Authorities Charge 4 in NYC Terror Plot | World Latest | Guardian Unlimited

Authorities Charge 4 in NYC Terror Plot | World Latest | Guardian Unlimited: "NEW YORK (AP) - Federal authorities announced Saturday they had broken up a suspected Muslim terrorist cell planning a ``chilling'' attack to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery that runs through populous residential neighborhoods.

Three men, one of them a former member of Guyana's parliament, were arrested and one was being sought in Trinidad as part of a plot that authorities said they had been tracking for more than a year and was foiled in the planning stages.

``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.''

In an indictment charging the four men, one of them is quoted as saying the foiled plot would ``cause greater destruction than in the Sept. 11 attacks,'' destroying the airport, killing several thousand people and destroying parts of New York's borough of Queens, where the pipeline runs underground." Read complete post here.