Thursday, May 10, 2007

The Terrorists Next Door?

Plot Suspects Lived Quietly in Suburb
By Anthony Faiola and Dale Russakoff
Washington Post Staff WritersThursday, May 10, 2007; Page A01
CHERRY HILL, N.J., May 9 -- From the front porch of her two-story home on Mimosa Drive, Susan DeFrancesco looked out on the neighborhood she calls "a little United Nations." Pointing from one house to the next, she said: "They're Asian; that family's from Poland. They're from Canada. She's from India. "
Living among those varied families for the past seven years were the Dukas, a three-generational clan of ethnic Albanians. Their Muslim religious garb, repeated minor run-ins with the law, and a brood of up to 20 children, grandchildren and other relatives made them unusual, but hardly unwelcome.
"You don't want to single out a family because of where they're from or what they believe," DeFrancesco said.
(That's very true - you don't WANT to but... that's a luxury we cannot afford any longer - jillosophy)
On Tuesday morning, it suddenly looked different when three of the Duka brothers -- young, bearded men in their 20s who had spent most of their lives in New Jersey -- were among the six men indicted in an alleged terrorist plot to attack nearby Fort Dix with assault weapons...

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