 Norway's most controversial refugee has lodged a threat against the country that has hosted him and his family for the past 14 years.
| "Ya, sure! Yøu're velcøme!" |
Mullah Krekar calls his possible deportation "an offense" that shouldn't go unpunished.
| "Youse can't do dat to me! My minions'll bust youse up!" |
Krekar fled Iraq in the early 1990s and landed in Norway in 1991. He later, however, started travelling back to northern Iraq, where he played a key role in building up the guerrilla group known as Ansar al-Islam.
| Now, if I'da been a Norwegian with some semblence of power, I'd have come to the conclusion that he wasn't your run of the mill refugee... |
Now Krekar claims he faces torture and a death sentence if the Norwegian authorities send him back to Iraq.
| That could have something to do with the trips he made when he was a refugee, rather than the circumstances that made him a refugee in the first place. |
He told Al-Jazeera, therefore, that "everyone must know" that a deportation to Iraq "is an offense that shouldn't be made without punishment."
| Yep. I'd call that a threat. |
Krekar wasn't specific, however, about what kind of punishment he thinks Norway should receive if a court upholds Solberg's deportation order.
| Is there a requirement that he has to? "I'll punish you" would seem to cover it, wouldn't it? |
"I have faith in Allah," Krekar told Al-Jazeera in the text of the interview dated August 31. "I defend my rights in their court just like Western people defend their rights. I am patient like they are patient. But if my patience runs out, I will react like Orientals do." Asked how "Orientals" react, Krekar said: "I don't want to comment on that."
| Lately Orientals have been chopping people's heads off and blowing stuff up... |
In the interview, Krekar also seemed to attack Solberg personally. "How can a politician play with my life to satisfy her adolescent political visions," he asked.
| If he adolescent political visions include a Norway without any Krekars, I'd commend her. |
Krekar also spoke positively about suspected terrorist leader Osama bin Laden and developments in the Muslim world. "The whole world must see that Jihad... is increasing in its scope with Allah's pardon," he said. "This trend represents solidarity in the Muslim community."
| It's also making tolerant places like Norway impatient with strutting Islamist blowhards... |
He added that he thinks "Jihadists" won't ease up "until they see Islam's house equipped with Saladins sable, Mohammed's conquering turban and Osama bin Laden's vision." He thus combined three important symbols used by Islamic extremists.
| He fantasizes about having a jewelled turban and lots of dancing girls to abuse, too... |
Krekar's Norwegian defense attorney Brynjar Meling downplayed the significance of Krekar's claims in the Al-Jazeera interview, saying they didn't amount to threats and contained nothing new.
| Which of the threats didn't amount to threats, Counsellor? |
He declined further comment, though, until he had conferred with his client.
| "Mullah! Are yøu nuts? I tøld yøu tø keep yøur lip buttøned!"" |
Solberg, meanwhile, responded that "no one can threaten their way into obtaining permanent residence in Norway." She maintains that a new constitution and government in Iraq, with guarantees that Krekar won't be executed, are expected to clear the way for Krekar's expulsion.
| Fine. Don't execute him. Just jug him for 7,000 years. |
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