Four charged over JFK «bomb plot»
Four people have been charged in the US over a plot to bomb John F Kennedy airport in New York, US officials said.
They include a former cargo worker and a former MP for the Caribbean nation of Guyana. One of the four suspects is a fugitive, believed to be in Trinidad.
The plot, which did not go past the planning stages, involved blowing up the airport's fuel tanks and a pipeline, officials said.
One arrest was in New York and the other two took place in Trinidad.
The US Justice Department said the four suspects were charged with "conspiring to ttack JFK airport by planting explosives to blow up the airport's major jet-fuel supply tanks and pipeline."
"There is no threat to air safety or the public related to this plot," said FBI spokesman Richard Kolko in Washington.
A 40 mile (64km) pipeline carrying jet fuel to two other airports in the area - LaGuardia and Newark Liberty - was also a target, police said.
A former cargo worker at JFK, originally from Guyana, named Russell Defreitas, was arrested in New York late on Friday.
The alleged plot was brought to light when Mr Defreitas recruited an FBI informant to help him plan to blow up JFK airport's fuel tanks.
The alleged plan had been in the works for two or three years but was nowhere near ready to be put in place, officials said.
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They include a former cargo worker and a former MP for the Caribbean nation of Guyana. One of the four suspects is a fugitive, believed to be in Trinidad.
The plot, which did not go past the planning stages, involved blowing up the airport's fuel tanks and a pipeline, officials said.
One arrest was in New York and the other two took place in Trinidad.
The US Justice Department said the four suspects were charged with "conspiring to ttack JFK airport by planting explosives to blow up the airport's major jet-fuel supply tanks and pipeline."
"There is no threat to air safety or the public related to this plot," said FBI spokesman Richard Kolko in Washington.
A 40 mile (64km) pipeline carrying jet fuel to two other airports in the area - LaGuardia and Newark Liberty - was also a target, police said.
A former cargo worker at JFK, originally from Guyana, named Russell Defreitas, was arrested in New York late on Friday.
The alleged plot was brought to light when Mr Defreitas recruited an FBI informant to help him plan to blow up JFK airport's fuel tanks.
The alleged plan had been in the works for two or three years but was nowhere near ready to be put in place, officials said.
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Published: 2007/06/02 18:10:31 GMT
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2007-06-02
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