Wants Krekar confined
Norway's Progress Party is not satisfied with proposals to restrict or monitor the movements of Ansar al-Islam founder mullah Krekar.Progress Party leader Siv Jensen wants real restrictions on Krekar's movements. PHOTO: HÅKON MOSVOLD LARSEN/SCANPIX |
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Progress Party leader Siv Jensen says that Krekar is up to so many odd things that he should be in custody.
"The government does nothing, despite this man doing all sorts of funny business from his apartment in Oslo. I am not comfortable with that," Jensen told newspaper VG.
Norway's Supreme Court has finally ruled that Krekar can be deported and there are grounds to classify him as a threat to national security.
Krekar founded and led the Kurdish Islamic guerrilla group Ansar al-Islam, which is widely considered to be a terrorist group with links to al-Qaida. He claims to have no connection to them since 2002, but is regularly linked to statements backing suicide bombing and attacks on westerners from countries that are at war in the region.
The Progress Party will propose an amendment to the Immigrant Act that will make it possible to put a foreigner deemed a risk to national security in secure custody.
Minister of Labor and Social Inclusion Bjarne Håkon Hanssen said Wednesday that it is not possible to return Krekar to Iraq now, one reason being the continuing presence of the death penalty there.
The government's new proposed Immigrant Act would allow limitations on where a person can live, and a duty to regularly report to authorities if deemed a threat to national security.
Jensen argues that this would have little impact on Krekar who would still have freedom of movement.
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