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The Ft. Dix Terror Cell: A 7-Point Assessment
Submitted by Sean Osborne on Thu, 2007-05-10 15:52. Editorials read more
By Sean Osborne, Associate Director, Military Affairs
May 10, 2007- Based upon my analysis of the specific points in the FBI criminal complaint, OSINT reporting as well my intimate knowledge of the chosen target at Ft. Dix/McGuire AFB, New Jersey, an assessment on this terrorist cell is as follows:
1. This cell of Macedonian, Turkish and Jordanian-born islamofascists, which were training in the mold of Al Qaeda-inspired warfighting doctrine, was apparently focused on killing as many soldiers and civilians as they could, and would attack military and civilians when a given opportunity arose. They demonstrated a most “bang-for-the-buck” mentality in their planning.
2. Their upward radicalization from apostate Muslim's to full fledged islamofascist jihadi’s was due to the influence of an un-named uncle of the Duka family. This uncle had apparently been an apostate or secular muslim prior to a 1990s prison term served in New York State. He was radicalized during that incarceration and upon release began to preach Islam to his impressionable young nephews, apparently while they were in high school.

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Downplaying the threat
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2007-05-10 12:03. U.S. News read more
By Douglas J. Hagmann, Director
10 May 2007: The depiction by the media pundits and other expert analysts regarding the group of terrorist suspects who planned an attack on Fort Dix in New Jersey as ”homegrown with no ties to al Qaeda or any other international terrorist organization” is misleading to the extent that the description seems to be used to downplay the terrorist threat posed by Islamic terrorists. In some cases, it is an illustration of a lack of understanding at the most basic levels of our enemy. In other cases, it appears to be used as some type of reassurance that the threat facing the West, especially the U.S. and Canada is not as dangerous as it was prior to 2001. It is this very type of erroneous analysis that unnecessarily confuses an otherwise simple issue and assuages the public into the perilous belief that a successful attack is contingent upon command structure and sophistication. It is the same analysis that also suggests that the evolution into less structured groups of Islamic terrorists is somehow disassociated with al Qaeda.

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The Timing of the "Ft. Dix Six" Arrests: Operation Thunderbird??
Submitted by Sean Osborne on Thu, 2007-05-10 09:41. U.S. News read more
By Sean Osborne, Associate Director, Military Affairs
10 May 2007: What was not fully explained by federal officials during the press conference Tuesday afternoon at the Federal Courthouse in Camden, New Jersey, was the need to arrest the terror suspects making up the "Fort Dix Six" when they did. The investigation lasted over 16 months, and the arrests were made on Monday evening and early Tuesday morning.
The media has been alluding to items "m" and "n" on page 5 of the criminal complaint as being the initiator of the arrests per their federal contacts. Specifically, those items in the criminal complaint are:
(m). On or about April 6, 2007 DRITAN DUKA ordered four AK-47 Kalishnikov fully-automatic machine guns as well as M-16 firearms and handguns.
(n). On or about April 27, 2007 MOHAMED SHNEWER ordered an AK-47 fully-automatic machine gun."