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Authorities disrupt terror plot to destroy New York airport

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June 2, 2007 at 4:43 PM EDT

NEW YORK — Four Muslim men were foiled from carrying out a plot 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 neighbourhoods, 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 plot
would “cause greater destruction than in the Sept. 11 attacks.”

One of the suspects, Russell Defreitas, a U.S. citizen native to Guyana and
retired 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,” said Mr. Defreitas, 63, who first
hatched his plan more than a decade ago when he worked as a cargo handler for
a service company, according to the indictment.

The plot never got past the planning stages, authorities said.

“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.”

Authorities said they were motivated by a pattern of hatred toward the U.S.,
Israel and the West.

Mr. Defreitas was recorded saying he “wanted to do something to get those
bastards.”

He 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, were in
custody in Trinidad. A fourth man, Abdel Nur of Guyana, was still being sought
in Trinidad.

The suspects believed explosives could ignite the pipeline at JFK and destroy
the airport and parts of Queens, where the line runs underground, according to
the indictment.

The pipeline, owned by Buckeye Pipeline Co., takes fuel from a facility in
Linden, N.J., to the airport. Other lines service LaGuardia Airport and Newark
Liberty International Airport.

Mr. Kadir, a 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.

Mr. Kadir left his position in Parliament last year. Muslims make up about 9
per cent of the former Dutch and British colony's 770,000 population, mostly
from the Sunni sect.

Isha Kadir, the Guyanese suspect's wife, said her husband flew from Guyana to
Trinidad on Thursday. She said he was arrested Friday as he was boarding a
flight from Trinidad to Venezuela, where he planned to pick up a travel visa
to attend an Islamic religious conference in Iran.

“We have no interest in blowing up anything in the U.S.,” she said Saturday
from the couple's home in Guyana. “We have relatives in the U.S.”

Investigators received information about the plot in January 2006, according
to the indictment.

Buckeye spokesman Roy Haase said the company, which moves petroleum through
pipelines in a number of states, had been informed of the threat from the
beginning.

“Given the nature of Buckeye business and the importance of this
transportation network, we have an intense and ongoing communications
relationship with the Port Authority, the New York City fire and police
departments, the federal Department of Homeland Security and the FBI,” he
said.

The arrests mark the latest in a series of alleged homegrown terrorism plots
targeting high-profile American landmarks.

A year ago, seven men were arrested in what officials called the early stages
of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and destroy FBI offices and
other buildings.

A month later, authorities broke up a plot to bomb underwater New York City
train tunnels to flood lower Manhattan.

And six people were arrested a month ago in an alleged plot to unleash a
bloody rampage on Fort Dix in New Jersey.

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