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Embattled businessman Roger Khan
yesterday issued a statement naming persons whom he said he had
been in contact with in the efforts to combat crime and recover 30
AK-47s stolen from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).
In a statement issued through his lawyers, Khan said the denial
of the US embassy concerning a meeting held with him at the Ocean
View International Hotel on March 6, 2006, confirms the plot
involving the US Government, the PNCR, Guyana Police Force (GPF)
and the GDF in their efforts to neutralise him and other
businessmen.
The GPF has issued wanted bulletins for Khan and three others
in connection with the disappearance of the weapons.
A US grand jury has indicted Khan for his alleged involvement
in the importing of cocaine into the US .
Khan said the plot against him is intended to have groups like
‘the Buxton armed resistance' cause mayhem and an atmosphere of
fear in the country.
According to him, the meeting with the US embassy officials was
arranged and facilitated by leading members of the private sector
who regularly meet with the US Ambassador and other embassy
officials.
He said he was accompanied by close friends who are willing to
come forward. He added that on duty at the hotel were staff
members who are known to him.
Khan stated that he spoke personally with Brandon Lee, US
Regional Security Officer, at least five times prior to the
meeting, working out specifics such as place and time.
He said Lee was also present at the meeting.
Telephone records can show the flurry of calls between the
private sector personalities and the US embassy, he said, and can
also confirm possible calls made from the US embassy to the Ocean
View International Hotel.
Khan related that present at the meeting were Deputy US
Ambassador Michael Thomas and three others.
He pointed out that it is important to note that this meeting
took place days after the US State Department issued its 2006
International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) naming him
as a “known drug trafficker” and more importantly, while a
grand jury in New York was in the midst of deliberating on
evidence alleging his involvement in a conspiracy.
“It is now clear to me that the US Government named me in the
INCSR to purposely and mischievously influence the grand jury to
return the indictment,” he said in the statement.
“The information contained in the INCSR 2006 is gathered by
the local embassy and the grand jury process was deliberately
abused for political reasons. The obvious question is why would
the American Government fabricate and possibly allow perjurious
testimony in the grand jury and naming me in the INCSR without a
fair trial?”
Khan declared that he attended the meeting at Ocean View in
good faith and with a clear conscience.
He said he discussed in detail the present crime situation and
how it relates to Commissioner of Police Winston Felix and GDF
Brigadier General Eddie
Collins.
Khan said he presented evidence to show strong political
motives for not deliberately confronting certain factions and
groups of criminals, such as the Buxton armed resistance.
Khan said he also gave a detailed account regarding certain
actions of the Commissioner of Police.
Khan disclosed that he shared with the American diplomats his
involvement with the GDF's attempts to recover the missing AK-47s.
He said he supplied information to the GDF about members of a
political party whom he claimed were involved in the theft of the
weapons and the consequential deliberate attempts by the GDF to
divert the investigation.
Khan admitted that he was in daily contact with Major Denzel
Carmichael, Major Sherwin Anderson and Lt. Col. Andrew Pompey of
the GDF, and claimed that he was debriefed daily on the status of
the ongoing investigation.
This, he said, was all taking place with the knowledge of
Brigadier General Collins.
He stated that it was to his disbelief that just 13 days after
the meeting took place that he became the subject of one of the
largest joint operations ever undertaken in the history of the
Joint Services.
“It then became obvious to me that the American diplomats
were working closely with the PNCR, the Commissioner of Police and
Brigadier Collins towards the attainment of one political
objective,” he contended.
“It is also no accident that the Guyana Police Force and the
Guyana Defence Force, despite weeks of joint operations in civil
society, for the stated purpose of recovering 30 AK-47 assault
rifles and other guns stolen from the GDF, have failed to recover
a single stolen AK-47.”
He is of the view that such failure must be due to the
unwillingness or disinclination on the part of the security forces
as evidenced by the contents of the purported conversation between
Commissioner Felix and an opposition PNCR Member of Parliament.
