Reply #83: 4 charged with terror plot at JFK airport

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4 charged with terror plot at JFK airport
POSTED: 4:05 a.m. EDT, June 3, 2007
Story Highlights• FBI ties terror plot to South American, Caribbean extremists
• Suspect's wife denies he was part of any plot
• Suspect compares plot with 9/11 in wiretapped remarks, transcript shows
• Former cargo worker arraigned in federal court in New York

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Four men have been charged with conspiring to blow up jet fuel supply tanks and pipelines at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Homeland Security sources said there is no current threat at the airport and the attack as planned was "not technically feasible."

The alleged plot did not target airplane flights, officials said.

A wiretap transcript given to CNN by the FBI indicates the plotters targeted the airport because of the popularity its namesake, John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963.

"Anytime you hit Kennedy, it is the most hurtful thing to the United States. To hit John F. Kennedy, wow ... they love JFK -- he's like the man," former JFK airport cargo worker Russell Defreitas allegedly said in a telephone conversation monitored by the FBI. ................

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/02/jfk.terror.plot/index.html