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| Oslo Says Will Expel Founder of Iraqi Islamic Group |
| 2003-02-19 |
| Norway said Wednesday it had decided to expel the founder of a radical Islamic group in Iraq who is suspected by Washington of links to Baghdad and the al Qaeda network. Hot potato, hot potato! Mullah Krekar, 47, would be expelled "with a view to national security," NTB news agency quoted Local Government Minister Erna Solberg as saying. "National security can be endangered by Krekar's presence in Norway," Solberg told a news conference. They noticed Krekar, the founder of the Ansar al-Islam group which controls a rugged corner of Kurdish-held northern Iraq, has lived in Norway with his family as a refugee off and on since 1991. Secretary of State Colin Powell told the U.N. Security Council earlier this month that Ansar gave safe haven to members of the al Qaeda group and may have tried to make chemical weapons. Krekar, 47, has denied the charges. Wonder where they are going to expel him too? |
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