Norway shocked by 'al-Qaeda' threat

BBC ^ | 5-21-03

[piasa]

DECEMBER 2001 : (KREKAR LEAVES IMK & JOINS NEWLY ESTABLISHED JUND AL-ISLAM : THE TWO GROUPS WOULD FORM ANSAR AL ISLAM UNDER LEADERSHIP OF KREKAR) Following splits in the Islamic Movement in Kurdistan (IMK) movement last year [2001], Mala Krekar and his followers left IMK in December 2001 and joined the newly established Kurdish Islamic radical group, Jund al-Islam. The two groups formed Ansar al-Islam, with Mala Krekar as the group’s leader. - "Ansar al-Islam’s leader arrested - Jordan asks his extradition," Iraqi Kurdistan Dispatch, news, 15 September 2002

[piasa]

REVILED BY U.S., ISLAMICIST IS HERO FOR SOME IN OSLO

(SNIPPET) "I feel safe here in Norway," said Krekar, the founder of the Ansar al-Islam (Supporters of Islam) rebel group which controls a sliver of land in north Iraq where it battles other Kurdish groups opposed to Baghdad. It has perhaps 700 fighters. (/SNIPPET)

[Cindy]

Thank you Piasa for your contribution to this thread. I believe this thread is quite informative.

[AdmSmith]

Thanks Cindy, if we have a positive link between Mullah Krekar and Zawahiri then it is possible to expose a lot of bugs.

[Marysecretary]

I visited back in the 80's with my mom before she died and that's all I heard from my cousin, Tom. He hated the pakis but said the guy who ran the store was a good sort, so it wasn't all of them he hated. Norway is so lightskinned and blond (although not all are) that they stand out in a crowd, for sure. What makes him mad is that they brought drugs into the country and sell them.

[Cindy]

re post no.84...

You're welcome. My gut reaction is that there is a connection between Krekar and the threat against Norway.