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...Fort Dix case, Omar was watched closely. "We felt fairly confident that we knew what was going on with these guys all the time," says U.S. Attorney Christie. There are more than 100 hours of recordings of Omar's conversations with the defendants. The month after Omar met Mohamed Shnewer, according to the complaint, Shnewer shared a DVD with Omar that allegedly contains jihadist recruitment messages. The next month Shnewer loaned Omar his laptop and told him to check out a file that appears to be the wills of at least two of the hijackers involved in 9/11, the complaint...
...most damning statements seem to have come from Mohamed Shnewer when he was alone with the informant. On Aug. 1, he allegedly told Omar, "If you want to do anything here, there is Fort Dix and I don't want to exaggerate, and I assure you that you can hit an American base very easily ... When you go to a military base, you need mortars and RPGs." Under the law, an informant must be a witness to the crime - not the instigator. Shnewer's use of the second person, you, suggests that he may have viewed the informant...
...according to the complaint. It was a one-time lapse, the complaint says, and Omar "has proven to be credible and reliable." But there are other red flags. "Clearly the informant had the opportunity to activate and deactivate the recording device," says Rocco Cipparone Jr., defense attorney for Mohamed Shnewer, according to his knowledge of the evidence so far. If that is true, it raises questions about how closely the informant was supervised. (The U.S. Attorney's office declined to comment on the claim, citing the impending trial.) In addition, the informants' recording devices - which may have been embedded...
...Eleven months into the investigation, the complaint says, one of the defendants began to suspect Omar. Serdar Tatar, a legal resident from Turkey who worked at a 7-Eleven store and knew the Dukas and Shnewer from high school, asked Omar outright if he was a "fed." Three days later, Tatar contacted a Philadelphia police sergeant to report that someone was pressuring him to acquire maps of Fort Dix - and that he was afraid it might be terrorism-related. (Tatar's father owned a pizzeria and had a map of the base and clearance to deliver there.) The sergeant called...
...Three weeks later, the FBI interviewed Tatar. At that point, he backtracked, the complaint says, denying any knowledge of a plot. It is not clear why the FBI waited three weeks to follow up with Tatar. By then, coincidentally or not, Tatar had succumbed to requests from Shnewer and the informant to hand over a map of Fort Dix, the complaint alleges. Tatar continues to deny giving...