The FBI has arrested three Muslims, and a fourth was being sought, for planning a major terrorist attack at JFK International Airport in New York. The terrorists were planning to sabotage a gas line that runs from a plant in Linden, New Jersey, directly to the airport, either blowing it up or otherwise using the gas to explode buildings in the airport. The line is the main jet fuel supply feeding the airport. “The damage that would have been caused would have been unthinkable,” a Justice Department official said.

The suspects were Muslim immigrants to Guyana and the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago. Officials at a news conference Saturday in New York did not reveal where the immigrants had come from, but said that the plot had been discovered as part of an FBI investigation into a major international Muslim terror plot discovered in January 2006.