The trial for the fourth man involved in a foiled plot to blow up New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport will start on May 2, even if the defendant, Kareem Ibrahim, is too weak to participate, US District Judge Dora Irizarry said in a Brooklyn, New York court on Friday.
According to a Bloomberg report, Judge Irizarry on Friday said that Ibrahim, 65, a citizen of Trinidad, persisted in not eating or drinking as the trial date approached. Ibrahim, who was rolled into court in a wheelchair yesterday, weighs 114 pounds and has been refusing water, insulin injections for diabetes, and his Ensure nutrition shakes, doctors told the judge by phone yesterday.
“I see cyclical patterns here. When we get closest to trial is when he most persists with not eating. At some point, it’s malingering,” Irizarry said, after
