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Trinidadians Josh Phagoo, 13, Joel Phagoo, 21, and cousin Amit Sinanan, 13, amateur fishermen, exposed US security lapses when they accidentally found themselves on the runway of JFK International Airport in New York on Sunday. They were photographed at their home in east New York, Brooklyn, by EDWINE SEYMOUR. Guardian Exclusive Lost Trinis give JFK cops a scare BY LISA ALLEN-AGOSTINI Three young Trinidadian fishermen gave JFK International Airport police a shock when they turned up at the Port Authority Police Station, after wandering around on the major international airport’s runways for more than an hour on their own. “It...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, June 9 — One senior member of this island’s most hard-line Islamic group said he loves American television and hopes to send his son off to university in the States. Another said that when he is not praying or preaching, he plays in a steel drum band. Denying that their group, Jamaat al Muslimeen, was tied to any plot to bomb a New York City airport, members this week portrayed themselves as both Islamists and islanders, devoted to God but also part of the multicultural mix that defines the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago.Even as...