Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday said that there are “ideas” as to the identity of the “terrorist mastermind” in the US who was said to be behind last week’s attacks in the city and the Ministry of Health fire and attempts continue to have the US assist in the confirmation of the individual’s identity.
Dr Roger Luncheon
According to Dr Luncheon, it is because of the “historical background of the matter” that the authorities were able to get some ideas as to the identity of the mastermind.
The government spokes-person told the media yesterday at the Office of the President that the authorities don’t just have the name of the person they have more information but what is needed is the link between the individual and the telephone number.
Last week Wednesday several gunmen hijacked a Toyota Tacoma vehicle on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway during which they murdered gold miner Wodette Roberts. Police said they then used the vehicle to launch an attack on the Brickdam Police Station, shooting two policemen in the process, and attempted to burn down the High Court and a secondary school. The police have since issued wanted bulletins for six persons in connection with the attacks, two of whom were linked to the Ministry of Health fire but who escaped before they were charged.
Meanwhile, Luncheon said the government has requested assistance from the US through the Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters — a multilateral treaty to which both Guyana and the US are party and through which states can request information from each other on criminal matters. The convention is an Organisation of American States (OAS) treaty.
He said the US officials have responded and the local authorities now have to supply more information so as to facilitate the processing of the request by their US counterparts.
Luncheon described last week’s events as terrorist attacks adding that many were traumatised by the “brazen acts” of the players. He added that there are persons who feel such acts are “payback and restitution” to the Guyana Police Force. He said there are also those who support such acts as to them they represent “blows to the government” while they belittle “patriotic things” in the country.
He said the “actors are known and it is only time before they are caught.”
Last week President Bharrat Jagdeo had said that there was a “foreign terrorist mastermind” who lives in the US who was behind last week’s attacks and who was also implicated in the ministry fire through calls made to that person’s telephone number by one of the persons implicated in the fire before and after the incident.
According to the head of state, it was not the first time this number surfaced in connection with local criminal acts since it had showed up in the past in connection with the Buxton criminals. He said government had approached the US for assistance in finding this person, “because obviously this person has been masterminding terrorist acts in Guyana.”
The President had also announced that he had met US officials and urged them to hand over information about convicted drug trafficker Roger Khan, the infamous spy equipment, and on this terrorist mastermind “as soon as possible.
“I also said to them, can you imagine if a Guyanese, someone here in Guyana had made a call to the US to someone just before he burnt a federal building in the United States of America what kind of pressure we would be under here in Guyana to find the person and deliver him to them. In fact there would a storm of FBI agents coming here.”
BULL……………
BUUL with more than two horns.
SHF you need to go out and let your presence be felt and not just the nonsense you write sometimes be posted. Subtantiate your displeasure with this government and it’s wrongdoings with physical presence in protest….being in Guyana and writing daily in this medium doesn’t change the actions of the rogue elements and as such like I said before making a difference requires your presence in protest with folks who are committed to exposing this band of recalcitrants. As much as Mark Benschop has experienced at the hands of these I have to admit he has shown more than enough bal.. to be listened to on a daily basis; much unlike yourself. Having said that; I wish to reiterate the point I am projecting which is not to go on the streets and get involve in violent demonstrations; which we know for a fact is all these phoneys are waiting on to shout terrorist…newest word in town, but a more symetrical approach. I don’t know how much you’ve learnt as a soldier but basic training in any military is enough to teach you the discipline that is needed to organise and use your academic intellect as your weapon. Come on man; this can’t be that hard, stop talking and start partaking; your efforts would be more appreciated that just your writing.
So “Stanley”…you want ME….to go on the road and protest???? YOU must be outta ya mind….if I was someone else I would have gone, but i hate the lock-ups and much less being targeted by the police and army…..not me…I aint going anywhere unless I know I have strong backings……NOWHERE.
Luncheon should come up here and try to find the guy. We could arrange a welcome party for him. Forget about protesting SH just go out there right in your neighborhood and get about six to ten people together, find a community center to meet at and plan how to make conditions better right where you are. Meet on a regular basis then keep inviting others in. Before you know it you have a large group who can make a change. Each person in the group go to various parts of the country and start a similar group and each group go the same, get it?
S.F. fight for your country.
You expect ME ALONE to go out there and “fight”…..I will get crippled…
hi sandhurst are there film the new jame bond movie in guyana.because it sound like it too me this is good for guyana.well done mr. president.
usual rhetoric.
well then its a well establish drud dealer in the USA which ordinary person can be the master mind to influence other to take such brazen chances
…. many of them who live here ,, and blog in this forum ,, instigate ,, incite ,, and is openly ,, from their dictum ,, in the cell of the terrorist players ,, it was just a matter of time b4 they unleashed their destructive schemes ,, the net work is wide and is all in the ABC countries ,, small cells exist in the c’bean and nearby territories….. the PPP need to tighten the screws ,,,, the incessant wriggling is in full force !
juss suh yuhal know ,, is nat juss u an me readin wah ah duz be seh’in haysuh ,, those who understand ‘what’ yuhal is read wah meh ah seh and dem tek note ,, but more than this ,, i write to them who matter ,, to make no mistake this time around ,,,, an dis is all am sayin !……
michael tannassee…”juss suh yuhal know ,, is nat juss u an me readin wah ah duz be seh’in haysuh ,, those who understand ‘what’ yuhal is read wah meh ah seh and dem tek note ,, but more than this ,, i write to them who matter ,, to make no mistake this time around ,,,, an dis is all am sayin!”
