May 11, 2007
A little too small a world
When Elvis and Dritan Duka, two of the three brothers arrested on terrorism charges in Fort Dix, were kids, they were neighborhood bullies. When they got a little older, they became drug dealers.
How do I know? They grew up in my neighborhood, my brother and his friends used to brawl with them on a fairly regular basis. My brother's best friend's mom was friends with their mom. Then they moved to New Jersey and became Jihadis. Of all possible paths for the Duka kids, that one didn't seem the most likely.
They've been here since they were kids, illegally it turns out, lived American lives, went to our public schools, and then decided to try and kill some of our troops. I don't know that I'll ever get used to this world.
Posted by Karol at May 11, 2007 12:04 AM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags: Fort+Dix Duka+Brothers
At least you aren't blogging that you kissed one of them at a party.
Posted by: michael parker at May 11, 2007 07:19 AMThat's crazy...
Posted by: Lisa at May 11, 2007 09:34 AMFromm bullies to drug dealers to terrorists and still liberal wussietards want us to go easy on them what they need it a differnt stuff then the stuff they have been fed
Posted by: golden phoenix at May 11, 2007 09:55 AMI forget what part of Bensonhurst they're supposed to be from-I was reading a story in the Post yesterday about the gullible cujine one of these hajjis married-but the neighborhood definitely has changed since the time I lived there.
There are a lot more Albanians who own-or at least operate-pizzerias in places like Brooklyn, unfortunately.
Yet another reason to detest the La Cosa Nostra, since very frequently they are the ones responsible for training them.
Organized crime is bad enough, but dealing with Albanian jihadis is an entirely different category of trouble.
Thank goodness we had Bill Clinton to bombe all those nasty Serbs.
*sarcasm implicit*
Posted by: Gerard at May 11, 2007 10:26 AMAlso-on an unrelated note-have you heard about this:
Posted by: Gerard at May 11, 2007 10:36 AMwhoa...this is totally breaking news!! You should get the drudge sirens up there!
Posted by: Not Dawn Summers at May 11, 2007 11:26 AMCorrection to my earlier comment:
That should have read "cujinette."
Posted by: Gerard at May 11, 2007 11:32 AMThe undercover officers "entrapped" these boys into plotting the crime. Don't you know that it isn't really their fault? America is to blame. And the name of the informant needs to be released. It's clear the Six were only arrested through illegal racial profiling by Halliburton operatives.
Posted by: dana superstar at May 11, 2007 10:42 PMI grew up around 65th street in brooklyn, and yea, those albanians loooooooooooove to fight..
Posted by: Stan LS at May 12, 2007 10:55 AMOMG you are right 10:42! It was Chimpy McBushitlerburton and his jackbooted thugs what pushed these poor waifs into an entirely legitimate desire for justice from AmeriKKKa..
We're through the looking glass here people! Back, and to the left! Back, and to the left! Back, and to the left!!
Posted by: Dr. Kenneth Noisewater at May 12, 2007 11:17 AMDoes anyone have any "good Albanian" stories? I sure have plenty of bad ones, as does pretty much anyone who has lived in non-premiere sections of Brooklyn at one time or another.
There's one family across the street from my aunt (the family, not just the kids) who has basically terrorized the block for about 30 years.
It's not a muslim thing either. They terrorize the nice Bangladeshi muslims the worst, because the Bangledeshis (on this block) are a very peaceful group.
Albanians are just bad people. I still don't know why, to this day, we took (and continue to take) their side in anything.
Posted by: Sean at May 12, 2007 01:40 PMGive them a break. They are just misguided young men who never had a proper chance in American society. Surely they would not have gone through with their plan.
Posted by: Dumas at May 12, 2007 03:23 PMStan LS: seems like there's a whole contingent of Muslim/Arab/Albanian pseudo-Jihadi angry teenagers now in that part of Bay Ridge, roughly between 4th and 8th avenues in the 60s - but beginning to stretch down to the higher streets.
Posted by: Former Bay Ridger at May 12, 2007 03:54 PMObviously, the public school system failed these boys, as they didn't seem too worried about taking their Jihadi video to Circuit City.
Posted by: Brad at May 12, 2007 04:04 PMSo, what you are saying is that your brother first entrapped them into being bullies, and then entrapped them into being drug dealers?
By any chance, did your brother work at Circuit City? Just asking.
Regards,
Pinch, NYT
Posted by: edhesq at May 12, 2007 04:20 PMDo you suppose they read the NYTs?
Posted by: golden phoenix at May 12, 2007 05:04 PM"Albanians are just bad people. I still don't know why, to this day, we took (and continue to take) their side in anything."
Because the Serbs were even worse. What a scary part of the world.
Posted by: ronbo at May 12, 2007 07:06 PMJihadism is the last refuge of the "Muslim"(alah akbar)scoundrel...
PS: Mother Teresa was an Albanian aristocrat turned
(literally)Princess of Peace and Saint to the poor.
Good Albanian Story: John Belushi was Albanian. (Humorously, in "Wag The Dog," Jim Belushi issues a stern rebuke to 'Albanian Terrorists')
Posted by: Jenn at May 13, 2007 05:18 AMI assumed they never bathed either. Which gave them great towelhead cred to start.
Freaky, but hardly surprising, story. What you've said is jihadists are scum right from the get-go. It is just the final, most grand manifestation of their scumbaginess.
Posted by: Radical Redneck at May 13, 2007 09:47 AMThe Swiss government boasts that it has admitted 250,000 Albanian refugees. Based on population, this is equivalent to admitting about 12 million Albanians to the U.S.
Posted by: kent gordis at May 13, 2007 11:48 AM"can't we all just get along ?" ... oh by th' way; can i borrow your sharpener ? my knife is so dull it won't cut through this tendon... ALLAH BUBAH !!!
Posted by: woolie at May 13, 2007 02:47 PMIn the UK, prisons are used as prime recruiting grounds for jihadis. According to Theodore Dalrymple, it makes sense - you get to still be a criminal, but you get to feel self-righteous about it to boot. I wonder if jihad-recruiters are targeting the criminal element here as well.
As to good Albanians, we have several working at my hospital.
Posted by: Assistant Village Idiot at May 13, 2007 09:36 PMIn the UK, prisons are used as prime recruiting grounds for jihadis.
That's most definitely the case in the US as well.
Karol, I hope your brothers beat the crap out of those losers, for what it's worth. It'd be a nice memory, considering how they ended up.
Oh, wait...maybe it's because they were "picked on" (like that Cho bastard)! Poor guys, they were just misunderstood!
Posted by: Beth at May 14, 2007 09:35 AMThe terrorists should now be known as:
"The Six Dix"
Appropriate don't you think?
Lock'em up and have done with it !!!
Posted by: Paul at May 15, 2007 06:40 PM


