Gya: Pricking thumbs

THE Guyana Police Force yesterday said it was not aware that officials from the Iranian Police Force are due here shortly to conduct investigations into the kidnapping of Iranian scholar Mohammed Hassan Ibrahimi.

The arrival of the team from Iran was announced to the media on Monday at the Guyana Islamic Trust (GIT) Secretariat by several Muslim organisations hosting a joint press conference.

At that press conference it was announced that the team was expected within the next 14 days.

Public Relations Officer of the Guyana Police Force, Assistant Superintendent John Sauers yesterday told the Guyana Chronicle that they have no information and are not aware of any person or persons coming from Iran.

He added that investigations by the anti-kidnapping squad into the abduction were going ahead assiduously and the police here were working towards returning the victim to his family.

Well, if the police don't know that the Iranians are coming to investigate, who does? Will the Iranians be investigators or spies? Is their intent to investigate or to coordinate efforts with terrorists in the Muslim Triangle in anticipation of a summer offensive against the U.S.? What can the Iranians discover that the Guyanese police can't? Remember, these are the people who couldn't even provide adequate services for Bam after the earthquake. Who is Mohammed Hassan Ibrahimi, really, and, has he truly been kidnapped?

Let me be paranoid here for a bit and remind readers of this story

Three Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) officers were placed before the court yesterday over one year after being implicated in the acceptance of money from a man they had arrested with a number of passports.

They were granted $25,000 bail after denying the charge.

The three officers, Errol Fraser, Owen Jones and Patrick Carrington, are charged with corrupt transaction. They are accused of obtaining $3M from the man as an inducement for showing him favour.

It is alleged that on March 31 of last year Fraser, Jones and Carrington obtained $3M in cash from Salim Juman Azeez as an inducement for showing favour.

Azeez had made the allegation against the three officers after his Lot 17 Canal Number 2 Polder, West Bank Demerara home was searched and five firearms along with a duffel bag containing 159 passports, ten immigration stamps and five stamp pads were found.

Azeez was subsequently charged with the unlawful possession of firearms, but the matter was later dismissed. There was no charge in relation to the passports. Because the matter did not involve narcotics, it was handed over to the police who also investigated Azeez's allegations.

I have a nasty, suspicious mind, so I'll indulge it. Suppose Mohammed Hassan Ibrahimi was not kidnapped but took off for the Muslim Triangle. Suppose his "kidnapping" was noised abroad with the intent to give Iranian agents a seemingly legitimate reason for being in Guyana, close enough to Chavez and his happy band of Islamic terrorists along with those in the Muslim Triangle. Suppose the arrival of the Iranians will provide a vital component to terrorist plans for the U.S. this summer -- after all, the Iranians are busy doing wonderful nuclear things. If the Iranians come in to Guyana, are they coming under diplomatic passport? Will they be searched?

What was Salim Juman Azeez doing with 159 passports (whose? Guyana's? Trinidad's? America's? whose?), 10 immigration stamps and 5 stamp pads? Is there a connection between Azeez, the "missing" Mohammed Hassan Ibrahimi, the Iranian "police officers," the terrorists in the Muslim Triange and in Venezuela?

Robert Spencer's JihadWatch carries two stories, this one, and this one. So, we know, "by the pricking of our thumbs, that something wicked this way comes." The big question is: is everything as it appears to be?