A Brooklyn jury on Thursday convicted a Trinidadian national of conspiring to blow up the fuel lines and fuel tanks at Kennedy Airport in a fiery attack that would rival 9/11.
Kareem Ibrahim, the fourth would-be terrorist convicted in the plot, gave his daughter a double thumbs-up sign after the jury returned the verdict in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Ibrahim, 65, an imam and leader of the Shiite Muslim community in Trinidad, faces life in prison when he's sentenced in October.
The plot was hatched in Guyana by former Kennedy Airport cargo handler Russell Defreitas, who assembled a group of evildoers to launch the attack to avenge what they perceived was the oppression of Muslims by the U.S.
"It was a plan to bomb, to kill, to destroy, a plan that would rival the horrors of Sept. 11," Assistant U.S. Attorney Zainab Ahmad said in her closing argument.
Defreitas and co-defendant Abdul Kadir were convicted last year and are serving life sentences. A fourth plotter, Abdel Nur pleaded guilty to supporting the plot and was sentenced to 15 years.
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