Again, Muslims have targeted New York City with mass murder that could have exceeded 9/11, according to the FBI. Like the Fort Dix attack that was foiled, a key plotter was a worker at the facility who used his inside information for destruction. Of course, no Muslim employee at this airport, or at any other sensitive target was investigated for jihadi beliefs.
Perhaps this will change when the next inside job is successful, but I doubt it:
Local Radical Muslim At Center Of Terror Plot
As a cargo handler at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Russell Defreitas watched military parts be shipped to Israel and believed they would be used to kill Muslims.
He seethed with rage against the U.S. and Israel for more than a decade after retirement before finally deciding, authorities said, that he wanted to ?get those bastards.?
Drawing on his inside knowledge of the massive airport, Defreitas conspired with three men to blow up the airport?s underground jet fuel tanks and its pipeline in a spectacular attack designed to kill thousands in the populous neighborhood, authorities said.
But Defreitas, 63, never got a chance to carry out his plan and would not get the ?place in paradise? that the U.S. citizen and Guyana native said he desired.
Federal authorities announced Saturday they had arrested Defreitas and broken up a suspected Muslim terrorist cell. Two other men, one a former member of Guyana?s parliament, were arrested in Trinidad and another was sought there as part of a plot that authorities said they had tracked for more than a year and was foiled in the planning stages.
?The devastation that would be caused had this plot succeeded is just unthinkable,? U.S. Attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf said at a news conference, calling it ?one of the most chilling plots imaginable.?