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PORT OF SPAIN - A fourth suspect in what US authorities said was a plot to blow up New York's JFK International Airport surrendered to police today in Trinidad and Tobago, officials in the Caribbean island state said.
A senior police official said Abdel Nur of Guyana, the only one of four suspects who was still at large, turned himself in shortly after midday (1600 GMT) at a police station in Diego Martin in western Trinidad.
US authorities have said Nur belonged to Jamaat al Muslimeen, a Muslim group behind a 1990 coup attempt in Trinidad.
His surrender came a day after Trinidadian Police Commissioner Trevor Paul said Nur was considered armed and dangerous and appealed for all citizens to be on the lookout for him. His photograph, showing a thin black man with a salt-and-pepper beard, was issued to the news media.
Nur is the uncle of Andrew "Sixhead" Lewis, Guyana's first professional boxing champion.
"I never knew him as a person who would be a terrorist," Lewis, who won the WBA welterweight title in 2001, told the Guyana daily Kaieteur News on Monday.
Two other men accused of plotting the airport attack were arrested in Trinidad and Tobago over the weekend. Abdul Kadir, a citizen of Guyana and former member of its parliament, and Kareem Ibrahim, a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, made their initial appearance in the capital of the twin-island nation on Monday.
Another suspect, Russell Defreitas, is a US citizen and native of Guyana.
He was arrested in New York and US authorities have said he was a former airport employee who conducted surveillance for the group, identifying targets and escape routes.
As with other similar recent cases in the United States, authorities have acknowledged the plot was more "aspirational" than operational, and was nipped in the bud by law enforcement agencies before it got off the ground.
- REUTERS