He believes that the focus of the joint operations has been
persons alleged to be involved in drug-trafficking and who are
unlikely to evoke open public sympathy or government support.
He opined that the purpose of the focus is to drive underground
the only persons who have the will and the capability to stand up
to the group of armed bandits and have demonstrated the
inclination to do so – thereby removing the only impediment to
the criminal and political operations of the so-called ‘armed
African resistance fighters'.
Khan said in the current state of affairs, it is obvious that
the PPP/C administration, even if it wins the next election, will
be vulnerable to instability through politically directed
terrorist and savage conduct by an armed criminal group operating
unopposed.
He charged that it is now confirmed that the US Government,
through the US Embassy, has played its part in supporting the
retention of Felix in office despite his performance, under the
guise that the Commissioner has been instrumental in carrying an
offensive against persons alleged to be involved in
drug-trafficking.
He noted that prior to March 19, last, the Commissioner never
conducted operations of this magnitude against persons alleged to
be involved in drug-trafficking.
Khan stated that the primary objective of the US does not lie
in combating narco-trafficking but in acquiring a strong foothold
in Guyana for the purpose of regaining dominance in Latin America
which is increasingly being lost to President of Venezuela, Hugo
Chavez.
Khan said the PPP/C Government is leftist but weak even though
it has the capacity to win the next general elections.
Therefore, it does not take much in terms of US subversive
activities to ensure that the leftist PPP/C is removed from
political office and replaced by a government pliable to US wishes
and dominance.
“Failure to subvert the PPP/C will have serious consequences
of US losing whatever dominance it has remaining in Latin America
as a whole,” Khan stated.
“The US can ill afford not to ensure that Guyana has a
government pliable to its wishes and dominance: a US lackey
government.”
He reasoned that it would be undesirable for the US to inspire
an outright military coup against the PPP/C administration in the
event that that party is successful in the next general elections.
He surmised that the plan is therefore to neutralise the
security forces to ensure the existence of the armed group of
bandits which are subject to political direction while at the same
time removing or disabling those that are inclined to oppose.
Khan is of the view that the PPP/C Government can easily be
destabilized directly by the politically directed criminal
elements which he said are part and parcel of civil society.
The embattled businessman declared that Plan A is designed to
ensure that potential PPP/C supporters either leave the country or
refrain from voting at the next general elections.
Sporadic terrorist acts are the key, he said, citing the
assassination of Minister Satyadeow Sawh and his siblings and the
brutal assault on Agricola in which eight persons died.
In such a case, if the PPP/C were to lose, it will be said that
it lost in fair and free elections even though such elections were
attended with extreme fear on the part of the PPP/C supporters.
Khan said Plan B assumes that the PPP/C, despite the terrorism,
is successful at the forthcoming elections.
His analysis is that in such an event, the PPP/C Government
will be destabilized and brought down by a proactive, politically
motivated criminal group which will be classified as part and
parcel of civil society and by negativism on the part of the
security forces.
He stated that the suppression of persons such as himself who
are fiercely antagonistic to the bandit elements has particular
relevance to Plan B.
Their dominant objective is to curtail the growing dominance of
the leftist movement in Latin America with emphasis on President
Chavez of Venezuela .
Khan made it clear that his past, present and future energies
to combat crime in Guyana has as its motive the prevention of the
loss of innocent lives and the arrest and capture of factions and
groups not unlike ‘the armed resistance'.
Khan noted that he has never been affiliated to any
political party nor will he ever take instructions from them as he
holds both the PPP/C and PNCR directly responsible for the current
state of affairs in Guyana .
When Khan first leveled his accusations against the United
States embassy, an official stated that the US does not support
coups.
The embassy subsequently issued a statement inviting Khan to
apply for a visa like any other person and travel to the United
States to prove his case in the courts.
Sunday
05-21-2006
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