BROOKLYN, N.Y., May 27 (UPI) -- A Trinidad national, convicted by a New York jury of conspiring to blow up fuel tanks and lines at John F. Kennedy International Airport, faces life in prison.
A Brooklyn federal jury Thursday found Shiite Muslim imam Kareem Ibrahim, 65, guilty of planning with other Muslim conspirators a fiery attack on aviation fuel pipelines in 2007, the New York Post reported.
"It was a plan to bomb, to kill, to destroy, a plan that would rival the horrors of Sept. 11," Assistant U.S. Attorney Zainab Ahmad said in her closing argument.
Ibrahim is the fourth conspirator convicted in the terrorist plot hatched by former cargo handler Russell Defreitas who, along with Abdul Kadir, is serving a life sentence. Abdel Nur pleaded guilty to aiding the plot and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, the New York Daily News said.
Ibrahim, who gave his daughter a double thumbs-up sign after the jury returned their guilty verdict, will be sentenced in October.
