The United States dodged another bullet - several in fact - when authorities
foiled an alleged terrorist attack on the Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey
by six men described by authorities as "radical Islamists." Three of the men
are illegal immigrants.
White House press secretary Tony Snow said there is "no direct evidence"
that the suspects have ties to international terrorism. Perhaps not in the
traditional way that "ties" has been defined, but there are other ties that
bind people to international terrorism without commissions or charters from
a terrorist organization. That is what makes this freelance form of
terrorism especially difficult to thwart.
Had it not been for the carelessness of one of the suspects who asked a
local video store to copy a training video depicting men with weapons
shouting "God is great" and proclaiming jihad, the alleged plot might have
succeeded. The owner of the store tipped off authorities, which then began a
15-month investigation resulting in the arrests of the men. Some advocacy
groups want the right to sue people who report suspicious activity, as in
the case of passengers aboard a U.S. Airways flight who reported several
imams they believed were behaving suspiciously. Now the imams, with the help
of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim lobby group, have
filed suit in hopes of obtaining the names of the passengers so they can be
sued.
The usual groups issue the predictable statements condemning the alleged
terrorist plot at Fort Dix, repeating that Islam is a "peaceful religion."
Recall that the late Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, repeatedly condemned terrorist attacks he either helped
instigate or inspired.
It is more prudent to pay attention to what terrorists say and do rather
than to what the sophisticated, media-savvy conveyers of disinformation tell
us.
Authorities said one of the suspects is believed to have been a sniper in
Kosovo and he and the other men had been training at a firing range in
Pennsylvania. Eljvir Duka, 23, is quoted in the complaint as saying, "When
it comes to defending your religion, when someone is trying to attack your
religion, your way of life, then you go jihad." This is the triumph of the
brainwashers throughout the Islamic world. They teach the youngest of
children that jihad and dying for Allah is their sole guarantee of heaven.
That's a tough doctrine to overcome, especially when Western diplomats are
seen as infidel "cross-worshippers" and "Jewish pigs" deserving of death.
Christopher J. Christie, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey, told a news
conference, "This is a new brand of terrorism where a small cell of people
can bring enormous devastation."