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Title: 5 Men Found Guilty of Plotting to Kill Fort Dix Soldiers
Post by: TheSarge on December 22, 2008, 05:18:52 PM
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CAMDEN, N.J.  —  Five Muslim immigrants were convicted Monday of plotting to massacre U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix in a case that tested the FBI's post-Sept. 11 strategy of infiltrating and breaking up terrorist conspiracies in their earliest stages.

The men could get life in prison when they are sentenced in April.

The five, who lived in and around Philadelphia for years, were found guilty of conspiring to kill U.S. military personnel. But they were acquitted of attempted murder, after prosecutors acknowledged the men were probably months away from an attack and did not necessarily have a specific plan. Four defendants were also convicted of weapons charges.

The federal jury deliberated for 38 hours over six days.

The government said after the arrests in 2007 that case underscored the dangers of terrorist plots hatched on U.S. soil. Although investigators said the conspirators were inspired by Usama bin Laden, they were not accused of any ties to foreign terror groups.

Defense lawyers argued that the alleged plot was all talk — that the men weren't seriously planning anything and that they were manipulated and goaded by two paid FBI informants.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,470900,00.html
Title: Re: 5 Men Found Guilty of Plotting to Kill Fort Dix Soldiers
Post by: rich_t on December 22, 2008, 05:20:42 PM
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The men could get life in prison when they are sentenced in April.

Could?  How about SHOULD!
Title: Re: 5 Men Found Guilty of Plotting to Kill Fort Dix Soldiers
Post by: Crazy Horse on December 22, 2008, 06:56:49 PM
Could?  How about SHOULD!

"They were harmless children, just pugs yelling terra, terra"/DUmbass off
Title: Re: 5 Men Found Guilty of Plotting to Kill Fort Dix Soldiers
Post by: Bondai on December 22, 2008, 07:29:17 PM
....and LIBERALS wept.
Title: Re: 5 Men Found Guilty of Plotting to Kill Fort Dix Soldiers
Post by: Peter3_1 on December 24, 2008, 04:54:49 PM
Well, then, let them spend the rest of their lives talking and hatching child like plots, from a Federal Pen.