Main Stream Media Supressing Inconviently Timed Terrorist Trial

What is mainstream media burying Fort Dix domestic terrorists trial?  Does it remind of Weatherman bomber Ayers and refocus the issue on Barrack Obama?

It is the stuff of a 21st-century spy novel - terrorism, jihad, Osama bin Laden - but with a suburban twist. Five foreign-born Muslims raised in Cherry Hill go on trial tomorrow (October 22, 2008) on charges that they plotted to launch an attack on Fort Dix from the back of a pizza delivery truck.

Evidence indicates they practiced at a shooting range in the Poconos and in paintball games in woods and farms in the Hammonton, N.J., area. After the arrest, thanks to exceptional work by the FBI and other law enforcement, in May 2007, Christopher J. Christie, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey, said they were "the model for post-Sept. 11-era terrorism."

These defendants were homegrown Muslim radicals with no ties to any foreign Islamist terrorist group but who relished videos of jihadists speeches and be-headings.

Defense attorneys have argued that their clients are: angry, misguided young men, all in their 20s, who talked a more serious game than they ever intended to play, egged on and in some cases entrapped by paid FBI informants.

The prosecution and defense agree that the heart of the government's case is secretly recorded conversations in which the defendants talked about attacking U.S. military personnel and how their understanding of the tenets of Islam justified such action.

Now an anonymously chosen jury of eight women and four men will begin the process of deciding the defendants' fate.

All five could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted of the most serious charge, plotting to murder American military personnel. They also face related weapons and conspiracy charges.

It was a Circuit City clerk whose concern over some of the things he saw on a video he was asked to copy in January 2006 helped set the investigation in motion.

The video he had found "disturbing," showed 10 men shooting rifles at a firing range, calling for "jihad," and shouting, "Allahu Akbar" ("God is great").

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