Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
Authorities in Trinidad this week released an Islamic leader and five others who had been detained after a bombing outside a nightclub, but police said no suspects had been ruled out. Ten people were injured in last week’s blast, the fourth to strike the Caribbean island’s capital, Port-of-Spain, in four months. One of the men detained was Yasin Abu Bakr, 63, the leader of Jamaat al-Muslimeen, a Muslim rebel group. Abu Bakr led a failed coup in 1990 in which Jamaat members bombed police headquarters, stormed Parliament, and took the entire Cabinet hostage. The rebels were arrested, but eventually pardoned. Now, a Jamaat spokesman complained, “every time a bomb goes off, the Jamaat is blamed for it.”
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