Letter from Eljvir Duka Reveals the Truth About the Fort Dix 5 case
FORT DIX CASE
My name is Sulayman,Eljvir Duka.I am one of the defendants in the Fort Dix case. I and my co defendants still firmly proclaim our innocence and still strive to prove our innocence in the face of such stubborn injustice which we are tasting every single moment that we remain imprisoned. We certainly know that we are not alone in this and that we are one of many singing the same song.
I wish to proceed and make some points about what is going on in the hope that some things can become clear to the public. Our case and many others were purely politically motivated. It was not pursued in a moral, ethical code where you have law enforcement seeking to find crimes which were in progress by the criminals themselves and then law enforcement does its duty to prevent the crime. NO. Our case was pursued in a way where the end justifies the means. So whatever gave the F.B.I the end they wanted they were willing achieve it by any means. I just want to give you a brief background of the political situation during the time of our investigation. In the 2006 mid- term elections held in November, the republicans ran the risk of losing the house and the senate. The democrats were rallying with support. The republicans were so desperate to do anything to not lose control. In Arizona there was a tight race between a republican and a democrat. The Bush administration was worried. They contacted the Attorney General of Arizona who was also republican and asked him to open up a criminal investigation against the democrat and ordered him to come up with any criminal charges against him in order to ruin his campaign. But, the Attorney General was quite honest and refused to do so under such unethical, evil motives. When the Bush administration was that he wouldn’t give in he was fired from his Attorney General position. These words and facts have came out from the fired Attorney General himself. Also, in 2006 a few months before the elections, British intelligence services shared information with the United States on an investigation they were conducting on a possible plot to bomb airplanes heading to the United States with liquid bombs. The Britt’s still didn’t receive enough evidence to make any arrests, they just gave the U.S a heads up on their investigation since they believed it possibly involved the U.S. The Bush administration saw this as a great opportunity help their mid-term elections, so at first they asked the British to make arrest on the suspects but the British said they did not have enough evidence to do so. When the Bush administration saw that the British will not make the arrest, they decided to arrest the alleged cell leader who lived in Pakistan, knowing that this arrest will force British to arrest the remaining suspects in Britain got wind of the fact they were being investigated due to the arrest in Pakistan. The plan worked and the British did just that. This happened in August of 2006 shortly before the elections. The American media made their arrest headlines all over the news an as a result the Bush administration banned liquids on airplanes trying to show the American public that the republicans are keeping them safe. This glimpse of the political situation and how desperate the Bush administration was to have republicans win the elections. They used criminal cases which would create media attention as one of their tools to score political points. Now on our case they claim that the investigation started from the famous Circuit City video. The video which I myself went and asked Circuit City to transform from a mini camcorder video recording of our vacation in Pocono’s onto a DVD format, so that I can make and give copies to each participate in the vacation as a memorabilia. The F.B.I got hold of that video and decided to open up a so called terrorism investigation because there were Muslim men shooting guns on the video. That’s besides the fact that if you watch the video entirely, its clearly a vacation in which shooting was just one of the recreational activities during the stay. But instead of investigating to see if there was any type of criminal acting going on by the men in the video themselves. They planted an informant on Mohamed Shnewer who was 21 years old at the time. The informant was nearly twice his age at 39, and a serial fraud artist with criminal charges. It wasn’t Mohamed Shnewer who was pushing for a crime to be commited instead it was the informant who came in a direction of the F.B.I, pushing and inciting Mohamed by telling him that he (the informant) wanted to attack America for all the atrocities it commits against muslims world wide and that he needed ideas and people from Mohamed Shnewer in order to materialize his intentions. At first it was only him and Mohamed talking alone, but as any person of law knows, you cannot have a conspiracy between a defendant and an informant who is a government agent. So seeing that he doesn’t have a conspiracy like that, the informant started begging Mohamed to get other friends saying just them 2 weren’t enough. To the point where he told Mohamed “I’ll kiss your feet for someone like Sulayman”(who happens to be me) and specifically telling him he wants Dritan and Shain also. So the informant was playing the leadership role, calling the shots. He would constantly push Mohamed to talk to the others and get them involved but Mohamed was never able to do so. One very important statement made by the informant reveals why the FBI was having the informant push and incite and do anything it takes to frame innocent people. During the month of August 2006 the informant told Mohamed shnewer that, “I give you till the tenth month (October) to do something and get everybody involved, if not by the tenth month then its over.” Why did the informant demand for the tenth month specifically? Why did he have to demand anything at all? If there was