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A doctor testified yesterday that electroshock therapy might be an effective treatment for a depressed man accused of plotting a terror attack at Kennedy Airport.

Kareem Ibrahim, 65, who is awaiting trial for allegedly planning to blow up aviation-fuel pipelines at JFK, has been refusing to eat, and his weight has plummeted to 114 pounds.

At a court hearing yesterday, Dr. Karl Bernhard, a federal prison-hospital physician, testified that Ibrahim was suffering from “self-inflicted starvation and dehydration.”

The doctor told Judge Dora Irizarry in Brooklyn federal court that “electro-convulsive therapy” might be one way to treat Ibrahim’s continual depression, resistance to eat or drink, and “oppositional behavior disorder.”

“Mr. Ibrahim is not going along with the program in general,” Bernhard testified.

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