Convicted in JFK terror plot… Ex-MP, Abdul Kadir, dies in US prison

Jun 29, 2018 News

Almost eight years after being convicted for his role in a major plot to blow up sections of the John F Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in New York, former parliamentarian, Abdul Kadir, is dead.
Yesterday, his son, Kareem, confirmed that his family received a call from the US prison where he was serving a life sentence, and was informed that he had died.

Dead: Abdul Kadir

Kadir, 66, was a former Member of Parliament (MP) for the People’s National Congress Reform from 2001 -2006. He also served as the Mayor of Guyana’s second-largest town, Linden, from 1994 to 1996.
Kadir, an outspoken MP, from Watooka, Linden, had made waves at the time of his arrest and subsequent trial.
Born Aubrey Michael Seaforth, in Buxton, he converted to Islam in 1974 and changed his name.
He was a chemical engineer by profession and worked at Linmine and Guymine for a number of years.
In 2007, Kadir was arrested in Trinidad in connection with an alleged plot to blow up jet-fuel supply tanks and pipeline at JFK. He was arrested on June 2 that year, while en route to Caracas, Venezuela, where he planned to pick up a visa to attend an Islamic conference in Iran.
The United States government alleged that Kadir was associated with the Trinidad-based Jamaat al Muslimeen, a militant Muslim group. After being arrested in Trinidad and Tobago, he was extradited to the United States.
On August 2, 2010, Kadir – along with Russell De Freitas – was convicted in a jury trial for the JFK airport bomb plot.
According to US court documents, Kadir was the disciple of Mohsen Rabbani, an Iranian diplomat accused of being one of the masterminds behind a 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires.
At the end of the trial Kadir was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Kadir leaves to mourn his wife Isha, nine children and grandchildren.

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