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- 2005: Six immigrant men living in the Philadelphia area for years, worshipping at moderate mosques and working blue-collar jobs form a terrorist cell after being "inspired" by Osama Bin Laden and al Qaeda
- Cell targets Fort Dix, a post in NJ 25 miles east of Philadelphia that is used primarily to train reservists
- 'Fort Dix Six' (FD6) objective: to kill “as many American soldiers as possible“
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- January 2006: A clerk calls police because of jihad training videos FD6 want transferred to a DVD
- Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF): FBI, DHS and local authorities begin investigation immediately
- March 2006: an FBI informant establishes a relationship with one of the men in the videotape
- JTTF have two informants infiltrate the terrorist cell
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- May 7, 2007: JTTF arrest FD6 as they try to buy automatic assault weapons and grenades
- Terror plot is disrupted by JTTF before it takes place
- Five of FD6 are charged with conspiring to kill uniformed military personnel; sixth is charged with helping illegal immigrants obtain weapons
- Five face life in prison, the sixth faces 10 years
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The “Fort Dix Six” had scouted out Fort Monmouth, Dover Air Force Base, Lakehurst Naval Air Station and the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard before targeting Fort Dix, a base that is Used to mobilize troops to Iraq |
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Case# 0000022
06/06/2007 |
