FBI To Establish Office In Jamaica

[evanovitch]

The United States Embassy in Jamaica is to establish a local officer of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) office in Kingston.
The announcement was made by US Ambassador to Jamaica, Luis G. Moreno.
Moreno who was speaking Wednesday evening at the launch of Dialogues in Democracy, a publication produced by the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI) argued that the move represents the commitment of the US to helping the Jamaican authorities tackle the persistent problem of crime.
“During my tenure here I was able to convince Washington to give us a fulltime alcohol, tobacco and firearms office and very shortly we are actually going to have a fulltime FBI office,” he told the small audience that had gathered for the launch of the CaPRI report.
He explained that the office will decrease the embassy’s reliance on the regional FBI office and other intelligence arrangements in Latin America.
“We will now have our own officers stationed in Jamaica and that will make working with the security forces much easier. We will have more joint operations, more training, more equipment and more extraditions,” he said.

[Tropicana]

What about terroist cells. That sheihk who was deported back to Jamaica is still on the loose and I have a feeling local authorities are not keeping tabs on him.

[Tropicana]

This man http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americ....radical.sheik

He has influenced convicted terrorists such as Richard Reid, the so-called shoe-bomber. His sermons were found in the apartment of suicide bombers who struck London, England, in 2005. Even one of the 9/11 plotters is said to have been a follower of Sheik Abdullah El-Faisal.Now in Jamaica, El-Faisal is less than a two-hour flight from the United States. No airline will allow him on board; he is widely thought to be on U.S. and UK no-fly lists. But history suggests El-Faisal might not need to travel to be influential among jihadists bent on violence against the U.S. and other Western nations.
The authorities on the Caribbean island keep tabs on him. Jamaica's Muslim leadership has banned him from preaching in established mosques, just in case his radical rhetoric stirs a Jamaican jihad. That's why we came here, at El-Faisal's invitation, to find out his plans.
Little did we know his plans included raising money from a most unusual source -- CNN.


Trail of terror


Sheik Abdullah El-Faisal grew up in Jamaica as a Christian, but he converted to Islam at 16, he says, after visiting the South American nation of Guyana.

He then went on to study Islam in Saudi Arabia before moving to London. That's where his career as a firebrand preacher took off among English-speaking, radical Islamists. In the 1990s, his sermons at the Brixton Mosque in south London, a hotbed of radical preaching, were often taped and shared among converts to Islam.Zacarias Moussaoui, convicted for his role in the September 11attacks, and Richard Reid attended the mosque at the time.

El-Faisal's message included calls for killing Americans, Jews, Hindus and nonbelievers (anyone who doesn't believe in Mohammed and Islam). British counterterrorism officials began to take note of the preacher known as "The Jamaican."

They uncovered tape recordings in which El-Faisal encouraged Muslims to take up jihad, with titles including "No Peace with the Jews," "Declaration of War" and "Them v. Us."

British authorities say they found one of El-Faisal's taped sermons in the apartment of Germaine Lindsay, a fellow Jamaican and one of the suicide bombers who attacked London's subway system in 2005. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian student charged with trying to blow up an airliner as it was approaching Detroit, Michigan, on Christmas Day, mentioned El-Faisal in a blog he wrote while in London.

British prosecutors decided El-Faisal's sermons went beyond rhetoric.

In 2003, he was charged with soliciting murder and was sentenced to seven years in prison. But four years later, he was released and deported to Jamaica. He didn't stay there long, making several visits to Africa to preach and lecture.

Kenya deported him in January after he addressed Somali immigrants, fearing he would incite terrorism. His arrest led to riots in which five people were killed. But the Kenyan government had to spend a reported $550,000 to get rid of him; no commercial carrier would take him back to Jamaica. So Kenya had to hire a private jet to fly him home.

[Wahalla]

The United States Embassy in Jamaica is to establish a local officer of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) office in Kingston.
The announcement was made by US Ambassador to Jamaica, Luis G. Moreno.
Moreno who was speaking Wednesday evening at the launch of Dialogues in Democracy, a publication produced by the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI) argued that the move represents the commitment of the US to helping the Jamaican authorities tackle the persistent problem of crime.
“During my tenure here I was able to convince Washington to give us a fulltime alcohol, tobacco and firearms office and very shortly we are actually going to have a fulltime FBI office,” he told the small audience that had gathered for the launch of the CaPRI report.
He explained that the office will decrease the embassy’s reliance on the regional FBI office and other intelligence arrangements in Latin America.
“We will now have our own officers stationed in Jamaica and that will make working with the security forces much easier. We will have more joint operations, more training, more equipment and more extraditions,” he said.

What jamaica needs most is stop the flow of arms and prosecution of those in the US who sell the guns....

[SeldomSeen]

The ambassador's statement is for media consumption. The US has little interest in our crime rate. The "FBI office"...whatever that means...is there because the Chinese are in their backyard now. They did the same thing when the Cubans began sending "doctors", "teachers" and "nurses" to Jamaica in the 70's.

[1FryDumplin]

The FBI has had an office in Jamaica ever since Michael Manley put on the first Cuban Dashiki. They never left.

[Wahalla]

http://www.televisionjamaica.com/videos/video/2152-fbi-sets-up-offices-in-jamaica-with-joshua-polacheck-smile-jamaica-september-12-2016-00-13-09

from TVJ

[evanovitch]

The ambassador's statement is for media consumption. The US has little interest in our crime rate. The "FBI office"...whatever that means...is there because the Chinese are in their backyard now. They did the same thing when the Cubans began sending "doctors", "teachers" and "nurses" to Jamaica in the 70's.

dem Chinese need watching...btw the counterfeiting of goods n credit cards, dem being arrested pon di common...how u reach JA today n next week wen u get arrested fi having machinery dat mek counterfeit credit cards dem list u as whole sale owner....dem a carry out racket a yard like wat....