NEED TO KNOW | Before the fact: The Fort Dix Five | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/security/the-fort-dix-five-homegrown-ter... Terrorism is intrinsically difficult to combat; mistakes are inevitable. One of the terms sometimes used to describe that effort is "preemptive prosecution," a strategy where the government brings terrorism-related charges against people who have not committed terrorist acts at the time of their arrest. Critics complain the cases often involve entrapment, by government informants who have been planted among the suspects. They're arrested for what law enforcement believes they will do — not for what they've done. One of those prosecutions is the case of the Fort Dix Five. Five young men were arrested, convicted, and jailed for plotting an attack on the military base at Fort Dix, New Jersey. The case represents a good example of how American law enforcement operates in the post 9/11 world. Need to Know airs Fridays on PBS. Watch full-length episodes of Need to Know at http://video.pbs.org/program/1458405365/

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• Terrorism
• Fort Dix
• Fort Dix Five
• Najibulla Zazi
• preemptive prosecution
• homegrown terrorism
• Duka brothers
• 9/11
• September 11

[rebelnomo]

They fucked up. They might not have carried anything out, but if they did and the public found out about this info, we would be outraged that they didn't send these people to prison for a long long time. IMO, they got what they asked for.

[jag10]

Why are my tax dollars paying to create terror?

[SuperStreetG]

Being from Texas i've seen target practice, that is most certainly not target practice