The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has upheld the convictions of two men who plotted to carry out acts of terrorism at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Abdul Kadir and Russell Defreitas were convicted in 2010 of a conspiracy that included surveillance of JFK and the videotaping of potential bombing targets, including fuel tanks and pipelines that, according to Defreitas, whose voice was captured on recordings, would destroy "the whole of Kennedy" and part of Queens when they exploded. The planned attack, he said, would be "worse than the World Trade Center."
The pair claimed trial errors by Eastern District Judge Dora Irizarry (See Profile) justified vacating their convictions and the life sentences they were given. But the circuit on May 31 rejected several arguments made by the pair, including that the use of a government expert to describe al Qaida and other terror groups should have been disallowed by Irizarry. The appeal in United States v. Kadir, 11-425, was decided by Judges John Walker Jr. (See Profile), Robert Sack (See Profile) and Richard Wesley (See Profile).
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