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| Mullah Krekar leader fights to keep his turban in Norway |
| 2007-10-10 |
| OSLO: Mullah Krekar, the founder of radical Islamist group Ansar al-Islam, appeared before Norway’s Supreme Court yesterday in a new attempt to have an expulsion order against him declared invalid. Norwegian authorities decided in February 2003 to expel Krekar from the Scandinavian country, claiming he was a national security concern. After several failed attempts at having the expulsion order overturned, Krekar appealed yesterday through his lawyer Harald Stabell for the Supreme Court to retry the validity of the verdict. Regardless of what the court decides, a lower court has already ruled that Krekar cannot be deported until the situation in Iraq improves. Krekar, whose real name is Fateh Najmeddin Faraj, has lived in Norway as a refugee since 1991, and has been under threat of deportation since Norwegian media revealed he was the founder of Ansar al-Islam, which figures on the US’s list of terrorist organisations. The Iraqi Kurd admits that he founded the group but insists he has not headed it since Krekar, who insists his life would be in danger if he returns to Iraq, has meanwhile come out in support of “jihad” in Iraq. 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”. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 Jawa Report fills in a few details for us. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-10-10 11:33 |