FBI stops jihadi attack on Fort Dix
Jihadis come from all racial and ethnic groups, as this group of Albanian Islamic radicals in New Jersey proves. They were infiltrated and stopped by the FBI after one of their training videos was seen and reported by a video-duplication service. From the Smoking Gun:
Along with eyeing Fort Dix, members of the group allegedly surveilled the Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering Station and Fort Monmouth in New Jersey, Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, and a Coast Guard building in Philadelphia. They also reportedly considered an attack timed to the annual Army-Navy college football game in Philadelphia.
The group were all immigrants - four from the former Yugoslavia, one from Jordan and another from Turkey.
One of the charged conspirators, Serdar Tatar, was familiar with Fort Dix because his family owns a pizzeria nearby and he had delivered food there. Tatar allegedly obtained a map of the military base and provided it to his cohorts. The wannabe jihadists often viewed terror training videos, clips featuring Osama bin Laden, and a tape containing the last will and testament of at least two of the 9/11 hijackers. They also viewed tapes depicting armed attacks on U.S. military personnel and erupted in laughter when one plotter noted that a Marine’s arm was blown off in one such ambush.
Chillingly, the group felt it would be easy to attack a military base.
“If you want to do anything here, there is Fort Dix and I don’t want to exaggerate, and I assure that you can hit an American base very easily,” one of the men told an FBI informant, according to the FBI. “You take a map and draw it and then you calculate that there are areas where there are 100 to 200 individuals . . .
“When you got a military base, you need mortars and RPGs,” the man allegedly said.
“My intent is to hit a heavy concentration of soldiers,” the man on the tape said. “You hit 4, 5 or 6 humvees and light the whole place up.”
I don’t know what the security at Fort Dix is like, and I won’t go into details here about weaknesses in military base security that I’ve seen. I won’t deny that it can’t be done, however, I don’t believe it would have been nearly as easy as these guys were predicting. Getting six or seven armed men, carrying a lot of military hardware, through base security would have been difficult, at best.
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