Always Fort Dix

Federal prosecutors have officially charged five men with conspiracy to commit terroristic acts by attacking Fort Dix, New Jersey:

A group of would-be terrorists, allegedly undone after attempting to have jihad training videos copied onto a DVD, has been charged with conspiring to attack Fort Dix and kill soldiers there with assault rifles and grenades, authorities said Tuesday.

Five men — all foreign-born and described as “radical Islamists” by federal authorities — allegedly trained at a shooting range in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains to kill “as many soldiers as possible” at the historic Army base 25 miles east of Philadelphia. A sixth man was charged with helping them obtain illegal weapons.

Poor old Fort Dix. Every generation or so, some gang of happy idiots blunders in with delusions of infernal grandeur:

A careless movement, inadvertent twitch, poor design, or perhaps an act of God stopped the Weathermen from carrying out their attempt to dramatically and lethally escalate their war against the United States. Until that point the group led by radical activists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn had carried out mostly symbolic terrorism, with attacks against buildings that symbolized the power of the war-mongering American government they so despised.

The attack planned on Fort Dix was an entirely different animal, as authorities carefully sifting through the rubble would eventually discover.

Four 12″ pipe-bombs stuffed with dynamite, using roof nails as shrapnel designed to add lethality to the blast, were recovered in the remains of the basement bomb factory. So were more than 50 sticks of dynamite, some of it fused in eight-stick bundles that could level entire buildings. (The) terror attack would have used less than half of the bombs built by Bill Ayer’s Weathermen.

This newest band of boobs will probably spend many years in prison, unlike community organizer and university professor Bill Ayers. Who at least got tenure.