Mullah Krekar is a Kurdish Sunni Islamist Islamic scholar who was the original leader of the terrorist organization Ansar al-Islam (Helpers of Islam). The armed group Ansar al-Islam had been set up in Kurdistan where it commenced its operations. Years ago Krekar arrived in Norway as a refugee from northern Iraq, though he has not been granted Norwegian citizenship because of his suspicious activities. He has himself acknowledged that he is the co-founder of Ansar al-Islam that targeted U.S. troops during the Iraq insurgency though he claimed that he had no knowledge of the terrorist attacks performed by the group. Ansar al-Islam has been linked to both al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, and has been implicated in bombings across Europe. Several members of the terrorist outfit have been hanged and many others sentenced to life imprisonment. Krekar himself has been on the UN terror list since 2006 and has been termed as a "danger to national security" by the Supreme Court of Norway. Authorities in the Kurdistan Regional Government have repeatedly asked for him to be extradited from Norway though the Norwegian government can’t yet deport him due to humanitarian concerns that he might be tortured or executed there. However, it was reported that he would be forcibly relocated to the village of Kyrksæterøra in Trøndelag as per the order from the National Police Directorate.