JIHAD WATCH.org (TIMES UNION): ALBANY IMAM REPEATEDLY CALLED NUMBER IN SYRIA USED TO GATHER INTELLIGENCE FOR BIN LADEN" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Aref, 35, a Kurdish refugee who moved to Albany with his family in 1999, is in jail without bond while awaiting trial on charges related to an FBI counterterrorism sting. He has denied any connections to terrorism. But federal authorities paint him as an intelligent religious scholar with strong ties to some of the world's most notorious terrorists, including Mullah Krekar, the founder of a violent Iraqi terrorist organization with ties to al-Qaida.") (March 22, 2006)
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AFTENPOSTEN.no/english - News from Norway: "KREKAR CAN BE EXPELLED SOON Minister of Labor and Socila Inclusion Bjarne Hakon Hanssen said that controversial mullah Krekar can be on a plane back to Iraq within two months." (March 16, 2006)
AFTENPOSTEN.no/english: "KREKAR CLAIMS ISLAM WILL WIN" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: ""Osama bin Laden is a good person," Krekar said. He claimed Osama bin Laden is considered a terrorist simply because he lacks his own state.") (March 13, 2006)
BRUSSELS JOURNAL.com: "'THE WAR IS ON'" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Yesterday (Thursday) Mullah Krekar, the alleged leader of the Islamist group Ansar al-Islam who has been living in Norway as a refugee since 1991, said that the publication of the Muhammad cartoons was a declaration of war. "The war has begun," he told Norwegian journalists. Mr Krekar said Muslims in Norway are preparing to fight. "It does not matter if the governments of Norway and Denmark apologize, the war is on.") (February 3, 2006)AFTENPOSTEN.no/english: Aftenposten.no - Search Term: "KREKAR"
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