Abdul Kadir is a former member of Guyana

Guyana

Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...

's parliament, the National Assembly

National Assembly of Guyana

The National Assembly is the parliament of Guyana. It has 65 members, 53 members elected for a five-year term by proportional representation and 12 members delegated by local government councils...

, and was the mayor of Guyana's second-largest city, Linden

Linden, Guyana

Linden is the second largest town in Guyana after Georgetown, and capital of the Upper Demerara-Berbice region, located at , altitude 48 metres . It was declared a town in 1970, and includes the communities of MacKenzie and Wismar. It lies on the Demerara River and has a population of roughly...

, from 1994 to 1996. A chemical engineer

Chemical engineer

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 by profession, he served in the National Assembly from 2001 to 2006 as a member of the main opposition party, the People's National Congress Reform

People's National Congress

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.

Born Michael Seaforth in Buxton, Guyana

Buxton, Guyana

Buxton is a village in the Demerara-Mahaica Region of Guyana, standing about midway between Georgetown and Enmore.-History:Buxton Village was founded in 1840 by a group of freed Afro-Guyanese, who purchased the former Plantation Orange Nassau. Friendship, its sister village was founded in 1841...

, the son of Victor Seaforth, Kadir converted to Islam

Islam

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 in 1974 and changed his name. He and his wife Isha, both Shia Muslims, have nine children and 18 grandchildren.

In 2007, Kadir was arrested in Trinidad

Trinidad

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 in connection with a plot to blow up jet-fuel supply tanks and pipeline at John F. Kennedy International Airport

John F. Kennedy International Airport

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, New York City

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. He was arrested 2 June while en route to Caracas

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, Venezuela

Venezuela

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, where he planned to pick up a visa

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 in order to attend an Islamic conference in Iran

Iran

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. Also implicated in the plot were Russell Defreitas, a Guyanese-American, Kareem Ibrahim of Trinidad, and Abdel Nur of Guyana. The United States

United States

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 government alleges that Kadir and Nur were associated with the Trinidad-based Jamaat al Muslimeen

Jamaat al Muslimeen

The Jamaat al Muslimeen is a Muslim organisation within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago with a membership of predominantly Afro-Trinidadians....

, a militant Muslim group. Kadir is currently being held in Trinidad; the United States

United States

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 plans to seek his extradition

Extradition

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. On 2 August 2010, Kadir – along with Russell Defreitas – was convicted in the JFK airport bomb plot.