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Fort Dix Terror Plot: Five guilty

by politisite | December 22, 2008 at 09:28 am

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A verdict has been reached in the 5 men being tried for the Fort Dix Terror Plot trial. The men plotted to kill as many soldiers on the post as possible.

Update 1:36 p.m. ET - Jury finds all five men guilty of plotting to kill soldiers on Fort Dix, acquitted of attempted murder.

Update 1:27 p.m. ET - 1:15 has come and gone. There was one source who said that verdict would be delayed an hour at 12:50 p.m.

1 P.M. Update: Verdict will be read at 1:15 p.m. ET according to officials. The verdict will be posted as it comes in.

12:44 p.m. Update: Verdict will be read at 1 P.M.

12:22 p.m. Update: Verdict will be read in open court in 1 hour

The men, all Muslim immigrants who lived in Philadelphia’s southern New Jersey suburbs, face a maximum of life in prison.

Federal prosecutors said that the five men were planning to attack Fort Dix and the military personnel within it, and had taken concrete steps to train and arm themselves. During the men’s trial, prosecutors argued that evidence, including hundreds of secretly taped conversations between the defendants and F.B.I. informants, jihadist propaganda videos recovered from one suspect’s computer, and videotapes of an illegal purchase of several machine guns, showed they intended to carry out an armed assault on the base