Trinidadian Kareem Ibrahim (left), 56, and Guyanan Abdul Kadir arrive to the Magistrate Court for an extradition hearing in downtown Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, yesterday. Ibrahim and Kadir, who are in custody of the Trinidad's authorities, are suspects in a plot to blow up a fuel line that feeds New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. - AP

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC):

Authorities here say they will make every effort to find Guyana-born terrorist suspect Abdel Nur, who is being linked to a plot to blow up the John F. Kennedy Airport.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) that if the 57-year-old man, one of four Caribbean-born nationals named in the US terrorist plot, happened to be in Guyana, he could expect no safe harbour from the law.

"Well if he is at large in Guyana obviously we have to take steps to smoke him out, find out where he is, whichever part of the country he might be. We will have to also publish as much information that we have photographs, other personal details and so forth.

"In respect to this particular situation, we will be doing what we have to do and at the same time collaborating with the Federal Bureau of Investigations in order to ascertain where exactly he might be," the minister told CMC.

Laws recently passed

The minister said laws were recently passed in Guyana's Parliament to allow for penalties to persons who harbour criminals and authorities would use them against any one found to be harbouring the suspect.

US investigators had earlier said that Nur, known as 'Uncle Abdul', was said to be in Trinidad, but local police said they believed he might have returned home.

On Sunday officers from the Guyana Police Force raided Nur's apartment, which is located in a building at the independence Boulevard.

According to reports the police confiscated several documents from Nur's apartments, including books and receipts from a money transfer agency.

The other suspects in the terrorist cases are Guyana-born Russell Defreitas, 63, who was arrested in the US last week and Abdul Kadir, 55, a former mayor of a town in Guyana and a onetime Member of Parliament here along with Trinidadian Kareem Ibrahim, 61.