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February 19, 2006
Trinidad & Tobago: Muslim Leader's Son Shot Dead
We have reported extensively on the Islamist group Jamaat al Muslimeen, which was involved in an attemted coup on the island of Trinidad in 1990. During this coup attempt, 114 members of the group stormed the TV station and 24 people were killed.
The head of the group, 64-year old Yasin Abu Bakr, is currently on trial on charges of sedition and terrorism, and awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy to murder.
On Christmas Day, two members of Jamaat al Muslimeen were found in possession of a large bomb. Earlier, the group had come under suspicion for a series of four bomb attacks in and around Port of Spain, the capital, between July 12 and October 14, 2005.
News today from Trinidad Express and Associated Press via My Telus states that the son of Hassan Ali, a prominent imam from Jamaat al Muslimeen, was murdered on Friday night in La Horquetta, Arima.
Zaffar Ali (pictured), aged 18, was in the driver's seat of a car, when a gunman approached, around 7 pm, and fired four shots. Police stated today that they think his killer was from the G-Unit street gang. This gang began its life in Port of Spain and spread to eastern regions of the island.
Imam Hassan Ali said he wished for no revenge actions, saying retaliations could trigger an all-out war between the Jamaat and the G-Unit mob.
Stories of Zaffar Ali's presence in the region are conflicing. The police account states that Zaffar Ali was looking to meet a woman companion, and finding her not at home, had gone looking for her. He was ambushed by a group of individuals, one of whom shot him.
But his father states that Zaffar Ali was set up. He said that Zaffar was in Tacoma Boulevard, La Horquetta, because "All my son went to do was help out a brother in prison. The individual asked him to go and collect money from his family to pay his bail. That individual was either used as a set-up or he himself set up my son to be killed."
Apparently, Ali's family did not report the shooting immediately. A police spokesman told the Express that "We get a sense that they did not want the police involved, that they wanted to handle the matter themselves because no one made any report to the La Horquetta Station."
We reported on January 03 that a Libyan-trained member of the Jamaat's 1990 coup, Andre "Baldhead" Bynoe, aka Rasheed Abdul Karim, was shot dead in the street in a part of Port of Spain known as Hellyard, in Beetham Gardens.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at February 19, 2006 9:04 PM
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