Action News Obtains Home Video of Terror Suspect

May 8, 2007 (WPVI) -- A shaken Bob Watts is among those who worked with 24-year-old Agron Abdullahu.

"My hands are actually -- you could still see, they're shaking from it all. I can't control them," said Watts.

Watts took video of Abdullahu inside the Shop Rite bakery in Williamstown, New Jersey.

"He was basically like a brother to me at one point and it really just staggers me," said Watts.

Watts now says all the ominous signs were there.

"He used to make jokes about how the U.S. government could not find his Uncle Benny, referring to bin laden," he said.

And yet, Abdullahu somehow always managed to defuse such instances.

"He would start laughing. You would think it was all hearsay. He's just trying to get under your skin and he didn't really mean it. Well, guess what? He did," said Watts.

A trained sniper during the war in Kosovo, Abdullahu and his family were among thousands given safe haven in the U.S. under the Clinton administration to protect them from the Serbs. For months, they would be housed in refugee camps at Ft. Dix , a circumstance which now points to a terribly ironic twist.

"He never really came out and said he had a hatred towards Americans and I told him many times, 'look, you would have been left there if it wasn't for us helping you out.' If Clinton didn't bring them in, he never would have had the chance that he had. This is how he repays us," Watts said.

Originally, authorities said they tried to target the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia last year, but they couldn't get their act together in time. So they settled on the plot to kill as many soldiers as possible at Fort Dix.

Watts said he and other co-workers never caught on, despite the fact he'd bring in recipes for making bombs he got off the Internet. He was known to remove tree trunks using home-made explosives and sometimes joked about blowing up the court system.

"Nobody ever picked up on that, that he would actually do something like this. We used to joke around that I'll see him on America's Most Wanted some day," said Watts.

(Copyright 2007 by Action News and 6abc. All Rights Reserved.)

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