Guyanese Abdel Nur this morning pleaded guilty to aiding a plot to blow up New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and now faces fifteen years in prison.
Nur, 60, pleaded guilty to one count of providing support to terrorists before U.S. District Judge Dora Irizzary in Brooklyn, New York even as two of his co-defendants are set to go on trial tomorrow.
The men allegedly hatched the plot in January 2006 and circulated their plan to an international network of Muslim extremists, prosecutors have said.
Russell Defreitas, 66, a former Evergreen Airlines cargo worker at the airport who is a citizen of the US but was born in Guyana, and Abdul Kadir, 58, a former PNC parliamentarian are set to be tried together. The fourth defendant, Trinidadian Kareem Ibrahim, 59, was granted a separate trial at a later date due to a medical condition.
“Between November of 2006 and June of 2007, I became aware that individuals whom I had known for an extended period of time were developing a plan that had as its goal the use of explosive device or material to destroy or extensively damage fuel tanks” at the airport, Nur told Judge Irizzary according to Bloomberg.
He will be sentenced in November.
