Guyana finds pipeline plans in JFK suspect's home

GEORGETOWN, June 6 (Reuters) Guyanese police said they had found plans of pipelines in the home of Abdul Kadir, one of four men charged in a foiled plot to blow up fuel installations at New York's JFK International Airport.

Police Commissioner Henry Greene told Reuters yesterday he could not identify the type of pipeline shown, but said the plans ''look like engineering stuff.'' The US indictment said Kadir had used his training as a civil engineer to work out technical details of the bombing.

It added that Kadir, a Shi'ite Muslim imam, offered financing for the conspiracy and acted as an intermediary between the conspirators and the Jamaat Al Muslimeen, a Muslim extremist group behind a 1990 coup in Trinidad.

Kadir -- along with fellow suspect Kareem Ibrahim -- made his first court appearance in Trinidad and Tobago's capital Port of Spain on Monday. A family statement said he was innocent of the charges.

Kadir was a senior consultant to the Linmine bauxite company in the town of Linden, 65 miles (105 km) south of Georgetown.

He was an opposition member of parliament in the South American state until August last year and mayor of Linden between 1994 and 1996.

Greene said police had spoken to Kadir's wife. ''She denied any knowledge of the plot to blow up JFK or her husband's involvement,'' he told reporters.

She confirmed her husband knew Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr when Kadir attended the University of the West Indies in Trinidad but added they had not been in contact since then as Kadir is a Shi'ite Muslim while Abu Bakr's group is Sunni.

Greene also said police had removed a few documents from the Georgetown home of Abdel Nur, another Guyanese charged in the plot. Nur surrendered to police in Trinidad on Tuesday and protested his innocence.

Greene said his room in the Georgetown house was ''found insecure and appeared abandoned'' and that police were looking into a report that two men had removed clothes from the room the day before police searched it.

The police commissioner said security forces were ''not aware of any Muslim radical links in Guyana'' and that Guyanese police had put together a team to work with the United States on the case.

The fourth suspect, Russell Defreitas, a US citizen and native of Guyana, was arrested in New York.

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