Kareem Ibrahim was sentenced to life in prison for his role in organizing a plot to bomb John F. Kennedy International Airport, Justice Department officials announced today, noting that Ibrahim attempted to involve Iranian revolutionaries in the attack.
"Kareem Ibrahim abandoned the true tenets of his religion and plotted to commit a terrorist attack that he hoped would rival 9/11," U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said in a statement announcing the sentencing. The conspirators hoped to bomb fuel tankers at the airport.
"Ibrahim, an imam and leader of the Shiite Muslim community in Trinidad & Tobago, provided religious instruction and operational support to a group plotting to commit a terrorist attack at JFK Airport," the Department of Justice (DOJ) explained. He was tried in May 2011, but arrested in 2006.
The imam suggested that the plotters in New York City -- which included a naturalized U.S. citizen who had worked at the airport, DOJ said -- attempt to recruit Iranian suicide bombers. (The CIA says that 89 percent of Iranians subscribe to the Shiite tradition of Islam.)
"On one of the recorded conversations entered into evidence," DOJ related in the announcement, "Ibrahim told [another conspirator] that the attackers must be ready to 'fight it out, kill who you could kill and go back to Allah.'"
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