Updated and bumped: Fox News is reporting that Abdel Nur, the fourth JFK terror plotter who was at large in Trinidad, has surrendered (hat tip: Allah).

Details:

Guyanese suspect in an alleged plot to attack New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport surrendered to police Tuesday in Trinidad, a police official said.

Abdel Nur turned himself in at a police station outside the Trinidadian capital of Port-of-Spain, police spokeswoman Wendy Campbell told The Associated Press.

In an odd twist, Nur is the uncle of former world welterweight boxing champion Andrew “Six Heads” Lewis, arguably Guyana’s most famous citizen.

Monday, Lewis called his uncle a good Muslim and said he couldn’t believe his uncle was involved in the plot. “It must be the wrong person,” he said incredulously during an interview here. “My uncle was never into terrorism. He condemned the World Trade Center attacks.”

…A neighbor of Nur’s in Georgetown told The Associated Press that Nur had referred to Americans as “oppressors.” Lewis said while Nur was upset over the U.S. invasion of Iraq, he “was never out for blood.”

Nur, 57, lived in Brooklyn and Toronto in the 1980s before being deported for a drug-related violation, Lewis said. He said Nur visited nearby Trinidad last month, but rarely traveled.

The NYPost lambastes the NYTimes for downplaying the JFK terror plot:

Terror plot? What terror plot?

That’s what The New York Times seems to be asking, even as most news outlets are giving front-page coverage to the recently foiled scheme to blow up JFK Airport’s fuel pipeline.

The paper’s goal seems to be getting America to lower its guard - which can only lead to disaster.

The suspects were “Short on Cash / And a Long Way From Realizing Goals,” one Times headline insisted yesterday. Regarding two of the men arrested, a second headline asserted that “Neither Seemed an Extremist.”

Indeed, on Sunday the paper barely covered the arrests of three suspects behind the plot: Its main story appeared 37 pages back…

… Let’s be clear here: The “paper of record” isn’t guilty of merely poor news judgment. It’s got an agenda.

Numerous newspapers understood the gravity of a plot against New York by terrorist upstarts from a seemingly unlikely part of the world - the Caribbean, just a few hours from U.S. shores. The Washington Post, for example, put the story on its front page Sunday.

Nor is the Times’ coverage of this story a quirk: The paper has downplayed several other terror cases because the plotters were “merely” in the “talking” stage. Last month, after the Fort Dix Six case came to light, the paper ran a piece called “Informer’s Role Draws Praise and Questions” - casting doubt on “the legitimacy of the investigations” because of the role of an FBI informer.

None of that should matter.

The point is, an unknown number of ruthless actors around the world - some in our backyard - continue to emerge and threaten the nation.

Add NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg to the gathering of ostriches. According to WCBS, he said this:

While questions continue to arise about the alleged plot to blow up a fuel pipeline beneath JFK Airport and surrounding neighborhoods, some are questioning why New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg hasn’t had a louder voice since the plot was foiled on Saturday.

On Monday, Bloomberg finally weighed in, but his response was not what some would have expected.

“There are lots of threats to you in the world. There’s the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can’t sit there and worry about everything. Get a life,” he said.

That “What, me worry?” attitude pretty much sums up Bloomberg’s advice to New Yorkers on the terror plot. As far as he was concerned, the professionals were on it, so New Yorkers shouldn’t let it tax their brains.

“You have a much greater danger of being hit by lightning than being struck by a terrorist,” he added.

And go here for one more shameless ostrich whose big, empty head is buried somewhere other than the sand. Like so many of the jihad-denying nutroots…

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Reader Gregg H. sends along an old Dr. Seuss cartoon with timeless relevance:

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