The defendants were acquitted of attempted murder charges but face life in prison for conspiring to kill military personnel.

The federal jury spent about 38 hours deliberating over the past six days.

After the men's arrest in 2007, prosecutors said an attack had been imminent, underscoring the dangers of terrorist plots hatched on U.S. soil.

Defense lawyers maintain the alleged plot was all talk. They said the men weren't seriously planning anything and that they were goaded by two paid FBI informants.

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CAMDEN, N.J. (AP)—A federal jury in New Jersey has reached a verdict in the case of five men accuse of plotting an attack on the Army's Fort Dix.

The verdict is to be announced at 1:15 p.m. EST at the federal courthouse in Camden, N.J.

The panel, which was sequestered, spent about 38 hours deliberating over the past six days.

The men, all foreign-born Muslim men who lived for years in the Philadelphia suburb of Cherry Hill, N.J., are charged with conspiring to kill military personnel and attempted murder.

They would face life in prison if convicted of those charges. Their lawyers maintain the men were all talk and had no intention of carrying out a plot.
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