They were found guilty of conspiring to kill soldiers. So much for the defense's insistence that they were "all talk." "Five found guilty of plotting to kill Fort Dix soldiers," from CNN, December 22 (thanks to Doc Washburn):
(CNN) -- A jury has found five men guilty of conspiring to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office said Monday.
The defendants were acquitted of attempted murder charges but face life in prison.
The jury spent six days deliberating.
Six men were arrested on May 7, 2007, in New Jersey, as two of them were meeting a confidential government witness "to purchase three AK-47 automatic machine guns and four semi-automatic M-16s to be used in an attack they had been planning from at least January 2006," according to a criminal complaint.
The sixth defendant, Agron Abdullahu, pleaded guilty in October to a reduced charge of providing firearms to illegal aliens and received a sentence of 20 months in prison and three years of supervised release.
Abdullahu told the court in October that, from January 2006 to May 2007, he and Turkish-born Serdar Tatar provided firearms to brothers Dritan Duka, Shain Duka and Eljvir "Elvis" Duka.
The Duka brothers, born in the former Yugoslavia, were in the United States illegally.
Tatar and Abdullahu are both legal U.S. residents. The other defendant, Jordanian-born Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, is the only U.S. citizen among them.
The alleged Fort Dix plot came to light when two men gave an 8 mm videotape to a clerk at a Circuit City store in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, and asked him to convert it to DVD format.
Authorities said the tape showed 10 young men shooting at a practice range and shouting in Arabic, "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great."
The clerk, Brian Morgenstern, said the video showed the men with handguns and rifles that appeared to be "fully automatic weapons."
"I saw some stuff on the film that was disturbing and it kind of gained my attention that way," he told CNN in May 2007.
Morgenstern alerted the police, who initiated the investigation into the men, who were living in Philadelphia's southern New Jersey suburbs.
Merry Christmas, jihadis.
Cool! I am glad these Islamic murderers are behind bars and that the fine men and women of the US armed forces are protecting and defending the freedom that I enjoy.
Great work Brian Morgenstern initiating the action to put these scumbags behind bars.
Look at all the young lives that this bigot, Brian Morgenstern, ruined with his Islamophobia. Indeed, Islamophobia is the greatest threat facing the world today.
Thank God. These guilty verdicts are imperative...otherwise, it's open-season on America.
"The alleged Fort Dix plot came to light when two men gave an 8 mm videotape to a clerk at a Circuit City store in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, and asked him to convert it to DVD format."
Oh my gosh, dumb as a bag of hammers.
Does "Allahu Akbar" really mean "God is Great"?.
Whose allah and whose God?
Surely, they are not that interchangable!
To some, their God could be the sun or the moon. But these guys surely do not mean to priase the sun and the moon as allah!
O.K.,
They got 'em.
Now be smart, Mr. defender, and ask the judge to consider a reduced sentence by having them explain, to the filthy American kuffar, what real Muslims believe Islam really means to them and what they believe it teaches.
Drudge is linking to a story on breitbart with the headline "5 Muslims convicted...."
I wonder how long CAIR will let that headline stand? It's a good start, anyway. A refreshing change.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D957VDBG0&show_article=1
Three cheers for Mr Brian Morgenstern (whose surname, by the way, means 'Morning Star').
From the CNN report:
'The clerk, Brian Morgenstern, said the video showed the men with handguns and rifles that appeared to be "fully automatic weapons."
"I saw some stuff on the film that was disturbing and it kind of gained my attention that way," he told CNN in May 2007.'
'Stuff on the film that was disturbing and it kind of gained my attention'...
Well, he was a bit blunter than that, originally.
Here's the jihadwatch link and report.
http://jihadwatch.org/archives/016472.php
What Morgenstern actually said to his co-worker, in classic teenspeak, after seeing the video of the wannabe jihadists:
"Dude, I just saw some really weird s-."
Weird shit, indeed Mr Morgenstern, and past weird that it forms a huge component of a modern 'religion'.
This Christmas season, we should reward these cowardly punks with a bullet wedged neatly in their cranial cavities.
On another thought, if they had decided to hit a US Marine base, they wouldn't have made it 10 feet through the entrance before we would've carved them up.
Semper Fi
1990-1996
Let's hope they go on a hunger strike ~to the death~ and save the taxpayers decades of wasted funds on supporting these useless terrorist s.o.b.'s.
Beautiful sentiments, Callidus. May I second them. And thanks for serving.
It took them 6 days to decide they're guilty? Hey, i believe in the whole 'innocent until proven guilty' but did they really need 6 days?
Semper Fidelis, Callidus.
Sir Oinks Alot:
I'd rather they took their time and made sure that there was no margin for an appeal than to jump the gun and turn a guilty verdict around in a short period of time. Justice should not - and should never be - given lightly. It should always be handed out in the most sober and deliberate manner possible.
Callidus:
I know that I'm Canadian and you didn't serve my country directly, but the US troops are probably more responsible for the external security of Canada than Canadian troops are. In that spirit, I thank you for the service to your country, and to mine.
To everyone else: Merry Christmas and let's never forget the reason for the Christmas season: Jesus the Christ.
Brian Morgenstern is my hero. It makes you think, though--what if the "Flying Imams", and the "Defense of Religion", and "Islamophobia" advocates gain ground--will there come a time when someone like young Mr. Morgenstern decides it is not worth reporting this kind of "weird sh*t" if it means potentially being considered a "racist"or being charged with a "hate crime"?
I doubt very much that Mr. Morgenstern knows much about Jihad ideology, and I would be very surprised if he had ever read the Qur'an or the Hadith--but he had good common sense and a solid sense of decency--and knew "weird sh*t" when he saw it.
It reminds me of the Oklahoma State Trooper who recently foiled a Jihad massacre at a Burger King--like Morgenstern, he knew that anyone waving an automatic weapon around while yelling "Allahu Akbar!" was up to no good.