Informant: 2 suspects not involved in Dix plot

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Informant: 2 suspects not involved in Dix plot
By Geoff Mulvihill - The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Nov 10, 2008 21:27:14 EST

CAMDEN, N.J. — The government’s star witness in the case against five men accused of plotting an attack on soldiers at the Army’s Fort Dix said two of the men “had nothing to do” with the scheme.

Mahmoud Omar, a paid FBI informant who made hundreds of secret recordings of the men over more than a year, told jurors Monday that one defendant — Mohamad Shnewer — said all five were on board with the alleged plot.

But two — brothers Dritan “Tony” Duka and Shain “Shaheen” Duka — knew nothing about it when Omar later asked them during an August 2006 fishing trip with them, he testified under cross-examination.

“Tony and Shaheen had nothing to do with this matter,” Omar said during his seventh day on the stand. “... I was surprised because what Mohamad had told me was different.”

Government prosecutors have not yet had a chance to ask Omar to further explain what he meant by that — or whether the men joined the plot after the fishing trip.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/11/ap_dix_trial_111008/%2e