A U.S. judge on Wednesday sentenced an Islamist militant [ex-Guyana MP Abudl Kadir] to life in prison (Reuters)
a federal jury in August found Abdul Kadir, 58, of Guyana, guilty of conspiring to blow up buildings, fuel tanks and pipelines at the airport [New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport] (Reuters)
prosecutors alleged the pair wanted to kill thousands of people and cripple the American economy (AP)
"For years, I've been watching them," he [former airline cargo worker Russell Defreitas (AFP)] said of the fuel tanks while on a reconnaissance mission with the informant. (AP)
Defreitas [a U.S. citizen born in Guyana (Reuters) [who] initiated the plot (AFP)] will be sentenced on January 21(AFP)
Kadir, an engineer by training, provided links to militant groups with explosives experience and other support. (AFP)
The men sought to offer their plans to Jamaat Al Muslimeen, an Islamist extremist group in Trinidad and Tobago that was behind a 1990 coup attempt on the island, prosecutors said, and also tried to send Kadir to Iran to muster support. (Reuters)
The plotters also discussed reaching out to Adnam Shukrijumah, an al-Qaida member and explosives expert who was believed to be hiding out in the Caribbean at the time. (AP)
Kareem Ibrahim of Trinidad and Tobago was deemed too ill to be tried, but may face trial later. Guyanese Abdel Nur pleaded guilty in June to a separate charge of material support to terrorism and faces up to 15 years in prison. (Reuters)
He [Abdul Kadir] told jurors [during his trial] that he warned the plotters: "Islam does not support aggression or killing innocent people." (AP)
Kadir admitted in court that he was passing information about sensitive military issues in Guyana to Iran [but denied being a spy (AP)] and that he followed Iranian fatwas, or religious decrees. (AFP)
Source: AFP, AP, Reuters
Comments: Terrorists in high places (parliament) and low places (cargo worker) too.
Member of Israeli parliament Azmi Bishara also face spying charges but has fled Israel.
Classic Taqiyyah; saying "Islam does not support aggression or killing innocent people" while trying to blow up an airport and kill thousands.
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