New York ( CNN ) -- Trinidad native Kareem Ibrahim was convicted Thursday of conspiring to detonate fuel tanks and a fuel pipeline at New York 's John F. Kennedy International Airport , according to a statement from the U.S. Eastern District Court of New York . Ibrahim was one of three men arrested in the 2007 plot , after a government informant infiltrated the group and taped its conversations , and he now faces the possibility of life behind bars . Co-conspirators Abdul Kadir and Russell Defreitas earlier received life sentences in the plot . The leader of the Shiite Muslim community in Trinidad and Tobago , Ibrahim provided religious and operational support to the men plotting the attack , according to prosecutors . In one recorded conversation he advised that the men must be ready to `` fight it out , kill who you could kill and go back to Allah . '' Defreitas , who authorities say was the mastermind behind the plan , had extensive knowledge of the JFK Airport where he worked as a cargo handler and in 2006 recruited Ibrahim , Kadir and Abdel Nur to join him in the plot . According to the statement from U.S. Eastern District Court of New York , Ibrahim `` believed the attack would cause extensive damage to the airport and to the United States economy , as well as the loss of innocent lives . '' The specific charges Ibrahim was convicted of were conspiracy to attack a public transportation system , conspiracy to destroy a building by fire or explosive , conspiracy to attack aircraft and aircraft materials , conspiracy to destroy international airport facilities and conspiracy to attack a mass transportation facility , the statement said . Last August , Defreitas and Kadir were convicted by a federal jury in New York . Defreitas was found guilty on all six counts against him : 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 of the counts , but not guilty on the count of surveillance of mass transportation facility . In response to the decision in Ibrahim 's case Thursday , U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch said in a statement , `` In pursuit of a radical terrorist agenda , bent on the destruction of John F. Kennedy Airport and the murder of innocent civilians , Imam Kareem Ibrahim abandoned the true tenets of his religion . '' `` We will continue to seek out and bring to justice all those who plot to attack the United States and its people , '' she added . Nur pleaded guilty last June to providing material support to a terrorist conspiracy and was sentenced to 15 years in prison .
Mohammed Omar Ibrahim was convicted of planning to blow up JFK airport . Ibrahim now faces the possibility of life in prison . He was arrested in 2007 ; two co - defendants already had life sentences .