A Guyanese man arrested earlier this week in St Maarten is wanted in connection with the alleged plot to blow up the JFK Airport in New York, media reports said yesterday. According to Thomson Financial out of The Hague, a fifth suspect was arrested over the alleged plot to blow up fuel tanks and pipelines at New York's John F. Kennedy International airport. It quoted Dutch media reports as saying that the unnamed man was the subject of an international warrant and had been arrested on Sint Maarten, the Dutch part of the island shared with France.
Last month, a court in New York charged Trinidadian Kareem Ibrahim and three men from Guyana, former parliamentarian Abdul Kadir, Russell Defreitas, who worked at the JFK airport terminal, and Abdel Nur, with plotting between January 2006 and June 2007 to bomb the airport. Public Relations Officer of the police service in St Maarten, Yohan Lenard yesterday confirmed to Stabroek News by phone that a Guyanese is sitting in their jail in relation to terrorism. "If you are asking if we have a man sitting in our cell who is a Guyanese in relation to some form of terrorism the answer is yes.
But to say how deep or what exactly it is I am not at liberty to say because it is not the local St Martin police who are in charge of the investigation," he told this newspaper. Lenard would also not divulge the name of the suspect and further stated that it is The Netherlands' Detective Cooperation Team (RST) which is in charge of the investigation. While there are officers from the RST in St Maarten the public relations officer said that the headquarters of that law enforcement arm is in The Netherlands. It was surmised that US authorities approached The Hague with information on the man.
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The Dawn of Islamic Europe
July 13, 2007
SNIP:
Many Muslims (and yes, that word is "many," not "a tiny minority") sympathize not only with the goals of the terrorists, but with their means. As Mr. Laqueur correctly notes, "26 percent of [British] Muslims interviewed felt no loyalty to Britain; 40 percent opted for introducing the laws of sharia in certain parts of Britain … 13 percent justified terrorist attacks Al Qaeda style and 47% supported suicide attacks such as in Israel."
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Egypt arrests group of suspected terrorists
July 14, 2007
CAIRO — Authorities have arrested 35 men described as members of an al-Qaeda inspired group that was planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Egypt, police said Saturday.
The suspects, all of whom are Egyptian, were secretly arrested in April and are currently being investigated by the State Security Court, said a police official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
The men are suspected of joining a radical group that aimed to topple the Egyptian regime and carry out terrorist attacks financed by a militant organization in Iraq affiliated with al-Qaeda, he added. They were captured in two groups, one in the country's northern Qalyoubiya province and the other in the southern Beni Suef province, the official said.
Police arrested the suspects after receiving a tip that the group was promoting its goals through its website, but the leader of the group fled to a neighboring country before the operation, according to the official.
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