JFK airport bomb plot accomplice given 15-year sentence

A Guyanese national, Abdel Nur, has received a 15-year prison sentence following his guilty plea in June for his part in the John F Kennedy International Airport bomb plot.

Nur's plea deal approved by Brooklyn, New Year prosecutors reduced a lengthier sentence for his part in material support to blow up the Buckeye, Kennedy pipeline that feeds eight million gallons of jet fuel into the airport.

The 61-year old was recruited by a ex-airport cargo worker Russell Defreitas to assist his plot hatched to "cause major economic loss in the United States," said prosecutors, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Defreitas, a 67-year old Guyanese-born US citizen, recruited Nur's help in order to gain links with the Trinidad militant group Jamaat al Muslimeen (JAM), allegedly to finance the plot.

He and fellow conspirator Abdul Kadir, a former member of Guyana's Parliament, have been convicted of criminal charges of conspiracy to blow up buildings, fuel tanks and pipelines at the airport with Kadir sentenced to life while Defreitas awaits sentence.

Nur was "disappointed but not surprised" by the sentence said his lawyer Daniel Nobel, who added that his client will be treated for lung cancer at a federal medical centre while serving his sentence.
(Source:www.schednet.com)