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Mullah Krekar	Mullah Krekar	Islamic Movement of Kurdistan	Europe			20040422	Link
	Fateh Najmeddin Faraj	Ansar al-Islam	Europe	Iraqi Kurd	At Large	20050603	Link
		Real name of Mullah Krekar; Founder of Ansar al-Islam; displaced by Zarqawi, in exile in Norway.
	Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad	Ansar al-Islam	Europe	Iraqi Kurd	At Large	20060603	Link
	Mullah Krekar	Ansar al-Islam	Europe	Iraqi Kurd	At Large	20031014
		Founder of Ansar al-Islam; displaced by Zarqawi, in exile in Norway.
	Mullah Krekar	Hizb al-Tawhid	Terror Networks			20031210

Europe

Norway extradites Kurdish Islamist preacher to Italy

2020-03-27

[Rudaw] Norway announced Thursday that it had extradited a fundamentalist Islamic preacher to Italia, despite the ongoing coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
epidemic, where he has been sentenced to jail for leading a jihadist network.

"Krekar is no longer in Norway. Krekar has today been extradited to Italia," Norwegian Justice Minister Monica Maeland told a presser.

The 63-year-old Iraqi Kurd -- known as Mullah Krekar, but named Najumuddin Faraj Ahmad -- was arrested in July 2019 after he was convicted in his absence by an Italian court and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

The Italian court found him guilty of having led a now dismantled jihadist network, Rawti Shax, a Kurdish movement with alleged links to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group and which is suspected of planning attacks in the West.

Krekar arrived in Norway in 1991 as a refugee.

Norway's Supreme Court authorised the extradition in early February, ending Krekar's legal attempts to avoid deportation.

Considered a threat to national security in Norway, Mullah Krekar had been the subject of deportation proceedings since 2003, when Norway first decided to deport him to Iraq.

However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
the decision was never implemented, due to concerns that he might suffer torture and face the death penalty

there.

The deportation to Italia comes at a time when that country is the hardest hit in the world by the new coronavirus pandemic, with more than 7,500 deaths.

"We have been given assurances that he will receive the help he should have and needs," Maeland told the presser when asked whether Krekar risked contracting the potentially deadly COVID-19.

Krekar's lawyer, Brynjar Meling, told AFP the extradition marked "a day of shame" for the Norwegian authorities and constituted a "denial of justice".

According to Meling, Krekar is particularly at risk because he suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure.

Krekar, who founded the radical Islamist group Ansar al-Islam, is designated a terrorist by the UN and the US and has spent several years in Norwegian prisons for issuing threats and calling for murder.

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Europe

Norway is revoking the citizenship of a terrorist Norwegian in the Krekar case

2019-08-13

[Translate.google] The UDI has withdrawn the citizenship of the man convicted of terrorism along with Mullah Krekar in Italy. The man was arrested immediately afterwards.
Because it's not Sweden or Minnesota
- The Ministry of Education has instructed the UDI to revoke the citizenship of the man who is terrorized with Mullah Krekar in Italy, Minister of Knowledge and Integration Jan Tore Sanner (H) said in a press release on Monday evening.

The man has already been arrested by Norwegian police, writes Nettavisen .

Facing NTB, Communications Director Trond Hugubakken confirms the Police Security Service (PST arrest).

- I can confirm that he was arrested this evening by PST with the assistance of local police. He was arrested because he was convicted in an Italian court and because Italy has called for him, says the communications director.

Seven and a half years in prison
Earlier this summer it became known that the Buskerud man had been granted citizenship even though he was under investigation for terrorism in Italy. In the July lawsuit this year, the man, who is in his 40s, was sentenced to seven years and six months in prison.

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Europe

Norway arrests Muslim cleric after Italian terror trial

2019-07-17

[IsraelTimes] A Moslem holy man found guilty in Italia of planning terror attacks is detained in Norway on an Italian arrest warrant, The Norwegian domestic security agency says.

Iraqi-born Mullah Krekar, born Najm al-Din Faraj Ahmad, was detained late Monday, the PST security agency says. The agency tweets hours after an Italian court found Krekar guilty of attempting to overthrow the Kurdish government in northern Iraq and create an Islamic caliphate, and sentenced him to 12 years.

Italian prosecutors had alleged Krekar, who is based in Norway, is behind Rawti Shax, a Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an network aimed at violently overthrowing the government in Kurdistan. Krekar, who has denied the allegations.
No, no! Certainly not!
plans to appeal, said his Italian lawyer, Marco Vernillo.

