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Final suspect, imam from Trinidad, convicted in plot to blow up fuel tanks at NY’s JFK airport

researcher13 years ago01 mins

NEW YORK — A 65-year-old imam from Trinidad was convicted Thursday by a federal jury of participating in a failed plot to blow up jet fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a scheme that authorities said was meant to outdo the Sept. 11 attacks and avenge perceived U.S. oppression of Muslims around the…

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Caribbean: Alleged plot casts light on the Caribbean

Euro-Islam17 years ago15 years ago03 mins

The alleged terror plot against John F. Kennedy International Airport has cast a spotlight on radical Muslim elements in the Caribbean, including a group that launched the hemisphere’s only Islamic revolt and a former Florida man wanted by the FBI. In 1990, Yasin Abu Bakr, a Muslim leader on the twin-island nation of Trinidad and…

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