Guyanese Abdel Nur, who in June admitted that he provided support to terrorists in a New York airport bomb plot, is suffering from lung cancer and a status conference is to be held on Friday to discuss his illness, according to court documents.
Nur, one of four persons implicated in a plot to blow up fuel pipes at John F Kennedy Airport, was expected to be sentenced to 15 years on November 18, but his lawyers asked Judge Dora Irizarry to postpone the sentencing because of his illness.
“…Mr Nur is currently being treated for lung cancer [in] the intensive care unit of Downtown Hospital. We are unable to visit him at that location in order to complete our sentencing submission. Additionally, it is unclear what his condition will be on the currently scheduled date or when treatment at Down-town Hospital will be at
