Posted on 08/02/2010 2:20:44 PM PDT by La Lydia
NEW YORK – Two Islamist militants were found guilty on Monday by a federal jury of plotting to bomb New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Russell Defreitas, 67, a U.S. citizen born in Guyana, and Abdul Kadir, 58, of Guyana, conspired to blow up buildings, fuel tanks and pipelines at the airport in the New York City borough of Queens. The men, who were arrested in June 2007, face up to life in prison. They are due to be sentenced on December 15.
Defreitas, who had worked at the airport, provided knowledge of its facilities and layout, U.S. prosecutors said, while Kadir, an engineer, helped with technical aspects such as how to blow up the buried fuel pipelines....
"The defendants intended to send a message by killing Americans and destroying the New York City economy," U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said in a statement.
During the four-week trial before U.S. District Judge Dora Irizarry, jurors heard testimony and watched video clips of the airport filmed by Defreitas, and listened to audio recordings of the men made by a government informant. The men sought to offer their plans to Jamaat Al Muslimeen, an Islamist extremist group in Trinidad and Tobago that was behind a 1990 coup attempt on the island, prosecutors said, and also tried to send Kadir to Iran to muster support.
Kadir, arrested on board a flight to Iran via Venezuela, said he was on his way to a religious pilgrimage and was not doing anything related to the plot...
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is it just me, but there seem to be a substantial increase in terrorist attacks on US territory?
Treason should always be assured of Capitol Punishment, not life spent as a guest of the taxpayer. Hang them. TSTB
AP always softens the terms of illegal aliens, minority murderers, Muslim fanatical terrorists and radical Communists to things like “militants”, “teens”, “youths”, “undocumented”, “left-Leaning activists”.
I hate AP.
AP, Reuters, CNN, ABC....same Effing thing.
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