KN’s Lall says US cable details a rumour

Glenn Lall

Publisher of the Kaieteur News Glenn Lall yesterday declined to confirm or deny ever having a discussion with US Embassy officials here about possible motives behind the killing of five of his press men back in 2006.

“I have spoken to so many diplomats—diplomats from Canada, the US and England. Can I recall what I told him? No,” Lall told Stabroek News yesterday, when contacted and asked about an August 13, 2006 meeting he reportedly had with the embassy’s officials.

In an August 16, 2006 cable, Charge d’Affaires of the US embassy Michael Thomas told his superiors in Washington that