Former Guyana legislator arrested in U.S. plot, defended at home

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Former Guyana legislator arrested in U.S. plot, defended at home
The Associated Press
Published: June 2, 2007

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Colleagues of a former opposition member of Guyana's parliament expressed disbelief Saturday that he could be involved in an alleged plot to attack New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Abdul Kadir, who authorities said was arrested in Trinidad as he prepared to board a flight to Venezuela, had never expressed extremist views or hatred of the United States, said James McAlister, who served with him in Guyana's parliament.

"He was a very principled and disciplined person," said McAlister, a fellow member of the opposition People's National Party. "He never aired any fundamentalist views or showed any such symptoms." ~snip~

Kadir, 55, served in the parliament until last year, when it was disbanded before general elections in the former Dutch and British colony on the north coast of South America. ~snip~

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/02/news/CB-GEN-Guyana-US-Terrorist-Plot.php

Kadir was a People's National Congress Reform party MP. Here's the party website and a sample article Treatment of Stabroek Market vendors inhumane from the website version of the party newspaper The New Nation

Speaker finds PNCR MPs Khan and Kadir in contempt for budget ruckus
Stabroek News
April 8, 2003

Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran has found PNCR parliamentarians, Jerome Khan and Abdul Kadir in contempt of the Assembly and expects the duo to "purge" themselves of this contempt at the first opportunity.

The Speaker also found a prima facie case had been made against a number of PNCR parliamentarians for their role in the disruption outside of, and the invasion of the Assembly during the national budget presentation on March 28. He has forwarded the issue to the Committee of Privileges of Parliament. PNCR MPs were not present in Parliament yesterday as they are boycotting the assembly and have been doing so for more than a year. ~snip~

http://www.landofsixpeoples.com/gynewsjs.htm

Parliamentary Sectoral Committee meets PM
Georgetown, GINA, Thursday, December 4, 2003

~snip~ The Luncheon interaction with the sectoral Committee is expected to wind-up the first phase of interaction with relevant Government officials.

Co-Chairman of the Committee, Abdul Kadir of the PNCR said so far, based on what the Committee has set out to do, the work has been going relatively smoothly, putting to rest allegations in some quarters, that the follow-up and implementation processes of the Communiqué signed between President Bharrat Jagdeo and Opposition Leader, Robert Corbin, are not working.

He said because the work of the Committee is information-driven, the first phase of this entails interacting with relevant members of Cabinet, to clarify and understand the scope and methodology of their work. Members of the Committee also gear the sessions to developing an understanding of Government's policies in the respective areas.

Having done this, Kadir said, the Committee will be better able from a knowledge-based perspective, to go on to the second phase of the Committee's mandate. ~snip~
http://www.gina.gov.gy/archive/daily/b031204.html

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

1. before everyone goes crazy...

Has it atleast been determined the plot these individuals are being accused of was even possible?

Because I am still having my tooth paste taken away following the Gatoraide bomb plot...

[DemoTex]

5. See my post here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1029576

[greenissexy]

2. Sigh

And Bush does yet even more to hurt our standing in the world. Arresting repsected leaders just because they're different from us really hurts us.

[TZ]

3. I am looking forward to talking to a good friend of mine..

who is Guyanese and whose father is currently residing there. Its not often this country makes international headlines....

[dave_p]

4. Sounds a load of crap

Even though the CIA helped bring its PNC predecessor to power in 1964 the PNCR's about as far removed from jihadism at you can be. Sounds like the guy once new someone who ended up on a suspect list. Or he's just too friendly with Iran for Washington loons. Being a leading Shia member of an overwhelmingly Christian and broadly secular party backed in office by the US for 28 years hardly makes him an ideal candidate for such nonsense. Watch this one drop like a stone.