Four days be­fore the 24th an­niver­sary of the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup, leader of the Ja­maat-al-Mus­limeen Yasin Abu Bakr sent out a warn­ing to Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter and the po­lice com­mis­sion­er fol­low­ing a raid at the Ja­maat's Cara­po mosque.

The clip, which went vi­ral on so­cial net­work­ing site Face­book, was post­ed at 1 pm on Win Ra­dio 101.1 FM Face­book page.

It was used dur­ing a news­cast on Win TV yes­ter­day.

Abu Bakr was re­spond­ing to ar­rest of 18 peo­ple at Cara­po mosque on Tues­day evening, in­clud­ing Life Sport co-or­di­na­tor Ra­jaee Ali.

"Com­ing in­to the mosque in Ra­madan and de­tain­ing peo­ple un­law­ful­ly, will not, and I re­peat will not, be ac­cept­ed.

"Big man Mr Alexan­der, if you think that you could do what­ev­er you want and you not ac­count­able to God, Mr Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Mr Grif­fith, this is Abu Bakr. I am say­ing, if you con­tin­ue this trans­gres­sion and ill-will, we will re­spond ap­pro­pri­ate­ly. End of Talk!"

When con­tact­ed for com­ment, up to press time, act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Stephen Williams said he could not com­ment as he was yet to view the clip.

He said he in­struct­ed his Pub­lic Af­fairs Of­fi­cer Supt Joanne Archie to pro­vide the in­for­ma­tion to him.

Bakr led 113 men in an at­tempt to over­throw the gov­ern­ment on Ju­ly 27, 1990.

In re­sponse, the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty said in a state­ment last night that while there is no ev­i­dence of any threat all usu­al sys­tems re­main in place that would deal with any or all threats to pub­lic safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty. These mea­sures are part of the na­tion's up­grad­ed de­fence mech­a­nisms that re­main in place on an on­go­ing ba­sis.

The Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty sent the fol­low­ing state­ment on Ju­ly 23:

The Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty was in­formed that the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice and De­fence Force de­tained a num­ber of sus­pects at the Cara­po mosque af­ter the raid was car­ried out [on Ju­ly 22]. This is en­tire­ly with­in the ju­ris­dic­tion of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice who will use what­ev­er in­tel­li­gence they have at their dis­pos­al to con­duct such ex­er­cis­es. It is un­for­tu­nate that such ac­tion was deemed nec­es­sary by the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice but one has to be as­sured that such mea­sures were re­quired in the pub­lic in­ter­est.

Re­gard­ing the pub­lic state­ments made by the leader of the Ja­maat Al Mus­limeen, Abu Bakr, the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty wish­es to ad­vise that while there is no ev­i­dence of any threat that all usu­al sys­tems re­main in place that would deal with any or all threats to pub­lic safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty. These mea­sures are part of the na­tion's up­grad­ed de­fence mech­a­nisms that re­main in place on an on go­ing ba­sis.