The Trinidad Guardian reported on Thursday that investigators probing the alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and three cabinet have said the plotters had planned to create a major distraction in the country and immediately after carry out the assassinations.
The paper said the information came from a senior legal source working with law enforcement entities on condition of strict anonymity.
It said the distraction would have diverted the attention of the police and military “And while that was happening—perhaps it would have been looting—the taking over of television stations or something of that extreme and large nature to distract the armed forces, then the assassination would take place,” the paper quoted the source as saying.
“That was what we have been informed of by intelligence officers. The officers, however, could not provide sufficient information to determine if the two plans were linked,” the source added.
It said the distraction would have diverted the attention of the police and military “And while that was happening—perhaps it would have been looting—the taking over of television stations or something of that extreme and large nature to distract the armed forces, then the assassination would take place,” the paper quoted the source as saying.
“That was what we have been informed of by intelligence officers. The officers, however, could not provide sufficient information to determine if the two plans were linked,” the source added.
The paper said the source explained that knowledge guided the writing of the detention orders with some detainees named as being involved in a conspiracy to assassinate, while others were identified as the people behind a plot to destabilise Trinidad and Tobago and cause major panic.
The Guardian said its source stated that up to the time the detention orders were being drafted, there was no concrete evidence to definitely link the two plots as all part of “one major plot”.
The Guardian said its source stated that up to the time the detention orders were being drafted, there was no concrete evidence to definitely link the two plots as all part of “one major plot”.
He explained further that no one has been charged yet because all the detainees have been held “merely on suspicion.”
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