In 2015, European authorities arrested 15 Iraqi-Kurdish nationals on terrorism-related charges. Rawti Shax recruited foreign terrorist fighters to be sent to Iraq and Syria and provided logistical and financial support, according to the Italian prosecutors who spearheaded the probe. They alleged that Krekar was the leader.

A refugee from Iraqi Kurdistan who came to Norway in 1991, the 63-year-old holy man has several convictions in Norway, including for threatening Prime Minister Erna Solberg. He also praised the 2015 holy warrior attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo
...

A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
. Krekar founded the now-defunct Ansar al-Islam murderous Moslem group of Sunni Kurds that reportedly merged with the Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in 2014.

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Europe

Norwegian Court Approves Mullah Krekar's Extradition to Italy

2016-10-22

[An Nahar] A Norwegian court on Friday confirmed that conditions have been met to extradite a controversial Iraqi Kurdish holy man to Italia to face terrorism-related charges.

In June, the Oslo District Court had authorized the extradition of the 60-year-old Mullah Krekar, the religious leader of a Kurdish network suspected to be linked to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

A refugee in Norway since 1991 but not a citizen, Krekar is accused by Italia of leading the Rawti Shax, a network that has planned to carry out attacks in the West.

Krekar, whose real name is Najmuddin Ahmad Faraj, had appealed the case, which was rejected on Friday by the Oslo appeals court that authorized the extradition of another suspect in the case, Kamil Jalal Fatah.

Krekar's lawyer, Brynjar Meling, told AFP that his client was now going to the Supreme Court.

Meling said his client had merely made an attempt to form a political party in Iraqi Kurdistan. "This has nothing to do with terrorism," he told TV2.

The lawyer has repeatedly accused Norway of using the case as an excuse to get rid of a cumbersome Krekar, who cannot be deported to his country.

Krekar has twice been sentenced to prison in Norway because of threats and inciting violent behavior.

He has been at risk of deportation since 2003 after Norwegian authorities ordered him to be expelled as a threat to national security.

While courts have upheld the ruling, Norwegian law bars him from being deported to Iraq, where he risks the death penalty.

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Europe

Radical Kurdish militant Krekar faces new charges in Norway

2016-06-20

[RUDAW.NET] A court in Norway officially charged the radical Kurdish Lion of Islam Mala Krekar

...I think they must mean Mullah Krekar, born in Iraq with the name of Najm al-Din Faraj Ahmad or possibly Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad or even Fateh Najmeddin Faraj...

Thursday for alleged terror links to a group based in Italia, according to online pages close to Krekar who is also wanted in Kurdistan region on multiple terror-related cases.

According to the charges, Krekar is accused of having criminal masterminded a ’terror group’ in Italia while serving a sentence at the Kongsvinger prison in Norway. Krekar has denied involvement. The court proceedings will continue till June 15 when a verdict is expected to determine his possible extradition to Italia for further investigations.

Krekar’s lawyer has said his client had no access to communicate with the group in Italia from his prison cell.

According to the charges, Krekar instructed the group through regular Skype meetings while in prison.

Mala Krekar was sentenced in March 2012 to 6 years in prison but was released in January 2015 after a judge reduced his sentence.

He has faced several legal charges in Norway, where he has lived since 1991 with his family.

Krekar, a flamboyant Kurdish Islamist in exile, is wanted in Kurdistan Region for terrorism charges dating back to late 1990s and early 2000 when he found the Kurdish jihadist group Ansar al-Islam, and declared a caliphate-like colony in southern Kurdish towns of Biara and Tawela in the run up for the 2003 US-led incursion to Iraq.

The US army demolished Ansar al-Islam strongholds in Biara and Tawela with Tomahawk and Cruise missiles during the Iraq invasion of 2003 and dismantled the group’s network.

Kurdish authorities say Ansar al-Islam were responsible for killing and torturing numbers of locals in the area who opposed the caliphate and want to try its leader Krekar for the charges.

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Europe

Italy issues 17 arrest warrants in terrorism blitz

2015-11-13

[AlAhram] Police in Italia say they have issued 17 arrest warrants for Iraqi Kurds on terrorism-related charges in a Europe-wide blitz.

