T&T must be ready for terrorists’ return
US official confirms 2018 Carnival threat but warns
UNITED States Embassy Chief of the Military Liasion Office, Col Claudia Carrizales, yesterday said TT must be ready for the return of foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs). Carrizales also underscored the US’ commitment to combat this threat, other security threats and TT as a key ally in the Caribbean. At the American Chamber of Commerce’s annual general meeting at the Hilton Trinidad, she said, “Within the next year or so, you will eventually have some hardened FTFs return to this country.”
Carrizales said those people were currently being detained in Syria and Iraq. Wishful thinking and the belief that “God is a Trini” will not change that, she added.
“Those are your citizens. they are your responsibility.”
Carrizales asked her audience, “Are you ready to deal with that kind of threat?”
She said the US was committed to help TT deal with the threat.
Carrizales said the people who attempted to pull off last year’s Carnival terror threat were “boy scouts” compared “to what’s coming back.”
She said anyone who believed that threat was a conspiracy theory, is “living under a rock,” Carrizales declared.
“The fact that nothing happened during that Carnival is a huge success for this country. A huge success for your defence force and your police tactical units which addressed the issue.”
She said the US spent US$6.2 million to train TT’s elite security forces. Carrizales also disclosed that US special operations personnel worked closely with local elite military and police units for two years to ensure TT “was prepared for any type of terrorist situation.”
Carrizales said those people were currently being detained in Syria and Iraq. Wishful thinking and the belief that “God is a Trini” will not change that, she added.
“Those are your citizens. they are your responsibility.”
Carrizales asked her audience, “Are you ready to deal with that kind of threat?”
She said the US was committed to help TT deal with the threat.
Carrizales said the people who attempted to pull off last year’s Carnival terror threat were “boy scouts” compared “to what’s coming back.”
She said anyone who believed that threat was a conspiracy theory, is “living under a rock,” Carrizales declared.
“The fact that nothing happened during that Carnival is a huge success for this country. A huge success for your defence force and your police tactical units which addressed the issue.”
She said the US spent US$6.2 million to train TT’s elite security forces. Carrizales also disclosed that US special operations personnel worked closely with local elite military and police units for two years to ensure TT “was prepared for any type of terrorist situation.”
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