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NEW YORK (AP) — Three people were arrested and another was being sought Saturday for allegedly plotting to blow up a fuel line that feeds John F. Kennedy International Airport and runs through residential neighborhoods, authorities said.

The plot never got past the planning stages. It posed no threat to air safety or the public, the FBI said Saturday.

At a news conference, U.S. Attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf called it “one of the most chilling plots imaginable.”

“The devastation that would be caused had this plot succeeded is just unthinkable,” she said.

According to the Counterterrorism Blog the group that has been under investigation for this plot are associated with Jamaat-al-Muslimeen (JAM).

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Jamaat-al-Muslimeen (JAM) is a Trinidad & Tobago homegrown political/Muslim organization that was involved in a bloody (by Caribbean standards) coup attempt in 1990 that resulted in the death of 19 people. The leader, Abu Bakr, is still in T&T and is somewhat of a hot potato politically. He is known to spew some wild allegations and poses more of a threat to T&T via kidnappings and robberies than terrorist acts. He once claimed to have a nuclear device on the north end of T&T. Bakr (whose real name escapes me now) still appears in T&T news trying to enter the political arena. He has been linked to several deaths and kidnappings of former JAM members, some of whom have split from JAM and formed a spin off movement against Abu Bakr.

Many JAM members fled to Brooklyn in 1990 and started their own narcotics organizations when the coup failed. Obviously their adherence to Islam did not outweigh their greed. I always thought they were more of a gang then a dedicated extremist organization. Despite what maybe stated in today’s news, they do not have obvious direct links to al-Qeada. The only link maybe Adnan El-Shukri-Jumah, al-Qaeda’s operative who had distinct links to T&T and Guyana and may have been assisted by JAM members.

Guyana and Haiti have a significant extremist element with a particular Haitian Muslim having links to an Iranian backed cleric linked to the Tri-border area in South America.

JAM is not al-Qaeda, but should be watched closely, which the NY-JTTF does.

JAM is an islamic militant organization that has been fighting our Soldiers in Iraq. In simplistic terms they are the shia version of al-Qaeda who is sunni.

My concern is that people will look at this as just another one of those groups that plan to blow something up. Many don’t seem to take these foiled plots very seriously anymore.

JAM is not a little group of 10 or so people who have gotten together and decided to plan some kind of attention grabbing explosion. It is a well organized group that, like al-Qaeda, have been going into Iraq to fight our troops. They are well organized and have much the same goals as al-Qaeda.

They should most definitely be taken seriously.

Lawhawk at A Blog for All has updates and a lot of good information.

Captain’s Quarters, there are apparently ties to Germany.

Update at Michelle Malkin. JAM had been planning this attack since at least January 2006. She has the criminal complaint posted.

“One of the most chilling imaginable.” United States Attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf also added: “The devastation that would be caused had this plot succeeded is just unthinkable.”

Webloggin wonders about the way this is being reported - I was too actually. WHAT does ‘home-grown’ terrorists mean? Why is the press emphasizing that it’s not al-Qaeda. I think it’s false security to think that al-Qaeda is the only muslim terror group out there. But that’s what people think.

Wake UP America notices there are already conspiracy theories popping up on the leftist websites.

Girl on the Right has some insightful insights ….

Islam, the Religion of Peace, has sent forth a bunch more of their smite-all-Jews-and-infidels holy warriors in a plot to blow up the jet fuel lines at JFK. As a gesture of peace to their fellow man, no doubt.

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