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| Norway Can't Deport Mullah Krekar; CIA Can't Snatch Him |
| 2006-12-04 |
| A bit long, but I think registration is required, so I give you the whole thing. OSLO -- Two months after he helped kidnap a Muslim cleric in Italy, records show, an undercover CIA officer boarded a flight to Norway on another secret mission. Two other U.S. spies followed a few weeks later and checked into the same hotel. Shortly after the agents arrived in the spring of 2003, an Islamic militant living in Oslo known as Mullah Krekar received a warning from an anonymous Norwegian official, according to Krekar's lawyer. The message: Krekar, then head of a Kurdish insurgent group, was a CIA target and should watch his back. The spies left Norway by the end of the summer, according to records of their travels compiled by European investigators. If the CIA was planning to abduct Krekar, like other Islamic radicals it had secretly apprehended in Europe after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, those plans were quietly abandoned. But it would not be the first or last time that the U.S. government had sought to push Krekar out of Norway. For more than a decade, the Kurdish cleric had enjoyed protection in the Nordic country as a political refugee, even as he frequently slipped back into his homeland in northern Iraq to lead an armed separatist movement called Ansar al-Islam, which has carried out attacks on civilians and U.S. troops. The case shows how the United States has struggled to deal with Islamic militants who are allowed to live freely in Europe despite being labeled serious security risks. Others have included radical clerics in London and supporters of the Hamburg cell responsible for the Sept. 11 hijackings. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #10 I am sure we have something that Norway needs; perhaps some temporary tariffs on the item(s) would be in order. |
| Posted by: USN, ret. 2006-12-04 13:52 |
| #9 Large quantities of gray matter dislodged by a .45 bullet always sends a clear message. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-12-04 13:48 |
| #8 Flesh eating bacterias. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-12-04 13:26 |
| #7 It's Norway. Icy mountain road, cold winter night, a slippery curve, a steep embankment, a squeal of brakes, flaming ball of wreckage... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-12-04 13:23 |
| #6 Maybe it is time to send the Provolone brothers - Vitobjorg and Guidostrom - to talk with the mad mullah. No violence, just a friendly chat about the cold, inhospitible Norwegian climate from two private citizens acting as goodwill ambassadors for their country. Uncle Sam would be grateful. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2006-12-04 13:20 |
| #5 Garrot him and leave him hanging in the doorway of his mosque. Sends a nice, firm message. I doubt the CIA was behind this, unless they've gone so far downhill they're pathetic. Another favorite trick is a large syringe full of air directly into the heart. Does wonders. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-12-04 12:54 |
| #4 Polonium 210 for his dinner? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2006-12-04 11:05 |
| #3 Falls down stairs are nice and clean. Just sayin'... |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-12-04 10:58 |
| #2 tipper - That's an idea whose time has come back around. But something tells me it would be more effective and efficient to start right here in the US -- say with WaPo... WaPo - No better enemy, no worse friend. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-12-04 09:58 |
| #1 Why not bring back the Old West's "Dead or Alive" concept? I'm sure a a reasonable sum would have bounty hunters chasing his ar*e all over Norway and back into the "safety" of his minions in Iraq. He wouldn't be suck a smart ar*e then. |
| Posted by: tipper 2006-12-04 08:27 |