Iran Possibly Linked to Plot to Blow Up JFK Airport
Michael Ledeen writes about an under-reported New York Times story that potentially links the government of Iran to a plot to attack the JFK airport:
You may recall that back in 2007, some arrests were made in New York City in connection with a terrorist plan to blow up fuel tanks at Kennedy Airport. Now, three years later, the trial is on, and you can read about it – indeed you must read about it — in the–get this!–local news section of the New York Times. It is indeed quite a story, and it is written by one A. G. Sulzberger, a surname that undoubtedly gets due respect at the Times. But it’s tucked away under local news instead of appearing on the front page, for reasons best left to the editors (although I have a pretty good guess about the main reason).
According to the story, one of the accused, a former official in Guyana by the name of Abdul Kadir, was wired to the government of Iran. After first denying that he had been in touch with Iranian officials in Venezuela, Kadir admitted the contacts. Indeed, he was arrested in Trinidad three years ago while en route to Iran via Caracas.
Kadir insisted, at least for a while, that his intimacy with the Islamic Republic was religious, not political. He sent several of his kids to Iran for religious study (someone with a suspicious turn of spirit might suspect they were being indoctrinated and trained to follow in their dad’s clawsteps).
That suspicious soul would find confirmation in the explosive discovery that Amir Kadir had had extensive communications with one Mohsen Rabbani, the Iranian “diplomat” indicted in connection with the terrorist attack on the Jewish Social Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the mid-1990s.
That’s quite a connection, don’t you think? If I were Mr. Sulzberger’s editor, I’d have hammered home that point: “accused terrorist in cahoots with Iranian terror master,” or some such.
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