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Trinidad 1990 - The Caribbean's Islamist Insurrection (Paperback)
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Trinidad 1990 - The Caribbean's Islamist Insurrection (Paperback)
Series: Latin America@War
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Trinidad has the distinction of contributing the highest number of
recruits per capita to the cause of notorious 'Islamic State'. The
case of Trinidad and Tobago (usually abbreviated 'Trinidad') makes
for an interesting study as on the face of it, a well-integrated
Muslim population, a strong welfare state and an absence of
political persecution on any religious or racial basis should not
provide fertile recruiting ground for Jihadist ideology. However,
the converse is most certainly the case as not only is attraction
to such extremist causes growing but the numbers of Trinidadian
nationals willing to fight for IS is also increasing. What is
happening in Trinidad is symptomatic of a broader problem as Jihadi
groups have widened their reach where apparently unconnected groups
can now ally with the ideology and resource bases of better known
groups without formally being part of them. The flirtation with
Islamist ideology on Trinidad dates back many years and through a
combination of incompetence, political naivete and unfortunate
compromises. Indeed, the country faced the only Islamist coup in
the entire Latin America - Caribbean region and the hemisphere. On
27 July 1990, a radical Afro-Trinidadian Islamist group, the
Jamaat-al-Muslimeen, led by Imam Yasin Abu Bakr - an
Afro-Trinidadian convert to Islam previously known as Lennox
Philip, and a former policeman - launched an armed insurrection
with 113 of his followers. Their attack quickly sacked the entire
leadership of the local government: the then Prime Minister of
Trinidad, Arthur N.R. Robinson, most of his cabinet and several
opposition Members of Parliament, plus the staff of the
government-owned television and radio networks were held hostage
for six dramatic days. The Parliament Building, the television and
radio studios were occupied by armed insurgents and were severely
damaged during the standoff with security forces that ensued. The
Trinidad and Tobago Police Service collapsed within the first hour
of the insurrection, abandoning the capital city, Port of Spain,
and the military took hours to assemble a viable fighting force.
This book details the background to the dramatic events of July
1990 as well as the insurrection itself and the highly successfully
military operation that quelled it. It was a coming of age for the
Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force which, without requiring external
intervention, contained and then defeated an Islamist uprising.
Trinidad 1990 is illustrated by more than 100 authentic photographs
from local archives, maps and colour profiles, all of which serve
to illustrate what became a little-known, yet highly-successful
operation against international jihadism.
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