Former Guyana legislator arrested in U.S. plot, defended at home
The Associated Press
Published: June 2, 2007
GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Colleagues of a former opposition member of Guyana's parliament expressed disbelief Saturday that he could be involved in an alleged plot to attack New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Abdul Kadir, who authorities said was arrested in Trinidad as he prepared to board a flight to Venezuela, had never expressed extremist views or hatred of the United States, said James McAlister, who served with him in Guyana's parliament.
"He was a very principled and disciplined person," said McAlister, a fellow member of the opposition People's National Party. "He never aired any fundamentalist views or showed any such symptoms." ~snip~
Kadir, 55, served in the parliament until last year, when it was disbanded before general elections in the former Dutch and British colony on the north coast of South America. ~snip~
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/02/news/CB-GEN-Guyana-US-Terrorist-Plot.php Kadir was a People's National Congress Reform party MP. Here's the party
website and a sample article
Treatment of Stabroek Market vendors inhumane from the website version of the party newspaper
The New NationSpeaker finds PNCR MPs Khan and Kadir in contempt for budget ruckus
Stabroek News
April 8, 2003
Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran has found PNCR parliamentarians, Jerome Khan and Abdul Kadir in contempt of the Assembly and expects the duo to "purge" themselves of this contempt at the first opportunity.
The Speaker also found a prima facie case had been made against a number of PNCR parliamentarians for their role in the disruption outside of, and the invasion of the Assembly during the national budget presentation on March 28. He has forwarded the issue to the Committee of Privileges of Parliament. PNCR MPs were not present in Parliament yesterday as they are boycotting the assembly and have been doing so for more than a year. ~snip~
http://www.landofsixpeoples.com/gynewsjs.htm Parliamentary Sectoral Committee meets PM
Georgetown, GINA, Thursday, December 4, 2003
~snip~ The Luncheon interaction with the sectoral Committee is expected to wind-up the first phase of interaction with relevant Government officials.
Co-Chairman of the Committee, Abdul Kadir of the PNCR said so far, based on what the Committee has set out to do, the work has been going relatively smoothly, putting to rest allegations in some quarters, that the follow-up and implementation processes of the Communiqué signed between President Bharrat Jagdeo and Opposition Leader, Robert Corbin, are not working.
He said because the work of the Committee is information-driven, the first phase of this entails interacting with relevant members of Cabinet, to clarify and understand the scope and methodology of their work. Members of the Committee also gear the sessions to developing an understanding of Government's policies in the respective areas.
Having done this, Kadir said, the Committee will be better able from a knowledge-based perspective, to go on to the second phase of the Committee's mandate. ~snip~
http://www.gina.gov.gy/archive/daily/b031204.html