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JFK airport plot 'a US setup'

Port Of Spain - The four suspects in an alleged terror plot to bomb a
New York airport were set up in an elaborate plan by the US Republican
party to retain hold of the White House, the daughter of an arrested
suspect claimed on Tuesday.

Huda Ibrahiim, daughter of Amir Kareem Ibrahiim, one of four men accused
of plotting acts of terrorism against the United States, said US justice
officials had engaged in entrapment in breaking up the alleged plot.

Huda, 20, speaking on behalf of the Trinidad and Tobago and the Guyanese
Shi'ite Muslim community, read from a prepared statement in a press
conference at a hotel in Port Of Spain.

She said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant key to
breaking up the alleged plot had presented himself as an Islamic
missionary from the United States while visiting the homes of Abdul
Kadir and Amir Ibrahiim.

The FBI's informant, whom she called "the source", "is the only person
culpable of any of the activities mentioned in the complaint.

Intent to entrap

"The source visited our brothers with the specific intent to entrap them
in activities they know nothing about, never agreed to and did not
participate in," said Huda.

Her 62-year-old father, 56-year-old former Guyanese parliamentarian
Abdul Kadir, along with Russell De Freitas and Abdel Nur, both of
Guyanese heritage, allegedly plotted to blow up fuel-tank pipelines at
New York City's John F Kennedy International Airport.

Ibrahiim, a Trinidadian, and Kadir appeared in Trinidad court on Monday
while Nur gave himself up to local authorities on Tuesday. All three men
are facing extradition to the US where De Frietas has already been
arraigned.

"We believe that the persons responsible for the arrest of our brothers
are doing it for a purpose other than the protection of the people and
interests of the USA," Huda said.

"They have apparently done so in the interest of shoring up a lame duck
presidency and increasing the lame chances of the Republican party being
returned to power in November 2008", said Huda, whose father is a
retired government accounts clerk.

'Sure of their innocence'

She also said her father was afraid to fly, was not computer literate
and does not use the internet.

"We are absolutely sure of their innocence. Neither of these men and we
believe no one in our community participates in activities as those
alleged in the public statements or in the filed complaint of the
Department of Justice", she said.

As believers in Islamic Sharia, they followed the cardinal principles of
the Koran, she said, including the principle that the blood of civilians
is sacred.

"To our Muslim brothers and sisters we swear by Allah, the Lord of
Muhammad, that we have not participated in any terrorist plot against
the United States," she added.