Latest update November 29th, 2024 1:00 AM
Feds grab JFK Terror suspects
– Trio taken to U.S. by private jet
Trinidad Guardian – The three men wanted on charges of plotting to blow up John F Kennedy International Airport in New York last year were extradited last night in a special operation involving 15 FBI agents and local enforcement officers.
Just one day after their appeal was struck out in the Court of Appeal, Trinidadian Kareem Ibrahim, and Guyanese Abdul Kadir and Abdel Nur, were flown by private jet to Miami International Airport en route to JFK Airport—the same airport they are accused of plotting to bomb.
After the Appeal Court dismissed their appeal on Monday, special arrangements were made between the Ministry of the Attorney General and the FBI to have the suspects sent to New York to face the four-count indictment.
The private jet, with the FBI officers, landed at Piarco International Airport yesterday afternoon. Local police officers, armed with the extradition documents, went to the Maximum Security Prison at Arouca and informed
Kadir and Nur that they were being taken to New York.
They also went to St Ann’s Hospital, where Kareem was receiving medical attention, and whisked him away. The wanted men were not able to inform relatives they were being extradited.
The three were taken to Piarco Airport and handed over to the FBI agents. Employees at the airport looked on as the wanted men, in handcuffs and chains, boarded the private jet for their flight to the US.
CASE HISTORY
The end came for the trio on Monday, when Justice Roger Hamel-Smith dismissed their appeal.
On April 5, attorneys for Ibrahim, Kadir and Nur, and the State went before Justice Stanley John for a case management hearing. The court gave strict guidelines for the filing of submissions by May 29. By that date, the wanted men had not filed their submissions.
On June 9, attorneys for the State filed an application to strike out the appeal of the wanted men for non-compliance.
Attorney Farid Scoon represented the wanted men, while English Queen’s Counsel James 
Lewis and David West appeared for the State.
On August 6, 2007, Chief Magistrate Sherman Mc Nicolls ordered that the three men be extradited to face the charges. But the men challenged the extradition, by filing an application for a writ of habeas corpus. Justice Nolan Bereaux, presiding in the Port-of-Spain High Court, dismissed the application and the men appealed.
Ibrahim, Kadir and Nur are wanted in New York, along with Guyanese Russell De Freitas, who has been detained without bail at a Brooklyn prison awaiting trial.
The four are wanted on an indictment alleging that they plotted to blow up a system of jet fuel supply tanks and pipelines that feed fuel to John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York.
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