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Six knucklehead non-terrorists arrested for terrorism in New Jersey
by Madeline Zane, Unknown News May 14, 2007
This "terrorist" arrest stinks from beginning to end. First of all, these young men's original crime was Going to a Firing Range While Muslim. They were turned in by a paranoid store clerk who freaked out at the videotape they brought in to make into a DVD, because after all, it showed dark-skinned people shooting at something.
Yes, they were allegedly shouting "jihad"-esque things at the time. But kids yell all sorts of dumb stuff at each other while playing shoot 'em up. For all we know, it wasn't any different than playing the robbers in cops and robbers. "Take this, you American infidels! Pow! Pow! Death to America! Pow!"
Then, for the next sixteen months, an undercover FBI agent did everything he could to talk these guys into planning some sort of half-assed attack on American soldiers. We have no evidence that they were actual jihadists or ever dreamed of planning any sort of violence before their new friend came around and spent a year and a half talking them into it. They "selected" Fort Dix as a target because one of them delivered pizzas there and knew his way around. They didn't even have any weapons -- their arrest happened as they tried to buy guns, at the urging of their undercover "friend."
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Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, Serdar Tatar, Dritan "Anthony" or "Tony" Duka, Shain Duka, Eljvir "Elvis" Duka, and Agron Abdullahu
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Even the chest-thumping spokesman for the FBI admitted that these kids had absolutely no links to Al Qaeda or any other terrorist organization. In fact, four of the six were from the former Yugoslavia, not normally a hotbed of anti-American radicalism.
This entire "terrorist" case seems built on a shaky foundation of racist paranoia and FBI entrapment. It's the FBI standard -- any seasoned peace activist knows, the new guy at meetings who suggests something violent or illegal is a fed. Bet your life on it, or at least 10-20 years.
Add the Fort Dix Six to the long list of harmless idiots arrested in high-profile operations that have nothing to do with security and everything to do with selling us the War on Terror.
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