PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) – Two men held in an alleged plot to attack New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport scoffed at the accusations Monday as they prepared to fight extradition to the U.S.

Abdel Nur and Kareem Ibrahim spoke briefly to The Associated Press as police escorted them along with a third suspect into court in downtown Port-of-Spain, where a judge was scheduled to hold a hearing to decide if there is enough evidence to send them to America to face conspiracy charges.

“It’s false,” Mr. Nur told AP. “It’s a setup. It’s big setup by the drug dealers.”

Mr. Nur, who is from Guyana, was apparently referring to a confidential informant, a convicted drug dealer who taped conversations in which the suspects allegedly plotted to blow up a fuel pipeline that runs through residential neighborhoods and supplies the airport.

He underscored his point with a white T-shirt that proclaimed “No Extradition by Entrapment” in black writing on the back.

Mr. Ibrahim, who is from Trinidad, said of the allegations: “It’s a movie.”

The third suspect, Abdul Kadir, smiled but said nothing as he entered the Caribbean country’s colonial Magistrate’s Court, which was guarded by about half a dozen police.

The three men were arrested in Trinidad in June, when American authorities announced they were part of an alleged Muslim terror cell led by an American citizen Russell Defreitas, a Guyana native who worked as a cargo handler at the airport until 1995. Defreitas is in custody in New York.

The American indictment charged the four with conspiring to “cause death, serious bodily injury and extensive destruction” at the airport.

Mr. Defreitas has not yet entered a plea to the charges and his lawyer has asked for a psychological evaluation.

Authorities alleged the plotters unsuccessfully sought support in Trinidad from Jamaat al Muslimeen, a radical Islamic group that staged a deadly coup attempt here in 1990. The leader of the Trinidadian group, however, has denied any link to the alleged plot.