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Islamic extremist Mullah Krekar leader threatens
'reactions' if Norway expels him: report
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November
29, 2007
Oslo, Norway, -- Mullah Krekar, the founder
of radical Islamist terrorist group Ansar al-Islam
in Iraqi Kurdistan, has warned there will be
"reactions" against Norway if it goes ahead with a
court ruling to expel him to Iraqi Kurdistan, NRK
television reported Thursday.
Three groups would "react" if he was deported,
according to an NRK translation of comments the
Iraqi Kurd made earlier this month to a website
called Awane, which means "mirror" in Kurdish.
The three groups were: his relatives, an
unidentified armed organisation and people, possibly
from Somalia or Morocco, who follow his religious
teachings, according to the translated comments,
which gave no details of what the reactions would
entail.
Norway's Supreme Court on November 8 upheld previous
court rulings and a 2003 decision by the Norwegian
authorities to expel Krekar from the Scandinavian
country, claiming he was a national security
concern. |
Mullah Krekar, the founder of radical and Terrorist
Islamist group Ansar al-Islam. Krekar, whose real
name is Fateh Najmeddin Faraj |
Norwegian law however prevents Krekar, whose real
name is Fateh Najmeddin Faraj, from being deported
to his homeland until the situation in Iraq
improves.
The Muslim radical leader has lived in Norway as a
refugee since 1991, he is the founded the Ansar
al-Islam group listed as a terrorist organization by
the U.S. and Iraqi Kurdistan.www.ekurd.net The group is also
suspected in suicide bombings of coalition forces in
Iraqi Kurdistan. www.ekurd.net
The Iraqi Kurd admits that he founded the group but
insists he has not headed it since May 2002.
Krekar in one of the most wanted in Iraqi Kurdistan region on charges of
terrorist attacks in the region.
Krekar, who insists his life would be in danger if
he returns to Iraqi Kurdistan, has meanwhile come
out in support of "jihad", or holy war, in that
country.
It also said Krekar repeatedly returned home to
autonomous Kurdistan region in 'northern Iraq', even
though he had been granted refugee status in Norway
by claiming it was unsafe for him there.
He has compared the US occupation of Iraq to the
Nazi invasion of European countries, and insisted
that Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is "a good man".
In Thursday's report, NRK also said Krekar had
admitted in an Australian documentary earlier this
month that he himself had trained suicide bombers
and had come out in support of the 2003 killing of
an Australian television cameraman in Iraq.
Norwegian state radio network NRK reported on
October 9,
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.
"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.
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. www.ekurd.net
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."
AFP | ekurd.net
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