The Associated Press is reporting that three people are arrested and one other is being sought in a plot to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Sources say the plot, which never got passed the planning stage, involved a plan to set off explosives in a jet fuel pipeline that feeds through the airport and runs through residential neighborhoods.
Law enforcement officials say that one of the men involved is a former airport worker from Guyana. Sources say the man was arrested last night.
Sources say he recruited an FBI informant to help plan the attack. He reportedly met with a radical group in Trinidad, where other arrests have been made in the case.
Sources also say the reason the arrests took place at this time was because the suspects had plans to travel.
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In all, four individuals, including the former Guyana parliament member, Abdul Kadir, and Russell Defreitas, a U.S. citizen and native of Guyana who worked as an airport cargo worker, have been charged with conspiring to attack JFK.
Also in custody are Kareem Ibrahim, a citizen of Trinidad who is in custody in Trinidad and Abdel Nur, a citizen of Guyana. The United States is planning to seek their extradition.
According to the criminal complaint, the defendants performed physical surveillance, made video recordings of JFK and its buildings and facilities, located satellite photographs of JFK on the Internet and sought expert advice, financing and explosives.
The complaint adds that an informant and Defreitas discussed the war in Lebanon in August 2006 and agreed, “Muslims always incur the wrath of the world while the Jews get a pass.”
It was at that point, court records say, Defreitas shared with the informant “that he had a vision that would make the WTC attack seem small.”
Officials viewed the alleged plotters as a credible threat, but sources said they apparently did not have the technical savvy to carry out the plot.
The planning for the plot was said to be going on for two to three years but sources claim the alleged plotters were nowhere near any ability to put it into place.
One official said the plan “was not technically feasible.” Officials added that the alleged plotters had no explosives and had not yet figured out a way to get some.
The pipeline snakes more than 100 miles from Pennsylvania through New Jersey to JFK. Once they learned of the plot, authorities investigated at what points the pipeline could be accessed and found that even if those points were bombed, there would be little to no impact —
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