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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 —

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/LegalCenter/story?id=3238385&page=1

These Muslim terrorists were pissed off that the evil Jews get a "free pass" whenever they hijack airplanes and fly them into buildings...

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.

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.”

Just thinking here...
If these guys didn't have the tech savvy nor even the materials, to pull this off...why the arrests? Why, after a year, is it suddenly time to put an end to it? If, in fact, they posed no threat as authorities hasten to point out, aren't these guys more valuable under surveillance? Why not keep monitoring these angry, but harmless jerkoffs in the hopes of catching more in the net? Certainly, the longer the imbedded informant is in place, the more solid his cred among the next nest of vermin. That's not cache you can easily replace. Why squander it?

We can discard the PR angle. If HS and FBI merely wanted a splashy score for PR, this wouldn't have broken on a Saturday morning in june. Possibilities: this cell actually was close to pulling this off and they had the materials. Or, the informant's cover was blown.

Regardless, it was a significant bust-up. Hats off to the Joint Terrorism Task Force. As many reasons as there are to be critical of the bureaucrats among them--and I am, loudly and often--it appears America still can count on its good field agents. One of the most impressive pieces of info about this operation is that there were no leaks.