Hans Rustad Seks utenlandske unge muslimer ble arrestert i USA tirsdag, anklaget for å ha planlagt et angrep på militærbasen Fort Dix i New Jersey.
Six foreign-born Muslims were arrested and accused Tuesday of plotting to attack the Army’s Fort Dix and massacre scores of U.S. soldiers — a plot the
FBI says was foiled when the men took a video of themselves firing assault weapons to a store to have the footage put onto a DVD.The defendants, all men in their 20s from the former Yugoslavia and the Middle East, include a pizza deliveryman suspected of using his job to scout out the military base.
De ble avslørt da de innleverte en film for brenning av en DVD. En butikkansatt reagerte på innholdet som gjaldt skyting med våpen. En FBI-agent infiltrerte gruppen. Her kom det frem at de ønsket å drepe soldater i Allahs navn.
In addition to plotting the attack on Fort Dix, the defendants spoke of attacking a Navy installation in Philadelphia during the annual Army-Navy football game and conducted surveillance at other military installations in the region, prosecutors said.
One defendant, Eljvir Duka, was recorded as saying: «In the end, when it comes to defending your religion, when someone is trying attacks your religion, your way of life, then you go jihad.»
The six were arrested Monday night trying to buy AK-47 assault weapons, M-16s and other weapons from an FBI informant, authorities said.
They appeared in federal court Tuesday in Camden and were ordered held without bail for a hearing Friday. Five were charged with conspiracy to kill U.S. military personnel; the sixth was charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigrants in obtaining weapons.
Four of the men were born in the former Yugoslavia, one was born in Jordan and one came from Turkey, authorities said. All had lived in the United States for years. Three were in the United States illegally; two had green cards allowing them to stay in this country permanently; and the sixth is a U.S. citizen.
