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Judge Rejects Plea to Shorten Sentence for Fort Dix Terror Plotter

A federal judge in New Jersey has rejected the appeal of a Philadelphia man serving more than three decades in prison after he was convicted of scheming to kill soldiers at Fort Dix.

Serdar Tatar said he received ineffective legal assistance and sought a shorter sentence. He said the court also wrongly applied rules extending his sentence.

A federal judge in Camden, New Jersey, rejected the 32-year-old's appeal.

Tatar was one of five men convicted in 2008 of plotting a terror attack at New Jersey's Fort Dix. Three members of the group are awaiting a ruling on arguments that their attorneys were ineffective.

Tatar was filmed in a training session in northeastern Pennsylvania and provided a map of Fort Dix to an associate.

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