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August 3, 2010

Jury Convicts Two in JFK Airport Plot
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A federal jury has convicted two Guyanese men of conspiring to blow up
fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, though
federal authorities acknowledged the plot never progressed very far.
Lawyers for the men said their clients were set up by a government
informant. One of the key pieces of evidence in the trial was a
videotape of the exteriors of the airport and its fuel tank farm shot.
One of the Guyanese men, Russell Defreitas, shot the video using a
camera bought by the government informant who also had to show him how
to use it. His attorney said, "Russell Defreitas can’t mastermind his
way out of an on-off switch on a video camera." Defreitas and his
co-defendant Abdul Kadir could face life in prison.



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