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Trinidad police hunt fourth man wanted in JFK airport plot |
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Guyanese national Abdel Nur, one of the four
suspected Islamic extremists from South America and
the Caribbean facing charges over the alleged
terrorist plot to bomb fuel tanks and pipelines at
John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. AFP PHOTO |
June 5, 2007:
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AFP): Trinidad authorities
appealed on Monday for help in tracking down a fourth
suspect in a foiled plot to blow up fuel tanks and pipelines
at New York's international airport.
Abdel Nur, a Guyanese citizen, is believed to be hiding in
Trinidad and Tobago, and police described him Monday as
armed and dangerous, releasing a grainy undated photograph.
Nur is wanted for conspiring to commit acts of terrorism
against the laws of the US, according to Commissioner Trevor
Paul.
He entered Trinidad on May 20, 2007, Paul told his weekly
conference, revealing that Nur was born on March 24, 1950,
under the given Christian name of Compton Eversley.
"We have not ruled out the fact that he can be using other
names and while he is recorded as Nur his Christian name is
Compton Eversely and could have other names unknown to us at
this point and time," said Paul.
Security has been tightened at the Piarco International
airport in Trinidad as well as at Tobago airport.
One of the terror suspects, former Guyanese member of
parliament Abdul Kadir, was seized aboard a flight to
Venezeula from Trinidad early Friday.
Kadir and another terror suspect Kareem Ibrahim, 56, who was
arrested on Saturday, briefly appeared in court Monday and
were charged with conspiring to commit terrorist acts
against the laws of the United States. |
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A third suspect Russell Defreitas, a former employee at JFK
airport, was arrested by US anti-terrorist forces in New
York on Friday.
US officials said Sunday they had foiled a plot to bomb fuel
tanks and pipelines at New York's John F. Kennedy airport.
The plot against the JFK airport allegedly was linked to
Jamaat Al Muslimeen, described by justice officials as an
international network of Muslim extremists from the United
States, Guyana and Trinidad.
Paul admitted that local police had been unaware that Nur
was wanted on charges related to the alleged terrorism plot
when he was allowed into Trinidad, but said it had now
become a matter of "absolute need" that he be found.
A Venezuelan airline offical told AFP on the condition of
anonymity that law enforcement authorities had examined
their passenger lists Monday searching for Nur.
Paul also confirmed that security officials were paying
closer attention to locally-based gas and energy companies
given that fuel pipelines were the alleged target of the
four suspects.
Trinidad and Tobago currently supplies the US with more than
75 percent of its liquefied natural gas.
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