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Saturday, June 02, 2007 1:09 PM
Four people have been charged in a thwarted terror plot to blow up a fuel pipeline at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, CBS News has learned.
Three suspects have been arrested and are currently in U.S. custody. Two suspects are being held in New York and one overseas, reports CBS News producer Phil Hirschkorn.
An official from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport, said the arrests were made late Friday night.
At least one of the men in custody is a U.S. citizen and one is from Guyana, a Port Authority official told Hirschkorn.
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.
NEW YORK — Three people were arrested and one was being sought 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.
A senior law enforcement official told FOX News that of the three arrests, one was in New York and two were in Trinidad. The New York suspect was identified as Russell Defreitas, a former JFK employee who allegedly planned to attack the airport’s fuel supply because he thought he could do more damage than attacking a passenger terminal. Afreitas is a Muslim U.S. citizen from Guyana.
Defrietas predicted the attacks would destroy “the whole of Kennedy,” according to an FBI press release, and that only a few people would survive the attack.
He then compared the plot to 9/11, saying “even the Twin Towers can’t touch it,” and it would destroy the economy of America for some time.”
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.
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Stormwarning: the Caribbean Connection
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And this is the guy the FBI wants because he is the one that is said to be plotting, planning and providing for the detonation(s) of multiple nuclear widgets in multiple US cities. And the Leftinistra say “they are peaceful”.
Caribbean Terror
June 3, 2007 — The arrest yesterday of what the authorities termed a “self-radicalized” American citizen and two others in an alleged plot to do calamitous damage to JFK International Airport and surrounding residential neighborhoods underscores yet again the overarching threat Islamist terrorism poses to America.
And it adds a chilling new theater of operations in the War on Terror: The Caribbean Basin, where a strong Islamist presence has been growing absent American public awareness for several years.
Arrested was Russell Defreitas, an American citizen from Guyana and a former JFK employee.
Also nabbed were Abdul Kadir, a former member of Guyana’s parliament, and Kareem Ibrahim of Trinidad. A fourth man, Abdel Nur, of Guyana, is still at large.
All four apparently are Muslims, although authorities were quick to point out that they had no known ties to al-Qadea or other Islamist organizations.
That is, they were freelancers - a chilling development indeed.
The arrests were just the latest in a series of alleged plots targeting well-known American locations, including many in New York City.
But those conspiracies involved individuals with Middle Eastern ties.
Not so the JFK plot.
In turns out that the Caribbean in general - and Trinidad & Tobago in particular - have been incubating Islamist terrorism for two decades.
WASHINGTON — Even if terrorism suspect Russell Defreitas were no more than an angry man with vague notions of a spectacular attack, he was able to tap into a network of Islamic extremists in the Caribbean — potentially dangerous and right in the backyard of the United States, authorities said Saturday.
It was Defreitas’ alleged ties to that network, based primarily in Trinidad and Guyana, that had the FBI and other federal authorities so concerned as they clandestinely monitored his activities over the last 18 months, law enforcement officials familiar with the ongoing investigation said.
The FBI also believes that at least several militants from this loosely configured extremist network were involved in the alleged plot to blow up buildings, fuel tanks and pipelines at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. They remain at large and are extremely dangerous, said a federal law enforcement official.
“That is what is most significant about this case. It demonstrates the evolving nature of the threat and how we need to be looking at areas of the world that have not been viewed by the general public as a terror threat,” the official said. “It shows that the threat can come from anywhere. It is not just limited to the Middle East or South Asia.”
At a news conference to announce the arrest of Defreitas and two other suspects, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly agreed. “This is an area in which we have growing concern, and that I think requires a lot more focus,” he said.
Guyana is in South America, and Trinidad is nearby in the Caribbean.
Authorities said Saturday that Defreitas and several suspected associates from Guyana and Trinidad were never close to obtaining explosives or taking any concrete steps to make their plot a reality.
But they said some of the men whom Defreitas linked up with were militants or associates of militants. At least two were alleged to be longtime associates of Trinidad-based radical group Jamaat al Muslimeen.
The FBI and CIA have closely monitored the group since at least 1990, when it tried to overthrow the government of Trinidad and Tobago and replace it with one based on Islamic law.
He is the most wanted man in America yet most Americans have never heard his name.
