It looks like we dodged another jihad.
A suspected terrorist cell planned a "chilling" attack to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery that runs through populous residential neighborhoods, authorities said Saturday.
Three men were arrested and one was being sought in Trinidad on Saturday. In an indictment charging the four men, one of them is quoted as saying the foiled plot would "cause greater destruction than in the Sept. 11 attacks," destroying the airport, killing several thousand people and destroying parts of Queens, where the line runs underground.
One of the suspects, Russell Defreitas, a U.S. citizen native to Guyana and former JFK employee, said the airport was a symbol that would put "the whole country in mourning."
A tighter immigration policy would be nice, thank you. A former airport employee?
"It's like you can kill the man twice," Defreitas said, according to the indictment.
Yes, and what could be better than killing the infidel twice? The BBC quotes Defretas further;
The informant recorded some of the conversations he had with Mr Defreitas.
"Any time you hit Kennedy, it is the most hurtful thing to the United States," Mr Defreitas said, according to a recording played to reporters.
"To hit John F Kennedy, wow... they love John F Kennedy like he's the man... if you hit that, this whole country will be in mourning. You can kill the man twice."
About half way through the article, the AP manages to mention this,
Kadir, a Muslim and former member of Parliament in Guyana, was arrested in Trinidad for attempting to secure money for "terrorist operations," according to a Guyanese police commander who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Like Osama, another foreign diplomat gone jihad. The idea that terrorism is just an outlet for the poverty stricken needs to find it's way to the dustbin of false presumptions.
Kadir left his position in Parliament last year. Muslims make up about 9 percent of the former Dutch and British colony's 770,000 population, mostly from the Sunni sect.
Isha Kadir, the Guyanese suspect's wife, said her husband flew from Guyana to Trinidad on Thursday. She said he was arrested Friday as he was boarding a flight from Trinidad to Venezuela, where he planned to pick up a travel visa to attend an Islamic religious conference in Iran.
Iran? Aren't they the ones who want to go nuclear?
Amazingly for the MSM, the article gives some background on the story.
A year ago, seven men were arrested in what officials called the early stages of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and destroy FBI offices and other buildings.
A month later, authorities broke up a plot to bomb underwater New York City train tunnels to flood lower Manhattan.
And six people were arrested a month ago in an alleged plot to unleash a bloody rampage on Fort Dix in New Jersey.
The fact that an AP article notices a pattern here gives me hope.
Hat tip, Political Pistachio. WNBC has videos. Disturbing Poll.
Blue Star Chronicles has background on Jamaat-al-Muslimeen (JAM), the group the suspected terrorists belong to.
