Islamic Radicals Plotted to Kill Soldiers at Dix

At long last, after years of hysteria over guys playing paintball, we get a real, live radical Muslim terrorism plot:

Six men from the former Yugoslavia were arrested on charges they plotted to attack the Fort Dix Army base and "kill as many soldiers as possible," federal authorities said Tuesday.

The suspects were described as "Islamic radicals," said U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman Greg Reinert.

They were scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Camden later Tuesday to face charges of conspiracy to kill U.S. servicemen, said Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey. Five of them lived in Cherry Hill, he said.

"They were planning an attack on Fort Dix in which they would kill as many soldiers as possible," Drewniak said.

A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because documents in the case remain sealed, said the attack was stopped in the planning stages.

CNN depicts them as bumblers:

The Newark Star-Ledger reported on its Web site that the men took a videotape of their practice sessions to a store to have it burned to a DVD, and that a store employee contacted the FBI because of the video's contents.

Sources told the Star-Ledger the men were lured to a meeting with an FBI informant posing as an arms dealer.  ...

While authorities are glad to have arrested them, the individuals are "hardly hard core terrorists," one law enforcement source said.

Another source said that while the allegations are "troubling," they are "not the type that made the hair on the back of your neck stand up."

Translating from the cop-speak, these guys were terrorist wannabes who didn't have training; the Mulsim equivalent of the Minutemen vigilantes running around the Southwest.

Comments

[charlie]

This is the reason we should vastly reduce immigration to this country. We have enough of these problem children and don;t need anymore.

[thcook]

I am in full agreement with that. When are our political leaders that we have entrusted going to take a tough stand on ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTion? No, they are not undocumented workers.We have proof that there are those that are here not only to steal our ID's, bring gang and crime in masses, birth their babies and live off of our welfare system, change our language by refusing to learn English (which cost us jobs) and Suck us completly dry, now we have arreseted those that are here to kill us on our own soil. What futher proof do we need that it is time to seal off our borders to anyone that is coming in this country unless they have been screened to the hilt. I say it is time for a change alright.

[Mithras]

But then what will you guys have to talk about?

[Aquagirl]

He is so right. They come here, seduce our women, rustle our cattle, teach our pets to sneer at us, use those tree-shaped auto air fresheners, loosen our shoelaces while we're napping, sneak into our offices and change the font on Microsoft Word to white so that when we type we can't see it, replace our tin foil hats with aluminum foil, and steal our pudding cups right out of the fridge. When will this madness end?

[Mithras]

I was wondering what happened to my cattle.

[Maineiac]

True that these guys don't apprear to have professional terrorist credentials, but to then draw the conclusion that there is no threat misses the point. What happened at VA Tech had nothing to do with islam, but it shows what a sociopath on a mission can accomplish with an assalt rifle. These guys could of done a lot worse. And yes, all of the Jihad sabre rattling against the west is a problem that both the west and mainstream Islam has to do deal with. Like it or not, far too much of the incidents of terrorism in the world today is motivated by Islamic extremists.

[Mithras]

And ...? What's the policy prescription here? Profile muslims? Profile immigrants? There was some white American dude who set a bomb outside an abortion clinic in Texas the other week. He's a terrorist. Let's profile the white American guys, too? In both cases the vast majority of the people in the suspect group are innocent.