Mt. Laurel Video Store Clerk Did Not Appreciate Ruse

As you may have heard yesterday — and as apparently people flocked to this very blog to see — the feds busted up a terrorist plot to attack Fort Dix and other locations.

The plot was uncovered by by a particularly sharp video store clerk, who pretty much gave all video store clerks a good name with his heroic smart deed.

The Daily News reports in one of the paper’s five reporters-on-one story specials:

U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie said at a news conference yesterday at the federal court in Camden that it was an “unsung hero,” a clerk in a Mount Laurel, N.J., store, who probably spared the country the horror of another terror attack.

The clerk was so disturbed by a video that the store was being asked to transfer to a DVD that he or she notified the police.

The video showed a group of men firing weapons at a firing range in the Poconos and shouting for jihad (holy war) and “Allah Akbar!” — “God is great” in Arabic.

The Mount Laurel police notified the FBI, launching a 16-month investigation that uncovered the murder plot and led to the arrests of the normal-seeming good neighbors.

Gee! That was a little suspicious? Later, the clerk also uncovered another plot when he found a “Vancouver Olympic Bombing preparations” home movie some Quebec independence zealots brought in to have transferred.

‘WE DODGED A BULLET’ [Daily News]