Fort Dix Army base
simuvac Tue, 10/28/2008 - 7:29pm
FBI paid Fort Dix informant 240G; defense says informant plotted attack
October 28, 2008
CAMDEN, NJ - Being an informant for the FBI in the Fort Dix terror investigation has paid well, a witness explained to jurors yesterday.
John Stermel, an investigator assigned to an FBI counterterrorism task force, spent yesterday morning on the stand detailing the role of informant Mahmoud Omar, who wore a wire for 16 months in the investigation of five men accused of planning to shoot soldiers at the Army base.
Defense lawyers say it was Omar who tried to plot an attack - not their clients.