Thursday, June 7, 2007

Times-Ledger: Terror Plot at JFK stories...

A suspected terrorist plot to attack John F. Kennedy International Airport was interrupted in the early planning stages with the arrest of three men in Brooklyn and the Caribbean, federal authorities said. A fourth man turned himself in Tuesday in Trinidad, law enforcement officials said.
The Guyanese community in Richmond Hill and Ozone Park is fearful of being treated unfairly following the arrests of three men from their homeland who are suspected of plotting a terrorist attack on oil pipelines that run into Kennedy Airport.

Before last weekend many of the residents on 157th Avenue in Howard Beach were not aware that their houses were potential collateral damage in a plot to blow up the pipelines that lie underneath their homes and run into JFK Airport.

Western Queens residents were concerned about an underground petroleum pipeline that runs through five borough neighborhoods to reach LaGuardia Airport after another fuel pipeline to Kennedy Airport was targeted by four suspected terrorists.

Travelers unfazed by airport threat...

About 48 hours after law enforcement officials announced that they had broken up a suspected terrorist plot to attack John F. Kennedy International Airport, travelers went about their business Monday as if it was just another day.

Inside several terminals at JFK some passengers acknowledged that news of the terror plot frightened them, but they also shrugged off the suggestion they would alter their travel plans.

In fact, it was the weather, more than the threat of terrorism, that changed the itinerary of some fliers Monday.