Duh…daz why we blog, so them can read um!
Stop your stupendious BLABBERING fool; With all the allegations against this government of the day; you’re telling me there’s no reason for a legitimate Commission of Enquiry to be installed and get let the alleged accused persons be investigated so that the truth can be discovered by the people. Or being in the USA didn’t do anything to your intellectual capacity whereby seeing equal justice being applied. You speak of “destructive schemes” by certain individuals. You said “many of them who live here and blog in this forum; instigate and incite” what; terrorism? I am amazed at the manner in which some persons view certain situations, it’s like nobody sees the moral point of view anymore, only their ideological perspectives. Ain;t that a shame? You cannot preach from a standpoint when you don’t operate from a standpoint…I’ll leave you to figure that out; but I’ll give you a tip, “JAGDEO, ROHEE, GAJRAJ, RAMSAMMY, RAMSON, GREEN…should I go on? Learn the meaning of destructive and apply it equally; only then will the definition of the word count when people like you utter it. I ain’t mad at you; I am just mad at the way people like you create imbalances with words, but then I guess we all can’t handle the truth some words project.
On reading your mentoring of blogger SandHurst, Stanly; I wonder if IT IS NOT YOU who is the stupendious BLABBERING fool…
….ginger an stanly ,, i like every one else have an opinion ,, i’m sorry if ah mash yuh carn pon yuh foot ! an mo dan dat ah sarry it was in yuh mouth wen ah mash um ,, now get lost an see abt how u an de ress wah cawin incessantly can make it better without violence and destruction ,, it’s called civilised acts of democracy !.. sorry too if i use civilised an democracy ,, wen such words is not in ur vocab…..
This incoharent blabber couming out of Stanly is the type of incendiary comments that contributes to the division of the Guyanese people.
Stanly is the sort that incite and instigate anti-government sentiments that destroy the moral fabric of the Guyanese people. Their motto is to devide and conquer.
Get lost stanly. You are part of the problem. There are terrorists in the midst disguised as bloggers.
Blogger tera-wrist: extreme form of carpal tunnel syndrome caused by repetitive typing of rebuttals of foolishness uttered by PPP Government officials and sycophants. See csingh and Satish above.
Present the name and identity of this mastermind to us mr. luncheon, if they are know that info should be fortwith, when the u.s claimed that bin laden was the mastermind of 911 his name and pictures was released to the world, so luncheon do the same, it’s either you put up or shut up.
Don’t sweat too much Amen, time will tell.
They are speaking of “Extadition” well ain’t that a strange work to this government. Tell me it ain’t so; they should be afraid of that word, but I guess they can’t connect the dots. Roger Khan was a king in a drug kingdom in the face of this government and authorities and now they’re asking everyone else for the evidence, to do what, deny it? That a popular phrase amongst them.
Don’t sweat too much, Stanly. You are new to this forum.
You will have to get used to it.
Mr.Luncheon show us a picture of this mastermind we can do your leg work.
Make a new plan Stan: I say yah fulla crappola!
Any secret will be shouted from the highest towa!
America has changed, President Obama is forging a new America!
Satish, i’m not sweating, but i know when i’m being taken for a ride by these people.
B4 eny bady from hay get extradited dey, dey all gon get extradited hay n put on trial and join RK he waiting fo dem he need compny.
Satish,
Some bloggers are not new to this forum. Only their names are.
Dr.Luncheon, you does speak in phrases ? Me don’t think so but here is SN report making you out as so. A couple words in quotes here and there with SN spin on your reported views.They using quotes as if what you say ( correctly about the national concerns by all Guyanese abot terrorism, destruction of property and murder), is not authoritative. What became of quoting personages at length like a serious paper should be doing ?
“Mastermind ? This is a condinginly appalling , malicously cunning and devious, wicked and ipso facto diversionary and distractedly ploy by the corrupt, despoitioc, incompetent and condigningly tortutous and international conmedmned Jagdeo government trying to sidestep and divert massivley condemned and condinghly wicked torture of a poor lil boy by getting taxis painted and we gon ge we cardboard….” (my quotes for the no hopers, get it folks ?)
reddy when i grow up i want to be like you man. i mean you are so intelligent,you have an independent mind, you are objective, you dont drink the people(PPP) soup to make a fool out of yourself on a daily basis here,you are standing up for the rights of the guyanese ppl in bdos…..man, you the bestest
Reddy ! The mastermind of the ‘terrorist’ plot is in Asia minor. As per Luncheon ….. Ewwwwwwwwwwww !
He has the dictionary with him today. It’s one thing to find the words. Putting them together in a way that makes sense is another.
get the trouble makers.they want to destabalise the government
You cannot destablize what you don’t have; use your five senses not just one.
