A jury has found all five men accused of plotting an attack on the Army's Fort Dix guilty, CBS 2 reports.
The jury of eight women and four men convicted each of the five defendants, all foreign-born Muslim men who lived for years in the Philadelphia suburb of Cherry Hill, of conspiring to kill military personnel. They were acquitted on charges of attempted murder.
None of the men testified in their trial, but lawyers for the men said the plot was all talk and the men weren't seriously planning anything. The defense said the five were goaded by two paid FBI informants. Much of the testimony was focused on the informants and hundreds of hours of recordings they made with the five men.
The government said after the men were arrested in 2007 that an attack was imminent and the case underscored the dangers of terrorist plots hatched on U.S. soil.
Although investigators said the men were inspired by Osama bin Laden, they were not accused of any ties to foreign terror groups.
The trial spanned 26 days of testimony; about two-thirds of it were devoted to two paid FBI informants who made hundreds of hours of recordings with the defendants.
(Source: WCBSTV / MyFoxNY)
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