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New York airport bomb plotter gets life sentence
A former member of Guyana's parliament has been sentenced to life in prison for plotting to blow up fuel tanks at New York City's John F Kennedy International Airport.Abdul Kadir received the sentence on Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn.Kadir and former JFK cargo handler Russell Defreitas were convicted earlier this year on multiple conspirac...
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Two men charged with jihad plot against Americans abroad
The two men Mohamed Hamoud Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 24, of Elmwood Park were arrested at John F Kennedy airport in New York before they could board separate flights to Egypt from where they were heading to Somalia to join al Shabaab, the Islamist group, which has links to al Qaeda, justice officials said.
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New York airport bomb plotter gets life sentence
A former member of Guyana's parliament has been sentenced to life in prison for plotting to blow up fuel tanks at New York City's John F Kennedy International Airport.Abdul Kadir received the sentence on Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn.Kadir and former JFK cargo handler Russell Defreitas were convicted earlier this year on multiple conspirac...
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Two men charged with jihad plot against Americans abroad
The two men Mohamed Hamoud Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 24, of Elmwood Park were arrested at John F Kennedy airport in New York before they could board separate flights to Egypt from where they were heading to Somalia to join al Shabaab, the Islamist group, which has links to al Qaeda, justice officials said.
