TWO
sons of United States (U.S.) terror plot accused Abdul
Kadir appeared before Principal Magistrate
Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday, charged with unlawful
possession of ammunition.
Twenty-nine-year
old Kareem Kadir and and his brother, Iqra Kadir, 25, of
Lot 95 Riverside Drive, Watooka, Linden, pleaded not
guilty to the charge which said, on June 10, they had one
7.62 x 39 round at their home, without being the holders
of firearm licences.
Police
Inspector Desiree Fowler, prosecuting, successfully
objected to bail for the siblings and they were remanded
to prison until June 19.
The
Prosecutor said, when Police carried out the search at
their residence last Sunday, only the two brothers were
there and the bedroom in which the ammo was found was wide
open while the duo had full control of the entire
premises.
Attorney-at-law
Mr. James Bond, who made an unsuccessful application for
the Kadirs’ pre-trial freedom, said the elder brother is
a manager of a Linden consultancy firm and the younger
graduated from the University of Guyana (UG last November
with a degree in Chemistry and is waiting on overseas
scholarship offers to further his studies.
Bond
said the defendants have strong ties both to Linden and
the Muslim community and the room from where the single
bullet was taken, usually occupied by 14 persons, was
previously searched but nothing of the sort was uncovered.
Defence
Counsel claimed that, when Police ranks first went to the
house, they had warrants but had none on the second
occasion.
Bond
said, because they were the most vocal in standing up for
their rights, the two were arrested and kept at Brickdam
Police Station since last Sunday.
Meanwhile,
their relatives gathered with others in the Court
precincts shouting various remarks in support of the
Kadirs and their father, ex-People’s National Congress
Reform (PNCR) Parliamentarian Abdul Kadir, who is being
held in Trinidad.
Some
of the supporters shouted:“Kadir is not a terrorist!”
“I don’t know why they’re treating Kadir’s
children like that.” “The FBI take the AK-47 bullet
and put it there, cause they didn’t find nothing the
first time.”
The
wife of the older Kadir brother, Petal Kadir, on hearing
that her husband was sent on remand, broke down in tears
outside the courtroom and sat on the roadway while being
consoled by another woman.
His
two sons were arrested Sunday while former Linden Mayor
Kadir’s house was being raided also by agents of the
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI).
The
father is jointly charged with other Guyanese Abdel Nur,
Guyana-born U.S. citizen Russell DeFreitas and Trinidadian
Kareem Ibrahim, with plotting to blow up fuel tanks at
John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.
Thursday,
June 14, 2007
