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The news media reports:
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/plo...809340644.html
Mark Coultan Herald Correspondent in New York and agencies
June 4, 2007
IT WAS a plot worthy of a disaster movie. Destroy New York's largest airport in a dastardly explosion.
......Defreitas, who sells books on street corners and exports broken air-conditioners to Guyana, was arraigned in a Brooklyn court and denied bail........
.....But experts cast doubt on the practicalities of the plot. The airport is fed by a series of pipelines which supply jet fuel and heating oil. In many cases the pipes are under the tarmac and are laid to the gates where planes park.
Sabotaging one part of the system would be highly unlikely to lead to a chain explosion. Also jet fuel does not produce an explosive force unless it is under pressure or vaporised. The pipelines and tanks have safety valves, which would contain any mishap......
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....but a representative of the US GOJ told us:
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http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi...7/06_03-98/TOP
Authorities: 'Unthinkable' devastation possible in JFK plot
By ADAM GOLDMAN, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) _ Federal authorities said a plot by a suspected Muslim terrorist cell to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport, its fuel tanks and a jet fuel artery could have caused "unthinkable" devastation.
....."The devastation that would be caused had this plot succeeded is just unthinkable," U.S. Attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf said at a news conference, calling it "one of the most chilling plots imaginable."......
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It was reported that the terrorist "plotters", after 18 months of FBI surveillance, had no funds, and no explosives, and that the method of the planned "attack" was not technically feasible.
The "ringleader", Defreitas, was a retired JFK airport "baggage handler" who it was reported, had only "obsolete" knowledge of former, less stringent security procedures at the airport. I posted above, that he is reported to have been selling books on street corners and exporting "broken air conditioners" to Guyana.
Air conditioners and refigerators are heavy....expensive to ship because of their weight. Room air conditioners for large rooms that require cooling capacity of 10,000 BTU, have come down in price in recent years to sell now for about $200.
How do the economics "work" to make any argument that exporting "broken" air condtioners and refrigerators from NYC to Guyana, seem reasonable?
Does this seem like a description of a "mastermind", to you?:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/ny...gewanted=print
......One friend of Mr. Defreitas’s expressed shock at word that he had been arrested in a plot to attack Kennedy Airport. The friend, Trevor Watts, 65, described Mr. Defreitas as not dangerous.
“He’s not that type of person,” Mr. Watts said after learning of Mr. Defreitas’s arrest. “He’s not smart enough.”
Mr. Watts said he first met Mr. Defreitas years ago, when both men lived on Albany Avenue in Brooklyn. Mr. Defreitas was working at Kennedy Airport at the time. His brother helped him land the job there, filling out his job application for him because Mr. Defreitas had trouble reading, Mr. Watts said.
Mr. Defreitas had been divorced and lost touch with his two children, Mr. Watts said. After leaving his Albany Avenue apartment, he moved from place to place and was homeless for a time, his friend said.
He also lived alone for several years in an apartment on North Conduit Avenue, near the airport. The daughter of his landlord described him yesterday as a “polite man” who always paid his rent on time. When he finally ended up leaving, he told the landlord that the weather was rough on his health and the cold was tough on his arthritis, the daughter said.
Mr. Defreitas was always thinking of ways to make money, Mr. Watts said. He had been in a car accident, and he spoke to Mr. Watts about his hopes of getting rich by winning a lawsuit. He sold books on a street corner in Queens and would ask his friends to give him their broken air-conditioners and refrigerators. He shipped the items to his girlfriend’s sister in Guyana so she could repair and sell them, Mr. Watts said.
After coming home from a series of trips to Guyana, Mr. Defreitas started dressing in traditional Muslim clothes and referred to himself as Mohammed, said Mr. Watts, an auto mechanic.
Mr. Watts said Mr. Defreitas appeared to have adopted his fundamentalist beliefs only in recent years. He had previously embraced American culture, Mr. Watts said, and liked a particularly American brand of music, jazz, especially the saxophone.........
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How is the cost to the US DHS and DOJ for "monitoring", for 18 months, and now incarcerating these "folks", to be justified.
Doesn't the actual "plot" seem more like symptoms of a mental health issue...as have ALL of the other "terror plots" announced in the last few years......to be tackled by healthcare authorities, assigned much earlier in the "investigation, than it does a headline grabbing example of the "danger" faced by US residents and an ever vigil, ever capable "mass" of "Homeland Secuirty", "professionals"?
Doesn't it seem like federal and local "authorities" are deliberately attempting to persuade us to "fear" unfounded "threats"?