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Norway: Immigration Row Involves Relative
of Islamist Mullah Krekar
8.4.2006
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Westernresistance website reported earlier that the
controversial Islamist Mullah Krekar may soon be
deported from Norway, where he has lived for 14
years, to Iraq, where he is wanted on terrorism
charges.
Krekar is the founder of Ansar al Islam, one of the
groups recently banned by the UK Home Office.
Founded in September 2001 on one of Krekar's many
visits to Iraq, the group, whose full name is Ansar
al-Islam fi Kurdistan, or "Supporters of Islam in
Kurdistan", is responsible for attacks mainly
against women. It has closed down beauty salons and
has burned a school for girls, and has caused the
murder of women judged to be "un-Islamic" in the
mainly Kurdish region of Biyarah near the border
with Iran.
Krekar's group has links with Al Qaeda, and has been
involved with suicide bombings in Iraq, including an
attack on February 1, 2004, in which two Kurdish
party offices were attacked, killing 109 people and
injuring 200. |
Mulla Krekar,
the founder of Ansar al
Islam, an Islamic terrorist group
Photo AP
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There is currently a political dispute in Norway,
concerning the nation's Directorate of Immigration (UDI),
which granted 182 Kurdish asylum seekers residence
permits, apparently bypassing usual procedures. This
decision, made on November 28 last year, was in
breach of the policies of the outgoing government.
Now, according to Aftenposten it appears that the
current head of the UDI, Manuela Ramin-Osmundsen,
was not only aware of the breach of procedural
policy, but she also had numerous opportunities to
report the decision, but did not. Only appointed
last month, she is now on administrative leave until
May 15.
Though Manuela Ramin-Osmundsen was scheduled to lead
an inquiry into the affair, the current revelations
have led to the inquiry being led by Hans Petter
Graver, a law professor from Oslo, with the
assistance of a court official from Haugesund and a
consultant from Oslo.
Apart from the political ramifications of the way
that the decision to grant residency to the 182
Kurds was made, the issue has gained a more
controversial edge, because of the identity of one
of those granted permits for at least a year.
As Aftenposten reported on
April 4, this controversial individual is
the mother in law of Mullah Krekar.
A former government minister, Erna Solberg, gave the
UDI clear instructions that residence permits could
only be given to those who had a job, who could
support themselves and their families, could verify
their identities and who had no criminal record. All
others were to have been deported.
The issue of the residence permits, and in
particular the fact that a member of Mullah Krekar's
family being granted permission to stay, when he is
seen as a threat to national security, has angered
politicians. I is seen to insult other would-be
immigrants who have had difficulties gaining the
necessary credentials to secure residency
permissions.
As we reported
earlier, Krekar made a veiled threat last year
against the nation which has housed him. Speaking on
Al Jazeera TV on August 31, he suggested that if he
should be returned from Norway to Iraq, "everyone
must know" that this "is an offence that shouldn't
be made without punishment."
On March 13,
Agora translated an interview which Mullah
Krekar gave to Dagbladet newspaper.
He claimed that Islam will
be victorious against the West:
"We have no fear of the Western mindset. It can
never be victorious. In Iraq the two sides are
facing each other. On the side of Islam are men who
love death and are willing to become martyrs for
their beliefs. On the other side are soldiers who
fight for a 1000 dollars a day. The number of dead
American soldiers are proof of defeats.
In Afghanistan the same thing is happening. From
2001 to 2004 five suicide attacks occured. In 2005
it was 17. While the US and their allies are
becoming smaller, Islam is expanding the front. And
the reports from Guantanamo tell the same story.
There they try to rip the faith our of the Moslems'
hearts. They fail. In Denmark they printed those
cartoons, but the result is that the backing for
Islam increases. I and all Moslems are proof of
this. You haven't managed to change us. We are the
ones who will change you."
Source: westernresistance.com
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