Tuesday, December 23, 2008

CAIR defends Islamists


Five Muslim Immigrants Convicted of Conspiring to Attack Fort Dix
-Paul Von Zielbauer & Jon Hurdle

A federal jury convicted five men of conspiring to kill American soldiers at Fort Dix in New Jersey last year.

Three brothers - Shain, Eljvir and Dritan Duka - and Mohamad Shnewer and Serdar Tatar are all Muslim immigrants who lived in South Jersey or Philadelphia. Federal prosecutors called the five men "radical Islamists" and said the men had taken concrete steps to train and arm themselves.

Jim Sues, executive director of the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations [CAIR], said that the men, though not innocent of any wrongdoing, were unjustifiably egged on by government informants...
(New York Times)

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