Abdul Kadir, a Guyanese who formerly served as a lawmaker in Guyana, was on Wednesday jailed for life by a federal judge in the Southern District of New York in Brooklyn.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Kadir tried to persuade the judge to impose a lighter sentence by stating that he was a peace-loving man who never wanted to harm Americans.
The JFK cargo handler, who was a People’s National Congress parliamentarian in the Co-operative Republic, was found guilty on August 2, along with Russel De Freitas, a co-worker, after a month long trial, for plotting to blow up fuel tanks at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
Federal agents arrested the two men and another after an informant infiltrated the terror plot and recorded them discussing it. Prosecutors contended that the men sought to help militant Muslims.
According to reports from Georgetown on Wednesday night, Kadir’s daughter, Sauda, told newsmen that her father planned to appeal since he did not get a fair trial.
