NEW YORK (AFP) - Four suspected Islamic extremists from South America and the Caribbean faced charges Sunday over an alleged terrorist plot to bomb fuel tanks and pipelines at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.
The four -- including Abdul Kadir, a former member of Guyana's parliament -- have been charged over the plot, which officials said had links to international terrorist cells in the Western Hemisphere but was thwarted well before it could be carried out.
"Had the plot been carried out, it could have resulted in unfathomable damage, deaths, and destruction," US Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf said, telling reporters in New York the plan was "one of the most chilling plots imaginable."
The devastation such a blast would have caused "is just unthinkable," she said on Saturday.