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Jul 08, 2010 News
As the trial of the two Guyanese involved in the alleged plot to blow up a fuel bunker at the John F Kennedy Airport continues, the defendants, namely Abdul Kadir and Russell De Freitas, have been losing their battles to have the US suppress state witness and evidence.
The motions filed by the defendants to that effect have all been denied by Trial Judge Dora Irizarry.
The defendants are also seeking to have different sections of the video that was shown to the jury to be introduced but Irizarry said that the motion is moot.
The video that was shown to the jury for the first time illustrated De Freitas and a government witness driving around the airport in preparation of the attack.
One Government motion, too, was also found to be moot by Irizarry yesterday.
De Freitas is the Guyana-born US resident who has been implicated along with Abdel Nur, Kareem Ibrahim and Kadir in a terror plot to blow up the JFK International Airport in the United States of America by, inter alia, exploding airport fuel tanks and part of the connecting pipeline.
The US Government is contending that in connection with the plot, the defendants performed physical surveillance, made video recordings of JFK Airport and its buildings and facilities, located satellite images of JFK Airport and its buildings and facilities on the internet, and sought expert advice, financing and explosives.
On or about June 1, 2007, warrants were issued in the Eastern District of New York for the arrests of Kadir, DeFreitas, Ibrahim and Nur.
DeFreitas was arrested in New York pursuant to an extradition treaty between the United States and Trinidad and Tobago. The United States requested that the government of Trinidad and Tobago execute provisional arrest warrants against defendants Kadir, Ibrahim and Nur, all of whom were present in Trinidad and Tobago on June 1, 2007.
Trinidadian law enforcement officials arrested Kadir on June 1, 2007 at Piarco International Airport in Trinidad, as he was attempting to travel through Venezuela to Iran.
On or about June 3, and June 10, 2007, Guyanese police obtained and executed two warrants to search Kadir’s residence in Linden, Guyana.
The trial continues today before Justice Dora Irizarry.
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