[eccentric]

I'm not a physics expert....

but would a pipeline actually blow up? Or would it require a opening inside the pipeline to get air insdie to blow it up?

[jveritas]

Another terror plot in the US stopped.

God bless President Bush, our brave troops, the FBI, and all our intelligence and law enforcement agencies who are fighting to for our freedom and our way of life.

[DCBryan1]

Lemme be the first to say:

Trinidad?!

[raj bhatia]

Kudos to law enforcement. Screw the libs. Profile Muslims vigorously so that they don't succeed the next time.

[RetiredArmy]

More newly appointed Bush approved US Illegal Citizens. Thanks Bush, you fool.

[omega4179]

Fastest growing religion in the USA. TROP

[montag813]

Has that little prick Ron Paul blamed this on U.S. foreign policy in Guyana yet? It must have been because U.S. troops invaded and slaughtered thousands of Guyanans. Oh wait...he haven’t. So much for the Paul Doctrine.

[omega4179]

Guyanese now? Islam a cult that makes people the world over act like arabs.

[pulaskibush]

First On WNBC.com

POSTED: 10:45 am EDT June 2, 2007
UPDATED: 4:53 pm EDT June 2, 2007

NEW YORK -- As first reported by NewsChannel4's Jonathan Dienst, three people were arrested and one other was being sought Saturday in connection to a plot to blow up jet-fuel lines at John F. Kennedy International Airport, officials said.

Four people have been charged. Three suspects are in custody: Russell Defreitas, Kareem Ibrihim and Abdul Kadir. Another suspect, Abdul Nur is still at large.Defreitas is to be arrainged Saturday in Brooklyn on terror conspiracy charges.

Sources said Defreitas, a former cargo worker at JFK allegedly began to plot attacking the US last July or August. Defeitas sought help in carrying out a plan and went to an FBI informant, who gathered information about the plot.

U.S. Attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf called it "one of the most chilling plots imaginable.""The devastation that would be caused had this plot succeeded is just unthinkable," she said at a news conference.

Defreitas is a U.S. citizen with roots in Guyana. Kadir, a former member of Parliament in Guyana, was arrested in Trinidad for attempting to secure money for "terrorist operations," according to a Guyanese police commander who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Kadir, a Muslim, left his position in Parliament last year. Muslims make up about 9 percent of the former Dutch and British colony's 770,000 population, mostly from the Sunni sect.

Sources said counter-terrorism officials have been following the plot for a little less than one year.Sources said the plot involved a plan to blow up a Buckeye jet-fuel pipeline at JFK setting off a potential massive explosion. Buckeye provides fuel to all three NYC-area airports.

Buckeye spokesman Roy Haase said the company, which moves petroleum through pipelines in a number of states, had been informed of the threat from the beginning.

"Given the nature of Buckeye business and the importance of this transportation network, we have an intense and ongoing communications relationship with the Port Authority, the New York City fire and police departments, the federal Department of Homeland Security and the FBI," he said.

Sources said the plot involved putting explosives inside the fuel pipeline but realized that "it was not technically feasible."

Officials said the plot may also have included plans to hit the JFK terminal buildings and aircraft, in addition to the fuel lines.

In discussing JFK airport as a target, Defreitas exulted over JFK airport’s symbolic importance, according to a U.S. Justice Department complaint:

"Anytime you hit Kennedy, it is the most hurtful thing to the United States. To hit John F. Kennedy, wow .... They love John F. Kennedy like he’s the man .... If you hit that, this whole country will be in mourning. It’s like you can kill the man twice. "

In a later recorded conversation with his coconspirators in May 2007, Defreitas compared the plot to attack JFK airport to the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, stating, “even the Twin Towers can’t touch it,” adding that, “this can destroy the economy of America for some time.”

Sources said the planning stages of the plot involved surveillance of JFK airport as well as scouting out US properties in Guyana for possible attacks.Aviation officials said there is no major threat to air travel related to this plot since it was caught in the developmental stages.

One law enforcement official said: "[There was] credible intent to commit violence but it was not operational." Officials said the suspects never got hold of explosive devices."This was the ultimate hand-and-glove operation between NYPD and FBI," said U.S. Rep. Peter King, a Republican from Long Island.

The arrests mark the latest in a series of alleged homegrown terrorism plots targeting high-profile American landmarks. A year ago, seven men were arrested in what officials called the early stages of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and destroy FBI offices and other buildings.

A month later, authorities broke up a plot to bomb underwater New York City train tunnels to flood lower Manhattan.And six people were arrested a month ago in an alleged plot to unleash a bloody rampage on Fort Dix in New Jersey.

Stay with WNBC.com for the latest on this developing story.

Drudge Report

[HollyB]

I was curious about the origin of the defreitas name. Apparently it is Portuguese, but some family history appears that some family members moved to Antilles & Trinidad (generations ago) (sugar cane), and more recently to the US. Just a little FYI, not sure if this is fact with this particular DeFreitas.

