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Eight Islamic terrorists held in Iraqi Kurdistan
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December 31, 2008
SULAIMANIYAH,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — Eight
alleged Islamic militants planning to launch attacks
in Kurdistan region in 'northern Iraq' have been
arrested in the Kurdish province of Sulaimaniyah, a
top security official told reporters on Tuesday.
"Kurdish security forces in cooperation with other
security forces arrested a group of eight
terrorists," said Brigadier General Hassan Nouri,www.ekurd.net
commander of security forces in Sulaimaniyah city.
"The group are all Kurds and were linked to the
Ansar al-Islam terrorist group via neighbouring
nations. They have confessed their intent to carry
out attacks," he said. "We confiscated maps and some
explosive material."
Nouri did not identify the neighbouring nations
allegedly involved in the plot. He said the group
had planned to carry attacks using explosive devices
that are easily attached to the undersides of
vehicles.
Sulaimaniyah province north of Baghdad and near the
Iran border is part of the autonomous Kurdistan
region of northern Iraq.
Ansar al-Islam, a Sunni-Kurd extremist group that
has claimed several attacks against American,www.ekurd.net
Iraqi
forces and Kurdish civilians, is listed as a
terrorist group by the United States and Kurdistan
government. |
Kurdish Brigadier General Hassan
Nouri, the head of Sulaimaniyah security
forces (Asaiysh).
Mullah Krekar is the founder of radical and
Terrorist Islamist group . Krekar, whose real name
is Fateh Najmeddin Faraj has lived in Norway as a
refugee since 1991has become a huge headache for
Norwegian authorities. |
It
opposes the presence of US troops in Iraq and is at
odds with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic
Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Democratic
Party of Massud Barzani, who heads the regional
Kurdish government.
“All of the detainees are Kurds and most of them are
from Khurmal residents”
Brigadier Nouri said, the Khurmal
region of the province, which was an Ansar al-Islam
sanctuary prior to the US-led liberation of Iraq in
2003.
Ansar al-Islam group listed as a terrorist
organization by the U.S. and Iraqi Kurdistan
government (KRG).
The group is also suspected in suicide bombings of
coalition forces in Iraqi Kurdistan,www.ekurd.net
Krekar in one
of the most wanted in Iraqi Kurdistan region on
charges of terrorist attacks in the region.
Mullah Krekar, is founder
of radical Islamist terrorist group Ansar al-Islam.
Krekar has lived in Norway as a refugee since 1991,
but has been under threat of deportation since
Norwegian media revealed he was the founder of Ansar
al-Islam, which figures on the United States' list
of terrorist groups.
Background
“Krekar” with real name Fateh Najmeddin Faraj is an
Iraqi Kurd but he has immigrated to Norway in 1991
after “Islamic scholarship” and training in Pakistan
and Afghanistan in 1980s. Earlier his pictures from
Afghanistan has been published in many Islamic web
sites and Krekar has also confirmed via his lawyer
Brynjar Meling that he had meeting with Osama bin
Ladin already in 1988 in Peshawar in Pakistan.
According him, “the reason with meeting with Osama
bin Laden was to get financial support for
children”. (Avisens Nyhets Byra, ANB, 27 of February
2003).
Krekar who claim to be Kurd, never act any action
against Saddam's Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria where
the Kurds are brutally under daily pressure, but all
terror actions only against Kurdish civilians and
some actions against US soldiers. The Kurdish
organisations and Kurdish authority (KRG) are
accusing Krekar and his organisations Ansar Al-Islam
(Supporters / Partisans of Islam formed in 2001) and sister-organisation Ansar Al-Suna
(2003) to cooperate with the Kurdish enemies as
Iran, Turkey and Arabic fanatics to try to destroy
the stability in Federal Kurdistan Region in Iraq.
Many members of Ansar Al- Islam and Ansar Al-Suna is
Afghani-trained with Arabic origin as well. The
neighbouring countries as Iran, Turkey and Syria has
been always interesting on the terror actions
against Kurdish government to destabilise the
Federal Kurdistan. And the training camps, financial
supports and free movement-travelling of the
militants of Ansar Al-Islam is still a part of that
policy.
Ansar al-Islam group listed as a terrorist
organization by the U.S. and Iraqi Kurdistan
government.
The group is also suspected in suicide bombings of
coalition forces in Iraqi Kurdistan, Krekar in one
of the most wanted in Iraqi Kurdistan region on
charges of terrorist attacks in the region.
He has come out in support of "jihad", or holy war,
in Iraq and 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".
"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.
* Terrorist attacks in Kurdistan region
'Iraq' by Ansar al-Islam group which believed to be linked
to Al-Qaeda:
On September 29, 2008 Mariwan
Halabjaee, the Salman Rushdie of Iraqi Kurdistan,
threatened by Mullah Krekar
May 14, 2008, a blast hits Rania city,
injuring three children
seriously injuring three children who were playing
football
On March 10, 2008
a Car bomb Explodes outside luxury hotel in
Sulaimaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, killing one person
and wounding up to 30. Al-Qaeda
Suspected of
Sulaimaniyah Bombing
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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