PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):

Chief Magistrate Sherman McNicolls on Monday ruled that the three suspects arrested in Trinidad and Tobago in relation to an alleged plot to blow up the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York should be extradited to the United States.

Trinidadian Kareem Ibrahiim, 62, Guyanese Abdul Kadir, 55, a former Opposition Member of Parliament, and Abdel Nur, 57, were arrested in June and charged with conspiring to "cause death, serious bodily injury and extensive destruction" by blowing up the fuel supply to the John F. Kennedy Airport.

They were charged along with Guyanese-born American citizen Russell Defreitas, who was arrested on June 1 and is being held without bail in New York.

United States authorities allege that the men were part of a terrorist cell that planned to attack JFK airport. If convicted, the men would face a maximum sentence of life in prison.