Dix defendant discussed attack on tape

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Dix defendant discussed attack on tape
By David Porter - The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Oct 30, 2008 6:00:56 EDT

CAMDEN, N.J. — One of the defendants in an alleged plot to kill soldiers at an Army base was caught on tape discussing using nail bombs and machine guns for an assault that he said would punish Americans for their arrogance.

Mohamad Shnewer was secretly recorded during a car trip he made to Fort Dix in 2006 with government informant Mahmoud Omar. Prosecutors claim the two men used the trip to scout locations at Fort Dix where they could launch the attack.

Mohamad Shnewer also is heard playing a video to informant Mahmoud Omar in which a man speaking Arabic demonstrates how to build a bomb, and another that Shnewer said depicted a beheading.

The attack was never carried out, and six men, all foreign-born Muslims in their 20s who lived for several years in southern New Jersey, were arrested in May 2007.

One of the men, Agron Abdullahu, a supermarket baker, pleaded guilty last year to providing weapons to some of the others and is serving a 20-month prison sentence.


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