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Ansar al-Islam leader threatens to document his links to US
Saturday, 01-Feb-2003 4:20AM
http://www.prolog.net/webnews/wed/du/Qiraq-kurds-us.Rzn2_DF1.html
Story from AFP
Copyright 2003 by Agence France-Presse (via ClariNet)
DUBAI, Feb 1 (AFP) - The suspected leader of a Kurdish Islamic extremist
group threatened in an interview published Saturday to produce evidence
of his contacts with Washington prior to the September 11 suicide
hijackings.
"I have in my possession irrefutable evidence against the Americans and I
am prepared to supply it ... if (the United States) tries to implicate me in
an affair linked to terrorism," Mullah Krekar, who is believed to front Ansar
al-Islam, told Al-Hayat newspaper.
He dismissed as "fabrications" reports linking his group to Al-Qaeda, saying
they were designed to justify a strike against Iraq.
Krekar told the Arabic-language daily he had been approached by the
United States before September 11.
"I had a meeting with a CIA representative and someone from the American
army in the town of Sulaymaniya (Iraqi Kurdistan) at the end of 2000. They
asked us to collaborate with them ... but we refused to do so," he said.
British and US news reports this week claimed that Krekar, who has
enjoyed political refugee status in Norway since 1991, and Ansar al-Islam
would be key elements of US Secretary of State Colin Powell's proof of
links between Al-Qaeda and Baghdad to be presented to the UN Security
Council on Wednesday.
Kurdish officials said the Americans have been paying particular attention
in recent month to a mountainous enclave controlled by Ansar al-Islam
fighters in Kurdistan near Iran.
The opposition Kurdisih Democratic Party considers the group, whose
name means Support of Islam, to be a link between the Baghdad regime
and Osama bin Laden's Al- Qaeda.
Krekar, whose real name is believed to be Fateh Najmeddin Faraj, was
arrested in the Netherlands last September and was questioned by US
agents about his links while in custody.
Ansar al-Islam is an extremist alliance of Muslim guerrillas including some
who reportedly fought in Afghanistan.
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