6 Charged In Fort Dix Terror Plot - Updated
May 8, 2007
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Update: Read the FBI Affidavit
Update: In a criminal complaint filed this morning, an FBI agent writes that Serdar Tartar’s father owned a restaurant near Fort Dix and made deliveries onto the base.”
The father, owner of Super Mario’s Restaurant, told ABCNews.com today that his staff often made pizza deliveries on to the base and to the nearby McGuire Air Force Base.
The complaint says Tatar was able to acquire a map of Fort Dix, labeled “Cantonment Area Fort Dix, N.J.” and gave it to the five other men arrested by the FBI.
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Federal authorities have arrested six New Jersey men for allegedly plotting a terrorist attack against the Fort Dix military base, senior FBI officials have confirmed.
The plot involved storming the base with automatic weapons and attempting to kill as many soldiers and other personnel as possible.
Officials from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark and the FBI in Philadelphia were planning a news conference in Camden this afternoon to discuss the case in more detail. A spokeswoman for the FBI in Philadelphia left a message on her voicemail telling callers that no information would be released until then.
One television station said the men were from Albania and the former Yugoslavia but had lived in the U.S. for several years. The suspects had been discussing the plot over the last year, and had gone as far conducting weapons training in the Pocono mountains, the television station reported.
Before settling on Fort Dix the group had scouted several other possible military targets, the station said.
It is not clear how far along the alleged terror plot was, or when investigators first learned about it. Investigators said the group of suspects have been discussing and planning for much of the last year. They allegedly pooled their savings to pay for the operation that investigators said targeted soldiers stationed here at home.
Three of the men are brothers, all believed to be islamic radicals. Investigators said most of the suspects have spent several years here in the U.S. Some of the group’s alleged planning was caught on video and audio tape, investigators said.
Five of the suspects were arrested in Cherry Hill and a sixth suspect was arrested in a separate location. Officials said the men attempted to purchase AK-47s from an arms dealer secretly cooperating with law enforcement.
UPDATE:
The men apparently videoed their practice sessions in the Poconos. Taking the tape to a retail store, seeking to get a copy burned to a DVD, led to their capture. A store employee who watched the tape called the FBI who began immediately investigating.
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