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Date: June 6, 2007 2:56:32 PM PDT
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Subject: (2) Leader of "Terrorists" in "JFK Plot" Worked for "CIA
Airlines" Smuggling--
Saturday, June 02, 2007
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2007/06/more-on-jfk-airport-terror-
plot.html
More on the JFK airport terror plot (BIG update)
(I've added much to this account, and have taken the research into
areas visited by few other bloggers. Yes, it's a big, long, weird
story -- but I beg you to stay with it.)
An FBI informant was involved with the JFK airport terror plotters:
The plan was foiled with the help of an informant who recorded
conversations with the suspects as recently as last month.
But so far, we have no reason to believe that the informant
encouraged criminality, as has occurred in previous instances.
An initial report on CNN fleetingly suggested that the plot
actually concerned drugs in some way. Certain factors make the idea
intriguing -- after all, the story involves airport personnel who
have strange connections to the Caribbean. Stranger still, two of
the four accused, Russell Defreitas and Abdul Kadir, come from the
South American nation of Guyana.
Accused plotter Abdul Kadir, a former member of parliament in
Guyana (!), was on his way to an Islamic religious conference in
Iran. His daughter denies that he has any association with either
the other accused conspirators or with any anti-American activity.
However:
Kadir's wife, Isha, said that her husband was nabbed while boarding
a flight to Venezuela, where he planned to pick up a travel visa to
attend an Islamic religious conference in Iran. He had flown from
Guyana to Trinidad on Thursday.
That sort of travel has a cost. This guy is getting money from
somewhere. According to the Australian,
Authorities said Kadir and Nur were associates of Jamaat Al
Muslimeen, a Muslim group behind a 1990 coup attempt in Trinidad.
This Sunni group, led by former police officer Yasin Abu Bakr, is a
nasty bit of business with a long and continuing history of rape,
kidnapping and murder. So far, I've seen no evidence that Jamaat Al
Muslimeen is related to Al Qaeda. Keep in mind, as you read the
following, that Trinidad/Tobago has an ethnically diverse
population, and that less than ten percent of the citizens of that
island nation is Muslim.
Regarding that 1990 coup:
A court ruling, questioned by many as patently absurd on the facts,
upheld an amnesty agreement obtained during the incarceration of
parliament by the group. This led to the non-prosecution of its
members for this crime despite the contention that the fact that
guns and force were used to obtain said amnesty constituted duress.
Obviously, the court was paid off. Think money, think drugs, think
smuggling.
In many respects, the Jammat al-Muslimeen’s ideology and rhetoric
mirror that of militant Black ethno-nationalist movements,
including the most radical fringes of the Nation of Islam. Abu
Bakr’s supporters see him as a hero fighting for social justice.
Interestingly, although most Trinidadians did not support his 1990
coup attempt, many at the time agreed with the issues raised by the
Jammat during the crisis, especially impoverished Afro-
Trinidadians. At the same time, the Jammat is seen by many locally
as a well organized criminal empire involved in everything from
drug smuggling, money laundering, kidnapping for ransom, and
extortion, with Abu Bakr running the show.
(Emphasis added.) Interestingly, the arms for the 1990 coup came
from Florida. Paging Daniel Hopsicker!
Right now, I suspect this matter goes beyond any simplistic
scenarios of Bushco attempting to gin up a terror threat in order
to bolster his poll numbers.
I think these guys were involved with smuggling. I think CNN's
early whispered suggestion of "drugs" was right on the money.
Indeed, we can hardly come to any other conclusion -- after all,
we're talking about airport security personnel allying themselves
to a criminal group in control of a nation's illicit activities.
If my suspicions are correct, the FBI didn't need a terror tale to
shut down this operation. And that's intriguing.
Update: One of our commenters made a point which should have
occurred to yours truly. If Kadir belongs to a Sunni sect, why is
he attending a religious meeting in Iran, a Shi'ite country?
And why go to Iran through Venezuela?
(Second update: A reader says that Kadir was Shi'ite and that
Venezuela has the only direct flight to Iran; see the fourth
comment, below.)
We are told that this plot has been in the working for two years,
but Kadir was a member of the Guyanese parliament as recently as
last year.
This blogger and I are not sympatico politically (although I too am
a fan of good ol' Andy Jackson), but he has done some good digging.
He introduces us to a key Jammat al-Muslimeen lieutenant named
David Millard, who goes by the nomme de guerre of -- I'm not making
this up -- Buffy.