Carabinieri Gen. Giuseppe Governale told RAI state radio Thursday that the operation involved investigations in Britannia, Norway, Finland, Germany and Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
. The ANSA news agency said the suspects are accused of international terrorism association. A news conference is being held later in the day with Italia's top anti-terrorism officials

Norway's security service PST, meanwhile, told Norwegian media that a tossed in the slammer
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
Iraqi-born holy man and two others have been jugged
You have the right to remain silent...
on suspicion of their involvement in a terror plot in Italia.

PST spokeswoman Siv Alsen said Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad, known as Mullah Krekar, and two others whom she didn't name, face a court hearing Friday in Oslo, Norway, pending a possible deportation to Italia.

Last month, Ahmad was sentenced to 18 months in jail for praising the slaying of cartoonists at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo
...

A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
, which had lampooned Islam and other religions. He was also found guilty of urging others to kill a Kurdish immigrant in Norway in the same interview with Norwegian broadcaster NRK.

Earlier this year, Ahmad was freed after nearly three years' imprisonment for making death threats. The 59-year-old Kurd, who came to Norway as a refugee in 1991, was convicted in 2005 for a similar offense.

Norway and the United States have accused Ahmad of financing a defunct Iraqi Sunni Lion of Islam group called Ansar al-Islam. It reportedly merged with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group last year.

Speaking from Valettta, Malta, where she took part in the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
meeting on the migrant crisis, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said "if this means that Krekar leaves Norway, that's fine."

An Nahar adds:

Italian police on Thursday announced a swoop on a European jihadist network that was allegedly planning to try to spring its leader out of detention in Norway.

Seventeen people were targeted in the raids across Europe -- 16 Kurds and a Kosovan. Six of them have been arrested in Italy, four in Britain and three in Norway.

Several members of the group have traveled to Iraq and Syria to fight for the Islamic State group, police said.

Investigators said the network was trying to free Norway-based fundamentalist preacher Najmuddin Ahmad Faraj -- also known as Mullah Krekar -- who is listed as a terrorist by the United States and United Nations.

The network developed "on the 'dark web', little-known (Internet) platforms that we have managed to penetrate," Giovanni Governale of the Italian police's Special Operations Group said, adding that the swoop has allowed police to scupper "a process of recruitment, of sending (fighters) into combat abroad".

Governale said the network "was about to continue sending many other jihadists abroad; it was about to carry out attacks, including suicide bombings, to try to free their chief, Mullah Krekar".

The 59-year-old, a Kurdish Iraqi, has been living in Norway since 1991.

He has been at risk of deportation since 2003 after Norwegian authorities ordered him to be expelled as a threat to national security.

While courts have upheld the ruling, Norwegian law bars him from being deported to Iraq, where he risks the death penalty.

Krekar also founded the radical Islamist group Ansar al-Islam, but insists he has not led it since 2002.

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Europe

Kurdish Islamist Mullah Krekar gets jail term in Norway

2015-11-01

[Rudaw] Mullah Krekar, a controversial Kurdish holy man who founded the Death Eater group Ansar al-Islam and has known ties to al-Qaeda, was sentenced by a Norwegian court Friday to 18 months in prison for threatening a fellow Kurd on television.

In addition, Krekar has to pay 75,000 Norwegian kronor (about S8,800) in compensation.

The 59-year Krekar, a Kurd from Iraq whose real name is Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, threatened the Kurd, Halmat Goran, during a television interview with Norwegian TV NRK in February 2015.

Krekar had earlier issued a fatwa against Goran when the latter published a video several years ago in which he burned the Koran.

Krekar told NRK: "The responsibility to execute the punishment belongs to the Muslim community, whether he is in Norway or whether he is with Barack Obama
I am the change that you seek...
."

The Kurdish Islamist claimed that he did not threaten Goran, but Goran had to "fear Somalis, Indonesians, Africans, Chechens and all other Muslims."

"Anyone who knows the punishment could kill him. I'll send a gift to him that kills him. Why should I not be happy about it?" Krekar told NRK.

Goran had to change his name and is now living at a secret address because of the threats.

The words from Krekar must be understood as a threat, according to the judge.

"The court is in no doubt that the statement should be understood as a call for a certain group of people to execute the punishment," Judge Peter Blom said as he read the court's decision against Krekar.

Krekar's attoney, Brynjar Meling, said in a blurb that his client will take "time to think" and not appeal the verdict. In addition, Meling believed that some of Krekar's words have been taken out of context.

"The judgment has obvious weaknesses, including basing itself on an edited material," the statement said. "Krekar believes that he has made the necessary provisions in the raw material."

