Fort Dix Six

Six foreign born Muslims were accused Tuesday of planning to attack Fort Dix, a US Army installation in New Jersey, with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades.

One of the men arrested came from Jordan, one from Turkey and the other four were from the former Yugoslavia. Two had green cards allowing them to stay in the US permanently, three were here illegally and one is a US citizen.

Five of the suspects were charged with conspiracy to kill military personnel while the other was charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigrants to obtain weapons.

Authorities said there is currently no evidence linking the six to any international terror groups, but prosecutors noted in court papers that the six were ready to kill and die "in the name of Allah."

The Washington D.C. satire site Wonkette points out the stupidity of the plot:

Ok. So, the plot was: six dudes from New Jersey buy some guns and storm Fort Dix. The Fort Dix that is full of lots and lots of Army reservists with way, way more guns. And, like, extensive military training and s**t. Yes, thank god these terrorists have been caught and locked up before they could be killed within minutes of deciding to carry out the dumbest f**king terrorist plot we’ve ever heard of.

Lawhawk of A Blog For All isn't as quick to shrug off the situation:

Those who downplay this terror bust ought to keep in mind that it is far better to thwart these plots before they come to fruition than to deal with the repercussions of an actual attack. Even if this attack went off and didn't manage to kill anyone at Fort Dix, the fact that terrorists even considered attacking a US military installation inside the US would have been a propaganda coup of epic proportions for the jihadis around the world. Al Qaeda would likely try to take credit for the attacks, knowing that the media would play up that angle and show that the global war on terror was a failure because we couldn't even prevent a terrorist attack inside the US against a military installation.

So with the two quotes above, you basically have the two sides of the story. Take your pick, or leave a comment with a different take.

-Dippold

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