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Ansar al-Islam founder Mullah Krekar appeals Norway
deportation order
10.10.2007 |
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October
10, 2007
Oslo, Norway, -- The founder of the Iraqi
extremist terrorist group Ansar al-Islam appealed
Tuesday to Norway's Supreme Court to overturn an
order to expel him from the Scandanavian country as
a threat to national security.
Two lower courts had upheld a government order to
expel Kurdish leader Mullah Krekar, a refugee in
Norway since 1991, even though conditions in Iraq
made it unlikely that he could promptly be returned
to his homeland.
Norway's highest court will now review the grounds
for the order, which also strips Krekar of his
refugee status, visa rights and all related
benefits. It also will assess whether he is a threat
to national security. |
Mullah Krekar, the founder of radical and Terrorist
Islamist group Ansar al-Islam. Krekar, whose real
name is Fateh Najmeddin Faraj |
The radical Ansar al-Islam terrorist group is banned
in Kurdistan region (Iraq) and listed as a terrorist
group by USA and Iraqi Kurdistan. Mullah Krekar, the founder
of radical and Terrorist Islamist group Ansar
al-Islam. Krekar, whose real name is Fateh Najmeddin
Faraj, living in Oslo.
The mostly Kurdish Sunni extremist group is tied to
al-Qaeda in Iraq and suspected in suicide bombings
of coalition forces in Iraq.
Krekar wanted in Iraqi Kurdistan on charges of
terrorist attacks in the region.
Krekar has said he no longer leads Ansar al-Islam,
and denies links to al-Qaeda. The United Nations
added him to a list of people believed associated
with al-Qaeda in December 2006.
The hearings are expected to last through Friday,
although the ruling may come later. The high court
can either uphold the earlier rulings, which would
be final, or send the case back to a lower court.
In court, Krekar's lawyer Harald Stabell argued that
his client has not been allowed a chance to
adequately defend himself because the report
declaring him a national security risk is
classified.
“For Krekar, this has meant weakened legal
protection during the handling of his case,” said
Stabell.
Norwegian state radio network NRK reported Tuesday
that
Krekar runs several Internet
sites, including one called
www.dorbeen.com
that presents American loses in Iraq and Afghanistan
as positive developments and has links to other
sites with videos of attacks on U.S. forces.
Krekar has refused to talk about the site. NRK said
there is no doubt that the sites are registered to
Krekar's wife and are operated from his home address
in Oslo.
The prosecutors also said Krekar had repeatedly
returned home to Kurdistan region in 'northern Iraq'
even though he had been granted refugee status in
Norway by claiming it was unsafe for him there.
"Osama bin Laden is a good man. I wish him a long
life. He is a good Muslim and he is against the Bush
administration," Krekar, known for his controversial
statements, told AFP in Oslo in 2006.
AP
Ansar al-Islam terrorist attacks in Kurdistan region
(Iraq):
Seven Kurdish border guards
killed in Iraqi Kurdistan ambush by
Ansar al-Islam terrorist group on July 16, 2007
In May 2005 a suicide bomber
killed at least 60 people and
wounded 150 more when he blew himself
up at the office of a Kurdish party in the northern
Iraqi city of Erbil
On
May 9, 2007 a suicide truck
bomber from Ansar al-Islam kills 19, wounds 70 in
Iraqi Kurdistan's capital of Erbil, Kurdish Ansar
al-Islam terrorist group has
claimed responsibility
for the blast.
May 13 was another bloody day for the Kurds, a
suicide car bomb targeted the headquarters of the
KDP party in Makhmour city in Kurdistan region
killed at least 30 people and
wounded 115 others including the
city's mayor. Nine members of Ansar al-Islam were
arrested for these terrorist attacks. Security
forces in Iraq’s Kurdistan autonomous region have
arrested several followers of previously tolerated
Islamist parties, accusing them of links to
insurgents.
On
February 26, 2007,
Houzan Mahmoud, an international representative of
MADRE's sister organization, the Organization of
Women's Freedom in Iraq, received a death threat by
e-mail signed by Ansar al-Islam terrorist group.
The death threat, delivered via e-mail, read, "With
the permission of Great God, we will kill you either
in Iraq or in London by the middle of March, because
you are campaigning against Islam. You should be
sent to God for punishment."
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