In my earlier posts I cut and paste excerpts from the story. The plot would be difficult to pull off, the defendents were not all that capable of doing it and it was a "set up." A case of entrapment by an informant. They didn't have the money, bombs or means to carry out the attack. If the FBI really thought they had a case they would have waited for the "Jamaat al-Muslimeen" to get involved.
Talk about "experts" what happened to the WMD that all those "experts" told us were in Iraq? And how it would be a "cakewalk." They ignored and ridiculed the real experts that said it was highly unlikely that Saddam had no WMD, next to impossible, it would be a quagmire, and let the inspections continue.
These are phony terrorist cases meant more for publicity then anything.
THE J.F.K. AIRPORT CASE; 4 Men Accused of Plot to Blow Up Kennedy Airport Terminals and Fuel Lines - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/nyregion/03plot.html?th&emc=th"The airport is fed jet fuel, gasoline and heating oil through a capillary system of pipes that run from New Jersey through Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens. Oil industry experts said safety shut-off valves would almost assuredly have prevented an exploding airport fuel tank from igniting all or even part of the network."
"One law enforcement official played down Mr. Defreitas’s ability to carry out an attack, calling him “a sad sack” and “not a Grade A terrorist.” Comparing the case with the plot in which a group of men were arrested last month on charges of planning to attack soldiers at Fort Dix in New Jersey, the official said the New Jersey plotters “were a bit further along.”
"But the official said that Mr. Defreitas’s efforts to enlist Jamaat al-Muslimeen’s aid could have had devastating consequences.
“They didn’t have the money and they didn’t have the bombs,” the official said of the suspects, “but if we let it go it could have gotten there; they could have gotten the J.A.M. fully involved, and we wouldn’t know where it could have gone.”
"The official declined to be identified because he was not authorized to comment on the case.
"An informant with a criminal history including drug trafficking and racketeering agreed to work with investigators on the case, in exchange for payments and a reduced sentence.
"Last July, the informant, whose name was not released, befriended Mr. Defreitas, officials said. Mr. Defreitas said he recognized the informant from attending services at a Brooklyn mosque, took him into his confidence and slowly disclosed his plan to attack Kennedy, according to the complaint."