PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC):

A high-court judge will, on February 18, rule whether or not three men charged with conspiracy to blow up buildings and pipelines at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York should be extradited to the United States.

Justice Nolan Bereaux is to rule on the habeas corpus/judicial review brought by Trinidadian Kareem Ibrahim, 62, and Guyanese nationals, Abdel Nur, 57, and Abdul Kadir, 55, who have been charged with plotting to blow up the airport.

Last August, Chief Magistrate Sherman McNicolls ordered that the three men be extradited but they were granted leave by Justice Charmaine Pemberton to challenge the extradition.