Six Fools Held in Fort Dix Plot

Six not-terribly clever men have been detained by the US authorities on suspicion that they were going to attack the US military base at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Their aim was allegedly to “kill as many soldiers as possible.” According to Tony Snow, the White House spokesman, “They are not charged with being members of an international terrorism organization. At least at this point, there is no evidence that they received direction from international terror organizations.” No, these are merely Al-Qaeda wannabes. The US remains free of the real thing.

According to Reuters, these “Islamic militants” (alleged) “were identified as Dritan Duka (also known as Distan Duka, Anthony Duka or Tony Duka); Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer; Eljvir Duka (aka Elvis Duka or Sulaymen); Shain Duka; Serdar Tatar and Agron Abdullahu, according to a criminal complaint filed against Dritan Duka.” The Duka clan members appear to be in the US illegally and are Albanian nationals. The others may or may not be a Jordanian and a Turk.

At this stage, the cheerleaders for the Heimatschutzministerium, to give the Department of Homeland Security its proper name in the original, will remind Americans that there’s a highly trained Al-Qaeda operative under every bed. Sleeping with one eye open, they will insist, is the duty of every real patriot (real patriots being those who want to withdraw the troops from Iraq-Nam only when Tehran also falls to American might). The truth is these jackasses are embarrassments to terrorism.

In a fine article by Howard Schneider, Debbi Wilgoren and Sari Horwitz of the Washington Post, “According to the documents, U.S. authorities were alerted to the group's existence by a video store employee, who said a man had brought in a recording of 10 young men shooting assault weapons and shouting jihadist slogans. The man asked for the videotape to be copied onto a DVD, the charging documents said. The store complied, but also turned the material over to the FBI. In March of 2006, an FBI informant established a relationship with one of the men believed to be in the videotape, the charging documents say. Eventually, two informants infiltrated the group, recording numerous conversations and events over the next year.” No one will be surprised to learn that the cadre’s training included a paintball session (followed no doubt by pizza and Cokes).

Their amateurishness is further proved by their choice of target. Terrorists proper don’t go after hard military targets – because they’d be wiped out almost instantly. The old AK-47 isn’t much use against people with tanks, artillery and helicopters and the training to use them. Six or seven armed men attacking Fort Dix, which usually has 15,000 people, including 3,000 soldiers present, aren’t about to win a glorious victory. There wouldn’t be enough of them left to bury, just greasy smudges at best.

Full marks go to the FBI and the video store employee for their excellent action and alertness. If one sees something, one says something. And if anyone is keeping score, it stands at raging lunatic at Virginia Tech 32; Al-Qaeda and those who wannabe such 0.

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