By Bert Wilkinson
Guyana’s government Tuesday
defended a parliamentary
motion honoring the life and
work of former lawmaker and
small town mayor Abdul Kadir
who was convicted of a 2007
plot to blow up fuel depots at
New York’s John .F. Kennedy
Airport, saying it was standard
practice rather than admiration
for Kadir.
The reaction followed a
stronger than usual condemnation
of the motion by the US
government. The motion was
debated during a parliamentary
sitting on Friday when
lawmakers reflected on the life
of Kadir who died in a US
prison last year while serving a
life sentence along with three
other defendants for plotting
to blow up fuel farms at the
airport.
A US Embassy in a statement
on Monday had described the
motion as “an insensitive and
thoughtless act which demonstrates
the assembly’s disregard
for the gravity of Kadir’s
actions.”
But government in an overnight
statement said “it is well
known that there is a time-honored
convention of the assembly
to observe, in a standard and
solemn form, the work of former
members who are deceased. The
observance of this tradition has
never been selective, and has
included, over the decades, persons
of all political parties and
persuasions who served in the
assembly. “
It said the cabinet “regrets
the interpretation given to the
motion passed in the assembly
on April 26 on the death of Kadir,
a former member of parliament,”
noting that authorities continue
to condemn terrorism in the
strongest possible way.
“The government of Guyana
reaffirms its commitment to
continue and intensify the fight
against terrorism in any form
and is proud of its record to date
in this regard.”
Kadir and three co-defendants
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In this Aug. 6, 2007 photo, Guyanese Abdul Kadir, former
member of the South American nation’s Parliament, arrives
at the Magistrates’ Court for an extradition hearing in downtown
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were sentenced to life in
American prisons for plotting in
2007 an elaborate terrorist attack
on fuel depots at the airport.
The mission said the resolution,
introduced by junior Minister of
Agriculture, Valerie Patterson
Yearwood at a sitting of parliament
on Friday, was uncalled
for and unnecessary. Kadir died
in prison last year. The minister
said she simply acted on
the instructions of Government
Chief Whip, Amna Ally in tabling
the motion and being the lead
speaker on it.
Social media and opposition
activists have condemned the
move by the house to honor
Kadir, saying it should have been
left alone. The mission said that
it was surprised that “members
of the assembly, therefore, chose
to honor a man who conspired to
kill innocent people from across
the United States and around
the world” given the close level
of cooperation between Guyana
and the US in security and other
areas.
Kadir, a civil engineer, was a
former member of parliament.
He had complained that he was
set up by government informants
to be part of the plot but
had had no intention of carrying
through with it. He was arrested
in Venezuela while on a flight
to Iran by federal agents, tried,
convicted and died in prison. His
remains were buried in his bauxite
mining hometown of Linden,
about 65 miles southeast of the
city last year.
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
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