Trini in JFK plot sought financiers – prosecutors tell court

Federal prosecutors yesterday told a New York court that Trinidadian Kareem Ibrahim took part in a foiled plot to blow up New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport by offering to find people who might fund it.

According to a Bloomberg report Ibrahim, 65, in May 2007 advised the plotters not to seek help from an extremist group in Trinidad and instead offered to find other backers,