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Politics : Attack Iraq? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (1071)	9/14/2002 8:24:49 AM
From: lorne	Respond to of 8683

Dutch arrest Iraqi Kurd suspected of al-Qaeda links: TV Saturday September 14, 2:56 AM An Iraqi Kurd leader suspected by the United States of acting as a go-between for al-Qaeda and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime was arrested at on his arrival at Amsterdam airport, Dutch media reports said. The report, which was not immediately confirmed by Dutch officials, named the man as Mullah Krekar, 46, said to be the leader of a strongly anti-American group called Ansar al Islam (Supporters of Islam). The NOS public television station said the man was detained on his way from Iran to Norway, where he had residency rights, after a tip-off from a "foreign secret service". The national news agency ANP, quoting judicial sources, said he was expected to be rapidly extradited, although it was not clear where to. ANP said he was being held in a police cell at Amsterdam Airport. Sources said no extradition request had yet been received for him, although NOS said the Norwegian authorities, who wanted to withdraw his residency rights, had asked for him, and the US authorities also wanted him. The sources said high-level discussions over the case were under way among Dutch officials. According to a BBC report on July 24, Krekar's real name is Najmuddin Faraj, and his movement brings together Iraqi Kurds from several different radical groups, who merged last year. The BBC report, quoting other Kurdish officials, said that between 20 and 30 Arabs linked to al-Qaeda joined the movement after the defeat of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda is the Islamic extremist group headed by Osama bin Laden, blamed for the attacks on the United States on September 11 last year. The report said Ansar al Islam controlled a string of villages in northern Iraq, between the town of Halajba and the Iranian border. sg.news.yahoo.com