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"Harry Hope" |
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10 May 2007 06:03:45 PM |
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FBI Informants Scrutinized in Fort Dix Case. |
From The Associated Press, 5/10/07:
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20070510/464298c0_3ca6_1552620070510-1178887059
Informants Scrutinized in Fort Dix Case
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
From Associated Press
CHERRY HILL, N.J. -
He railed against the United States, helped scout out military
installations for attack, offered to introduce his comrades to an arms
dealer, and gave them a list of weapons he could procure, including
machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
These were not the actions of a terrorist, but of a paid FBI informant
who helped bring down an alleged plot by six Muslim men to massacre
U.S. soldiers at New Jersey's Fort Dix.
And those actions have raised questions of whether the government
crossed the line and pushed the six men down a path they would not
have otherwise followed.
It is an argument - entrapment - that has been made in other terrorism
cases, and one that has failed miserably in this post-Sept. 11 era.
One defense attorney on the case, Troy Archie, said no decision has
been made on whether to argue entrapment, but based on the FBI's own
account, "the guys sort of led them on."
Rocco Cipparone, a lawyer for another one of the defendants, said he
will take a hard look at "the role of paid informants and how
aggressive they were in potentially prodding or moving things along."
The Fort Dix Six were arrested earlier this week after a 15-month FBI
investigation that relied heavily on two paid informants who secretly
recorded meetings and telephone conversations in which the suspects
talked of killing "in the name of Allah."
U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie defended the government's handling
of the case.
He and the FBI portrayed the defendants as Muslim fanatics who were
nearly ready to strike.
They were arrested Monday night during what the FBI said was an
attempt to buy AK-47 machine guns, M-16s and other weapons.
Former FBI agent Kevin Barrows said prosecutors appeared to have done
things right.
"They corroborated with surveillance, and they had a gun buy set up,"
Barrows said.
"That further solidified the case, as opposed to it just being a tape
of somebody saying, `Yeah, I want to buy guns.' They worked this for a
long time and the evidence seems really, really solid."
Prosecutors portrayed the six men - Serdar Tatar, 23; Agron Abdullahu,
24; Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, 22; Dritan "Anthony" or "Tony" Duka, 28;
Shain Duka, 26; and Eljvir "Elvis" Duka, 23 - as driven by hatred of
America, a description disputed by relatives and acquaintances.
"I never in my wildest dreams imagined what they've been accused of,"
said Ismail Badat, trustee of the Islamic Center of South Jersey in
Palmyra, where the Duka brothers worshipped.
The same documents that prosecutors used to build a case against the
suspects also depict them as somewhat disorganized, lackluster
plotters.
And clumsy and amateurish, too:
The FBI learned of the alleged plot when the men went to a Circuit
City store and asked a clerk to transfer a jihad training video of
themselves onto a DVD.
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Harry
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| User: "J Carroll" |
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10 May 2007 06:07:37 PM |
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Harry Hope wrote:
From The Associated Press, 5/10/07:
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20070510/464298c0_3ca6_1552620070510-1178887059
Informants Scrutinized in Fort Dix Case
Harry,
The noteworthy part of this episode is that it was foiled by LAW ENFOECEMENT
AND INTELLIGENCE, not 160,000 American troops in Iraq or goober bush's
"SURGE", which is really just his ejaculation, in Baghdad.
Why hasn't this tedious fact received more attention?
--
John R. Carroll
www.machiningsolution.com
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