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Apr 16, 2010 News
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) – FBI agents are in the South American country of Guyana seeking evidence in the case against four men accused of plotting to blow up New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, police said yesterday.
The agents are looking to interview several people – including an opposition Georgetown city councilman, a businessman and several local Muslims – who allegedly had ties to the plot or had contact with the U.S. government informant whose testimony will be key to the case, said Crime Chief Seelall Persaud.
Three of the four suspects indicted in the case are Guyana natives. The fourth is from Trinidad. Jury selection begins in June for the trial, which will be held in New York.
Prosecutors say Guyana native Russell Defreitas, who worked as a cargo handler at the airport until 1995, masterminded a plan to blow up a jet-fuel artery that runs through residential neighborhoods and feeds Kennedy airport. Defreitas has pleaded not guilty.
In 2008, the three other suspects – Kareem Ibrahim, Abdel Nur and Abdul Kadir – were extradited to New York from Trinidad and pleaded not guilty to a charge of conspiring to “cause death, serious bodily injury and extensive destruction.”
The plot, code-named Chicken Farm, never got past the planning stages, authorities said.
Prosecutors say they will present evidence that the suspects tried to obtain financial and operational support from Adnan Shukrijumah, an al-Qaida operative from the Caribbean region, and other terrorist organizations such as Jamaat al Muslimeen, a radical Islamic group that attempted a deadly coup in its base country of Trinidad in 1990
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