Wife Says Wrong Man Arrested in Terror Plot
The Associated Press
June 3, 2007
CBNNews.com - The wife of Abdul Kadir, one of the suspects named by U.S. authorities on Saturday as being involved in the plot to attack New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport said on Sunday that "they have the wrong guy."
"We are begging them, asking them, to free my husband because he is not a terrorist," Isha Kadir said, referring to the Guyanese authorities. "They have the wrong guy. They should do some more investigating."
Ms. Kadir was speaking at the family home in Linden, 70 miles from the Guyanese capital, Georgetown.
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U.S. federal authorities said Saturday they had broken up a suspected Muslim cell planning an attack to destroy JFK International Airport.
The plot was allegedly intended to kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery that runs through populous residential neighborhoods in New York, authorities said.
Fifty-five-year-old Abdul Kadir, a Guyanese Muslim and former member of the South American nation's Parliament, and Kareem Ibrahim, a 56 year-old from Trinidad were arrested on U.S. warrants.
A third man, Abdel Nur of Guyana, was still being sought in Trinidad, officials said.
U.S. authorities allege Kadir, Ibrahim, Nur and another Muslim man, Russell Defreitas, planned to attack the airport.
Defreitas, 63, emigrated to the U.S. more than 30 years ago from Guyana. He was in U.S. custody on Sunday pending a bail hearing.
Kadir and Nur are believed to be long-time associates of a Trinidadian radical Muslim group, Jamaat al Muslimeen, which launched an unsuccessful rebellion in 1990 that left 24 dead.
Kadir and Ibrahim are likely be extradited to the U.S. after court hearings in Trinidad, authorities said.
The four suspects named in the plot to attack JFK International Airport tried to enlist the help of Jamaat al Muslimeen as key to their plans, according to court documents.
Despite contact between the two sides, Jamaat al Muslimeen is not accused of offering any support to the men.
The suspects allegedly travelled to Trinidad to lobby the group's leader Abu Bakr, but only one met with him.
Heavy surveillance of the group and its leaders apparently made communication difficult.
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