Someone in U.S. behind attacks, Guyana says

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana | Recent arsons and shootings are the work of someone living in the United States, President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana said.

Jagdeo made the allegation late Friday, shortly after his administration requested the U.S. Embassy for assistance with the investigation.

“There is a terrorist mastermind who lives in the U.S.,” Jagdeo told reporters. He declined to give more details.

Carol Horning, acting charge d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy, said Saturday that the U.S. Justice Department was reviewing the request and probably would help out by checking U.S. phone records.

Three attackers dressed as police officers firebombed a wooden, colonial-era courthouse and a nearby school Wednesday and later shot at two police stations, wounding one officer in the jaw and another in the ankle.

Witnesses identified two of the gunmen as inmates who recently escaped from jail, where they were being held on suspicion of burning down the Health Ministry in July.

| The Associated Press

Posted on Sat, Nov. 07, 2009 10:15 PM

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