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July 19, 2006
Norway: Iraq Deportations Begin, But Not For Islamist Mullah Krekar
We wrote on March 18 that Mullah Krekar (left), the founder of the Iraqi Kurdish terror group Ansar al-Islam was set to be deported, as soon as Iraq was deemed "safe".
We also reported on April 7 that Krekar's mother was allowed a residency permit by Norway's Directorate of Immigration (UDI). The decision to allow Ma Krekar and 182 other Kurdish asylum seekers to be allowed to stay, was made on November 28 last year. The decision provoked a storm of protest, as it had been made without following due procedure, and had allowed Ma Krekar and the others to jump the queue. As a result, various individuals in the UDI lost their jobs.
Today, Aftenposten reports that 400 asylum seekers whose claims have been rejected are currently being processed for deportation, but the Mullah himself, who recently praised Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is still waiting to be sent back.
In March, Norwegian Minister of Labor and Social Inclusion, Bjarne Hakon Hanssen said that Kerkar could be on a plane to Iraw within two months. He said then that the decision to remove Krekar would be taken if there was a guarantee from the Iraqi government to not submit the Mullah, who openly supports bin Laden, to the death penalty upon his arrival.
The Norwegian authorities are still waiting for this confirmation. They are also wishing for a guarantee that Krekar will not be subjected to torture upon his arrival in Iraq.
Last week, three Iraqis were returned to Irbil in northern Iraq, and the remaining 400 or so individuals are expected to be returned by the autumn.
Apparently, Mullah Krekar is now worrying about the CIA, states a report in Aftenposten, quoting the newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad. This report claims that in the summer of 2003, CIA agents were trying to abduct the Mullah. Two agents who were thought responsible for the abduction of Abu Omar from Milan were apparently spotted in Norway at that time, said Krekar's Norwegian attorney Brynjar Meling. Krekar avoided being alone and asked for police protection in the spring of 2003.
Krekar has been in Norway as a refugee for 14 years, but he has proved himself to be a bogus asylum seeker by making numerous trips to Iraq, where he claimed he was "unsafe".
On one of those trips, Krekar founded Ansar al-Islam fi Kurdistan or "Supporters of Islam in Kurdistan" in December 2001. In Kurdish Iraq, Ansar al-Islam has burned down beauty salons and a school for girls, and murdered women in the streets for refusing to wear the burqa. It has also launched several suicide attacks, including one against a US Department of Defense office in September 2003, which killed three people.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at July 19, 2006 8:36 AM
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