PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — A judge in Trinidad has ordered a probe into allegations that the island's prime minister promised state resources to a radical Islamic group in exchange for supporting his 2002 campaign.
The group is the same one that two years ago denied involvement with four men in a plot to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport.
An indictment in 2007 said the men hoped to "cause greater destruction than in the Sept. 11 attacks" by using explosives to ignite the fuel pipeline feeding JFK.
Authorities said the plot never got past the planning stages.
Trinidad Prime minister Patrick Manning did not return calls seeking comment on the judge's order for an investigation into the allegations.
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In case you were living under a rock and didn't hear about the Trinidad connection to the plot to bomb JFK, here it is: Authorities Hunt Fourth Suspect in JFK Bomb Plot in Trinidad.
The picture above, taken from the FOX News website shows Trinidadian Kareem Ibrahim, 56, left, and Guyanan Abdul Kadir arrive to the Magistrate Court for an extradition hearing in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Authorities said Kadir and Nur were longtime associates of a Trinidadian radical Muslim group, Jamaat al Muslimeen, which launched an unsuccessful rebellion in 1990 that left 24 dead.
The PNM has repeatedly dismissed calls from members of both the political parties the UNC and the COP to perform a complete investigation into the 1990 coup. And this is the kinda people runnin' we country. That real wrong yes. Opposition get your act together and move with this before the PNM Propaganda machine start taking people down!
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