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  • The Threat of "Homegrowns" ~~( Thoughts on the JFK Airport Bombing Plot)

    06/03/2007 7:52:00 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 6 replies · 705+ views
    The Counterterrorism Blog ^ | June 3, 2007 | Jonathan Winer
    The reported plot in New York to bomb Kennedy International Airport, like the terrorist attacks in London and Madrid, last year's terrorist plots in Toronto and Ottawa, and the plans of a group led by a Miami Haitian to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower, featured not foreigners specially imported by Al Qaeda, but homegrowns, members of foreign Diaspora groups now based locally and seeking to demonstrate their political attitudes through a spectacular attack. As FBI Director Mueller warned last year, however much we may manage to degrade the capabilities of Al Qaeda, we have not yet effectively dealt with the...
  • Find the JFK Airport story on the Front Page of the NYT!

    06/03/2007 7:39:32 PM PDT · by Ooh-Ah · 64 replies · 2,752+ views
    New York Times ^ | June 03, 2007
    New York Time Front Page June 3, 2007
  • Giuliani: JFK Plot Proves I Should Be President

    06/03/2007 9:29:12 AM PDT · by wagglebee · 123 replies · 2,717+ views
    NewsMax ^ | 6/3/07 | AP
    Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Saturday used news of a plot to blow up a John F. Kennedy International Airport jet fuel line as another example of why he should be elected president. Giuliani told a crowd of 700 gathered at a Broward County Republican fundraiser that Democrats ignore the Islamic terrorist threat and that he is the Republican candidate best capable of handling it. "I've had the most experience dealing with terrorism," Giuliani said, citing his experience as a federal prosecutor and later as mayor of New York City, where he served during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks....
  • NORTHWEST FLIGHT 327 (Reinhard)

    06/03/2007 8:00:58 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 56 replies · 2,206+ views
    The Oregonian ^ | June 3, 2007 | David Reinhard
    Sunday, June 03, 2007 Here's what we know happened on Northwest Flight 327 back on June 29, 2004: Thirteen Middle Eastern men -- 12 from Syria, one a permanent U.S. resident from Lebanon -- had one-way tickets for the weekday nonstop from Detroit to Los Angeles. The men, a musical group and their U.S. promoter, took seats all over the plane. Takeoff was delayed when one man with a limp refused to move from an emergency row, pretending he did not understand English. In flight, one or two of the men walked the aisle, seeming to count passengers. One rushed...
  • Feds on Trail of 4th Alleged N.Y. Plotter ~ (al Qaeda now in the picture)

    06/03/2007 9:17:58 AM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 27 replies · 1,352+ views
    ABC ^ | June 3, 2007 | GMA
    Authorities Hope To Capture Him This Weekend Authorities continue to search for a man they consider the fourth suspect in a terror plot to blow up a jet fuel line at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. But they may be close to finding the wanted man, Abdel Nur, said Mark Mershon, the assistant director in charge of the FBI's New York field office, in an interview with ABC News' "Good Morning America Weekend Edition." "I believe Nur is still in Trinidad," Mershon said. "I hope we have an arrest this weekend." Of the three other men charged, two...
  • Feds foil JFK terror plot, arrest 3

    06/02/2007 5:31:31 PM PDT · by arderkrag · 29 replies · 1,642+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | 6/2/2007 | ADAM GOLDMAN
    NEW YORK - Federal authorities announced Saturday they had broken up a suspected Muslim terrorist cell planning a "chilling" attack to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery that runs through populous residential neighborhoods. Three men, one of them a former member of Guyana's parliament, were arrested and one was being sought in Trinidad as part of a plot that authorities said they had been tracked for more than a year and was foiled in the planning stages. "The devastation that would be caused had...
  • JFK Airport Terror Suspect's Family Reacts ["He'd never hurt a flea."]

