If this is a threat, I'm not impressed.

Thanks to MICHAEL POWELL and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM of The New York Times

Papers Portray Alleged JFK Plot as Mostly Talk
(June 4) - The plot as painted by law enforcement officials was cataclysmic: A home-grown Islamic terrorist had in mind detonating fuel storage tanks and pipelines and setting fire to Kennedy International Airport, not to mention a substantial swath of Queens.
“Had the plot been carried out, it could have resulted in unfathomable damage, deaths and destruction,” Roslynn R. Mauskopf, the United States attorney in Brooklyn, said in a news release that announced charges against four men. She added at a news conference, “The devastation that would be caused had this plot succeeded are just unthinkable.”

I don't know what explosives school or engineering program Roslynn graduated from, but I bet they hope she lied about attending those schools on her resume.
Jet fuel is only volatile under very specific conditions. It's designed that way. JFK was in very little danger from this type of attack.

Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly then stepped to the lectern with a vision only a bit less grim.

“Once again, would-be terrorists have put New York City in their crosshairs,” he said. Mr. Kelly said a disaster had been averted.
But the criminal complaint filed by the federal authorities against the four defendants in the case — one of them, Abdel Nur, remained at large yesterday — suggests a less than mature terror plan, a proposed effort longer on evil intent than on operational capability.

(Ms. Mauskopf noted in her news release that the “public was never at risk” and told reporters that law enforcement “had stopped this plot long before it ever had a chance to be carried out.”)

At its heart was a 63-year-old retired airport cargo worker, Russell M. Defreitas, who the complaint says talked of his dreams of inflicting massive harm, but who appeared to possess little money, uncertain training and no known background in planning a terror attack.
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Unlike Ms. Mauskopf(the name loosely translates to Mousehead), I am an engineer. In fact, I worked in the petrochemical industry. Within one mile of JFK there are some really juicy targets for terrorists, jet fuel ain't one of them.
However, one of the reasons I left my position in that industry, is the lip service given by our Govt to security. There is a lot of stuff not being protected properly during daily operations, let alone from a terrorist attack.
The Dept. of Homeland Simpletons do very little protecting and a lot of illegal spying.
This is a pitiful attempt to keep the fear level high amongst regular folks so they can't see the destruction of our Constitution and the rape of our economy.
There will be another successful terrorist attack in the US, but it's just possible that it will come from our Govt allowing the attack to succeed.

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