2007 Fort Dix Attack Plot - Chronology of Events

Chronology of Events

• January 31, 2006 – An individual brings a tape to a Circuit City in New Jersey for duplication and transfer to DVD. The video features 10 young men conducting militia style assault training shooting their weapons at a firing range while shouting "God is great". The Circuit City employees, Brian Morgenstern and one other not to be named at this time, who saw the video contacted the Mt. Laurel Police who in turn contacted the FBI.
• By April 2006, the FBI hired informant Mahmoud Omar to approach the suspects.
• August 11, 2006 – Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer travels to Fort Dix and Fort Monmouth to conduct surveillance.
• August 13, 2006 – Shnewer travels to Dover Air Force Base, Delaware to conduct surveillance.
• August 13, 2006 – Shnewer travels to the U.S. Coast Guard building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to conduct surveillance.
• August 16, 2006 – Shnewer travels to Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst to conduct surveillance.
• November 28, 2006 – Serdar Tatar, who had delivered pizza to Fort Dix before, obtains a map of the Fort Dix military installation through his employer's pizza delivery restaurant, which serves the military base.
• February 2, 2007 – Dritan Duka, Eljvir Duka and Sulayman Shain Duka conduct weapons training in Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania.
• February 4, 2007 – Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, Dritan Duka, Eljvir Duka and Sulayman Shain Duka review terrorist training materials.
• February 26, 2007 – Dritan Duka and Eljvir Duka conduct weapons training in Cherry Hill.
• March 15, 2007 – Dritan Duka and Sulayman Shain Duka conduct weapons training in Cherry Hill.
• April 16, 2007 – Dritan Duka contacts an arms dealer (an FBI informant) for weaponry.
• May 7, 2007 – The FBI arrests six members of the group.
• December 22, 2008 - A federal jury finds five of the six alleged plotters guilty of conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism and weapons charges.