Suspected JFK airport bombers extradited

NEW YORK, June 25 (UPI) -- Three men accused in a plot to bomb a major U.S. airport were headed to the United States from the Caribbean after their extradition fight failed.

Kareem Ibrahim, Abdul Kadir and Abdel Nur allegedly plotted to blow up fuel lines and tanks at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. They were jailed in Trinidad and Tobago, where they unsuccessfully fought extradition, CNN reported. A fourth defendant, Russel DeFreitas, pleaded innocent in New York.

Both the Trinidad and Tobago attorney general and the FBI said the men boarded an FBI plane Tuesday.

U.S. prosecutors said the men both plotted and began executing operations designed to bomb the airport, CNN said. Court documents filed by the U.S. government indicated some of the men's conversations were surreptitiously taped by an informant.

New York police said a 40-mile aviation fuel pipeline runs from a fuel tank farm at the airport through Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens.