Mullah Kraker faces
news charges
The Iraqi
founder of the Iraqi Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-Islam is being prosecuted
in Norway for inciting terrorist acts, the public prosecutor's office said on
Wednesday.
Mullah Krekar, 56, whose real name
is Najmeddine Faraj Ahmad, was sentenced to five years in jail in March for
issuing death threats against a former government minister and others.
Krekar was found guilty of
threatening the life of Erna Solberg, an ex-minister who signed his expulsion
order in 2003 because he was considered a threat to national security.
Now, he faces three new charges of
inciting terrorist acts, threatening witnesses in a case against him, and
criminal damage.
"New charges have been filed.
The indictment was ready yesterday (Tuesday)," prosecutor Marit Bakkevig
told AFP.
Krekar, whose name is on terrorist
lists drawn up by the United Nations and the United States, has avoided
expulsion since the order was signed nine years ago since Norwegian law
prevents him from being deported to Iraq until his safety can be guaranteed and
as long as he risks the death penalty there.
While Krekar acknowledges having
co-founded Ansar al-Islam, which also figures on international lists of
terrorist groups, in 2001, he insists he has not led the group since 2002.
Source: AFP/The Local
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