« Home | It's very surprising... » | A Muslim murdered Hindus in Orange County, California » | E-blackmails from a gangster » | Important show of justice: police brutality convicted » | The horror story the MSM still won't tell us about » | The fauxtography fools » | Farewell to creepy Cindy » | It's time for Olmert to explain himself » | National Religious leaders launch solidarity campa... » | Rape victims in Darfur describe horror they went t... » 

Saturday, June 02, 2007 

Four arrested in plot to bomb fuel lines at JFK airport

A plot to potentially destroy one of New York's leading airports has been thwarted:
NEW YORK (AP) - A suspected terrorist cell planned 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, authorities said Saturday.

Three men were arrested and one was being sought in Trinidad on Saturday. 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.

Two other men, Abdul Kadir of Guyana and Kareem Ibrahim of Trinidad, are in custody in Trinidad. A fourth man, Abdel Nur of Guyana, was still being sought in Trinidad.
They seem (unsurprisingly) to refrain here from giving any clear details of if Islamism played any role here. However, according to this article in the NY Times (via Hot Air), the plot
involved a former airport worker who is a United States citizen of Guyanese descent and a former member of the Guyanese parliament, who is also an imam.
Clue number one. And two others were connected with Jamaat al-Muslimeen, which is operating in Trinidad/Tobago.

It's very fortunate that these vile scum were arrested before they could even get underway with building bombs and gathering tools with which to ignite a fire at the airport. According to a broadcast I saw on CNN, the fuel line stretched through some neighborhoods in NYC, and it could've had VERY devastating consequences.

Update: It was thanks to a convicted drug dealer turned police informant that the terrorists who were plotting to blow up fuel lines at JFK were captured. It's good to see that a former criminal is doing something honest for a change, and helping to stop dangerous thugs before they can carry out their evil deeds!

Others on the subject include Blogs of War, Macsmind, First State Politics, A Blog for All, Public Secrets, Michelle Malkin, Wake Up America, Blue Star Chronicles, Red Alerts, Pirates' Cove, JunkYardBlog, BitsBlog, Bill's Bites, Webloggin, PeteRepublic, Randy Thomas, Paxalles, The Anchoress, Tim Blair.

Labels: ,

About me

  • I'm Avi Green
  • From Jerusalem, Israel
  • I was born in Pennsylvania in 1974, and moved to Israel in 1983. I also enjoyed reading a lot of comics when I was young, the first being Fantastic Four. I maintain a strong belief in the public's right to knowledge and accuracy in facts. I like to think of myself as a conservative-style version of Clark Kent. I don't expect to be perfect at the job, but I do my best.
My profile

Archives

Links

    avigreen2002@yahoo.com See also my collection of Link in Bio pages: Realtime Website Traffic
      telchaidrawing

      I also contribute to

    • The Astute Bloggers
    • Infidel Bloggers Alliance
    • Which also includes (open menu)

      My other sites

    • The Four Color Media Monitor
    • The Comic Book Discrimination Dossiers
    • Hawkfan
    • The Greatest Thing on Earth!
    • The Outer Observatory
    • Earth's Mightiest Heroines
    • Puzzle Paradise
    • The Co-Stars Primer
    • Cinema Capsule Cavalcade
    • Food Diner
    • News/Opinion sites (open menu)

      Writers and special activity groups (open menu)

      Media Watchdogs (open menu)

      Columnist bloggers (open menu)

      Research on terrorism (open menu)

      Other bloggers: Israel and Asia (open menu)

      Other bloggers: Europe (open menu)

      Other bloggers: American continent (open menu)

      Museum sites (open menu)

      Bloggeries Blog Directory blog directory Blog Directory & Search engine View My Stats
    • W3 Counter stats
    • eXTReMe Tracker
      Locations of visitors to this page  
      Flag Counter

    This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?

    make money online blogger templates

Older Posts Newer Posts

Tel-Chai Nation is powered by Blogspot and Gecko & Fly.
No part of the content or the blog may be reproduced without prior written permission.
Join the Google Adsense program and learn how to make money online.