Convicted Trinidadian Terrorist Dies In US: Relatives

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Kareem Ibrahim, who was given a life sentence in the United States for conspiring to commit a terrorist act at the John F Kennedy International Airport, has died, his relatives and attorney have said.

Attorney Farid Scoon said, Ibrahim, 70, who “never took to incarceration” died from heart complications, on Tuesday, at the United States Medical Centre for Federal Prisoners in Missouri.

Kareem Ibrahim (File Photo).

“It is unfortunate, that an innocent man was convicted of a crime that he had absolutely no guilt, and had to spend the last winters of his life in a maximum security prison in the United States,” Scoon said.

Ibrahim was convicted, along with former Guyana legislator, Abdul Kadir, and Trinidad and Tobago national, Abdel Nur, of seeking to blow up the airport, by exploding fuel tanks and the fuel pipeline under the facility in 2007.

A federal jury convicted Ibrahim of multiple terrorist offences in May, 2011, after a four-week trial. Nur pleaded guilty before trial and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Scoon said, arrangements were being made by Ibrahim’s family to have the body returned here for burial.

Last month, the Trinidad and Tobago High Court deemed Ibrahim a terrorist, after the State invoked provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act 2005.

The Court also ordered all of Ibrahim’s assets, whether local or foreign, be frozen.