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2007 Fort Dix attack plot: what Wikipedia removed

Six men conspired in 2007 to attack U.S. military personnel at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and were prosecuted as a terrorism case. Through 2015 the opening described “a group of six radical Islamist men who conspired to stage an attack.” Today’s opening calls them “a group of six radical Muslim individuals”; the word “islamist” survives 4 times elsewhere in the article. A reader today learns the men were radical and Muslim, not that Wikipedia specifically classified them as Islamist, or that the group’s stated aim was to “kill as many soldiers” as possible.

The word “islamist” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 4. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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islamist11000
terror00022

Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • This passage called the six men radical Islamist men; a reader today reads only that they were radical Muslim individuals.
  • This passage stated the group’s alleged aim was to kill as many soldiers as possible; a reader today does not learn that stated goal.

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 365240777):

The 2007 Fort Dix attack plot involved a group of six radical Islamist men who conspired to stage an attack against US Military personnel stationed at Fort Dix , New Jersey . The alleged aim of the group was to “kill as many soldiers as possible”. The men were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 8, 2007 and were prosecuted in federal court in October 2008. On December 22, 2008, five were found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in their intentions to kill US military personnel; four received life sentences while one received 33 years in prison. The remaining member was thought to have a minor role in the plot and was sentenced to five years in prison for weapons o…

2025 (revision 1294774895):

Conspiracy by six Muslim-extremist men to attack US military personnel at Fort Dix, New Jersey, US The 2007 Fort Dix attack plot involved a group of six radical Muslim individuals who were found guilty of conspiring to stage an attack against U.S. Military personnel stationed at Fort Dix , New Jersey . The men were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 8, 2007, and were prosecuted in federal court in October 2008. On December 22, 2008, five were found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in their intentions to kill U.S. military personnel; four received life sentences, while one received 33 years in prison. The remaining member was thought to have had a minor role in …

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