Man gets life in JFK Airport bomb plot

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UPI:

1/14/12

NEW YORK, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- A Trinidad imam was sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to blow up fuel tanks and fuel pipelines under New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Kareem Ibrahim, 65, and three others -- who already have been sentenced -- believed the planned 2007 attack would kill many people and heavily damage JFK Airport while hurting the New York economy, CNN reported.

A federal jury in May convicted Ibrahim, who had been a leader of the Shiite Muslim community in Trinidad and Tobago, on multiple terrorism offenses after a four-week trial.

Authorities said Russell Defreitas, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Guyana who used to work at JFK as a cargo handler, planned the attack, then recruited others.

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