FBI Arrest 6 Men In Plot To Attack U.S. Army Base Fort Dix

The FBI has arrested six foreign born Muslim men in connection with an alleged plot to attack an army base in the United States.

Prosecutors claim the men, who are from the former Yugoslavia and the Middle East, planned to use automatic weapons to kill as many soldiers as possible at the Fort Dix base in New Jersey.

The men are being described as "Islamic militants", but officials say there is no evidence of any links to international terrorism.

The video shop clerk called the Mount Laurel Police Department, after he had been asked to copy footage of the men firing guns and chanting onto a DVD, who in turn contacted the FBI.

The FBI says it infiltrated their group after a video shop clerk told local police.

And thus began the downfall of one of the most thoroughly infiltrated and documented group of terrorism suspects in recent history.

Six men from Yugoslavia and the Middle East who were charged Tuesday with plotting to slaughter scores of American soldiers at Fort Dix and perhaps other military installations in the Northeast.

The suspects' images and words were captured on more than 50 audio and video recordings. Their comings and goings were recorded by law enforcement agents who monitored the alleged plot for 15 months, hoping more terror ties would become apparent.

The defendants, all men in their 20s, include a pizza deliveryman suspected of using his job to scout out Fort Dix. Their goal was "to kill as many American soldiers as possible" in attacks with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and guns, prosecutors said.

The arrests brought renewed worry among New Jersey's Muslim community. Hundreds of Muslim men from New Jersey were rounded up and detained in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks, but none were connected to that plot.


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