Super Mario Finally Defeated

The Fort Dix Six’s tremendous alleged plan to deliver pizza and attack an army base was foiled by the FBI last year. But the anger about the plot still apparently lives on with New Jersey residents.

Last year, the Council on American-Islamic Relations wanted a little boy arrested and thrown in jail forever for calling the sister of one of the arrested a terrorist and punching her in the face. And now, the father and owner of the pizza shop says his life is ruined. It’s the New York Post’s fault, of course.

The demise of the pizza business began abruptly three days after Serdar was arrested, Muslim Tatar said. That’s when an editorial cartoon in The New York Post showed two soldiers buying a pizza from a bearded, turban-wearing man with a gun. The pizza box says “Super Mario’s Pizza,” and inside, along with a pizza, are a bomb, stick of dynamite and hand grenade.

He also got a bunch of hate mail from idiots and lost a customer who said, “We didn’t want to get involved with it.” Now the shop is closed. Another victory over Islamic terrorism!

Dad of Fort Dix plot suspect says his life’s in shambles [AP/Camden Courier-Post]

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]

Feds Bust Idiotic Terrorist Plot

As you may have heard already, the FBI arrested six locals last night for allegedly planning an attack on Fort Dix. Hey, at least they weren’t planning on attacking unarmed people!

“If you want to do anything here, there is Fort Dix and I don’t want to exaggerate, and I assure that you can hit an American base very easily,” one of the men told an FBI informant, according to the FBI. “You take a map and draw it and then you calculate that there are areas where there are 100 to 200 invididuals . . .

Ahh, yes, the six terrorists were planning a full-frontal assault on a fort. Forts are known for their ease of access and lack of security, of course, so this plan to attack the army really had a good chance of working.

Four of the alleged Islamic terrorists lived in Cherry Hill, another from Williamstown and one — Serdar Tatar — from Philadelphia. The six wannabe terrorists were going to attack the base due to a recent bad night at Top Dog.

Not that they’d be able to, ah, be able to kill many soldiers with rocket-propelled grenades:

A successful attack on Fort Dix is highly unlikely. Armed soldiers guard every gate, whose approaches have curbs or barriers that force traffic to slowly snake as they get near.

The soldiers perform “a 100 percent identification check” and do random vehicle searches, Nesbit said.

Each gate also has additional security measures that are far from obvious. “We do not publicize this,” she said.

Perhaps these men thought forts were made of Lincoln Logs (which is what Fort Pitt was constructed with).

Murder assault on Fort Dix ‘very easy’ says plotter [Inquirer]