Buffy was not directly involved with the coup -- he was in New York
at the time -- but he was fingered for several mafia-like murders
in his home country. And just like the guys involved with the JFK
airport plot, Buffy tends to hop between Trinidad and Guyana.
How does he hook up with the JFK thing? Well, a year ago, Buffy was
nabbed by the Guyanese Defense Forces:
The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Thursday [ 4 May] night announced
that the man held in the raid in the continuing search for 30 AK-47
rifles and five pistols stolen from its Georgetown headquarters,
had identified himself as Mustafa Abdullah Muhammad, also known as
Edmund DeFreitas.
He has, however, now been identified as David Millard, well-known
in Trinidad as 'Buffy', who fled from New York after a shooting
incident and returned to Trinidad where he moved up the ranks of
the radical Jamaat Al Muslimeen group led by coup leader Abu Yasin
Bakr.
A top source yesterday said authorities are trying to find out how
Millard found his way here and acquired a Guyana passport in the
name of Edmund DeFreitas, recorded in the travel document as born
in March 1960 at Bartica in Guyana.
(Emphasis added.) He had used the name DeFreitas for years; the
name even appeared on his driver's license. Here's the interesting
part: One of the JFK terror suspects goes by the name of Russell
DeFreitas.
A mere coincidence of nomenclature? My "Spidey sense" indicates
otherwise.
So, what happened to Buffy after the Guyanese scooped him up? He
was investigated on arms charges -- something to do with a whole
bunch of missing AK-47s. According to one report, crack cocaine was
found at his residence, and he bragged about working as a
"bodyguard" for the local drug kingpin. The Guyanese brought the
United States FBI into the investigation:
The FBI assisted the GDF in conducting several polygraph
examinations and interviews and the investigation produced
additional leads that are being analysed by the FBI, the Joint
Services and other organisations here and in the U.S., the release
said.
(Emphasis added.) Then the Guyanese sent him to Trinidad to face
those pesky murder charges. He stayed in jail for a few months...
...then walked free last December!
So, what do we know?
1. Buffy had connections to still-mysterious organizations in the
United States.
2. He spent time in New York, home of the most recent terror plot.
3. He used fake ID with the name "DeFreitas," the same last name as
the leader of the alleged terror plot.
4. Both Russell and Buffy have links to Trinidad and Guyana.
5. Buffy has links to drug smuggling. For reasons given above, I
believe (but cannot yet prove) that the JFK "terror ring" was
originally a smuggling operation.
6. In the criminal complaint, the informant quotes Russell
DeFreitas as saying that the "brothers" from Trinidad and Guyana
will assist in the terror plot. I feel fairly safe in taking this
as a reference to Jamaat Al Muslimeen.
Did Russell DeFreitas know Buffy? Did the latter inspire the
former's pseudonym?
Frankly, the two look like they could be related, if the sketch is
anything to go by. Russell DeFreitas is 63, while Buffy's
"DeFreitas" ID lists a 1960 birthday.
Oh. I forgot one "fun fact":
When he was arrested Millard told Guyanese investigators that he
was an American citizen and had served in the US Army.
The Saturday Express was told that Millard did in fact serve in the
US Army but was deported from that country and is a Trinidadian
citizen.
Deported when? Served when?
In Guyana, Millard claimed to be a bodyguard to a local drug
kingpin, which arguably buttresses my surmise that this terror cell
was involved with smuggling. The criminal complaint here offers
some further clues, especially when you compare the information
about Russell DeFreitas' Guyana trip to the information given above
about Buffy's antics in that country.
Also worth noting: The FBI informant (known only as the Source in
the complaint) was -- you guessed it -- a convicted drug smuggler.
This background, it seems, is what endeared him to DeFreitas.
If you put it all together, you may agree that my major hypothesis
-- these guys were all about drugs -- is, if not proven, quite likely.
I realize that many visitors to this site want to see a simple
scenario: Bushco created a fake terror threat to buttress the
President's sorry poll numbers. I think that just such a scenario
has played out in the past -- but this ain't that.
Neither do I think that anything here redounds to Bush's credit.
One thing I'd like to know is just when the 63 year-old Russell
DeFreitas retired from his job. It would be terribly embarrassing
if the administration allowed a man with connections to Jamaat Al
Muslimeen to work as a baggage handler after September 11, 2001.
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