Queens, NY – The Guyanese cargo handler who plotted to blow up fuel lines at JFK airport also had his eye on a Queens yeshiva, according to federal prosecutors.
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The airport employee, Russell Defreitas, 66, recorded audio and video tapes of his terrorist plot to blow up the airport and considered hitting targets in the surrounding neighborhood, including a Jewish school, according to the feds. Authorities declined to name the school.
Defreitas also confessed on tape to stealing cargo, identity theft and welfare fraud –as well as building and detonating bombs in Guyana, prosecutors say.
And the accused terrorist recorded conversations about a sexual assault charge brought against one of his four co-defendants, Abdel Nur, in Guyana, and how it affected the bomb plot.
Brooklyn federal prosecutors are looking to play these recordings to the jury during his upcoming trial.
the Queens yeshivos better be provided the name of which Yeshiva by the FBI. The fact that the Yeshivos wont demand to know is scary and quite frankly, dangerous.
Agreed. And please remember…all Yeshivas & institutions need to protect themselves: security cameras, alarms, secure doors & locks etc. Some can be funded through grants, esp. Homeland Security ( but it’s too late to apply for 2010.)
Who says the yeshivos won’t demand to know?
Idk anything but maybe it was chofetz chaim its the bigget one in queens and not far from an aran neighborhood
Satmer Queens Yeshiva have fully camres
Baruch Hashem, it’s entirely possible that we’ll never know which Yeshiva it was.
“considered hitting targets in the surrounding neighborhood”
Could be any one of the several Yeshivos in Far Rockaway.
It could have been a girls’ school too. “Yeshiva” can just mean any orthodox school especially in the media. For example, Central Girls High School is across the street from a mosque.
Who knew Queens has Yeshivos.
#7 – if chofetz chaim isn’t even the 2nd biggest yeshiva in queens, then what is? Its one of the top 5 biggest in the country! So how can you say its not 2nd biggest in queens?
Why don’t one of u geniuses make a list of the largest mosdos in the area as well as post their weak points on the internet along with an article about that…it can never come up in a search….morons
Are you really competing over which yeshiva is bigger/better?
Not the issue people….
Besides for Lakewood and Ner Yisroel, which yeshiva in the USA is bigger than Chofetz Chaim? Unless you include Brooklyn Yeshivos which have elementary schools (C.B. and T.V)
#12 — I learn in queens, and they don’t 🙂
#12 , now you know. Queens chinuch is as good as heilig Brooklyn and Lakewood if not better.