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Mullah Krekar wins EUR 45,000 in damages
The Dutch government has been ordered on appeal by Amsterdam Court to pay EUR 45,000 in damages to suspected terrorist Mullah Krekar, who was falsely arrested in the Netherlands in 2002. The compensation bill is about eight times more than the initial EUR 5,510 in damages Haarlem Court ordered the Dutch government to pay in August 2003, news agency ANP reported. Lawyer Victor Koppe â who revealed on Wednesday that Amsterdam Court had recently awarded the higher damages bill â said he had demanded on appeal a larger sum because the Dutch government had treated his client "scandalously". Victor Koppe is the "go-to" lawyer for terrorists in trouble in Holland. Krekar is the leader of the militant Kurdish group Ansar al-Islam, accused by the US of having links with terrorist network Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. US forces heavily bombarded the groupâs bases during the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. Krekar is also fighting an expulsion order from Norway and claims he is no longer the leader of Ansar al-Islam. He also denies terrorism allegations, but the US claims his group continues to train, and possibly deploy, suicide bombers. I am seeing a slow change in the reporting on Mr. Krekar. The media used to call him a "spiritual leader." Now theyâre calling him a terrorist. Posted by: Seafarious 2004-04-21 |
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