Jagdeo worried that JFK terror plot would be `big black eye’ for Guyana – cable

Abdul Kadir (left) and an artist’s rendering of Russell Defreitas

President Bharrat Jagdeo was worried that the 2007 JFK International Airport terror plot arrests would be a “big, black eye” for Guyana and he told Washington he was prepared to have suspects extradited to the US.
In a June 4th, 2007 cable to Washington released by WikiLeaks, then US Ambassador David Robinson said that in dialogue with him, Jagdeo had greeted the news of the arrests of the Guyanese with “emotions ranging from defensiveness, to apprehension,