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<text id=90TT2038>
<title>
Aug. 06, 1990: World Notes:Trinidad & Tobago
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Aug. 06, 1990 Just Who Is David Souter?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 40
World Notes
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Following the Law of Allah
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<body>
<p> At 6 p.m. Friday Trinidad's main television station
broadcast a startling announcement: "The government has been
overthrown." The author of the statement was Abu Bakr, the
fortyish leader of a small Muslim group widely regarded in
Trinidad as violent outlaws. Bakr's 250 followers had blown up
the police station in the capital of Port-of-Spain, seized the
TV station and taken the country's Prime Minister and Cabinet
hostage in the Parliament building. Declaring that he did not
recognize "man's law" but only the "law of Allah," Bakr said he
had seized power "to stop the incest, robbery and drugs, which
there was no hope for the present regime to stop."
</p>
<p> Bakr, a former policeman, founded the militant Jamaat
al-Muslimeen, or Group of Muslims, six years ago to preach a
violent but moralistic antidrug message. He and his band are
said to receive money from Libya. As gunfire and explosions
rocked the capital overnight, Trinidad's 5,000-member police
force moved into the streets to restore order. Government
officials declared that they were in control, but at week's end
Bakr continued to hold his captives.
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</body>
</article>
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