Article: FBI arrests 6 people in alleged plot against New Jersey Army base.(Fort Dix)

Byline: John Shiffman

PHILADELPHIA _ The FBI arrested six people, including five in Cherry Hill, N.J., for an alleged plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix that unraveled with an alert store clerk, federal officials said Tuesday.

"If you want to do anything here, there is Fort Dix and I don't want to exaggerate, and I assure that you can hit an American base very easily," one of the men told an FBI informant, according to the FBI. "You take a map and draw it and then you calculate that there are areas where there are 100 to 200 individuals . . .

"When you got a military base, you need mortars and RPGs," the man allegedly said.

"My intent ...

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