New York ( CNN ) -- A former Guyana parliament member was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after he was convicted of plotting to detonate explosives at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York . Abdul Kadir is one of four people who faced charges in a 2007 plot to explode fuel tanks and the fuel pipeline under the airport , according to a statement from the U.S. Eastern District Court of New York . `` The sentence imposed on Abdul Kadir sends a powerful and clear message , '' U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said . `` We will bring to justice those who plot to attack the United States of America . '' A federal jury convicted Kadir and co-conspirator Russell Defreitas in July after a nine-week trial , the statement said . Defreitas , former JFK cargo worker , was found guilty on all six counts : conspiring to attack a public transportation system , to destroy a building or other real property by fire or explosive , to attack aircraft and aircraft materials , to destroy or damage international airport facilities and to attack a mass transportation facility ; and surveillance of a mass transportation facility . Kadir was found guilty on five counts but not guilty of surveillance of a mass transportation facility . His attorney , Kafahni Nkrumah , was not immediately available for comment . A third defendant , Abdul Nur , pleaded guilty in June to providing material support to terrorists ; a fourth man , Kareem Ibrahim , faces the same charges as Defreitas and Kadir , the statement said . Prosecutors have said the men tapped into an international network of Muslim extremists to develop the plot and start work toward carrying it out . A criminal complaint accused the men of obtaining satellite photos of the airport and using DeFreitas to conduct surveillance and identify potential targets and escape routes . An informant secretly taped conversations in which DeFreitas described the symbolic importance of targeting JFK , the complaint says .
Former Guyana parliament member convicted of plotting to blow up airport fuel tanks . He was found guilty of five counts in July . `` We will bring justice '' to those who target U.S. , attorney says .