    06/02/2007 4:01:18 PM PDT · by Sleeping Beauty · 59 replies · 1,807+ views
    Fox News ^ | June 02, 2007 | Staff
    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...
  • JFK Airport Terror Suspect's Family Reacts

    06/02/2007 4:04:38 PM PDT · by Zakeet · 9 replies · 1,112+ views
    Fox News ^ | June 2, 2007
    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...
  • 4 Men Charged in Plot to Blow Up Kennedy Jet Fuel Tanks(More info)

    06/02/2007 2:08:23 PM PDT · by kellynla · 51 replies · 2,552+ views
    new york times ^ | WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
    Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn charged today that a retired cargo worker at Kennedy International Airport plotted with a former member of the Guyanese Parliament and two other men to blow up terminal buildings, fuel tanks and the network of fuel pipelines that run beneath the airport complex. Three of the four men, including the former airport worker and the former Parliament member, were arrested today and Friday by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and police detectives, the authorities said. The fourth man was being sought, and officials said additional people may face charges. The airport worker, Russell Defreitas,...
  • 3 arrested in JFK Airport terror plot (Four charged in plot to set off explosives at JFK)

    06/02/2007 9:53:35 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 79 replies · 2,448+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 6/2/07 | Adam Goldman - ap
    NEW YORK - Three people were arrested and one other was being sought Saturday in connection to a plan to set off explosives in a fuel line that feeds John F. Kennedy International Airport and runs through residential neighborhoods, officials close to the investigation said. The plot, which never got past the planning stages, did not involve airplanes or passenger terminals, according to the two officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the arrests had not yet been announced. Details were to be given out at a 1 p.m. news conference. The pipeline takes fuel from a...
  • Threat Matrix: June 2007

    06/01/2007 7:57:59 PM PDT · by nwctwx · 1,578 replies · 18,999+ views
    British Intelligence: Al-Qaida Expanding -Full Story- British intelligence officials said they believe that al-Qaida has a secure base in Pakistan's Waziristan region and is planning terrorist operations.The group is reaching out to Muslims in North Africa, The Telegraph reported. Last year, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, an Algerian terrorist group, merged itself into al-Qaida, a move announced by Osama bin Laden's chief lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a tape promising action against the "apostates" in the Algerian government and "the treacherous sons of France."Al-Qaida is also believed to be planning expansion into Lebanon and Syria, the newspaper report...
  • ABC News: Feds "CLAIM" to Bust N.Y. Airport Terror Plot

    06/02/2007 11:58:50 AM PDT · by streetpreacher · 33 replies · 2,304+ views
    ABC News ^ | June 2, 2007 | BRIAN ROSS, PIERRE THOMAS and GIGI STONE
    Authorities have taken into custody a former cargo worker at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City who allegedly recruited an FBI informant to help blow up jet fuel tanks and pipelines at the airport, law enforcement officials told ABC News. The plotters had "indirect" links to overseas terror elements and the plot had links to Guyana, Trinidad and possibly Germany, a source said. The former cargo worker, originally from Guyana, had been under surveillance and allegedly met with a radical group in Trinidad, sources say. The planning for the plot was said to be going on for two...
  • Terror Plot "One Of The Most Chilling Imaginable"

    06/02/2007 11:59:08 AM PDT · by gpapa · 102 replies · 4,693+ views
    wnbc.com ^ | June 2, 2007 | Unattributed
    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.
  • Kennedy Airport Terror Plot Thwarted

    06/02/2007 8:28:21 AM PDT · by Zakeet · 366 replies · 15,079+ views
    NEW YORK -- According to NewsChannel4's Jonathan Dienst, sources said federal investigators have made arrests in an alleged terror plot on Kennedy Airport. Law enforcement officials said the plot may involved a former airport worker. A press conference is scheduled for 1 p.m. this afternoon.
  • JFK (airport) illegally targeting Muslims, groups say [ACLU/CAIR Alert]

