<p>My question is to all of you posters---Is USNA getting more security? We visited last summer--and the security seemed extremely lax--Anything new especially after the terrorist attempt at Ft. Dix?</p>
<p>My last visit to USNA was 2 weeks ago... not sure if anything has tightened up since this incident, other than to say that the plans to beef up security have already been underway for several months now, most notably at Gate 1.....and especially for pedestrian traffic.</p>
<p>When compared to my day, the security now is quite tight, which isn't to say I'm comfortable with the current (visible) arrangements, but there it is.</p>
<p>Believe me, it has been long known that USNA makes for a juicy target for terrorists. After 9/11, one would hope that such a threat is taken more seriously whether the average Joe sees the changes or not.</p>
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A majority of the 69,943 fans who crowded into Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field last December to watch the Army-Navy football game were United States servicemen and women. </p>
<p>Yesterday, it became known the men accused of planning to attack Fort Dix viewed that winter day as "a missed opportunity to attack United States military personnel." ...
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<p>WOW GA!! That's a creepy article! It so makes me appreciate all our men and women willing to wear the uniform!! They are targets for islamofacists wherever they happen to be! God Bless our Military!</p>
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Six Muslim men suspected of plotting to massacre U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix were ordered held without bail Friday.</p>
<p>Prosecutors argued that the men, all born outside the United States, pose a flight risk. They are being held at a federal detention center in Philadelphia....
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As of this writing, nobody nobody in the mainstream media has seen fit to ask President Bush a fundamental question about the six identified "Islamic terrorists" who are accused of plotting to kill "as many soldiers as possible" at Fort Dix, New Jersey: Will they be treated as enemy combatants or are they to be allowed the luxury of this nation's criminal justice system?</p>
<p>In other words, are they to be treated as sworn enemies dedicated to tearing down this nation and killing Americans or are they to be given the protections of the law afforded common thugs who were caught pulling a heist at a 7-Eleven....
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Five of the men charged last week in an alleged plot to attack soldiers on Fort Dix face life prison sentences if they are convicted.</p>
<p>The sixth, Agron Abdullahu, is an entirely different case, his lawyer argued in legal papers filed Monday....
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Of the six Muslim men arrested in connection with efforts to massacre soldiers at Fort Dix, Agron Abdullahu stands apart.</p>
<p>Abdullahu was the only suspect not charged with conspiring to kill military personnel.</p>
<p>Unlike three of the men, Abdullahu is a legal U.S. resident from the former Yugoslavia. He is charged with helping illegal immigrants obtain weapons, an offense punishable by up to 10 years in prison....
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One of the men accused this month of plotting to attack soldiers on Fort Dix recently applied to be a police officer in two big cities a move some authorities think may have been an effort to infiltrate law enforcement agencies.</p>
<p>Philadelphia Police Sgt. D.F. Pace said Wednesday that Serdar Tatar applied for a job there last month. Based on what we know now, I dont think his intentions were good, Pace said....
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An electronics store clerk credited with providing the tip that broke up an alleged plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix went public Tuesday, saying he spent a day pondering his suspicions before going to authorities.</p>
<p>Brian Morgenstern said he was alarmed when he watched the video two men brought him to have transferred to a DVD, but also worried about invading the customers privacy....
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Six men accused of plotting to kill soldiers at Fort Dix are scheduled to be arraigned in federal court Thursday.</p>
<p>Mohamad Shnewer, Serdar Tatar and brothers Dritan, Eljvir and Shain Duka are charged with conspiring to kill military personnel. They could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted.</p>
<p>Dritan and Shain Duka also are charged with possession of machine guns. All three Duka brothers are charged with possession of weapons by illegal immigrants....
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<p>To circumvent the judicial system and deem these 6 as "enemy combatants" would be to signal the death of the American judicial system. We have the system for a reason. The Constitution is territorial, they were on U.S. soil and are thus entitled to the same rights as everyone else. I guess an old-fashioned trial just isn't as much fun as unilaterally declaring guilt; is it?</p>
<p>Oh sorry, they were "islamofascists". That changes everything!</p>
<p>Not.</p>
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A man pleaded guilty Wednesday to providing weapons to a group of men accused of plotting an attack on Fort Dix.</p>
<p>Agron Abdullahu, 25, faces up to five years in federal prison when he is sentenced Feb. 6.</p>
<p>Federal prosecutors have portrayed the New Jersey resident as having the smallest role among the six men arrested earlier this year in the case. While the others are charged with conspiring to kill military personnel a crime punishable by life in prison Abdullahu was charged only with weapons offenses....
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<p>Why isn't this news on TV? They don't look like "homegrown" types either.</p>
<p>A great question, and more so when one watches some of the mickey mouse stories Katie & Co. report nightly (and Brian Williams and whoever's on the other "entertainment tonite" disguised as nightly news. </p>
<p>And the oafs wonder why fewer tune in all the time.</p>
<p>When we went to PPW, they had plenty scary guys on the gates, wearing a lot of gear, and having big guns. Plus, my son said I couldn't hop the stone fence that separates Mother B's front entrance way from the other part (Stribling Walk, I think) because it would make the Marines very upset (apparently, he belongs to the Navy, now:) ). </p>
<p>In short, I think they have increased security on the gates, as well as security around the midshipmen.</p>