It is almost out of a Clancy novel really.  6 men were planning to kill as many soldiers at Fort Dix as they could, but thansk to an anonymous tip, the ring of terrorists was busted:

6 arrested in plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix

The six men charged with plotting the slaughter of U.S. soldiers in an armed assault on Fort Dix were held without bail this afternoon during an initial appearance in federal court in Camden.

The men, identified by authorities as homegrown Islamic terrorists inspired by Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network, each spent about 10 minutes before a judge in U.S. District Court, saying they understood the charges against them.

In a press briefing afterward, U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie said that had the men managed to carry out their plan, “It could have been a disaster.”

“These people were ready for martyrdom,” Christie said. “Once they got on to that base and started to shoot, everyone was in danger.”

Added J.P. Weis, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia office, “Today we dodged a bullet.”

“These homegrown terrorists can prove to be as dangerous as any known group,” Weis said.

Federal agents, backed by state police, arrested the men last night after two of the suspects met a confidential informant in Cherry Hill to buy AK-47 and M16 automatic machine guns, authorities said. The men intended to “kill as many soldiers as possible,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

The alleged plot included conducting surveillance of the Army base and purchasing multiple firearms, including assault weapons, hand guns, shotguns and semi-automatic weapons, according to a federal complaint.

Some of the would-be attackers have been living illegally in the United States, while others are legal immigrants, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Four are ethnic Albanians, one was born in Turkey, and a sixth was born in Jordan.

Kansas Governor Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has decided to follow the nutroots and blame Bush for the Tornado.  Ok, not for the actual Tornado.  Instead she has pulled a Blanco, and channeled Katrina by not requesting mutual assistance via the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, that would allow her access to some 400,000 guardsman and equipment.  Instead she is whining that she doesn’t not have enough guard of her own because of Iraq.

The problem is that her forces were depleted before the war, to 60%.  So after the war they are down to 40%.  Still the DOD reports her readiness much higher then she reports, so the question becomes one of politics more then anything else.

Instead of facing up to her responsibilities, she has decided to give the democrats more hay for their anti war machine.

Governor?  What the lives of your people worth when you evaluate their political impact?  What price in terms of political value have you placed on their heads?

Fool.

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