DAR AL HARB- U.S.A.- NEW YORK: ABDUL KADIR, JFK PLOTTER, HAD TIES TO IRANIAN MOHAME IBRAHIMI

Alleged plotter had ties to radical Muslim leader
By Jacqueline Charles and Lesley Clark
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - A Guyanese police official on Sunday said that one of the four men charged with conspiring to blow up Kennedy International Airport once was the business partner of the leader of a radical Muslim group that tried to overthrow the Trinidad government in 1990.

Acting Guyana Police Commissioner Henry Greene also said the man, Abdul Kadir, a Guyanese citizen, also had a business link to Mohamed Ibrahimi, an Iranian citizen mysteriously killed in 2004 in Guyana.

Greene's comments bolstered reports that Kadir and the other alleged conspirators were seeking support from Muslim radicals in the Caribbean and elsewhere for their plans to blow up jet fuel pipelines and storage tanks at the New York City airport. But there is no evidence that they’d succeeded in winning that support.

The revelations of Kadir’s ties to other Muslim radicals came as terrorism and pipeline experts cast doubt on U.S. authorities’ depiction of the possible consequences of the alleged plot.

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