http://www.aftenposten.no/english/
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February 29, 2008, 1529
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article2286018.ece
“Police claim evidence against terror suspects”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The police agency in charge of Norway’s national security believes it has secured evidence that three men arrested in Oslo Thursday have been funneling money to finance terrorism in Somalia.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “All three suspects come from Somalia and have been linked to the radical group Al Shabab, which in turn has been linked to terrorist activity. Prosecutors claim the suspects have sent money back to Somalia to finance “holy war” against the government that has run the country since Ethiopian forces invaded in 2006.”
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Previously...
February 28, 2008
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article2282983.ece
“Three charged with financing terrorist activity”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Norway’s special police unit in charge of intelligence gathering and national security has charged three persons with financing terrorist activities overseas. More arrests have been made in Sweden as well.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Swedish police also arrested three persons Thursday morning and charged them with financing terrorism as well. A Swedish security police spokesman confirmed the arrests in both Norway and Sweden were part of a coordinated action, reports Swedish news bureau TT.”
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Previously...
February 28, 2008
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article2283507.ece
“Café raid after terror arrests”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Police were scouring an Internet café in downtown Oslo on Thursday, in a raid believed to be tied to the arrests earlier in the day of three persons charged with financing terrorist activities.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The PST also confirmed that it had coordinated its arrests in Oslo with Swedish police, who arrested three other men in Stockholm Thursday morning, also on charges of financing terrorism and planning terrorist activities.
The three arrested in Stockholm are all Swedish citizens, but come from Somalia as well and are charged with having financed terrorist activities in their homeland.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=krekar
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=mullahkrekar
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http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/observer/story.html?id=4f3161ad-0573-449c-9682-99f68731d0a0
“In al-Qaeda’s sights”
The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Saturday, February 23, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Canadian connections to islamist terror groups Ansar Al-Islam (Supporters of Islam)
The radical Sunni Islamist, para-military terrorist group is composed of Iraqi Kurds, Arabs and others. The group surfaced just before September 2001 as a result of a merger of several Kurdish Sunni groups, and follows the same extremist interpretation of Islam as does al-Qaeda, to which it is closely affiliated.
Its leader, Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, better known as Mullah Krekar, once proclaimed to a Kurdish newspaper that “as far as Islam is concerned, democracy from beginning to end is heresy.”
Ansar is blamed for three attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq and has had at least three Canadian members, all from the Toronto area.”
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http://www.pst.politiet.no/default____162.aspx
UNCLASSIFIED REPORT SNIPPET: “
The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) prepares on an annual basis a threat assessment outlining
anticipated developments within PST’s areas of responsibility. The threat assessment, which is classified, is based
on several sources of information including PST’s operational activity, assessments by partner agencies and input
from other institutions with relevant expertise. The focus of the threat assessment is Norway and Norwegian
security interests and the timeframe is the year ahead. This document is an unclassified summary of PST’s threat
assessment for the year 2007.
UNCLASSIFIED THREAT ASSESSMENT 2007”
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/19/europe/EU-GEN-Norway-Terror-Assessment.php
“Islamic extremists pose rising challenge to Norway, police intelligence agency says”
The Associated PressPublished: February 19, 2008
OSLO, Norway
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The agency said the most common contribution to possible terrorism by people in Norway is likely to remain funding of extremists abroad.
However, it said experience from other European countries suggests that an increasing number of Muslims in Norway could adopt extremist views, “in the worst case supporting or participating in terror acts in Norway.”
Iraqi Kurd Mullah Krekar, who founded the al-Qaida-linked extremist group Ansar al-Islam, is a refugee in Norway, but was declared a threat to national security in 2005 and ordered deported. He has not yet been expelled.”