Trinidad Magistrate Orders Extradition of Three Suspects to U.S. in JFK Airport Terrorism Plot

On August 6, 2007, a magistrate in Trinidad and Tobago ordered three men - Abdul Kair, 55, Kareem Ibrahim, 62, and Abdel Nur, 57 - extradited to the U.S. on charges that they conspired with a former airport cargo worker to sabotage jet fuel storage tanks and fuel lines at the Kennedy International Airport. At the hearing the U.S. depended primarily a written summary of evidence compiled by U.S. authorities, as is customary in extradition proceedings. Lawyers for the U.S. called two witnesses, including the police officer who executed the warrants on the three relators… [more]