From the NYT:

A federal jury on Wednesday convicted five men of conspiracy to kill American soldiers at the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey last year, but acquitted them of attempted murder, according to the Associated Press.

The jury deliberated for six days before returning its verdict against three brothers — Shain, Eljvir and Dritan Duka — and two other defendants, Mohamad Shnewer and Serdar Tatar.

The men, all Muslim immigrants who lived in Philadelphia’s southern New Jersey suburbs, face a maximum of life in prison.

Federal prosecutors said that the five men were planning to attack Fort Dix and the military personnel within it, and had taken concrete steps to train and arm themselves. During the men’s trial, prosecutors argued that evidence, including hundreds of secretly taped conversations between the defendants and F.B.I. informants, jihadist propaganda videos recovered from one suspect’s computer, and videotapes of an illegal purchase of several machine guns, showed they intended to carry out an armed assault on the base.

Did they get to plea insanity? Because five dudes with machine guns planning to attack a military base full of thousands of soldiers who look like this...

...have to got to be crazy. They wouldn't have lasted long enough to achieve spectacular-martyr status. The suspects, as profiled by AC:

Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer. Jordanian-born 22-year-old Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer had a cab company in Cherry Hill. His neighbors describe his family as the family as unusually noisy, nocturnal, messy and unpleasant.

The Duka Brothers. The three Duka brothers are ethnic Albanians born in the former Yugoslavia and residing in the United States illegally. They operated a Cherry Hill-based roofing business, and two of them once owned a pizza shop in Turnersville, about 35 miles from Fort Dix.

Serdar Tatar. Tartar once delivered pies to Fort Dix for his father's pizza parlor in nearby Cookstown. An acquaintance described the Turkish-born resident of northeast Philadelphia as very religious with no apparent tendency toward violence.

What were they going to pull? The old Trojan Pizza Guy trick?

Defense lawyers argued that the men were never serious about attacking Fort Dix, and that the government informants repeatedly coaxed the men into making incendiary comments on government wiretaps.

Defense lawyers also hammered at credibility of the informants. One is an Egyptian-born illegal immigrant on probation for bank fraud; the other has been paid about $150,000 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for making the secret recording.