Stanly are you one of the organisers calling Sandhurst to stand up and fight?
These are exactly the kind of internet leads the new Secret Service, I advocate should investigate, broome.
Prevention is better than cure.
Dr Roger Luncheon said the “actors (terrorist and their sponsors) are known and it is only time before they are caught.”
Whereas prior to the spate of the Fineman terrorist acts, we may have laughed at Dr Luncheon’s words; it is clear that Guyana is capable of fixing terrorism and the sadistic masterminds in the US must now be building up a sweat especially as US officials have agreed to ratchet up the pressure.
The US was guilty of starting Guyana’s troubles by installing dictator Burnham and even today, had they not installed Al Queda in Afghanistan to fight the Russians, the world would be a far safer place.
To find out the US is today harbouring terrorists escaping Guyanese justice IS TOO INCREDIBLE FOR COMPREHENSION.
When is America going to learn?
When is Jagdeo & his cabal gonna learn? They aint doing nutting for Guyana in order to make it self sufficient. SO how them expect to to fight America, as dem trying to them as being the monster. I think Jagdeo has done a good job in brainwashing.
satish the dictator burnham is long dead,..- but the ranting,cussing and busing out tyrant that Guyana have for a president is alive and kicking,..
Dead, he might be, Smart however IT WAS THE US WHO PUT HIM THERE AND USHERED IN THREE DECADES OF BACKWARDNESS.
Satish, the US was also instrumental in installing the current PPP dictatorship: a democracy is not a system where the representatives of the largest ethnic group rule over the others. While this arrangement is very convenient for some it is marginalization and alienation for others.
Unless we change our constitution to allow for a system where all groups feel represented and included, we will not have an enabling environment for lasting peace and prosperity. Our nation is victim to a winner-take-all system, which has been failing us for decades but for obvious reasons those is power keep refusing to fix it.
It was the US that saved us from communist rule. Thank God we did not end up like Cuba, where you do not even enjoy such basic human rights as freedom of speech and freedom of movement: otherwise many of us would not have even been living in the US and Canada today.
Satish, don’t accuse america about immorality. ask jagdeo why he has not launched an investigation into ramsammy’s involvement with the spy equipment or why he has not launched an investigation into quame mckoy’s transgressions ? you is the only one that knows a guyanese terrorist has escaped guyanese justice…genious !…do you ever read and comprehend what you read ? and the joke continue.
satish remember when salt fish was poor people food, now the the poor cant even afford to buy salt fish,..- and that is fact, not mere speculation talking about backwardness, why is data still keep on paper instead on a computer database in most government agencies… in 2009, that is fact.
well said Touchau. the pee pee pee bloggers don’t know what cheddi jagan was planning to turn guyana into. God intervened and saved us. the very men that blogs here now and so love the pee pee pee and their communist ideas are enjoying the freedoms afforded the non loving communists dictators that run guyana.
read and comprehend, how sad. no one wants to hear the truth satish.
it eats their soul.
You are SURELY JOKING, john when you DARE TO SUGGEST ….”don’t accuse america about immorality”….
Ha! Ha! Here is a topical one for you. Concentrate:
1 America WAS NOT one of the nearly 200 countries who signed the Kyoto Protocol. America just refused to sign.
2 America now insists that the countries which WERE MORALISTIC ENOUGH TO SEE GLOBAL WARMING AS A HORROR, AND SIGNED, STICK TO THE LETTER OF THAT AGREEMENT.
satish we talking about Guyana here, stick to the topic,… what america did was ages ago,.. countries that america had wronged has moved on, why dwell on the past? is that your defense? “for incompetence and backwardness”?
Satish, please add;
3. America along with their partner in crime Israel refuse to participate in the International Criminal Court held in Hague.
Satish:
America must have learned, did they not supported the Taliban at one time and also had a hand in their training.
Those militants also attacked India via Pakistan. Ironic, those same militants are now being pursued by Pakistan and America and its allies.
Now India is looking after the gate for America. Thanks to India for bearing the brunt and is on the forefront to stop the terrorists.
I do not believe that America will condone attacks on Guyana’s Government and people some in the Diaspora on American soil. I, also have the confidence that President Obama will ensure that this wicked scheme by wicked people will never be allowed to flourish.
They have an Idea? I got one too …..somebody bun the court to destroy the transport records to tek away GPSU land ……
KN, reported that the government “may have an idea of who the mastermind is”… I say that’s the government’s hypothesis.
Did you guys hand over Roger Khan when the US Government indicated that they wanted him? What about the other man that the US indicated that they wanted? The one you placed on bail so that he could disappear?
Maybe a handful of indictments against somne ‘masterminds’ in Guyana would save us from this official chatter about a ‘terrorist mastermind”.
When GPF caught (ALLEGEDLY INNOCENT OF THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH FIRE) Jones and Thierens, THEY WERE ALLOWED TO ESCAPE from the Providence Police Station lockups.
Oh! To have FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES…
Satish, they are like Roger Khan and his partners in crime, who have friends in high places. You are a stranger to the truth. Take off your blinders so you can also see the horrors being perpetuated on the Guyanese people by your buddies in Freedom House.