Trinidad and Tobago Police Commissioner Trevor Paul speaks during a news conference in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, yesterday.
Paul confirmed that two men allegedly connected to a plot to blow up a fuel line that feeds New York's John F. Kennedy international airport were in custody in Trinidad. He identified them as Abdel Kadir, a Guyanese Muslim and former member of the South American nation's Parliament, and Kareem Ibrahim, a 56-year-old Trinidadian. Paul also said officers were scouring the country to capture a third suspect. - AP

NEW YORK (CMC):

Four Caribbean men, three Guyanese and a Trinidadian, have been implicated in what United States law enforcement officials said was a massive terror plot targeting John F. Kennedy Inter-national Airport.

Three of the men have been arrested and one is being sought in connection with the plan to set off explosives in a fuel line that feeds the airport and runs through residential neighbourhoods.

Arrested are Abdul Kadir, a former Member of Parliament in Guyana and Kareem Ibrahim of Trinidad. Both are being held in custody in Trinidad. Russell Defreitas, a U.S. citizen, native to Guyana and former JFK employee, was also arrested and is being held in Brooklyn where he is expected to be arraigned Saturday afternoon.

A fourth man, Abdel Nur, of Guyana, was still being sought by U.S officials who believe he might be hiding in Trinidad.

Press briefing called

Police in Trinidad called a press briefing for yesterday afternoon to give an update on the involvement of local law enforcers in nabbing the men.

U.S. attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf called the plot "one of the most chilling plots imaginable."

"The devastation that would be caused had this plot succeeded is just unthinkable," she said at a news conference Saturday.

All four men are accused of being members of a terrorist cell that planned to attack the airport, one of the nation's busiest, by blowing up major fuel supply tanks and the pipelines.

Kadir, a Muslim, who reportedly quit his position in Guyana's parliament last year, was arrested in Trinidad for attempting to secure money for "terrorist operations," the international press reported Saturday. Muslims make up about nine per cent of Guyana's 770,000 population.

U.S. terror officials said they have been tracking the cell for more than a year and have received cooperation from their law enforcement counterparts in Trinidad in tightening the noose around the men.

The arrests mark the latest in a series of alleged homegrown terrorism plots targeting high-profile American landmarks.

A year ago, seven men were arrested in what officials called the early stages of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and destroy FBI offices and other buildings.