After the verdict, Krekar left the courtroom immediately, without giving comments.

Krekar was born in Sulaimani in the Iraqi Kurdistan region and is the father of four children. He completed a master's degree in Islamic studies in Pakistain and moved to Norway in 1991. He established the Salafist jihadi group Ansar al-Islam in 1994.

Since 2006, Mullah Krekar has been on the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
' terror list.

In 2012, he was sentenced to five years in prison in Norway for threatening to kill the then conservative politician Erna Solberg, who is now Norway's prime minister. The appellate court later reduced his sentence to 34 months.

The Norwegian conservative party in 2002 raised the issue of national security and demanded his deportation.

Iraq has demanded his extradition for trial, but that has been denied by Norway, which prohibits the expulsion of an individual without a guarantee against the death penalty or torture.

In 2013, negotiations for Krekar's deportation to Iraq failed, after Iraqi officials could not promise Norway that the holy man would not face torture or execution after deportation.

Krekar has also been accused of having helped establish a terrorist group in Germany. In March 2014, he was questioned in Oslo by German police. Ten people have been charged in the case.

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Europe

Norway Arrests Radical Preacher who Praised Charlie Hebdo Killers

2015-02-28

In which Mullah Krekar once again attracts negative attention from the no-longer tolerant authorities.

[AnNahar] A radical Islamic preacher has been locked away
You have the right to remain silent...
in Norway after praising last month's deadly attack on the Charlie Hebdo
...

A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
satirical weekly in Gay Paree, police said Friday.

The Iraqi Kurd preacher known as Mullah Krekar said in a television interview broadcast on Wednesday that "those who draw caricatures of Mohammed must die".

Krekar, who was only freed from prison late last month, was locked away
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
Thursday night on accusations of inciting crime, police said.

"I am obviously happy with what happened in Gay Paree," the 58-year-old said in the interview with Norwegian channel NRK.

Krekar also responded "yes" when asked if he believed those who carried out the attack were heroes.

When a cartoonist "tramples on our dignity, our principles and our faith, he must die," he said.

"Those who do not respect 30 percent of the Earth's population do not deserve to live."

Skinless people in a sandpaper world.

Jihadist gunnies killed 12 people, including some of La Belle France's best-known cartoonists, in the January 7 attack on Charlie Hebdo's Gay Paree office.

Another five people were killed in the three-day spree, including four Jews bumped off at a kosher supermarket and a policewoman.

Krekar was released from prison at the end of January after serving a two-year, 10-month sentence for making threats against Prime Minister Erna Solberg before she came to office and three Kurds.

Krekar, whose real name is Najmeddine Faraj Ahmad, has been living in Norway since 1991.

He has been at risk of deportation since 2003 after Norwegian authorities ordered him to be expelled as a threat to national security.

While courts have upheld the ruling, Norwegian law bars him from being deported to Iraq, where he risks the death penalty.

So selfish. Why should Norway exclusively enjoy the pleasure of his company, when the folks back home miss him so?

Krekar also founded the radical Islamist group Ansar al-Islam, but insists he has not led it since 2002.

The preacher and Ansar al-Islam figure on U.N. and U.S. lists of terrorist groups or individuals.

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Europe

Norway banishes ‘hate preacher’ to remote village

2015-02-03

[IsraelTimes] Mullah Krekar co-founded radical Islamist group Ansar al-Islam, but he maintains he has not been involved since 2002

A court in Oslo on Monday authorized police to banish Iraqi Kurd "hate preacher" Mullah Krekar to a remote Norwegian village.

The mullah, 58, who has been living in Norway since 1991, founded the radical Islamist group Ansar al-Islam.

He was released from prison at the end of January after serving a two-year, 10-month sentence for making threats against Prime Minister Erna Solberg, before she came to office, and three Kurds.

The police had invoked special measures to order Krekar, whose real name is Najmeddine Faraj Ahmad, to live in a refugee center in Kyrksaeteroera, a village of 2,500 people situated 500 kilometers (300 miles) from the capital.

The defense had argued that the court needed to examine the legality of the decision, which prohibits the married father of four from leaving the village and which requires him to report to local police three times a week.

"With some misgivings, the court considers that the basic national interest, at least until 31 December 2015, must take precedence over Faraj's right to a family life, freedom to move freely throughout the country and to choose his own place of residence," read the court's decision.

