Kareem Ibrahim (left) and Guyanese Abdul Kadir, going to court in Port of Spain in 2007.Agents from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and local police on Tuesday extradited three men wanted on charges of plotting to blow up fuel depots at John F Kennedy International Airport in New York last year, a day after a court struck down their appeal against the extradition order.
The law enforcement officers put Trinidadian Kareem Ibrahim, and Guyanese Abdul Kadir and Abdel Nur on a private jet to Miami International Airport en route to New York.
Their fight against extradition ended Monday when justice roger Hamel-Smith dismissed their appeal.
Ibrahim, Kadir and Nur are wanted in New York, along with Guyanese Russell De Freitas, who has been detained without bail at a Brooklyn prison awaiting trial.
The four are wanted on an indictment alleging that they plotted to blow up a system of jet fuel supply tanks and pipelines that feed fuel to John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens.
On August 6, 2007, Chief Magistrate Sherman Mc Nicolls ordered that the three men be extradited to face the charges.
They challenged the order, which the high court dismissed. But they appealed. On April 5, the court asked their attorneys to make submissions for a case management hearing by May 29, but that deadline was missed, leading to an court order striking out the appeal.
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