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Kurdish Islamic radical "Krekar" family name suspect
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January 27, 2010
OSLO,
Norway, — Mullah Krekar's family
have named a Kurdish leader from Kurdistan region in
Iraq's north who they believe is responsible for the
shooting
against Krekar's apartment in Oslo early Monday
morning.
According to the newspaper VG, the police will now
try to find out if one of Krekar's enemies from
Iraqi Kurdistan could have arranged the attack.
The man is reported to have been in Norway recently.
He is said to be a central leader of the Kurdistan
Patriotic Union (PUK), a political party led by
Iraqi president Jalal Talabani.
PUK has been in conflict with Krekar's organisation
Ansar al-Islam which he led in Kurdistan region of
Iraq.
PUK in Norway reject the idea that they are behind
the attack.
An Iraqi Kurd, Krekar founded the Ansar al-Islam
organisation. |
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. |
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,www.ekurd.netKrekar in one
of the most wanted in Iraqi Kurdistan region on
charges of terrorist attacks in the region.
“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.
"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 the radical 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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