Swedish security police fear ‘mullah from Askøy “- TV 2

In 2006 revealed TV2 that Norwegian and Swedish security police worked together to monitor a Scandinavian Ansar al-Islam cell, the organization that Mullah Krekar, former leader of.

117 DIED: February 1, 2004 sent two suicide bombers to during a solemn celebration in the city of Irbil in northern Iraq. Swedish prosecutors bound two Kurds to mass murder. Photo: Julie Jacobson / AP / NTB scanpix

PST and SÄPO investigated terrorist financing from Norway and Sweden to Iraq under the revelation of a terror cell, and two Kurds were related to, among other things, funding of a suicide attack in northern Iraq in 2004.

Store sums of money to Iraq

The double bombings took place at five minute intervals at the offices of the Kurdish parties KDP and PUK. 117 people died and over two hundred were injured when suicide bombers triggered charges with four kilograms of TNT. The name of one of the suicide bombers were found in a handwritten note seized at Ali Berzengi in April 2004.

The investigation documented that large amount of money was sent from Norway to Iraq, either directly or via Sweden . The money went through several people in Norway as the Swedish resident Kurds had extensive contact with.

One of the terrorist sentenced in Norway known as “mullah from Askøy.” He lived in Norway from 1999 to 2002, and was a frequent guest in a mosque in Bergen. Now Ali Berzengi again received notification of the Swedish police five days a week, writes the Swedish journalist Per Gudmundson on his blog.

– If there specific danger

According to a court decision must Berzengi report to the police in Solna because he “maintains contacts with individuals with suspected links to terrorist networks and organizations,” and because there is a concrete danger of acts of terrorism or threats to national security.

Although it was decided that Berzengi be expelled from Sweden after serving time in 2007, the Swedish authorities failed to get him out of the country. He has recently been granted a temporary residence permit and had notification from 2008 to 2011.

In January presented SÄPO a new request for notification on the grounds that there is a danger he will either commit or contribute to terror, said the court decision which was considered by the district court in Stockholm in January before it was upheld by the Svea Court of Appeal on 12 May.

TV 2 has not obtained Berzengi for comment. When he was interviewed by Bergens Tidende in 2010 he spoke of Norway as “the best country in Europe.” He rejected, however, that he supported Ansar al-Islam:

– I have never supported Ansar al-Islam. I am imam, I am a religious person. I do not care about politics or independence struggle or which ethnic group people belong to, said Berzengi to Bergens Tidende.