JFK plot suspect surrenders to police

A Guyanese suspect in an alleged plot to attack New York's John F Kennedy Airport surrendered to police today in Trinidad, a police official said.

A Guyanese suspect in an alleged plot to attack New York's John F Kennedy Airport surrendered to police today in Trinidad, a police official said.

Abdel Nur turned himself in at a police station just west of the Trinidadian capital Port-of-Spain, police spokeswoman Wendy Campbell said.

He is the fourth man arrested in the alleged plot, including a former opposition member of Guyana's parliament and a former airport air cargo employee who was arrested in New York.

Nur is reportedly the uncle of former world welterweight boxing champion Andrew "Six Heads" Lewis, one of Guyana's most famous citizens.

Authorities in Trinidad and the United States announced they were searching for Nur on Saturday, when US officials disclosed the alleged plot to blow up a fuel pipeline that feeds the airport.

US authorities claim the alleged plotters unsuccessfully sought support in Trinidad from Jamaat al Muslimeen, a radical Islamic group that staged a deadly coup attempt in the Caribbean nation in 1990.

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