Nationwide News understands that the radical leader of the Trinidad and Tobago-based Muslim group Jamaat Muslimeen, Yasin Abu Bakr, is in Police custody in Jamaica.
Abu Bakr was this afternoon detained at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston.
Abu Bakr has been on the radar of international law enforcement officials for several months.
He was detained after he arrived on a Caribbean Airlines Flight from T-and-T.
Nationwide News understands that shortly after 11- this morning, Jamaica’s national security officials issued an order that the Jamaat leader be taken into custody immediately upon his arrival in Kingston.
Local law enforcement and immigration officials reportedly were waiting for him at Norman Manley, anticipating Abu-Bakr’s arrival just after midday.
A security source told us – Bak’r will not be given free entry to Jamaica as he’s considered a clear security risk.
When he arrived and was detained, Bakr reportedly protested loudly.
He was arrested and taken to an unknown location.
Yasin Abu Bakr catapulted Trinidad and Tobago into the spotlight in 2007 when he was identified as one of the suspects linked to an alleged plot to attack New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Abu Bakr denied the claim and has to date been able to avoid prosecution.
His group has also been linked to former Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi staged and led the violent and bloody attempted coup in Trinidad and Tobago in1990.
Abu Bakr, is a former policeman who converted to Islam while a student in Canada. He later returned to Trinidad and founded the Jamaat group.
On December 4, 2006, he was found not-guilty for conspiring to murder two expelled Jamaat al Muslimeen members.
To date he remains one of the most polarizing figures in Trinidad politics.
Our sources say he’s to spend tonight in Police custody in Jamaica.
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