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Arrests in NY airport 'bomb plot' Four charged over JFK 'bomb plot'
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Three people have been arrested in connection with an alleged plan to bomb John F Kennedy airport in New York, reports from the United States say. Four people have been charged in the US over a plot to bomb John F Kennedy airport in New York, US officials said.
Ground operations, not aeroplanes or passenger terminals, were to have been targeted, reports say. They include a former cargo worker and a former MP for the Caribbean nation of Guyana. One of the four suspects is a fugitive, believed to be in Trinidad.
The alleged plot against one of the busiest airports in the US is said not to have gone beyond planning stages. The plot, which did not go past the planning stages, involved blowing up the airport's fuel tanks and a pipeline, officials said.
One person was arrested in New York and the other two in a Caribbean country, CNN reported, citing official sources. One arrest was in New York and the other two took place in Trinidad.
The US Justice Department said the four suspects were charged with "conspiring to attack JFK airport by planting explosives to blow up the airport's major jet-fuel supply tanks and pipeline."
"There is no threat to air safety or the public related to this plot," said FBI spokesman Richard Kolko in Washington."There is no threat to air safety or the public related to this plot," said FBI spokesman Richard Kolko in Washington.
A pipeline carrying jet fuel was to have been targeted, WNBC television in New York said. A pipeline carrying jet fuel was to have been targeted, New York police commissioner Ray Kelly said.
The 40 mile (64km) pipeline also carries jet fuel to two other airports in the area - LaGuardia and Newark Liberty.
A former cargo worker at JFK, originally from Guyana, named Russell Defreitas, was arrested in New York late on Friday.
The alleged plot was brought to light when Mr Defreitas recruited an FBI informant to help him plan to blow up JFK airport's fuel tanks.
The alleged plan had been in the works for two or three years but was nowhere near ready to be put in place, officials said.