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Isis supporters: We shot Dane in Saudi Arabia

A group that supports the terrorist group Isis in Saudi Arabia has claimed credit for the November shooting of a Danish man in the Saudi capital.

Published: 2 December 2014 09:09 CET
Isis supporters: We shot Dane in Saudi Arabia
The pro-Isis media group al-Battar Media Foundation released a video that they claim shows the shooting of a Danish man in Riyadh. Photo: Dalli Abbas/Scanpix
A pro-Islamic State group has released a video claiming responsibility for the shooting of a Danish citizen in Saudi Arabia, the Site Intelligence Group reported. 
 
The video from media group al-Battar Media Foundation claims to show the shooting of the Danish Arla employee in Riyadh's Kharj Road area.
 
According to Site, the video says the shooting was an operation by the “Supporters of the Islamic State in the Land of the Two Holy Mosques”, a term used by jihadists to refer to Saudi Arabia.
 
Reuters reported that the video has not yet been independently verified, but Arla media spokesman Theis Brøgger confirmed to TV2 that the video is related to the November 22nd shooting episode. He added that Arla could not verify the video’s authenticity. 
 
“The video is apparently about the November 22nd episode, in which an employee was hit by a hot, so I can confirm that it is referring to that episode. I cannot evaluate or make conclusions on further details until investigators have seen it [the video, ed.],” Brøgger told TV2. 
 
Brøgger reported last week that the shooting victim underwent a successful operation and is now recovering. 
 
Naser Khader, a Middle East expert and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, told TV2 that he has seen the video and that includes “very, very brutal” language. 
 
“Cleanse the holy sites. Use the sword. It is your holy obligation. Foreigners and foreign troops out! They shouldn’t have any peace. Go after them,” the video says, according to Khader’s translation.
 
“Go after the infidels. Go after the Americans and the French and their allies. Cleanse the land of those who carry a cross. Go after them by all means. Shoot them. Crush them. Set fire to their houses and their cars. Poison their food. Spit on them,” the video continues, according to Khader. 
 
The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) has warned Danish companies and consultants in countries including Saudi Arabia that Denmark’s participation in the American-led attacks on the Islamic State, also known as Isis, could make them targets for reprisal. 
 
The Local has requested access to the video via the Site Intelligence Group but they did not immediately respond. 

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Ex-jihadi housewife jailed in Norway for joining IS

A Norwegian court on Tuesday sentenced a woman who lived as a housewife in Syria to prison for being a member of the Islamic State group (IS), despite not actively fighting herself.

Published: 4 May 2021 20:11 CEST
Ex-jihadi housewife jailed in Norway for joining IS
The Kurdish-run al-Hol camp which holds suspected relatives of Islamic State fighters.Photo: Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

The Oslo court sentenced the Norwegian-Pakistani woman to three and a half years in prison for “participating in a terrorist organisation” by taking care of her household and enabling her three husbands to fight.

“By travelling to an area controlled by IS in Syria… by moving in and living with her husbands, taking care of the children and various tasks at home, the defendant enabled her three husbands to actively participate in IS fighting,” judge Ingmar Nilsen said as he read out the verdict.

Being a housewife to three successive husbands did not render her a passive bystander, the judge said.

“On the contrary, she was a supporter who enabled the jihad, looked after her three husbands at home and raised the new generation of IS recruits,” he said.

The young woman, who admitted having “radical ideas” at the time, left for Syria in early 2013 to join an Islamist fighter, Bastian Vasquez, who was fighting the regime.

Although she did not take up arms herself, she was accused of having allowed her husbands to go fight while taking care of her two children and household chores.

The trial was the first prosecution in Norway of someone who had returned after joining IS.

“This is a special case,” prosecutor Geir Evanger acknowledged during the trial.

“This is the first time that, to put it bluntly, someone has been charged for being a wife and mother.”

The prosecution had called for a four-year sentence, while the defence had called for her acquittal and immediately appealed Tuesday’s verdict.

The woman’s lawyer, Nils Christian Nordhus, argued that his client had quickly wanted to leave Syria after being subjected to domestic violence.

She had also been a victim of human trafficking because she had been held against her will, he added.

But the judge stressed that she had participated in the organisation “knowingly” and of her own will.

The woman was repatriated to Norway in early 2020 on humanitarian grounds with her two children, including a young boy described as seriously ill.

At least four other Norwegian women and their children are being held in Kurdish-controlled camps in Syria.

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