By Gordon French
Caribbean Net News Guyana Correspondent
Email: gordon@caribbeannetnews.com
GEORGETOWN, Guyana: A team from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which arrived Saturday, is working with Guyana police to delve deeper into the alleged plot to blow up fuel supply pipelines at the John F. Kennedy Airport. Investigators are now seeking the whereabouts of several associates of the three Guyana-born men accused of planning the attack, but refused to give those names.
“We continue to support the work of the FBI team and so far several searches have been conducted, but it would be improper to give details of what those searches have revealed,” police spokesman, John Sauers said on Tuesday.
The plot involved JFK cargo worker, Russell Defreitas, a US citizen and native of Guyana, along with Abdul Kadir, a former Member of Parliament in Guyana, Kareem Ibrahim of Trinidad, and Abdel Nur, another Guyanese.
Kadir, Nur and Defreitas are in Trinidad and Tobago awaiting extradition hearing after being refused bail on Monday.
On one of the searches at Kadir’s Linden home, investigators found a single round of ammunition for a high-powered rifle and took away several documents. Kadir’s two sons were arrested and were refused bail Tuesday, when they appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle on an illegal ammunitions charge.
Iqra and Kareem Kadir pleaded not guilty to charges and were remanded to prison. Attorney for the two, James Bond told the court that on a previous search local police failed to find any incriminating evidence, yet on last Sunday’s search with the FBI they found the single ammunition.
He added that the police were wrong to charge his clients since the home is shared with 14 other persons. Police prosecution argued that the men were unlicenced to be in possession of the ammunition.
Family members are alleging that police are deliberately targeting them and may have planted the single round. |
