Attempted Murder Added To Fort Dix Plotters

[Annie]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_re_us/fort_dix_plot_1

New charges added in Fort Dix plot case

By GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press WriterTue Jan 15, 9:12 PM ET

A group of men accused of planning an attack on Fort Dix face additional charges, including attempted murder, after a grand jury concluded there was evidence the men tried to kill uniformed members of the military.

In a federal indictment handed up Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Camden, the grand jury does not spell out why the attempted murder charges were added. Greg Reinert, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, declined to elaborate on it.

Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, Serdar Tatar and brothers Dritan, Shain and Eljvir Duka were arrested last May and charged with conspiracy to attack the military base. The men — foreign-born Muslims who lived much of their lives in the New Jersey suburbs of Philadelphia — have denied the allegations.

The government has said the men had practiced firing weapons and arranged to buy guns to carry out an attack on the base. They did not carry out an actual raid...


...In addition to the conspiracy charges all five face, the Duka brothers were also charged with possession of weapons by illegal aliens. Under Tuesday's amended indictment, they and Shnewer were additionally charged with possession of a firearm for an illegal act. Tatar doesn't face weapons charges.

The indictment also says that Shnewer conducted surveillance at McGuire Air Force Base besides several other military installations the government had already said he scouted, including Fort Dix and Dover Air Force Base in Delaware....

 

[William Joyce]

These men were just trying to deliver pizzas and get a piece of the American dream. Yet racism and bigotry have stopped their dreams from becoming reality. It's a shame.

 

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These men were just trying to deliver pizzas and get a piece of the American dream. Yet racism and bigotry have stopped their dreams from becoming reality. It's a shame.

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