Airport bomb plot arrests

June 02, 2007

Four people, including a former airport cargo handler, are charged in plot to blow up New York's JFK airport. The four defendants were identified as Russell Defreitas, a U.S. citizen and native of Guyana who was arrested in Brooklyn. Authorities said two suspects were in custody in Trinidad and Tobago, and identified those two as Abdul Kadir, a citizen of Guyana and former member of its parliament, and Kareem Ibrahim, a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago. The fourth was named as Abdel Nur, a citizen of Guyana now believed to be in Trinidad.