JFK plot defendants head to U.S.

(CNN) - Three men accused last year of a plot to bomb New York's John F.
Kennedy International Airport were headed to the United States late Tuesday
after their fight against extradition from Trinidad and Tobago was rejected by
an appeals court there, Trinidad and U.S. officials said.

Kareem Ibrahim, Abdul Kadir and Abdel Nur are accused of a plot to blow
up fuel lines and tanks at the airport. They were jailed in Trinidad and Tobago
while a fourth defendant, Russel DeFreitas, already has pleaded innocent in New
York.

A Trinidad and Tobago judge ordered the three to be extradited last
February, but it was delayed until this week when the appeals judge rejected
their appeal on a technicality, said David West an attorney in the office of
the Trinidad and Tobago Attorney General.

The appeals judge ruled the defendants filed their arguments "out of
time," and their lawyers had not filed papers to explain why so "the judge had
no choice but to strike out their appeal," West said.