Obama to focus on security in Jamaica

In an interview with CNN, Jamaica's U.S.-educated Police Commissioner Carl Williams confirmed "the (Jamaican) intelligence community has been all over that since it came out."

Williams also said that the Jamaican force has formed a new police intelligence unit in February whose responsibilities will include data collection on potential terrorists such as seeking out evidence of sleeper cells. He said the inquiry into the presence of any terrorist activity is ongoing but at this stage he views the concerns as unsubstantiated.

"That is a theory that is sound but we have no such experience here in Jamaica. We haven't been able to identify anyone," Williams said.

Nonetheless, the commissioner did admit "we do have one individual here that is of concern to law enforcement and international law enforcement ... and we have eyes on that individual."

Williams would only confirm that the individual was well known, had been identified publicly and is living in the western part of the country. CNN reported as far back as September 2010 on Jamaican radical sheik Abdullah El-Faisal who at that time was living near of Montego Bay. The sheik, who had once told Muslims to take up jihad, told CNN's Drew Griffin that he had reformed his ways.

Jamaica is not the only Caribbean country with potential security concerns involving radical Islamists.

Gen. John Kelly, the commander of U.S. a Southern Command, recently said at a Defense Department briefing that Muslim recruits from other countries, including Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname, might be able to operate freely because the governments did not have the resources to track them.