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Three people were arrested and one other was being sought Saturday in connection to a plan to set off explosives in a fuel line that feeds John F. Kennedy International Airport and runs through residential neighborhoods, officials close to the investigation said.

The plot, which never got past the planning stages, did not involve airplanes or passenger terminals, according to the two officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the arrests had not yet been announced.

Law enforcement officials said the plot may have involved a former airport worker, as well as a former Guyanese goverment official, according to WNBC-TV NewsChannel4Â’s Jonathan Dienst, who first reported the story.

Details were to be given out at a 1 p.m. news conference.

The pipeline takes fuel from a facility in Linden, N.J., to the airport. Other lines service LaGuardia Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport.

The arrests mark the latest in a series of homegrown terrorism plots that targeted high-profile Amerian landmarks.

Say what you will about the Bush Administration, it has certainly done a successful job of stopping terrorist attacks in this country by taking them seriously and running down every lead. Too bad the Clinton Administration didn't do the same following the 1993 WTC bombing -- if they had, 9/11 would never have happened.

Question -- how long until we start hearing Dems tell us this was not a serious plot, that this unfairly stigmatizes Muslims, and that the plot is all Bush's fault anyway?

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