Krekar's lawyer, Brynjar Meling, appealed the decision and asked that it be suspended pending review.

Krekar has been living under risk of deportation since 2003 after Norwegian authorities ordered him to be expelled, claiming he posed a threat to national security.

While Norway's court system has upheld the ruling, Norwegian law bars him from being deported to Iraq, where he risks the death penalty.

While Krekar acknowledges having co-founded Ansar al-Islam, he insists he has not led the group since 2002.

The preacher and the group Ansar al-Islam figure on United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
and US lists of terrorist groups or individuals.

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Europe

Norway Court Overturns Mullah Krekar Terror Conviction

2012-12-07

[An Nahar] A Norway appeals court on Thursday overturned a terrorism conviction against Mullah Krekar, the Iraqi founder of a radical Iraqi Kurdish Islamist group, but jugged
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
him on other charges.

The Oslo appeals court found the mullah, who founded the Ansar al-Islam group and has lived in Norway since 1991, not guilty of "inciting terrorism" but sentenced him to two years and 10 months in prison for issuing threats and intimidating witnesses.

A lower court had sentenced Krekar, whose real name is Najmeddine Faraj Ahmad, to a total of six years in prison in two separate trials for having made threats and calling for the murder of, among others, a former government minister who signed an order expelling him from Norway in 2003.

The appeal judges upheld only the convictions covering witness harassment in Krekar's first trial and threats he issued to Kurds whom he accused of desecrating or burning pages of the Koran.

The prosecution had called for a seven-year prison sentence.

The mullah was also ordered to pay 130,000 kroner (18,000 euros, $23,000) to each of the three people he threatened.

Krekar is, like his organization, on terrorist lists drawn up by the United Nations
...Parkinson's Law on an international scale...
and the United States. While he acknowledges having co-founded Ansar al-Islam, he insists he has not led the group since 2002.

He has avoided deportation since his expulsion order was signed nine years ago because 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.

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Europe

Ansar al-Islam founder gets new jail term

2012-08-30

The founder of an Islamic terrorist group responsible for the murder of an ABC cameraman in Iraq in 2003 has been sentenced to an extra year in jail.

Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, also known as Mullah Krekar, is an Iraqi-born ethnic Kurd who resides in Norway.

He was already facing five years in prison after being found guilty earlier this year of threatening Norwegian politicians who had called for his extradition to Iraq to face terrorism charges.

Krekar was sentenced to an extra year in jail for allegedly making more threats against members of Norway's Muslim immigrant community and former prime minister Kjell Magne Bondevik.

Krekar was the founder of Ansar al-Islam, an Al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic extremist group listed as a terrorist organisation by the UN, United States, Australia, Canada and many other nations.

In March 2003, an Ansar al-Islam suicide bomber killed freelance cameraman Paul Moran, who was on assignment for the ABC in northern Iraq.

Five Iraqis were also killed in the suicide bombing at a checkpoint. ABC correspondent Eric Campbell was wounded in the attack.

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Europe

Iraqi-born Islamist cleric in Norway terror trial

2012-02-16

An Iraqi-born cleric pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of making death threats against politicians and encouraging suicide bombings.

Prosecutors said Mullah Krekar, a 55-year-old Islamist who came to Norway as a refugee in 1991, faces several years in prison if found guilty by Oslo District Court.

Since his arrival, Krekar has made frequent trips to Iraq where in 2001 he founded the Kurdish Ansar al-Islam, a group suspected of organizing suicide bombings against coalition forces in Iraq, and listed as a terrorist organization by the United States and other nations.

In 2005, a Norwegian court declared Krekar a national security threat and ordered him deported, but later postponed the move because of concerns he could face execution or torture in Iraq.

In June 2010, Krekar said at a news conference organized by the foreign press club in Oslo that if he were deported to Iraq and killed, Norwegian officials would "pay with their lives," according to a transcript included in the indictment presented in court.

"If I die it will be the beginning of killings," he said, according to the transcript.

Prosecutor Marit Bakkevig said Krekar had violated Norwegian terror laws by "threatening to commit murder for the purpose of creating fear in the society," which carries a maximum 12-year sentence. "The statements appear as persistent threats," she told the court.

Krekar is also charged with trying to force a reversal of the deportation order by threatening officials, or obstructing the government from performing its duties, with a maximum prison sentence of 15 years.

In addition, he has allegedly threatened several people on various websites, including three Kurds living in Norway, the prosecution said.

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