A radical Muslim cleric who was convicted of stirring up racial hatred in Britain and deported to Jamaica was indicted Friday in New York on charges of recruiting would-be terrorists.
Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal was arrested in Jamaica.
Jamaica’s Ministry of National Security said that el-Faisal was arrested in the capital of Kingston and taken to his house in the nearby parish of St Catherine, where police executed a search warrant. Authorities in Jamaica said el-Faisal is scheduled to appear later in court, although they did not provide a date. He is expected to be extradited to New York after his court appearance in Jamaica.
El-Faisal was arrested after a months-long sting carried out by an undercover New York Police Department officer who communicated with him by email, text and video chat.
According to the Manhattan district attorney, el-Faisal offered to help the undercover officer travel to the Middle East and join fighters with the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS. It’s not clear if el-Faisal has an attorney.
The 53-year-old el-Faisal was born Trevor William Forrest in Jamaica.
US authorities had long been concerned about him, fearing that he would emerge as a recruiter of marginalised, disaffected youth in Jamaica
Maawnin Metty…Tek him out by any means necessary, even entrap him , dats means him still a recruit and radicalize men or women. Byeeeee. Lil Ja is betta of widdout uuuuuuu
Same so. Him frigging lucky.
Him still active as a radical and god forbid him get the opportunity to poison our idiots mind with ideology.
The ideology of poverty already in place, but couple it with a figure head, secure funding and calculated brain washing on the hour is deadly.
Good riddance to garbage because if it wasn’t for deportation Jamaica wouldn’t have seen him again. He is one of the many reasons why the trini one was escorted out of the country without delay and at all cost.
Long time, Jamaica have enough problem we dont need him and him follower dem!
Fear and paranoia got the best of you. Hollywood and cable TV is already poisoning and destroying the minds of the youth but you’re not afraid of that. Imagine they’re afraid he’d corrupt the minds of Jamaica’s youth but when he didn’t fit that narrative they ENTRAPPED him from over a thousand miles away. Just another trick in their bags of dirty tricks. The US GOVERNMENT is one of if not the biggest recruiter of marginalised, disaffected youth in countries all across the map that they turn into mercenaries.
They should be worried about their own citizens who are turning against them.