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Fourth 'JFK plot' man surrenders | Fourth 'JFK plot' man surrenders |
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The fourth man wanted over an alleged plot to blow up New York's JFK airport has surrendered to police in Trinidad and Tobago, officials there say. | |
Abdel Nur of Guyana turned himself in at a police station at Diego Martin in western Trinidad, police said. | |
He was the only one of the suspects in the alleged plot still at large. | |
Two men are already being held in Trinidad fighting moves to extradite them to the US and one man is in custody in New York. | Two men are already being held in Trinidad fighting moves to extradite them to the US and one man is in custody in New York. |
The four men are accused of conspiring to blow up fuel tanks and pipelines serving the airport, one of the world's busiest. | The four men are accused of conspiring to blow up fuel tanks and pipelines serving the airport, one of the world's busiest. |
Muslim organisation | |
Mr Nur surrendered after photographs of him appeared on all newspaper front pages and on television. | |
Mark Mershon, the head of the FBI in New York praised the Trinidadian police authorities for the detention. | |
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"I am confident that the pressure brought to bear by the Trinidadian police authorities contributed to his surrender," Mr Mershon said. | |
US police announced on Saturday that they had broken up the alleged plot. | US police announced on Saturday that they had broken up the alleged plot. |
Kareem Ibrahim (l) and Abdul Kadir at court in Trinidad on Monday | |
Kareem Ibrahim of Trinidad and Abdul Kadir, a former member of parliament of Guyana, were arrested in Trinidad. | Kareem Ibrahim of Trinidad and Abdul Kadir, a former member of parliament of Guyana, were arrested in Trinidad. |
The third suspect was arrested in Brooklyn late on Friday and named as Russell Defreitas, originally from Guyana. | The third suspect was arrested in Brooklyn late on Friday and named as Russell Defreitas, originally from Guyana. |
Mr Kadir and Mr Ibrahim made their first court appearance in Trinidad on Monday. | |
The judge remanded them in custody until 11 June when a bail hearing was due and an extradition hearing was set for 2 August. | |
US authorities said both men were associates of Jamaat al Muslimeen, a Muslim organisation behind a coup attempt in Trinidad in 1990. | |
Mr Defreitas was arraigned in New York City on Saturday and is being held pending a bail hearing on Wednesday. | |
The alleged plot - which is said not to have gone past the planning stages - involved blowing up the airport's fuel tanks and pipeline. | |
The pipeline is 40 miles (64km) long and carries jet fuel from New Jersey and through the New York boroughs of Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens. | |
The pipeline serves two other airports in the area - LaGuardia and Newark Liberty. | |
The alleged plot was brought to light when Mr Defreitas recruited an FBI informant to help him in the plan, US officials said. | |
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