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A judge has ordered Trinidadian authorities to investigate allegations that the island’s prime minister promised state resources to a radical Islamic group in exchange for supporting his 2002 campaign.
The order came after Yasin Abu Bakr, the charismatic leader of the militant group Jamaat al Muslimeen, alleged in an affidavit that Prime Minister Patrick Manning offered him state lands, educational facilities and the promise to drop charges of damaging government property during a deadly coup attempt in 1990.
Bakr’s group bombed police quarters and stormed Parliament during the failed coup, which resulted in the deaths of 24 people.
High Court Judge Rajendra Narine ordered the investigation Friday, citing “the extremely serious nature of the allegations.”
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 ....
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