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| 'Norwegian' Accused of Royal Threat Turns Up in Jihad Video |
| 2014-07-02 |
| [An Nahar] A Norwegian citizen previously accused of making threats against the country's royal family has reportedly shown up in a jihadist video shot in Iraq, police said Tuesday. Bastian Vasquez, a 25-year-old of Chilean origin, allegedly appears in the video, said to have been produced by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL), gloating over the fall of an Iraqi border post. On the video, posted on liveleak.com on Sunday, the man states that ISIL had taken the post and killed several Iraqi soldiers. "The PST has decided to investigate Bastian Vasquez in relation to the published footage," Norway's police security service (PST) said on Twitter. In 2012, Vasquez was accused of making threats against the Norwegian royal family and former prime minister Jens Stoltenberg in another video. After he did not show up for his trial, Norway launched an international hunt for him with the PST suspecting he could have gone to Syria. The police security service told Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet that Vasquez, alias Abu Safiyyah or Mohammad Jundullah, is charged with participation in or support of a terrorist organization. It is unclear whether Vasquez is an active fighter or carries out other tasks for ISIL. The man said to be Vasquez in the video is shown at a deserted border post amid burnt-out patrol cars. "We killed most of them, some of them ran off and we took a lot of prisoners," he says in broken English. "They are nothing but cowards, they only run away, the Iraqi army." The footage also showed between 10 and 20 hostages -- apparently Shia Moslems -- taken by ISIL, and the moment Vasquez blew up a building he said used to house a cop shoppe. According to the PST, at least 40 to 50 people with links to Norway have fought or are currently fighting in Syria with forces opposed to the Bashir al-Assad regime. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Meanwhile, NOT to be outdone by Norway, ... * DAILY STAR LEBANON > DUTCH ISLAMIST RADICALS BECOME [decentralized + ... ] ELUSIVE [International = Middle East] "SWARM". * DEFENCENET.GR > WELSH IMAM CALLS FUTURE BRITISH QUEEN KATE MIDDLETON A "WHORE" FOR NOT WEARING A HIJAB. Full-body BURQUA??? Thats an "honor-killing"??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-07-02 02:52 |