More than two years after he was sentenced to life in prison for plotting to blow up fuel tanks at the John F Kennedy Airport, former PNC parliamentarian Abdul Kadir maintains his innocence stating that evidence which would have cleared him was not allowed.
“I now languish in prison, away from my family and all, stripped of my human dignity and rights, while still trying to understand everything,” Kadir said in a recent letter to this newspaper published on January 23.
Kadir and US-based Guyanese Russel Defreitas were sentenced to life in prison by Judge Dora Irizarry in December 2010, while another man, Kareem Ibrahim, a Trinidadian, was given the same sentence after he was also found guilty some time later.
Two other men, Abdel Nur–another Guyanese–and Donald Nero, have pleaded guilty to participating in the plot and were sentenced to 15 years in prison.
In his letter, Kadir said he was born Aubrey Michael Seaforth but he embraced Islam in 1974, changed his name and got married. He is now a father of nine and a few adopted children and a grandfather of 26.
He said he had never visited the US but transited