Question For Media

Will this get nearly as much attention as this did?

The short answer will be no. The Holy Land Foundation trial was a showcase trial that the government botched badly by not streamlining the case to pick out the most salient charges or at least to get the defendants to flip against each other.

The Fort Dix Six case will be getting its first guilty plea from Abdullahu on weapons charges, which suggests that prosecutors have made sufficient headway in the case that they might be able to get one of the other defendants to flip, or to accept a plea deal in the face of damaging testimony from Abdullahu.

The contrasting cases show two different approaches. Instead of hitting the Fort Dix Six with hundreds of charges, federal prosecutors in New Jersey provided a grand total of five counts in their indictment. Not all of the defendants were hit with all charges either. Abdullahu was charged with only one count - providing firearms to illegal aliens.

Expect the retrial of the HLF case to streamline the case such that only the strongest of the charges remain in the case.