Iranian official kidnapped in Guyana
Sunday, April 4, 2004
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): Guyanese police
were Saturday searching for an Iranian official at an Islamic college who was
allegedly kidnapped in a hail of gunfire, police said Saturday.
Director of the International Islamic College of Advanced Studies (IICAS),
Muhammad Hassan Abrahemi, 35, was late Friday night dragged from his car as he
was about to leave the institute and shoved into a waiting car, witnesses
said. "We have a team, we have to question
some persons to try to get to the bottom of the matter and try to find the
gentleman and return him safely to his home," police chief Henry Greene told
AFP. Guyanese Islamic cleric, Roshan Khan,
who is closely associated with the IICAS, told AFP that he suspected Ibrahim
might have been kidnapped in connection with internal wrangling over the
ownership of the IICAS funded by Iranian Muslims.
Ismail Luqman, a spokesman for the IICAS, told reporters Saturday officials at
the college received no threats before the incident and have not heard from
the presumed kidnappers since it took place.
A US-trained anti-kidnapping squad has been deployed as part of efforts to
find Ibrahim.
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