New York (CNN) -- Two guys have been convicted Monday of plotting explosions at John F. Kennedy Intercontinental Airport.

Russell Defreitas and Abdul Kadir were being accused of conspiring to blow up JFK's jet-fuel supply tanks and pipeline in 2007.

Defreitas was discovered accountable on all six counts against him: conspiring to invasion a public transport technique, to destroy a constructing or other genuine property by fire or explosive, to strike aircraft and aircraft components, to destroy or destruction global airport facilities and to breach a mass transport facility, and surveillance of the mass transport facility.

Kadir was discovered responsible on 5 in the counts, but not accountable within the count of surveillance of mass transport facility.

DeFreitas is often a United States citizen and former JFK cargo worker. Kadir is often a citizen of Guyana who has served as being a member of parliament there.

A third defendant, Abdul Nur, pleaded responsible in June to supplying material assistance to terrorists. Nur can be from Guyana.

Prosecutors have reported the males tapped into an worldwide network of Muslim extremists to create the plot and start off perform toward carrying it out.

A criminal complaint accused the gentlemen of acquiring satellite pictures with the airport and working with DeFreitas to carry out surveillance and identify possible targets and escape routes.

An informant secretly taped conversations through which DeFreitas allegedly described the symbolic significance of targeting JFK, the complaint says.

"Anytime you strike Kennedy, it may be the most hurtful factor towards United States," he allegedly mentioned, in accordance with the complaint. "If you strike that, this full nation shall be in mourning. It is like you kill the man twice."

All 3 guys are already in U.S. custody for that past two many years following a court in Trinidad and Tobago rejected their make an effort to keep away from extradition.

New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has stated officials were definitely concerned not just about a achievable assault within the airport, but additionally about an invasion for the 40-mile aviation energy pipeline that runs from a energy tank farm at JFK by way of Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens.

CNN's Hussein Saddique, Susan Candiotti, Julian Cummings and Nkechi Nneji contributed to this report