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 4, 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, to contrition”.
Guyanese Russell Defreitas and former PNCR MP Abdul Kadir were sentenced by a New York court to life imprisonment in the matter earlier this year and last year. Another Guyanese, Abdel Nur was jailed for 15 years.
