Of COURSE it does, which is exactly why all State and local authorities should be trainined in Terrorism PREVENTION. Bruce
'This doesn't happen in Gouldsboro, Pa.' Wednesday, May 09, 2007 BY RALPH ORTEGA AND TOM FEENEY Star-Ledger Staff http://www.nj.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-11/1178687349249090.xml <http://www.nj.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-11/1178687349249090.xml&co ll=1> &coll=1 To prepare for their attack on Fort Dix, the six South Jersey men described by authorities as Islamic jihadists spent a week in February in Gouldsboro, Pa., a rustic, tucked-in-the-woods retreat in the Poconos, 20 minutes south of Scranton. They rented a place in Big Bass Lake, a gated community of 1,400 homes populated mostly by retirees and summer vacationers, many of them with New Jersey roots. They drank vodka at a local tavern. They drew the ire of the homeowners association by firing paintballs off the back porch of the home they were renting. And they drove through tiny Gouldsboro until the main drag turned into a dirt road and led them to a firing range on the outskirts of town. There, under FBI surveillance, they honed their shooting skills with real guns, authorities say. When federal authorities released details yesterday of the six suspects' "training mission" in northeastern Pennsylvania, local residents were unnerved. "This doesn't happen in Gouldsboro, Pa.," said Ed Wilson, a cemetery director from Robbinsville who owns a vacation home in Big Bass Lake. "Beware, America. I think we're really in trouble." The six men did not make much of an impression on neighbors. Few interviewed yesterday recalled them. "This is a wonderful, peaceful community that's very private," said Joan Halle, a retired newspaper copy editor who moved to Big Bass Lake from West Long Branch. "You don't intrude on what people do here." But shooting paintballs from the porch of the home on Eagles View Road got them noticed. Some neighbors complained to the private security company that enforces the rules of the homeowners association, and a citation was issued to one of the men. The owner of the house, Cassy Herman, told the Associated Press she got a call from the security company and phoned the renter, Eljvir Duka. "He said, 'Cassy, they're making too much of this, and it really wasn't anything,'" she recalled. A subsequent visit to the Gouldsboro Inn got the group noticed, too. The bar's owner, Christi Wood, and the bartender, Tommy Cornine, formerly of Roxbury, said two men with heavy accents came in about 10 p.m. and ordered vodkas. The men said they were from Albania and gave their names as Agron and Serdar, said Cornine. Two of the suspects identified in the federal complaint are Agron Abdullahu and Serdar Tatar. The men continued drinking into the night. They danced and gave a signed dollar bill to Wood to wish her luck with the bar, which she had only recently acquired, Wood said. They also got into some sort of confrontation with a regular customer who was wearing an American flag bandanna, Cornine said. "They exchanged words," he said. "It had something to do with the American flag, but I don't know who started it." A few days later, an FBI agent asked to rent the same house for a weekend, Herman told the Associated Press. "They didn't stay long at all. They were there for maybe a couple hours, a half a day," she said. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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