarding' being torture, yet are very still when one of our Soldiers is Really tortured and slaughtered like some animal.
I don't understand these people. So to me, they too are the enemy. Only trouble is when the rest of the country wakes up to this fact, it may be too late.
Coddleing criminals is one thing but the coddleling of people bent on our death is quite another.
Posted by: Mark at December 13, 2007 10:26 AM
Why don't we just transfer them to Gitmo? It is still the place for scum like that to be, since Congress, or the courts have not neutered it yet.
Posted by: Robocop at December 13, 2007 11:35 AM
Execute or deport them!!! Troy Archie, included. I prefer the former, if deported they are free to spread their poison but also they are free targets of opportunity.
Posted by: Jack at December 13, 2007 01:56 PM
Feed em ham!
Posted by: TomR at December 13, 2007 02:29 PM
I can only repeat my mantra that the United States is committing national suicide. How stupid can we be -- an Al Qaeda recruitment video in prison? A sad fact is that our prisons have become a hot bed of conversions to radical Islam. We don't have to make it easy.
I'm curious as to where prisoners can watch Al Qaeda and jihadist DVD recruitment videos. The detention center's law library? Personal DVD players in their cells? What a country!
Posted by: Les at December 13, 2007 07:20 PM
I always thought; you go to prison to be punished, why on earth do they get books let alone a Library!
I know it's Corrections..but give me a break..how many individuals get caught time after time and never really punished..and then they commit murder again....
Esp, terrorist! They cry about wake boarding!?
BOO HOO! You bastards deserve death!
Posted by: patrickdaniel at December 13, 2007 08:32 PM
Darth, yes I had forgotten how oh who was it? John Edwards I think wanted to make it where felons could vote.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 13, 2007 11:51 PM
Mark, yes when and if they wake up to the reality it will be too late.
I was even shocked that there would even be a bail motion. Why even consider bail, it should be a big no on bail from get go.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 13, 2007 11:54 PM
Robocop,yes, so far we still have Gitmo at least until some leftie or rino closes it down.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 13, 2007 11:57 PM
Jack, I bet if all of this was even starting to happen 50 years ago they would be executed. Things have changed so much.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 14, 2007 12:01 AM
Tom, lol that would be great and the whole pig on a platter to really freak them out.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 14, 2007 12:02 AM
Les, I agree....."United States is committing national suicide"
I wonder too where they watch the videos and CD's. I remember seeing on TV once how prisoners have computers right in their cells, not sure if these do. But no prisoner should have anything like that, they need to be punished not catered to.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 14, 2007 12:05 AM
Patrick, I agree what the heck happened to being punished.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 14, 2007 12:07 AM
"For our struggle is not against the flesh and blood, but against the rulers, the authorities, against the powers of the dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil..."(Ephesians 6:12)
The Red Coats played 'The world turned upside down' at their Yorktown surrender in 1781? Hmmmmm!
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtou07 at December 14, 2007 12:19 AM
Thank you for your replies Chrissie.
Posted by: patrickdaniel at December 14, 2007 03:33 PM
