Monday, January 16, 2012

Imam Gets Life in Prison for Airport Terror Plot; Planned to Explode Fuel Tanks Under JFK Airport

The Europe News website reports today (January 16, 2012) that an imam and leader of the Shiite Muslim community in Trinidad and Tobago was sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to attack a New York airport by exploding fuel tanks and fuel pipelines under the airport.

Kareem Ibrahim and several other co-conspirators believed the 2007 planned attack would cause extensive damage to John F. Kennedy International Airport.

They also believed the attack would hurt the New York economy and kill many people, officials said.

Ibrahim, 65, was convicted in May by a federal jury on multiple terrorism offenses after a four-week trial.

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