Jihad Concerns in Caribbean

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Westerners mulling a Caribbean cruise this holiday season may want to slow the roll on buying those tickets. ISIS terrorists, it seems, may have put the islands on its holiday hit list.

Caribbean authorities are currently taking steps to keep terrorists traveling back to Trinidad and Tobago from touching down on island properties.

At least 130 people have travelled to Syria from Trinidad and Tobago.

And they’re warning: It’s not a matter of if the attacks will come. Rather, it’s when.

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[T]he Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is currently taking measures to prevent fighters from returning to the islands, located southeastern from the United States, into a platform from which terrorist attacks can be organised.

When quizzed over the risk of jihadis returning, Minister of National Security of Trinidad and Tobago at the CARICOM replied: “It is not a matter of yes but when.”

The warning comes amid fears fighters will be able to travel between most of the Caribbean islands without a visa, meaning reaching the Bahamas would leave any terrorist just a step away from Florida.

John Estrada, a former US ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, warned militants from Trinidad and Tobago have been well received by ISIS.

Describing the islands as the terror group’s “unthinking seedbed”, he told New York Times: “Per capita, Trinidad has the greatest number of foreign fighters from the Western Hemisphere who have joined the Islamic State.”

“Trinidadians do very well with ISIL.

They are high up in the ranks, they are very respected and they are English-speaking. ISIL have used them for propaganda to spread their message through the Caribbean.

“The Islamic State uses them as propaganda to spread their message in the Caribbean.”

According to the Caribbean Crime and Security Implementation Agency (Impacs), more than 200 people have travelled from the Caribbean in recent years to join ISIS.

Particular concern exists in Trinidad and Tobago, which has the highest proportion of Islamist radicalisation throughout America.

With 1.3 million citizens and a community of 104,000 Muslims, at least 130 people have travelled to Syria to live and fight under the flag of ISIS, according to figures revealed by the Government of Trinidad between 2013 and 2014.

Islamic radicalism is not new in Trinidad and Tobago.

In 1990 there was a failed coup by a radicalised Muslim group, but it was in 2007 when this country and neighbouring Guyana planned an attack against fuel tanks at JFK airport in New York.

The terrorists were sentenced to life in prison in the US in 2012.

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HT
HT
6 years ago

Islam and their liberal enablers/apologists are why we can’t have nice things anymore.

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

Hope Left/Liberal pro-jihadi nutjobs go and enjoy the diversity.

Deporting criminal jihadis is only way or this will continue. For first time Israel makes a belated but Long overdue ban on islamonazis http://bit.ly/2uJe4D4

when will US/EU do it ?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Any terrorist attack will have to be repelled with lethal force, immediately.

konnen-deplorable
konnen-deplorable
6 years ago

Terrorist deportation is not a solution.
They always coming back
Life in prison without parole is good start,and doing hard labor , now we are cooking with oil….

garry pollackD
garry pollack
6 years ago

I think cooking them with oil was ure best!

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

Lots of dummies down there, susceptible to conversion to Islam.

garry pollackD
garry pollack
6 years ago

1.5 billion dummies & counting!

garry pollackD
garry pollack
6 years ago

After all…they have to conquer…the whole world!

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
6 years ago

This means there will soon be an attack. A gruesome machete attack. Thanks to leftist and morons taking over hold of your government.

Disarming you whilst arming your enemies. If that is NOT treason I don’t know what is.

solange9
solange9
6 years ago

Very unsettling, the Caribbean is one of my most favorite places in the world.

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