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Wannabe JFK airport bomber found guilty

by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) on May 27th 2011 at 7:30AM

The final participant in the plot to blow up New York City's JFK airport has been found guilty of five counts of conspiracy.

Kareem Ibrahim of Trinidad was one of four conspirators who in 2007 hoped to blow up fuel tanks and fuel lines at JFK airport, causing major loss of life. The lines also run under a nearby neighborhood and the terrorists hoped to blow that up too. Two other conspirators, Russell Defreitas and Abdul Kadir, are already serving life sentences, and Abdel Nur received fifteen years for his role in the plot.

In his defense, Ibrahim claimed he didn't really want to blow up the airport, saying, "I just went along and hoped it would fizzle out."

What kind of lame-ass excuse is that? Who starts something that big and doesn't plan to finish? That would be like if I enrolled in university with the intention of dropping out my sophomore year, or had a kid with the plan to ditch him when he's ten.

Luckily the judge didn't buy that line either, Ibrahim will be sentenced on October 21.

[Photo courtesy USGS]

Filed under: North America, United States, Transportation, Airports, News

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

cedarglen May 27th 2011 10:42AM

Well, I guess his lame excuse was enough to get him 15 years, rather than life! The very idea of trying to kill that may people should be a capital offense - and I'm not even close to being a right-winger. Kareem is a thug and probably should be executed!

Sean McLachlan May 27th 2011 10:46AM

Nur got 15 years. Ibrahim will be sentenced October 21.

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