Peace Corps Volunteers flee ‘ISIS’ vagrant (Guyana)
Peace Corps volunteers flee ‘ISIS’ vagrant By Vanessa Braithwaite, Guyana Chronicle September 26, 2016 Thanks for the “heads up” from Alana DeJoseph (Mali 1992–94) THE mining town of Linden is now short of four US Peace Corps volunteers in the health and education sectors after they received death threats from a vagrant known as “Killer”. According to reports, the man is known in the community as being mentally unstable. He would oftentimes make public threats, claiming to be a member of the terrorist organization Islamic State and would kill any American national if given the chance. The man would normally stand at the corner of Republic Avenue and Green Heart Street Mackenzie and verbally abuse passersby, using expletives and other threatening language. At one time he used to physically assault persons who on many occasion had to be defended by others nearby. While the Linden . . .
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