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By Daniel Baxter |
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December 17, 2010 ? On Wednesday in the Eastern District
of New York, United States District Judge Dora L.
Irizarry sentenced Abdul Kadir to life in prison for
conspiring to attack
The sentence was announced by Loretta E. Lynch, United
States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in
A
federal jury convicted Kadir and coconspirator Russell
Defreitas in July 2010, after a nine-week trial. A third
defendant, Abdel Nur, pleaded guilty before trial to
supporting the plot and faces a sentence of up to 15
years. A fourth member of the plot, Kareem Ibrahim,
faces trial on the same charges as Defreitas and Kadir. |
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The
evidence at trial established that Defreitas, a naturalized
During
multiple trips to
Kadir, a
trained engineer with connections to militant groups in
At trial,
Kadir, a former member of the Guyanese parliament, admitted that
he regularly passed information to Iranian authorities about
sensitive topics, including the Guyanese military, and believed
himself bound to follow fatwas from Iranian religious leaders.
On June 2, 2007, Kadir was arrested in Trinidad aboard a plane
headed to |