FBI thwarts Islamic plot to blow up JFK

FBI thwarts Islamic plot to blow up JFK
By Tim Shipman in Washington, Sunday Telegraph

A "chilling" Islamic terrorist plot to blow up New York's John F Kennedy Airport was thwarted yesterday. The plotters had hoped it would be more deadly than the 9/11 atrocities.

Four members of a "sleeper cell" intent on exploding fuel dumps to destroy the airport terminal buildings and aircraft on the ground, were arrested after an FBI surveillance operation lasting more than 16 months.

In conversations bugged by American officials, one of the plotters claimed the resulting explosion would have resulted in the destruction of "the whole of Kennedy". He predicted there would have been few survivors.

US Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf described the plans as "one of the most chilling plots imaginable". She added: "The devastation that would have been caused if this had succeeded are unthinkable."

The plot came to light when Russell Defreitas, a former airport cargo worker described as "a very angry Muslim extremist", tried to recruit a fellow worker at the airport, who was working as an informant for the FBI.

In one intercepted telephone conversation, Defreitas said: " This can destroy the economy of America for some time."

The gang were caught after scouting out 10-inch wide jet fuel pipes which supplied the airport. Jet fuel itself is not particularly combustible but a chain reaction could have spread underground through the network of pipes.

Defreitas was arrested in Brooklyn after it emerged that one member of the gang was poised to make a foreign trip.

US law enforcement officials said that the group was not linked to al-Qaeda but the cell was part of an international network of Islamic terrorists, operating in the US, the Latin American nation of Guyana, and Trinidad in the Caribbean. An official described the suspects as "al-Qaeda wannabes".

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all the more reason for our military to be thousands of miles away, whenever the immediate threat of attack is in OUR country...

im just glad the plan didnt happen. that could have been ugly. +1 FBI

...that's what G-men are suppose to do......:thumbsup:.....

Hey you know in the UK this shit happens all the time, its called INTELLIGENCE. I'm suprised the FBI uncovered this I really am, its a first.

How did I miss this? I didn't hear about this at all...

I wonder how many other plots have been foiled like this or are in survellience at this time? I know there's been a few recently, but there's probrably thousands of others right now being planned just like this one.

How come terrorists don't use any of their own supplies to attack us? They're such low lifes that they gotta use our planes, our gas, our supplies to get to us.

Freaking idiots...