THE DEFENCE FORCE were prepared to bomb the Red House and studios of Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT) and the Trinidad Broadcasting Company (TBC), where Jamaat al Muslimeen members held the prime minister, government ministers and media personnel hostage during the July 27, 1990 insurrection.

FORMER parliamentarian Joseph Toney will tomorrow give evidence ‘in camera’ (private) before the Commission of Enquiry, set up to look into events surrounding the July 27, 1990, attempted coup.