Friends say JFK suspects not terrorists
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| Published on Saturday, June 9, 2007 |
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NEW YORK, USA (UPI): Relatives and friends said the four men arrested in an alleged plot to bomb jet fuel tanks at Kennedy International Airport in New York were wrongly accused.
"The man is no extremist," Rudy Thorne, a lifelong friend of Abdel Nur in Guyana told the Friday's Miami Herald.
Another suspect, Kareem Ibrahim, told a friend in Trinidad that his Shiite branch of Islam meant peace, not overthrowing governments, Wendell Eversley, the friend, told the newspaper.
The Herald said the four suspects -- Nur, Ibrahim, Abdul Kadir, and Russell Defreitas -- are black converts to Islam and three have ties to Jamaat al Muslimeen, a Sunni group that tried to overthrow the government of Trinidad in 1990.
Jamaat al Muslimeen has denied any involvement with the JFK plot to detonate a fuel pipeline and jet fuel tanks at the airport.
Kadir, Nur and Ibrahim are in a Trinidad jail awaiting extradition to the United States. Defreitas is in custody in New York.
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