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| JFK Jihadi plotted death for witnesses |
| 2012-08-16 |
| The convicted criminal mastermind of a jihadist terror plot to blow up fuel pipelines at JFK Airport schemed from behind bars to murder key witnesses against him, newly unsealed documents reveal. Russell Defreitas, 68, a retired airport baggage handler who last year was sentenced to life in prison for the foiled kaboom plot, enlisted the aid of several fellow prisoners to eliminate witnesses before the beginning of his 2010 terrorism trial in Brooklyn federal court, officials said. Defreitas also wanted to kill one of his own attorneys, Mildred Whalen, whom he believed to be Jewish, officials said. Additionally, Defreitas hoped to target an unnamed federal prosecutor for liquidation, officials said. "Defreitas said that [co-defendant Abdel] Nur insisted that the prosecutor 'had to go,'" an informant related, according to the government's March 2010 letter. Defreitas, an immigrant from Guyana, was convicted of the JFK terror attack scheme along with fellow plotters Nur, Abdel Kadir, an engineer and former member of Guyana's parliament, and Kareem Ibrahim. |
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