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US sanctions five 'terrorists', including
Mullah Krekar
8.12.2006
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WASHINGTON, December 7,-- The US Treasury
Thursday blacklisted five men, including a Kurdish
militant living in Oslo known as Mullah Krekar and a
Moroccan-born Swede, for aiding terrorism by
Al-Qaeda and other groups.
The move froze any assets the five men may have in
US jurisdiction, and barred Americans from
conducting any transactions with them.
Oslo-based Mullah Krekar, also known as Najmuddin
Faraj Ahmad, whom the Treasury said was aged either
43 or 50, was the target of an aborted "rendition"
plot by the CIA three years ago, the Washington Post
said Monday.
"The civilized world must stand united in isolating
these terrorists," said Stuart Levey, the Treasury's
under secretary for terrorism and financial
intelligence, in announcing the new sanctions.
"These individuals support every stage of the
terrorist life-cycle, from financing terrorist
groups and activity, to facilitating deadly attacks,
and inciting others to join campaigns of violence
and hate," he said. |
Mullah Krekar, the founder of radical and Terrorist
Islamist group Ansar al-Islam. Krekar, whose real
name is Fateh Najmeddin Faraj
Photo: AP |
Krekar, then head of a Kurdish insurgent group, was
targeted by three undercover CIA officers in the
spring of 2003 as part of a possible secret
operation to capture him, the Post said.
The spies left Norway by the end of the summer after
Krekar was tipped off by an unidentified Norwegian
official, the report said.
The CIA secretly apprehended a number of suspected
Islamic radicals in Europe after the September 11,
2001, attacks.
Also among the blacklisted five was Swedish citizen
Mohamed Moumou, a 41-year-old originally from
Morocco whom the Treasury said has an address in
London.
According to the Treasury, Moumou "was the
uncontested leader of an extremist group centered
around the Brandbergen Mosque in Stockholm, Sweden".
It cited reports as stating that Moumou enjoys close
links to the "inner circle" of Abu Musa al-Zarqawi,
Al-Qaeda's chief in Iraq who was killed in a US air
strike in June.
The three other individuals were all named as
Kuwaiti-based "terrorist facilitators" -- Hamid
Al-Ali, Jaber Al-Jalamah and Mubarak Mushakhas Sanad
Al-Bathali.
AFP
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