truly a conspiracy amongst the defendants then why not let the conspiracy unfold naturally whether in one year or two years ect………., instead of coming in with an agenda to create a conspiracy and then demand a time line for it. Why the tenth month? Because mid-term elections were right around the corner on the eleventh month, November. Now it becomes clear also why any and all means were being taken to have us arrested by then. The informant told Mohamed in September that he will get guns and give mohammed the money to by them. He just wanted mohammed to get others involved in his plans. That’s how desperate they were. He was pushing mohammed to get others involved so much that mohammed started lying by telling him he spoke to others and that we were involved. But his lies and contridictions about others being involved are in the evidence. One day mohammed would say we were involved and the next day he will say no. During the testimony and the trial the informants stated that he even came to us in person to see if we knew anything of their plots and that he came to realize that even though Mohammed is saying we were involved he saw that we weren’t involved and that we didn’t even give him initiation that we even had any knowledge of their talks. So on the other hand the FBI put an Albanian informant on us Duka brothers who pushed, incited, and promoted just like the first informant with Mohamed Shnewer. In his own words he testified in trial by saying, “I would push them, provoke them, incite them and try to humiliate their manhood and pride by telling them that they are cowards for not taking action in order for me to get them to say things on the recorder which they normally wouldn’t say.” Even with all this push by the informants to create a case they both emitted in trial that “they never had spoken with us or even heard us speak about attacking any military base in the United States.” Yet we still got convicted, even though evidence didn’t prove so. How, is the question? Well the first step was to immediately make our arrest and accusations against us head lines on the media. This way we are convicted by the public before even going to trial. The new republican governor of New Jersey Christopher Chrissie just so happen to be the district attorney general handling out case at the time. It was already known that during the time of our case he lead intentions running for governor. A few hours after our arrest, During a well coordinated pre planned media stunt he got on tv and told all of nj residents and all of America that they are safe! Because he had stopped a heinous crime from taking place. This type of media stunt always serves its purpose well, especially during the post 9/11 period. Besides many factors a second way used to get an unjust conviction was to allow Mohamed Shnewer false, contradictory, incorporated un- substantiated hearsay statements to be used against all defendants under the guides of co- conspirator hearsay and deny us the ability to admit statements which we made on government recording that prove our innocence. The judge would deny our very own statements as admissible hearsay. These abuses dove through the conspiracy law. That’s why you see that the main charge they used against so called terrorism cases is the charge of conspiracy. Because the crime doesn’t even hear to be committed under that law. Under this law all they have to try and prove to an all ready prejudice jury is to believe that a crime would or could have been commited. Then allow all types of prejudicial circumstantial and other wise inadmissible evidence in trial in order to convict. Then when it comes to sentencing instead of, receiving a 11-14 year guide line sentence that non-muslims would receive for the same exact charge as us. We receive a technical 12 point terrorism enhancement which raises our sentence till life time imprisonment with absolutely no crime commited. We got a acquitted by the jury on a attempted murder charge. And if you get found guilty of actual attempted murder the maximum sentence you’ll risk is 20 years. That’s if you actually attempt to murder someone, yet we got found guilty a crime less then attempted murder and we received life time sentence. Then on top of it all we got sent to the hardest prisons under the hardest conditions of imprisonment known as solidarity confinements where you remain in a small cell 23-24 hours everyday. These are the injustices we bare before trial, during trial in sentencing and in prisons. Just for some type of political agenda’s to be achieved by those in power. If anyone needs to be investigative it’s the government its self. It needs to be revealed to the public on how and why these types of cases are created, investigated and prosecuted. The inner working collaborations and decision making between the internal figures and agency’s would reveal the true injustice and how the injustice is carried out, just like investigation reveled the inner working of the torture, memos, ect. I just want you to ponder on the fact that if they were able to get the mass public to agree, and to invade a country like Iraq by getting them to believe carefully put together lies and false evidence then what would make one think that they cant do the same on a much smaller scale?
I thank you all for taking your time to listen what I had to say, I have great respect for you all and as a Muslim, I wish well for you all. To all my Muslim mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters. Aunts, uncles, wives, sons, and daughters who have tasted this injustice with us because we know you are as affected by it as us- I love you all for the sake of Allah. Be patient and strong. For nothing can happen in the heavens or the Earth except through Allah’s permission. We have our trust in Allah for Allah has power over all things.
Asalamualakum to you all.
Thank you,Sulayman Duka (Eljvir Duka)
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