MSNBC - Terrorism training in Pennsylvania

http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/22/1582004.aspx

By Robert Windrem and Jonathan Dienst, NBC News

Federal officials tonight released dozens of video and audio tapes from the terrorism trial of five men accused of planning an attack on the Fort Dix Army training base in New Jersey. Prosecutors said during opening statements that the men were inspired by al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden.

The tapes show some of the defendants training with automatic weapons at a firing range in the Poconos Mountains in Pennsylvania. Others are downloads and tapes seized from the suspects' homes that show the killing of American troops in Iraq.

The government charges that the men, all foreign-born Muslims in their 20s who lived in suburban New Jersey, conspired to kill U.S. servicemen at Fort Dix. Prosecutors have not said the men were part of any overseas terrorist groups. But they argue that were the defendants not arrested in May 2007, they would have tried to carry out an attack on Fort Dix, where U.S. troops train for deployments to Iraq.

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