Six People Arrested in NJ for Alleged Plot to Storm Ft. Dix

[Frustratedlady]

Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com:

SIX PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED OVERNIGHT IN NEW JERSEY IN CONNECTION TO AN ALLEGED PLOT TO STORM FORT DIX, ABC NEWS HAS LEARNED


http://abcnews.go.com?CMP=EMC-1396

[rfranklin]

1. Sounds like they saved Western Civilization today!

from another crackpot conspiracy.

[Zywiec]

2. Or they saved soldiers who train there everyday

Also during the summer months, Fort Dix becomes home to thousands of Reservists performing their two-week annual training.

I assume you know no one in the military near Fort Dix?

[rfranklin]

4. This will turn out to be another plot like those guys in Miami...

They haven't come up with a credible threat since 9/11. So enough with the fantasy guilt trip.

[Ganja Ninja]

5. Yup. n/t

[ChazII]

7. This is what I first thought.

[Zywiec]

13. So it's impossible this is a credible threat?

I'm not trying to lay a guilt trip on anyone. You can believe anything you wish. I would just prefer that the FBI follow up on leads like this especially when I know people who live and train at Fort Dix.

[babylonsister]

6. What, those reservists haven't been deployed yet? What are they

waiting for?:sarcasm:

[Squatch]

3. Ft Dix is a mobilization training site.

Many units that are mobilized go to Ft Dix prior to shipping to OIF/OEF

[Captain Hilts]

10. Ft. Dix was the last piece of the USA a lot of folks ever saw before heading to Europe and Africa.

For that reason, it's kind of sacred ground.

[baldguy]

8. What is the VRWC trying to distract us from?

[Captain Hilts]

9. And exactly what would they do when they got in? nt

[Frustratedlady]

11. From AOL...Documents Remain Sealed...

Six Charged With Plot to Attack Fort Dix
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
AP
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (May 8) - Six nationals of the former Yugoslavia were arrested early Tuesday on charges they plotted to attack the Fort Dix Army base and "kill as many soldiers as possible," federal authorities said.

The six were scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Camden later Tuesday to face charges of conspiracy to kill U.S. servicemen, said Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey. Five of them lived in Cherry Hill, he said.

A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because documents in the case remain sealed, said the men were arrested as part of a joint federal and local investigation.

The officials said the attack was stopped in the planning stages

[annabanana]

12. It sounds to me like it was (ahem) policework that found these guys out..

Now if it would only lead to legitimate trials we might be onto something.

[Frustratedlady]

14. I agree. Perhaps we should insist on action...

and publication of the hearings. We move on so quickly, we shrug most of this stuff off. This administration has come to depend on that. A good example is that fiasco in Florida. Whatever happened to those guys?

[Igel]

17. You know, they're trying damned hard to avoid saying

"Bosnian" or "ethnic Albanian". (At least one was Albanian ... "Dritan" isn't a common name in most languages.)

[Vidar]

15. Are these conspirators peddling hair tonic too?

[aikoaiko]

16. I wonder if its off to gitmo for them