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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]

We've got FOUR, we've got PEOPLE, we've got ARRESTS, we've got PLOTTERS, we've got SUSPECTS, we've got a WORKER and a CARGO HANDLER . . . I guess even using the word MEN is too politically charged these days.