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September 30, 2006

Norway: Muslim Hijacker Who Bragged Of "Mujahideen" Status Now Faces Drugs Charges

An Iranian Muslim who hijacked a plane in 1993 has now, according to Aftenposten and Nettavisen been arrested on drug smuggling charges. 33-year old Fahrad Mohammed Injeh (pictured) has frequently made headlines in Norway since the time that he and two others boarded a plane in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The other hijackers included his brother, and they used the threat of waving live hand grenades at staff to be allowed into the cockpit of the Aeroflot plane. They ordered the pilot to fly to Norway, with a brief refueling stop in Kiev. Once in Norway, Injeh, his brother Mansour and their accomplice were kept in a detention center for two years. They were extradited to Russia, and there served a short prison sentence until 1997.

After the prison sentence, they made their way to Denmark, where they were kept in a refugee center at Fyn. Here the two brothers acted like gangsters. One refugee there said to Ekstrabladet, a Danish newspaper: "Farhad and Mansour bragged all the time that they belonged to the Mujahedin in Iran, and they acted like kings in the camp." The two brothers regularly beat up other refugees in the Flyn center, where "it was Mansour who made the plans, and Farhad who carried them out." The pair were refused asylum in Denmark, so they arrived back in Norway.

In June 2002 the brothers were granted asylum and rights of residence in Norway, a decision which shocked the public, and drew condemnation from some ministers. The issue became more scandalous when it was revealed, just after asylum was granted, that the brothers were in no danger of being executed in their native Iran, where they should have been returned.

Norway is not a member of the European Union, and therefore is not subject to the ECHR, the European Convention of Human Rights. Article 3 of this convention states that "no-one can be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment". A similar case of hijackers being granted asylum happened in Britain, where it was argued that nine Afghans could not be returned to their native country, in case they received harsh punishment.

Even though Norway is not subject to the terms of the ECHR, it nonetheless has a policy which prevents individuals being returned to their countries if there is a risk of them being executed. This principle has so far prevented the terrorist Mullah Krekar from being returned to his native Iraq. Krekar has resided in Norway for 14 years as a result of this. Nonetheless, he still went back to Iraq, where he set up the terrorist organisation Ansar al-Islam fi Kurdistan or "Supporters of Islam in Kurdistan" in 2001. Krekar still lives as a free man in Norway, threatening violent reprisals if he does not get his way.

Days after the Iranian brothers had been granted asylum in Norway, it was revealed by the Norwegian embassy in Iran that embassy officials and the Iranian authorities had assured the Directorate of Immigration (UDI) that, if the Injeh brothers were returned to Iran, they would be in no danger of receiving death sentences. The Iranian authorities claimed that no person in Iran would receive any punishment for crimes committed abroad, if they had already served a sentence.

In the fall of last year, Fahrad Mohammed Injeh was arrested in a drugs case, which was dropped for lack of evidence. His latest brush with the law concerns a plan to smuggle amphetamines from Sweden into Norway. It was reported on Friday that police had been trailing drug couriers from Svunesund on the Swedish border to a garage in As, which was then raided. Five men were arrested, including Fahrad Mohammed Injeh.

Injeh was one of two men who were believed to have received the drugs. Two others had driven the vehicle, which was found to contain more than five kilograms of the drugs. The other man owned the garage.

Injeh's lawyer said that his client was "baffled" by the charges. Petter Sørensen said: "This is probably a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time."

Just like those people terrorized on the Aeroflot plane, or those beaten up by Injeh and his brother Mansour in Fyn refugee center, who also happened to be in "the wrong place at the wrong time."

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at September 30, 2006 3:42 PM

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