They pose a flight risk — an incredible claim, really, since, as AP tells us here, they “worshipped at moderate mosques.” Does that mean that AP knows of “extremist” mosques in the Camden area? Has AP stopped to consider why all the “moderation” they were taught doesn’t seem to have sunk in?
By Geoff Mulvihill for Associated Press:
CAMDEN, N.J. — Six Muslim men suspected of plotting to massacre U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix were ordered held without bail Friday.
Prosecutors argued that the men, all born outside the United States, pose a flight risk. They are being held at a federal detention center in Philadelphia….
The men have lived in and around Philadelphia for years, worshipped at moderate mosques and worked blue-collar jobs installing roofs, driving a cab, delivering pizzas and baking bread. Four are ethnic Albanians from the former Yugoslavia, one is from Jordan and one is from Turkey….