Serdar Tatar

CHERRY HILL, N.J. — A man convicted in 2008 of conspiring to kill military personnel on the Army’s Fort Dix base is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a key aspect of the case.

The lawyer for Serdar Tatar submitted a request Tuesday to the nation’s top court. He wants the court to re-evaluate a decision last year by the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, which found the federal government applied the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act correctly in the case.

The lawyer, Richard Sparaco, says it was wrong to use information gathered through the use of audio recordings under the act in a domestic criminal case.

Sparaco said lawyers for the four other defendants, all young Muslims who grew up in the southern New Jersey suburbs of Philadelphia, also plan to appeal.

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by Stephen Lendman

With world eyes on Gaza, the horrific carnage on the ground, innocent civilians being slaughtered, Israel’s grievous crimes of war and against humanity, and its slow-motion genocide gaining speed, it’s easy to forget America’s war at home on Islam and its growing number of victims. This article highlights five recent ones – innocent young Muslim men called the “Fort Dix Five.”

On December 22, The New York Times headlined: “5 Are Convicted of Conspiring to Attack Fort Dix” in reporting that a federal jury “convicted five men of conspiring to kill American soldiers at (the base) last year, but acquitted them of attempted murder.”

After an eight-week trial, jurors deliberated for six days before returning a verdict. “The men, all Muslim immigrants (from) South Jersey or Philadelphia, face a maximum term of life in prison.”

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