The Hero of Fort Dix

There's an unlikely hero of the war on terror working at a Circuit City in the Moorestown Mall in 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."

It was a brave thing to do given that the subjects of this case belong to a group of people who are committed to killing Americans. Rush made a good point on his show today that the Flying Imams lawsuit against "John Doe" Americans who complained about the imams behavior was designed to stop this very thing from happening. It was designed to intimidate people into looking the other way when they see something suspicious involving Muslim individuals.

It didn't work this time.

I heard a report later today that this John Doe hero may have been a Muslim himself. Perhaps the terrorist wannabes felt safe giving him their terror films to process. They clearly misread this guy, and good for him and for all of us.