He has been described as the “Fixer” of the Sept. 11 attacks. Several captured al-Qaida operatives have revealed this is the same man who bin Laden has tapped to lead the terror group’s diabolical scheme to detonate nuclear devices simultaneously in several U.S. cities.
Meet Adnan el-Shukrijumah, now believed to be operating within the U.S. – a man the FBI warns is likely armed and dangerous.
“But no one on planet earth is more of a threat to the lives and well-being of every man, woman, and child within the United States than ferret-faced Adnan.”
That’s the dire warning from Paul L. Williams, author of his just released book “The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World.” [Editor’s Note: Get Paul Williams’ explosive “The Day of Islam” FREE — Click Here Now.]
According to Williams, Adnan has not only been charged by al-Qaida with orchestrating a nuclear attack – he may have already smuggled nuclear material into America.
The U.S. government is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture.
Ominously, Adnan “possesses the uncanny ability to blend into a crowd, to alter his looks, and to assume a multitude of identities,” writes Williams, a seasoned investigative reporter and former FBI consultant.
“Few things about el-Shukrijumah indicate his radical Islamic orientation … He has been known to have a beer on occasion … to smoke an occasional Camel, and to carry rosary beads in his pocket …
“He is the proverbial Mr. Cellophane.”
Adnan, 31, was born in Guyana, according to Williams, although the FBI believes he was born in Saudi Arabia. He spent his early years in New York City, where his father, a radical Muslim cleric, was the imam of a Brooklyn mosque known to serve as a recruiting station for al-Qaida.
In 1995, Adnan’s family moved to Miramar, Fla., where Adnan’s father became spiritual leader of a radical mosque. In Florida Adnan befriended Jose Padilla, who planned to detonate a dirty bomb in Manhattan, and Imran Mandhai, who was convicted of trying to blow up nuclear power plants in Florida.
Between 1996 and 2000, Adnan traveled extensively, spending time in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Trinidad, Tobago and Guyana. He managed to collect passports from a number of countries, and began using at least five aliases.
Adnan also attended flight school in Florida and Oklahoma, along with Mohammad Atta and other 9/11 operatives, and became adept at piloting jets.
In April 2001, Williams disclosed, Adnan spent 10 days in Panama, where he reportedly met with al-Qaida officials to help plan the 9/11 attacks.
After the terrorist strikes, Adnan became a key figure in al-Qaida’s plans to escalate its attacks on the U.S. Williams compiled evidence that Osama bin Laden designated him to arrange a simultaneous nuclear attack on seven U.S. cities – New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, Boston and Las Vegas.
Williams believes Adnan then enrolled at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, site of a five-megawatt nuclear research reactor. Incredibly, Adnan was able to get a job as a guide at the reactor.
“Bit by bit, the al-Qaida operative allegedly managed to pilfer approximately 180 pounds of nuclear material from the university – enough to build several radiological bombs,” Williams reports.
Adnan disappeared from the school in October 2003, several days before the nuclear material was reported missing. Alerted about Adnan’s plans by a captured high-ranking al-Qaida official, Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert Mueller issued a BOLO (be-on-the-lookout) alert for Adnan on March 21, 2004.
In the following months Adnan was spotted in Colorado, Pakistan, Honduras, Belize and Mexico.
In November 2004, another key al-Qaida operative was captured in Pakistan. He told interrogators that the terrorist group had arranged to smuggle nuclear supplies and tactical nuclear weapons into Mexico, then to transport them across the U.S. border with the aid of a Latino street gang. The gang was later identified as Mara Salvatrucha – a group Adnan at met with during his visit to Honduras.
“The gang has some form of presence in virtually every Hispanic community across the United States, and can offer al-Qaida unparalleled infiltration into any city in the country,” according to a report from the Jamestown Foundation cited by Williams.
U.S. officials responded to the intelligence and began monitoring all heavy trucks crossing into the U.S. from Mexico, and Mexican officials vowed to keep close watch on flight schools and aviation facilities. Those precautions may have come to late, says Williams, who writes:
“A Piper PA Pawnee crop duster was stolen from Ejido Queretaro near Mexicali on November 1, 2004. The plane’s tail number was XBCYP. The thieves, Mexican officials surmised, were either drug dealers or al-Qaida operatives, and clearly one was a highly trained pilot who met the description of Adnan el-Shukrijumah.”
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