[TheSpottedOwl]

I fell asleep in the middle of the night watching Fox News. Woke up and thought it was another bizarre dream.

Anyway, good to see that the authorities are quietly watching and profiling these scumballs. They’ve managed to foil several attempts since 9/11. This is good.

[goldstategop]

They're not identified as adherents of the Religion Of Peace. TM

Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,277392,00.html JFK Airport Terror Suspect's Family Reacts Saturday, June 02, 2007

Sketch of Russell Defreitas

NEW YORK — One of the daughters of a man among four accused in a terror plot to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport and surrounding areas told FOX News Saturday that her father was "falsely arrested."

Abdul Kadir, a Muslim and former member of Parliament in Guyana, was arrested in Trinidad for attempting to secure money for "terrorist operations," according to a Guyanese police commander who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Kadir's wife, Isha, said that her husband was nabbed while boarding a flight to Venezuela, where he planned to pick up a travel visa to attend an Islamic religious conference in Iran. He had flown from Guyana to Trinidad on Thursday.

But Kadir's daughter said that her father had no knowledge or association to the plot that aimed to kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery that runs through populous residential neighborhoods.

Kadir has no problems with America, would never do anything wrong and would never associate with a group like Al Qaeda, his daughter said.

"This is a total surprise," she said.

"We have no interest in blowing up anything in the U.S.," Isha said Saturday from the couple's home in Guyana. "We have relatives in the U.S."

Both were reacting after three men were arrested and one was being sought in Trinidad. In an indictment charging the four men, one of them is quoted as saying the foiled plot would "cause greater destruction than in the Sept. 11 attacks," destroying the airport, killing several thousand people and destroying parts of Queens, where the line runs underground.

One of the suspects, Russell Defreitas, a U.S. citizen native to Guyana and former JFK employee, said the airport was a symbol that would put "the whole country in mourning."

"It's like you can kill the man twice," Defreitas said, according to the indictment.

The plot never got past the planning stages. It posed no immediate threat to air safety or the public, the FBI said Saturday.

"The devastation that would be caused had this plot succeeded is just unthinkable," U.S. Attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf said at a news conference, calling it "one of the most chilling plots imaginable."

Defreitas was in custody in Brooklyn and was expected to be arraigned Saturday afternoon.

Another man, Kareem Ibrahim of Trinidad, was in custody in Trinidad. A fourth man, Abdel Nur of Guyana, was still being sought in Trinidad.

The pipeline, owned by Buckeye Pipeline Co., takes fuel from a facility in Linden, N.J., to the airport. Other lines service LaGuardia Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport.

Buckeye spokesman Roy Haase said the company, which moves petroleum through pipelines in a number of states, had been informed of the threat from the beginning.

"Given the nature of Buckeye business and the importance of this transportation network, we have an intense and ongoing communications relationship with the Port Authority, the New York City fire and police departments, the federal Department of Homeland Security and the FBI," he said.

FOX News' Lee Ross and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

[HollyB]

Here is a copy of the press release information from the DOJ:

http://newyork.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel07/plot060207.pdf

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843798/posts

The airport worker, Russell Defreitas, 63, through the assistance of the member of Parliament, Abdul Kadir, was in the process of seeking the financial backing and blessing of a Trinidadian terrorist group, Jamaat Al Muslimeen. The group was behind a failed 1990 coup attempt in that country, officials said.

[river rat]

Hmmm...
At this stage of WWII, we were NOT still hiring Japanese to work in Airports, Critical Industries or allowing them to move about freely.

Yet the Japanese gave far less justification to be interred, than have the freaking Muslims in this country....

WHY do we cut these bastards so much undeserved slack - when their own community is doing so little to reign in their internal lunatics??

If we can’t lock up the bastards already here - then we need to lock those not already here - OUT.
Let them practice their murderous cult bullshit in their own Turd World...

[laurie_d]

Now c’mon all of you right wing zealots......stop claiming those nice Muslims want to harm anyone. We ALL know they’re really presbyterians in disguise......

/sarcasm off

Let’s keep profiling Aunti Flo going to Vegas but don’t dare ask Ahmed any questions. It might hurt his feeling.
What nonsense.

[Cinnamon]

this is clearly a Karl Rove plot. Alqaeda in America? nooo.... noo.. noooo...

[MarkL]

My aunt is flying out of Kennedy airport this evening for an El Al flight to Israel.

Damn!

Mark

[Grampa Dave]

Hmmm. The MSM spin on this at first was they weren’t connected with al Qaeda. However, this little tidbit is now out on Yahoo:

“Authorities said two suspects were in custody in Trinidad and Tobago — Abdul Kadir, a citizen of Guyana and former member of its parliament, and Kareem Ibrahim, a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago. Their extradition was being sought, officials said.

Mershon said the fourth suspect, Abdel Nur, a citizen of Guyana, was believed to be at large in Trinidad.

Authorities said Kadir and Nur were associates of Jamaat Al Muslimeen, a Muslim group behind a 1990 coup attempt in Trinidad.”