Abdullah, an intellect and explosives expert, was the chief operative among insurgents that stormed the Red House during the 1990 coup attempt led by Abu Bakr.
He has since gone on to leadership of the Islamic Resource Society but has had a falling out with the Jamaat over turf and political favours.
Reports of a battle between the two have been circulating for months, but following Abu Bakr’s arrest on charges of sedition, security forces invaded the Jamaat with a warrant to break walls if necessary in search of a possible weapons cache.
Some Jamaat members, debarred from entering their compound and clearly confused without a leader, were heard openly blaming Abdullah.
They believe he had been providing tips to the FBI, who Bakr has long claimed wants to nab him, and local security forces eager to be seen publicly dealing with crime.
Abdulla was shocked when contacted by TnT Mirror late Thursday regarding talk that he was trying to mash up the Jamaat.
He described the allegations as “craziness.”
While Abdullah’s Islamic Resource Society was not one of the mosques raided by police, he described allegations that he is connected to a decision by security forces to raid the Jamaat as “utter and absolute nonsense,” and an attempt by “certain mischievous persons” to create hostilities between himself and Bakr.
He later issued an official statement to “categorically deny any such allegation as being absolutely untrue and a sinister attempt to promote hostilities between myself and the Jamaat”.
He indicated that he had not as much as make public comments on the Zakaat collection speech that landed Abu Bakr four charges without bail.”

SOME members of the
Jamaat al Muslimeen
broke down openly
under the double blow
of their leader Imam
Yasin Abu Bakr being
sent to jail and their headquarters being
subject to a search and
destroy mission by the
security forces. There
was no clear evidence
of organisation among
them as some seemed
to have lost their
resolve without Bakr.