    08/23/2006 6:15:24 PM PDT · by West Coast Conservative · 100 replies · 2,928+ views
    Newsday ^ | August 24, 2006 | BRYAN VIRASAMI
    Muslim, Arab and South Asian passengers are racially profiled at Kennedy Airport by Homeland Security officers, including hundreds who were singled out for detention on the day of the recent London terrror arrests, civil liberties groups said Wednesday. The groups highlighted the case of a New Jersey family that was detained and interrogated after a flight from Dubai last week. The family, a mother and her 20-year-old twin daughters from Montclair, NJ, said they were plucked from the baggage area, held six hours without food or water by Customs and Border Protection agents and questioned about their views of Iraq....
  • Airliner delayed after passengers carry on drinks (purchased at the airport)

    08/18/2006 1:30:06 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 18 replies · 1,040+ views
    ap on Riverside Press Enterprise ^ | 8/18/06 | AP - Los Angeles
    LOS ANGELES An airliner bound for New York was delayed nearly an hour Friday after the crew discovered some passengers had carried on drinks purchased at the airport, and the pilot requested the plane be rechecked by security screeners. American Airlines Flight 40 was scheduled to leave for John F. Kennedy International Airport at 11 a.m. and was being boarded when the drinks were discovered. "The passengers were deplaned at the captain's request," said Nancy Castles, a spokeswoman for Los Angeles International Airport. "The liquids were surrendered or tossed or discarded. They conducted a security check of the plane, and...
  • A scare in the air for one British Airways flight

    08/14/2006 9:09:09 PM PDT · by PghBaldy · 36 replies · 1,134+ views
    WABC TV ^ | August 14 | Joe Torres
    Just how cautious are airline pilots after last week's thwarted terror plot? Consider this: A British Airways captain was piloting a New York bound jet when a cell phone with no apparent owner began ringing on board. The pilot, taking no chances, turned the plane around. Eyewitness News reporter Joe Torres talked exclusively with a local woman on board.
  • Day of terror strikes was planned for August 16

    08/11/2006 7:11:41 AM PDT · by Rutles4Ever · 215 replies · 7,879+ views
    Daily Mail ^ | 8/11/2006
    Terrorists were planning to unleash a series of deadly mid-air explosions on flights between London and America on August 16, it has been revealed today. Members of the terror group, who were arrested in a series of raids by anti-terror police yesterday, were due to mount a dry run today to check if they could smuggle components for liquid explosives through Britain's airports. United Airline tickets dated next Wednesday were found by police at the home of one of the raided addresses. One US intelligence official told today's Evening Standard: "The bombers were a couple of days from a test,...
  • Ten Years Later, TWA Families Still in Pain ( TWA 800 - audio links )

    07/15/2006 1:39:48 PM PDT · by LurkedLongEnough · 24 replies · 827+ views
    1010 WINS ^ | July 14, 2006 | 1010 WINS
    NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Andy Krukar boarded TWA Flight 800 with a diamond ring in his pocket, planning to place it on his fiancee's finger at the Eiffel Tower during a weekend of romantic dinners and strolls through the streets of Paris. The fiancee, Julie Stuart, was going to follow him to Paris the next day to celebrate their formal engagement. AUDIO: TWA 800 Series Part One But Krukar was killed when Flight 800 exploded into a spectacular fireball over the Atlantic Ocean just minutes after taking off from Kennedy Airport — a disaster that claimed the lives...
  • Raytheon Wins $100 Million Contract for Airport Perimeter Security at four N.Y.C.-area airports

    03/14/2006 12:22:43 PM PST · by robowombat · 10 replies · 327+ views
    Security Info Watch ^ | March 10th, 2006
    March 10th, 2006 12:57 PM EDT Raytheon Wins $100 Million Contract for Airport Perimeter Security Company to deliver state-of-the-art perimeter security system to four N.Y.C.-area airports Four major airports in the New York City area have hired Raytheon Inc. for more than $100 million to put together an anti-terrorist surveillance system that would monitor the airports' perimeters. Raytheon, a Waltham defense and aerospace company, will lead a team of contractors that will deploy a mix of radar, sensors, video motion detectors, closed-circuit TV monitors, and electronic fences at John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia in New York and Newark Liberty...