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By Leonard GildarieThe United States said it is helping Guyana track down a suspected mastermind in a series of domestic terror attacks, despite local concerns Washington is doing little to help.US acting Charge d’Affaires in Guyana,Drew Bledsoe Patriots Jersey, Carol Horning,James White Patriots Jersey, on Saturday acknowledged that this country has requested information on last Wednesday’s incidents.“The request for information is with the Department of Justice and they are processing it,Brett Favre Packers Jersey,” she said.The statement of Horning was carried on an AFP story yesterday under the headline “US is helping Guyana track terror suspect: US official”.Yesterday,Heath Miller Steelers Jersey, the local US Embassy in Georgetown also acknowledged the statement of Horning.According to the report, Horning warned that the US first has to conduct due diligence and privacy procedures related to phone records.During a press conference last Thursday,Stephen Gostkowski Patriots Jersey, President Bharrat Jagdeo had said that investigators believed that someone in the US masterminded Wednesday’s attacks.The attacks saw a school and the High Court Registry firebombed,Ernie Stautner Steelers Jersey, and police stations damaged by gunfire.Investigators have reportedly made the link using telephone records, and according to President Jagdeo,LaDarius Gunter Packers Jersey, the telephone number in question had surfaced way back when Guyana was facing the “Buxton situation”.Expressing concern over the attacks, which also saw a vehicle hijacked on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway by gunmen posing as policemen and which left one man dead, the President warned that the security forces will “go after them with all the vigour and we will get these people.”According to Jagdeo,Ross Cockrell Steelers Jersey, the people involved in the attacks are “not ordinary criminals. They operate with high-powered weapons.”While it is believed that there are also local organizers, investigators are working on an angle that there is a foreign terrorist mastermind who lives in the US.Explaining, Jagdeo said that after the fire at the Ministry of Health, several people were charged and telephone records indicated that one of the suspects placed calls to the United States before and after the fire. It is believed that the last call was made to report that the fire was lit.This particular number had cropped up when police were investigating criminal elements in Buxton sometime back.Jagdeo revealed that two weeks ago he met US officials, and in addition to asking for information on this connection, had also requested information on convicted drug trafficker, Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan and the infamous spy equipment, among other things.According to the Head of State, had someone set fire to a federal building in the US and been linked to an individual in Guyana, FBI agents would have been swarming all over the country.With Guyana cooperating with the US in the fight against terrorism,Ra Shede Hageman Falcons Jersey, there is all the more for a need to focus on the symmetrical sharing of information, Jagdeo said.Questioning why it would take months to get such information from the US, the Head of State said that he had expressed fears to the US officials that a possible attack may happen again.“It did happen again,” he said.According to Jagdeo, two of the men held for questioning in the Ministry of Health fire were part of the gang of men who carried out the attacks in the city on Wednesday morning last. |
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