"Four indicted in plot to blow up JFK airport"

Friday, June 29, 2007

Four indicted in plot to blow up New York airport


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four men were indicted by a federal grand jury in
Brooklyn on Friday for an alleged plot to blow up New York's John F. Kennedy
International Airport.

Russell Defreitas, Kareem Ibrahim, Abdul Kadir and Abdel Nur will face a
total of six charges, including conspiracy to attack a mass transportation
facility, conspiracy to destroy a public building by explosion and
conspiracy to destroy international airport facilities, according to the
indictment.

Prosecutors said the plotters sought to blow up the airport's jet fuel tanks
and part of the 40-mile (64-km) pipeline feeding them from New Jersey.

Defreitas, 63, a U.S. citizen and native of Guyana who was arrested in New
York, will enter his plea at an arraignment scheduled for July 11. Officials
said he was a former airport employee who headed the plot and conducted
surveillance for the group.

Ibrahim of Trinidad and Guyanese nationals Kadir and Nur are scheduled to
appear at a bail hearing on Monday in Trinidad after they were previously
denied bail there.

The men sought the help of Jamaat Al Muslimeen, an Islamist extremist group
in Trinidad that was behind a 1990 coup attempt on the island, authorities
said when the plot was announced early this month.

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