Posted on 06/17/2007 2:56:45 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Saudia Kadir Was Arrested On An Unrelated Weapons Possession Charge
(CBS/AP) GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The daughter of a man accused of plotting to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport fuel lines is free on U.S. $50 bond following her unrelated detention on suspicion of weapons possession.
Sauda Kadir told The Associated Press early Sunday that police detained her after they saw photos taken last Christmas showing family members posing with toy guns. Kadir, 31, said she did not know how police obtained the pictures and declined further comment.
She was ordered to appear Tuesday at police headquarters for further questioning.
Sauda's father, Abdul Kadir, was arrested earlier this month in Trinidad and Tobago and is one of four men accused of participating in a Muslim terror cell that planned to blow up a jet fuel artery feeding the New York airport.
Sauda Kadir is an assistant superintendent of national examinations at the Guyanese education ministry and studied Islamic theology in Iran.
Police detained her the same week they charged her two brothers, Kareem and Iqra Kadir, with illegal possession of ammunition. Both brothers are in jail without bond and are expected to have a hearing Tuesday regarding accusations of possessing a rifle round at their home, which local police and the FBI recently searched. Sauda Kadir does not live with them.
The men have pleaded not guilty. Relatives have said that previous searches yielded nothing and accused detectives of planting evidence, charges that police spokesman John Sauers has denied.
The elder Kadir, a former opposition legislator in Guyana, is being held in Trinidad with two other men until a hearing on a U.S. request for their extradition.
Family members said that, Sauda Kadir an employee of the Ministry of Education was at work yesterday around 2 pm when she was invited to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) by the police for questioning in relation to the photo she is allegedly in posing with guns.
Stabroek News was told that during questioning by the police Sauda Kadir insisted that the gun was a toy gun and that the picture was taken last year Christmas.
She reportedly told the police that they were playing at the time. Relatives said that their lawyers have been contacted on the matter and legal representation would be made for Sauda
At the house they reportedly found the 7.62 round and also seized two computers. Stabroek News was told that the FBI agents have been provided with other materials local police had seized at the homes of Kadir, Abdel Nur and Russell Defreitas, the others accused in the terror plot.
Several other Guyanese were referred to but not named in US court documents seen by this newspaper. Stabroek News was told that FBI agents would have been keen on tracking down some of these people.
Khan told the court that the pictures were found in Kadir’s ‘thumb drive’ when he was arrested at the Piarco Airport two Saturdays ago. The lawyer also said Kadir had ties with militants abroad and accused him of volunteering to finance trips of the other plotters to the US.
He said Kadir was the one who discussed meeting and involving the radical Jamaat al Muslimeen group of Trinidad for financing and operational help.
n a telephone interview with Reuters, Kadir’s daughter, Inshirah, said, “We would like our dad to come home. He is not a terrorist.”
Kadir, a 55-year-old Shi’ite Muslim preacher, was a member of the South American country’s parliamentary opposition until August, when his party selected another candidate for election. A civil engineer by training, he had worked as a senior consultant to the Linmine bauxite company.
The U.S. indictment said Kadir was using his engineering know-how and images from Google Earth (earth.google.com) to plan the bombings. Kadir favored an early morning raid to minimize casualties, it said.
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What is the old Islamic saying? The family that blows crap up together, stays together.
Or something. The guy who was telling me all of the old stories blew him self up, and I never heard the rest.
From reading the headline I thought Caroline Kennedy had gone over to the dark side.
New generation never heard of Dallas, probably not even the Ewings.
From reading the headline I thought Caroline Kennedy had gone over to the dark side.
She did that years ago.
Isn't 7.62 the kind of bullets Al Queda uses?
Since when do Islamists practice Christmas?
Interesting, thanks.
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