Fort Dix plotters sentenced to life in prison

Three brothers convicted of plotting to kill military personnel in New Jersey

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updated 4:51 p.m. ET April 28, 2009

CAMDEN, N.J. - Three brothers convicted of plotting to kill military personnel at a base in New Jersey will spend the rest of their lives in prison.

A federal judge has sentenced 30-year-old Dritan Duka and 28-year-old Shain Duka to life in prison plus 30 years. Their 25-year-old brother, Eljvir, has been sentenced to life in prison.

Their brother Shain is also being sentenced Tuesday on conspiracy and weapons charges.

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The Duka brothers are ethnic Albanians from the former Yugoslavia.

Two other men convicted in the plot are to be sentenced Wednesday. They are Mohamad Shnewer, a Jordanian-born cab driver, and Turkish-born convenience store clerk Serdar Tatar.

The five were convicted of conspiring to kill military personnel at Fort Dix in a plot that authorities portrayed as one of the most frightening homegrown terrorism plans ever in the United States.

The Duka brothers ran a roofing company in Cherry Hill before they were arrested two years ago.