Kurdistani Nawa: al-Mulla Kreiker admits his relation with Osama Bin Laden

The "Kurdistani Nawa" which is published in the Kurdish language in Iraq's Kurdistan said on Wednesday that Mulla Kreiker, who is of a Norway nationality and arrested since two weeks in one of the Ducth prisons under the charge of leading the Ansar al-Islam ( Islam partisans ) group in northern Iraq, stressed on November, 2001 in talks with his followers in Lamarkazi village, which belongs to the Iraqi Kurdish city of Halbja, that he knows Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahrai, the second ranking man in al-Qaida organization.

The paper, the mouthpiece of the Kurdistani National Federation, which opposes the Iraqi regime, quoted Kreiker as saying I have visited several countries and have come to know about Islamic intellectuals like Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri, who are Muslim men and sincere." He added that "Ansar al-Islam" are proud of their "Jihad" role in Afghanistan.