Secret recordings of men accused of planning to attack soldiers on Fort Dix are giving jurors chillingly
specific details of how an attack would be carried out.
For the third straight day, the trial was dominated yesterday by recordings made by federal informant Mahmoud Omar. He’s a native of Egypt with a sketchy past who is being paid $1,500 weekly for his
cooperation.
Many of the conversations involve suspect Mohamad Shnewer, a cab driver and college dropout who drove with Omar to Fort Dix in New Jersey and Delaware’s Dover Air Force Base in August 2006.
The government says attacking Fort Dix was Shnewer’s idea.
But defense lawyers contend he was dragged into the plot by Omar – and that the four other suspects were unaware of their plan.
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