Call me anything but Muslim terrorist
- Four people have been charged in the US over a plot to bomb John F Kennedy airport in New York, US officials said. [BBC]
Four people, including a former member of Guyana's parliament, have been charged with planning to blow up New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. officials said on Saturday. [Reuters]
Three suspects have been apprehended with a fourth at large, all believed to be part of the plot with connections from New York to Guyana to Trinidad, authorities said. One suspect was taken into custody in New York as part of a federal-local investigation, and two were apprehended in Trinidad. The at-large suspect is in Trinidad, reports said.[MarketWatch]
Authorities said Saturday that they had broken up an alleged terrorist plot to bomb aviation fuel tanks and pipelines at John F. Kennedy International Airport, arresting a former airport worker and two other men with links to Islamic extremists in South America and the Caribbean. [Washington Post]
Three people were arrested and another was being sought Saturday for allegedly plotting to blow up a fuel line that feeds John F. Kennedy International Airport and runs through residential neighborhoods, authorities said.
The plot never got past the planning stages. It posed no threat to air safety or the public, the FBI said Saturday.[AP]
The plotters sought to blow up the airport's jet fuel tanks and part of the 64km pipeline feeding them from New Jersey. Three of the four suspects, who included a former airline cargo handler, have been arrested, federal law enforcement officials said. [Breaking News Australia, via Reuters]
And six people were arrested a month ago in an alleged plot to unleash a bloody rampage on Fort Dix in New Jersey.[AP]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) have reported that four arrests have been made in a foiled plot to blow up jet-fuel supply tanks and pipeline at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), in New York City. The DOJ suggested the plot was interrupted in the early planning stages through cooperative law enforcement work in the United States and abroad.[Wikinews]
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You just never know which word is going to be politically charged these days.. Who knew it would be "men"?
We've got WORDS that mean different THINGS and get USED at different TIMES when those MEANINGS are called for.
Oh this crazy world.
weird. they do at least say men/women.
I though the same thing you did. Plus the media make it sound as if it was something so ludicrous to even worry about. But the men were here, in our country, plotting another terrorist attack. To me that was the big story. It was downplayed, but to me that the people were HERE and planning was the big story, because if they caught one group, how many others are out there planning stuff that we don't know about.
I once used the fuel systems at Hartsfield in Atlanta, and I know it's the same at DFW where I worked for a while too, there are incredibly intricate systems under the concrete, running to each gate, for the fueling of any plane that might fit at that gate. If that was sabotaged and started exploding, wow, I shudder to even imagine it. Those pipes run under every corner of most airports.
They're all high-capacity too. You can pump an amazing amount of fuel onto those planes in a short time.
However it is hard to start jetA on fire, much less get it to blow up. Since there is little if any vapor space in a pipeline the chances of an explosion are slim to none.
To have an explosion you must have fuel, and oxidizer, and an ignition source. Since the pipeline is purged of air there is not oxidizer so no explosion possibility.
They mav have been terrorists, but they weren't chemists.
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