The headlines this past week focused on a terror plot that was designed to destroy John F. Kennedy Airport and a large portion of Queens. Four “would-be terrorists” had been planning this attack for over 18 months and only their paranoia halted the project.
Russell Defreitas, a U.S. citizen originally from Guyana, claims he developed his hatred for the United States a decade ago when he saw weapons being shipped to Israel. He assumed these weapons would be used to kill Muslims. Based on that, he hatched a plot to destroy not just an airport, but a symbol of America.
“Anytime you hit Kennedy, it is the most hurtful thing to the United States,†he was recorded telling a co-conspirator. “They love John F. Kennedy like he’s the man … It’s like you can kill the man twice.â€
The men tried but never obtained any explosives. And the plan they were working on had little chance of working, according to experts. Richard Kuprewicz, president of Accufacts Inc., stated that the explosions would localized and not travel up and down the fuel line.
“That doesn’t mean wackos out there can’t do damage and cause a fire, but those explosions and fires are going to be fairly restricted.â€
While it seems that this plan, if conducted solely by the four suspects, would fail, they were not trying to go it alone. They had reached out to Jamaat al Muslimeen, a Muslim organization within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Jamaat al Muslimeen is currently under surveillance for suspected contacts with Middle Eastern terrorist organizations.
The operation came to a halt when Defreitas felt the long arm of the law was about to crash down one him. He fled, but the United States found him.
The left’s response to this is not unusual. It is one of dismissive apathy, an attitude of “So what…they couldn’t do anything anyway.” It is demonstrated in the posts from The Huffington Post:
