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Trial delayed in alleged Fort Dix plot

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Published: Sept. 25, 2007 at 7:15 PM

CAMDEN, N.J., Sept. 25 (UPI) -- A federal judge in New Jersey delayed the trial of suspected terrorists, the "Fort Dix Six," for two months Tuesday to give lawyers more time to prepare.

Defense lawyers told U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler that they would not be able to go through 200 hours of taped conversations by the original November trial date, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

Prosecutors are trying to determine how to handle classified material that might be required as evidence.

Five of the defendants are charged with planning an assault on Fort Dix that prosecutors say was inspired by al-Qaida. The sixth allegedly got guns for them.

The group includes three brothers, Dritan, Shain and Eljvir Duka, who were illegal immigrants from the former Yugoslavia. Mohammad Shnewer of Cherry Hill is a Jordanian-born U.S. citizen, while Serdar Tatar of Philadelphia, a legal U.S. resident, was born in Turkey. Agron Abdullahu, who lived in Buena Vista near Atlantic City, the alleged weapons supplier, was a Kosovar refugee.

Topics: Fort Dix, Robert Kugler, Serdar Tatar
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