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"Mullah Krekar" informed police
3.6.2005
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A key
point in the case to expel controversial mullah
Krekar, former leader of guerrilla group Ansar
al-Islam, has been his clandestine returns to
northern Iraq, in violation of his terms of
residency, but this argument may be flawed.
Minister of Local Government and Regional
Development Erna Solberg has claimed that mullah
Krekar has lied about his trips home, but newspaper
VG reported that the Norwegian Police Security
Service (PST) had discussed the trips with Krekar 12
years ago.
Incomplete and incorrect information about his trips
home, which could invalidate his residency status,
are one of the key arguments in the expulsion case,
but VG claims that Krekar discussed these with
police on at least two occasions in the 1990s.
The PST reports VG referred two are reportedly
classified documents.
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Najumuddin Faraj Ahmad, better known as mullah
Krekar (left), and his defense counsel Brynjar
Meling during a pause in the appeal trial contesting
the decision to expel Krekar from Norway.
PHOTO: HEIKO JUNGE/SCANPIX |
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Krekar, 49, born
Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, and his lawyer Brynjar Meling
are contesting the legality of expulsion orders from
Norwegian authorities in an ongoing trial.
On Thursday Meling told Oslo Municipal Court that
mullah Krekar had traveled home via Syria on April
13, 1992 but said that the political climate in
northern Iraq had changed after the first Gulf War.
"Mullah Krekar is a member of the Kurdish
resistance, he was when he was granted asylum and he
has continued this struggle after he came to Norway.
He has always been open with Norwegian authorities,"
Meling said in court.
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