(Trinidad Guardian) Convicted terrorist Kareem Ibrahim has died in a United States prison.
Ibrahim, 70, reportedly lost his battle with cancer yesterday after serving a little over three years of his life sentence at the US Medical Centre for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.
Ibrahim was convicted on May 26, 2011, of conspiracy to launch a terrorist attack at the John F Kennedy Airport in Queens, New York, in 2007.
He and Guyanese nationals, Russell Defreitas and Abdul Kadir, were accused of plotting to explode fuel tanks and the fuel pipeline under the airport.
The evidence at the trial established that Ibrahim, an imam and leader of the Shiite Muslim community in T&T, provided religious instructions and operational support to a group plotting to commit a terrorist attack at JFK Airport.
