Illegal Immigrants Part of Thwarted
New Jersey Terror Plot

Sept. 2007

Should never have been here…

It may come as no surprise that the terror cell that was to carry out rampage at Ft. Dix was partly composed of illegal immigrants, who should not have been here to ever begin with. When we will the rest of the country wise up to the problem of illegal immigration? Hopefully, before it is too late. Below is a summary of the astounding facts surrounding the Ft. Dix terror plot, recently broken up by the FBI.

FORT DIX, N.J. — Three brothers charged in the alleged Fort Dix terror plot have been living illegally in the U.S. for more than 23 years and were accepted as Americans by neighbors and friends who had no idea they would scheme to attack military bases and slaughter GIs.

• A federal law enforcement source confirmed to FOX News that the three — Dritan "Anthony" or "Tony" Duka, 28; Shain Duka, 26; and Eljvir "Elvis" Duka, 23 — also accumulated 19 traffic citations, but because they operated in "sanctuary cites," where law enforcement does not routinely report illegal immigrants to homeland security, none of the tickets raised red flags.

• The source said there is no record of them entering by way of a regular border crossing, so they are investigating whether they were smuggled into the country.

• Five were charged with conspiracy to kill U.S. military personnel; the sixth, Abdullahu, was charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigrants in obtaining weapons.

• Four of the arrested men were born in the former Yugoslavia, one was born in Jordan and one came from Turkey, authorities said. 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.

• The foreign-born Muslims are accused of planning to assault the Army base and slaughter scores of U.S. soldiers with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades.

• The unidentified clerk is being credited with tipping off authorities in January 2006 after one of the suspects asked him to transfer a video to DVD that showed 10 men shooting weapons at a firing range and calling for jihad, prosecutors said.

•  "If we didn't get that tip," said U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie, "I couldn't be sure what would happen." FBI agent J.P. Weis called the clerk the "unsung hero" of the case.

• They were ready to kill and die "in the name of Allah," prosecutors said in court papers.

• Weis said the U.S. is seeing a "brand-new form of terrorism," involving smaller, more loosely defined groups that may not be connected to Al Qaeda but are inspired by its ideology.

• "Clearly, one of the guys had an intimate knowledge of the base from having been there delivering pizzas," Christie said.

• Tatar's father, Muslim Tatar, 54, said the accusations against his son were hard to accept.

• FOX News has also learned that there were 19 traffic citations against the Duka brothers, but according to a federal law enforcement source, because they operated in so-called "sanctuary cites," where law enforcement does not routinely tell the Homeland Security Department about illegal immigrants in their towns, none of the tickets raised red flags.

• The group often watched terror training videos, clips featuring Usama bin Laden, a tape containing the last will and testament of some of the Sept. 11 hijackers, and tapes of armed attacks on U.S. military personnel, authorities said.

• The men trained by playing paintball in the woods in New Jersey and taking target practice at a firing range in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, where they had rented a house, authorities said.

• "We believe they are their own cell," said Christie. "They are inspired by international terror organizations. I believe they saw themselves as part of that."

• In addition to plotting the attack on Fort Dix, the defendants spoke of assaulting a Navy installation in Philadelphia during the annual Army-Navy football game and conducted surveillance at other military installations in the region, prosecutors said.

• The six were arrested Monday night trying to buy AK-47 assault weapons, M-16s and other weapons from an FBI informant, authorities said. It was not clear when the alleged attack was to take place.

• "We had a group that was forming a platoon to take on an army. They identified their target, they did their reconnaissance. They had maps. And they were in the process of buying weapons. Luckily, we were able to stop that," said Weis.

• The restaurant's chef, Joseph Hofflinger, 35, quit after learning the owner was the father of one of the suspects.

• "My son is in the 82nd Airborne," Hofflinger told ABC. "I won't work for a place that supports terrorism so I'm out."

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Brothers Charged in Terror Plot Lived Illegally in U.S. for 23 Years

Our Take

Once again we are uncomfortably close to paying a heavy price for our lax enforcement of citizenship and immigration laws. Remember, not all immigrants are here to help us. Most are here to help themselves and leave. Even a smaller number are here for more sinister purposes as the Ft. Dix plot reveals. We need to crack down before it is too late.

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