Fort Dix in central New Jersey

Jury selection begins this morning in U.S. District Court in Camden for five men who alledgedly were plotting to attack a New Jersey military base. The main question for the jury will be were the men really going to follow through.

The five defendants — all foreign-born Muslim men in their 20s who have spent much of their lives in the southern New Jersey suburbs of Philadelphia — were arrested in May 2007 and accused of plotting to sneak onto Fort Dix to attack soldiers. The Army base primarily trains reservists for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Associated Press says the trial could take three weeks or more just to seat a jury of 12 from the 1,500 citizens who have been called. Testimony could last for months.