The Fort Dix Five - part of global jihad

The Fort Dix 5

1. Mohamad Shnewer, 24, of Cherry Hill, U.S. citizen born in Jordan. Graduated from Cherry Hill High School West in 2003; attended Camden County College. Drove for All City Cab in Philadelphia, did construction work and worked at family's Plaza Food Market & Halal Meats in Pennsauken.
   Verdict: Guilty of conspiracy to kill members of the U.S. military and of gun charges.
2. 
   Dritan "Tony" Duka, 29, of Cherry Hill, ethnic Albanian born in the former Yugoslavia; immigrated illegally with his parents in 1984. Operated a roofing business.
   Verdict: Guilty of conspiracy to kill members of the U.S. military and of gun charges.
3. 
   Eljvir Duka, 25, of Cherry Hill, ethnic Albanian born in the former Yugoslavia; immigrated illegally with his parents in 1984. Dropped out of Cherry Hill High School West. Operated a roofing business. Verdict: Guilty of conspiracy to kill members of the U.S. military and of gun charges. Found not guilty of gun charges related to his brothers' attempt to buy weapons from an FBI informant.
4. 
   Shain Duka, 27, of Cherry Hill, ethnic Albanian born in the former Yugoslavia; immigrated illegally with his parents in 1984. Dropped out of Cherry Hill High School West. Operated a roofing business.
   Verdict: Guilty of conspiracy to kill members of the U.S. military and of gun charges.
5. 
   Serdar Tatar, 25, of Philadelphia, legal U.S. immigrant born in Turkey. Dropped out of Cherry Hill High School West. Delivered orders from his father's pizzeria to military personnel at Fort Dix. Was assistant manager of 7-Eleven store on the Temple University campus.
   Verdict: Guilty of conspiracy to kill members of the U.S. military.

The evidence suggests quite clearly that these men from disparate nationalities, cultures and languages were brought together by the same doctrine that drives al Qaeda (Sunni Wahhabis), the Mumbai mujahideen (Sunni Deobandis), Khomeini-faithful Iranians (Shia), Hamas (Sunni Muslim Brotherhood types), Hizbullah (Lebanese Arab Shia not necessarily faithful to the Persian Khomeini), Sudanese, Somalis, Indonesians, Nigerians, Bosnians, Chechens, and the list goes on and on and on. So what is that Common Enemy Threat Doctrine that unites these globally distant and unrelated groups? Ask them. Don't listen to the apologists or even the "experts" who want to suggest that they know better what motivates these groups than the groups themselves. If you simply listen and read what the global jihadists themselves say, it is for all practical purposes identical: The Law of Jihad as articulated throughout Shariah's 1200 years of development.
In other words, this is not some modern 20th century phenomenon. It is not just the work of the Muslim Brotherhood developed in the 1930s-1950s in Egypt. It is not just the oil-soaked Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia. It is a war against infidels that has been waged since Mohammed came onto the scene.
When you find yourself reading what some "expert" or some "Muslim leader" or an academic apologist says they REALLY mean when they speak of jihad, know you are drinking Kool-Aid. There is a fundamental difference between being informed by the mujahideen who are doing the murdering and the Shariah authorities--both classical and contemporary--from whom they claim to take instruction on the one hand and the secondary or tertiary literature of the academics and "experts" that is just spinning another "viewpoint" on the other.
Indeed, the latter will tell you at the end of the day that global jihad is all your fault. Western colonialism, imperialism, and institutional racism. Of course, that is not the common language of the mujahideen. Yes, some will take up the Palestinian gripe or the presence of US infidels in Saudi Arabia or Iraq. But that is not a common theme. The only common threat doctrine they all espouse is Shariah and its law of jihad. And, you need not take our word for this. The facts as evidence exists independently of what we say. It is found in the polemics and political tracts of Hamas, al Qaeda, Khomeini, Dow Jones Shariah authority Mufti Taqi Usmani, and many many others.
That of course is why the Fort Dix 5 were convicted. The evidence came from their own mouths in taped conversations; from their own computers; and from their purchase of real weapons to wreck real havoc.