Circuit City employee was hero in busting terror plot

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Circuit City employee was hero in busting terror plot


Home News Tribune Online 05/9/07


By MATT KATZ
GANNETT NEW JERSEY 

A male employee who works at Circuit City behind the Moorestown 
Mall is the unsung hero that first enabled authorities to foil the 
Fort Dix terror plot.

Circuit City corporate spokesman Jim Babb confirmed this morning 
that a current employee was asked by one of the alleged terrorists 
to dub a Jihadist training VHS cassette into a DVD.

The clerk alerted Mount Laurel police about the video in January 
2006, who then contacted the FBI, which launched the investigation.

"Out of respect for our store associates and also to avoid 
interfering with the investigation, we're not doing interviews," 
Babb said. "This is in the midst of the early stages of an 
investigation and we don't want to do anything to interfere with 
that.

Babb declined to give the clerk's name.

At the office for Rep. Jim Saxton, R-Mount Holly, spokesman Jeff 
Sagnip Hollendonner said the congressman had not spoken to the 
clerk but that the office was considering sending a thank you note.

"He is obviously someone who is alert and acted in a very 
responsible way and he very likely saved lives, there's no question 
about that," Sagnip Hollendonner said. "So he's a hero because of 
that."

Reach Matt Katz at (856) 486-2456 or  <mailto:mkatz () courierpostonline com>
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