European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 stars and stripes june 2007 in the states terror arrests a plot worse than experts debate How much damage pipeline attack would have caused by Adam Goldman the associated press new York Federal authorities said a plot by a suspected mus Lim terrorist cell to blow up John Kennedy International its fuel tanks and a Jet fuel artery could have caused unthinkable but while pipeline and Security experts agreed that such an attack would have crippled americas particularly the airline they said it probably would not have led to As significant loss of life As authorities announced Satur Day they had broken up the suspected terrorist arresting three one of them a former member of Guyana a fourth Man was being sought in Trinidad As part of the plot that authorities said they had been track ing for More than a year and was foiled in the planning in an indictment charging the four one of them is quoted As saying the foiled plot would cause greater destruction than in the 11 destroying the killing several thousand people and destroying parts of new Yorks Borough of where the pipeline runs under one of the Russell de a citizen native to Guy Ana and former Juk air cargo pm said the Airport named for the slain president was targeted be cause it is a Symbol that would put the whole country in its like you can kill the Man said who first hatched his plan More than a decade ago when he worked As a cargo handler for a service Compa according to the authorities said the men were motivated by hatred toward the United states and despite their the men never obtained any authorities pulling off any bomb ing of this magnitude would not be easy in to Days Environ former state depart ment counter terrorism expert Fred Burton but added it was difficult to determine without knowing All the Richard a pipeline expert and president of acc facts an Energy consulting firm that focuses on pipelines and tank said the Force of explosion would depend on the amount of fuel tinder but it would not travel up and Down the since Defreitas retired from his Job at the Airport in Security has significantly tightened and his knowledge of the operation was severely he was arraigned saturday in Federal court in where he was held pending a bail hearing his court appointed lawyer told the judge that officials Defreitas Many but few plots on pipelines the associated press new York a foiled plot to blow up a Jet fuel pipeline under John Kennedy International air port Drew attention to what counter terrorism experts say could be a key it was the first threat against Buckeye pipe line which operates Petroleum conduits in 18 the company its pumping facility in has 45 storage tanks and pumps Turbine diesel and other fuel and heating oils through two 12inch pipes to customers in new York including Juk and Laguardia the network totals 35 Miles within the City Roy a spokesman at Buckeye partners in declined to discuss details of the plot or company Security we have been kept fully informed and apprised of this potential threat from the very he while pipelines have been the target of terrorism in Colombia and records show Only one other recent threat against a pipeline in the United a report prepared for Congress last year said that Federal authorities have warned of Al Aida interest in pipelines As especially the Alaska pipe line that handles 17 percent of Domestic crude Oil in a Pennsylvania Man was arrested for allegedly plotting to sabotage the tra Salaska pipe line system taps and other Petroleum facilities in new Jersey and there is no record that he was were not revealing the full according to published two other Abdul Kadir of Guyana and Kareem Ibrahim of were in custody in trin a fourth Abdel Nur of was still being sought in the joint terrorism task Force recorded and surveilled the learning that Defreitas drove around and videotaped Juk four times in when Defreitas returned from Guyana in customs officials searched his belongings and found Kafirs name and Tele phone number in Defreitas address at that Defreitas told an informant he was suspicious the government was aware of the authorities decided to pounce after Defreitas said on May 27 that he was Happy to see that the code named Chicken was moving according to the criminal Fri work closely for arrests the associated press Trinidad two men allegedly involved in a plot to attack new Yorks John Kennedy International Airport were in custody in Trinidad and Tobago and the police commissioner said authorities were scour ing the carib bean country for a third suspect still at Trevor the top police offi Cial in the twin Island nation off Venezuela identified the arrested suspects As Abdul a guyanese Muslim and former member of the South Kadir american nations and Kareem a 56yearold from Abdel Nur of Guyana was still being sought in officials the Fri did inform the trin Idad Law enforcement authorities of the fact that three men were wanted in the on warrants in connection with a terrorist we have been working with the Fri for some but this last re quest was made Paul noting the two suspects would Likely be extradited to the after court hearings in trin authorities said Kadir and Nur were longtime associates of a trinidadian Radical Muslim Jamaal Al which launched an unsuccessful rebellion in 1990 that left 24 us  Reading stats and stripes for a Chance to win Cool shirts and a Nintendo Wii game console grand