Was there a Muslim Plot to Poison Food at U.S. Army Base?
By Jim Kouri Five Muslims were arrested last December for suspicion of attempting to poison the food supply at the Fort Jackson U.S. Army base in South Carolina. In a news story broken by Fox News Channel’s national security correspondent Catherine Herridge on Thursday afternoon, and verified by this writer’s confidential source on Thursday night, the five men were part of the Army’s special Arabic Translation Training Team (ATTT). It is suspected that the five arrested men were in contact with five Washington, DC-based radical Muslims, who were also arrested in December. According to several sources, counterterrorism officials uncovered their plan to travel to Pakistan where they could help fight U.S. forces along the Afghan-Pakistani border. It is not known if — or where — the alleged conspirators are being detained. Fort Dix U.S. Army base plot This is not the first time a deadly plot against a U.S. military base has been thwarted. In May, 2007, five radical Islamists — three of
