Kausar now lives in a tent in the Kurdish prison camp Roj in northeast Syria, together with his son. Last autumn, she was charged with complicity in the terrorist attack in central Oslo on the night of 25 June 2022, when Zaniar Matapour shot at several nightclubs during Pride week. The police in Oslo confirm to news that it is Aisha Kausar who has been charged. – For now, neither she nor I have any comments on this, other than that she does not plead guilty to what she is accused of, says Kausar’s defender Petar Sekulic to news. news has sought out Kausar in the camp. She would not talk about the charge or say how she feels about it. The tents in the Roj camp in northeast Syria. Photo: Mohammed Alayoubi / news – I wish I could do more Kausar is accused of having tried to help establish contact between Norwegian Islamists and someone in the terrorist group IS in the days before the attack in Norway. According to the charge, she is the one behind the messages that led to the E-service notifying PST of an impending terrorist attack in Oslo. The police assume that Kausar thought she was reporting with an IS fighter. In reality, the messages went to an agent who worked for the National Intelligence Service in Norway. Six days before the mass shooting in Oslo on Sunday 19 June 2022, the E-service agent received a message in the secret chat that a “brother” was planning an attack in Scandinavia and that they wanted IS to take responsibility. The police believe Kausar wrote the message. 19 June 2022Norwegian wanted Islamist: But its gonna be in one of the Scandinavian countries. Bi idhnillah The two communicated on the encrypted messaging service Telegram. According to the police, Kausar had switched on a self-deleting function, which made the messages disappear after a few seconds. But the agent on the other end took a picture of the messages on his phone, with another mobile. This is how the E-service obtained photo evidence of the secret exchange of messages. The e-service analyzed itself until the attack was likely to take place in Norway, and that it was presumably Aisha Kausar’s former husband, the well-known Norwegian Islamist Arfan Bhatti, who was behind it. They notified the Police Security Service (PST) the following day, but the attack was not prevented. On June 25, Matapour killed two people and nine others suffered gunshot wounds. In the chat, Kausar shared what police believe is a news article about the shooting. She wrote that the operation was complete. NINorwegian Islamist: The 3amaliyah has been completed, alhamdulillah The agent brags about the efforts of the woman, who replies that she wished she could do more. AAgent: You did really good and we are proud of a sister like you. May Allah reward you Um (…) and free you and all our sisters from those kuffar and murttdeen prisons. Ameen NNI: I wish I could do moreAAgent: Bi idhni Allah you will be free soon uktah Diplomatic headache When the trial against terrorist defendant Zaniar Matapour starts in Oslo District Court on Tuesday, Kausar is still in a prison camp in Syria. And so far there is little indication that she will testify in the trial against Matapour – or even be prosecuted for what she is accused of. Matapour’s defender Marius Dietrichson demands that both Kausar and the agent be called in as witnesses. But the state attorney has replied that since Norway does not have diplomatic relations with the Kurdish self-governing authorities, it is also not possible to send a court request to demand her extradition. After the civil war in Syria, Kurds have established their own self-government in a large area in north-east Syria. Kurdish forces were important in defeating IS, and now run the camps where IS prisoners are held. But the self-governing authorities are not recognized by other countries. Norway therefore has no country to send an extradition request to. Several countries have brought home their citizens from the prison camps. For example, Norway has brought home two sisters from Bærum, who were in the prison camps, but who are now sitting in Norway awaiting trial for their participation in IS. The problem for the police is that Aisha Kausar will not be picked up. In the chat with the agent from the E-service, what the police believe is Kausar puts his words to it himself. Norwegian Islamist: They already planned to take me, but I refused their offer. After this i got to know that they have put an international arrest order on me, because they obviously are worried that I would try to run awayNorwegian Islamist: The problem is, I am worried they tawagheet will eventually come here and take me by force Will not be sent to Norway She will not be sent to Norway if she does not agree to it herself, according to Khaled Abed al-Hamid, who is board member for foreign relations in the Self-Governing Authorities in North-East Syria. – If this citizen does not want to go home, we will not force her. We are not pressuring her in any way whatsoever to leave, said al-Hamid in an interview with news last autumn. The self-governing authorities will not force Aisha Kausar to travel to Norway. She is detained in the Roj camp in north-east Syria. Photo: Najef Ali / news news knows that Kausar now does not want to be brought to Norway. Her lawyer Petar Skulic has also told the prosecution that she is not willing to allow herself to be questioned – even if it were possible, for example, online. Was niqab champion in Norway Aisha Shezadi Kausar (32) from Bærum is a Norwegian citizen, and comes from a Norwegian-Pakistani family. After a turbulent upbringing, the young woman eventually sought refuge in religious Islamic environments. She became a public champion of the right to wear full-covering religious headgear in Norway. She lectured on the topic at upper secondary schools, and featured in several features on news. In 2011, Dagsrevyen broadcast a long feature about Aisha Kausar. Then she said that niqab is women’s struggle. The religious journey eventually brought her to the extreme Islamist community that called itself the Prophet’s Ummah, and to a relationship with the Islamist Arfan Bhatti. They married in the Muslim way, in a Sharia marriage that should not have been registered with the Norwegian authorities. They eventually divorced, with Bhatti ending the marriage via text message. In September 2012, an organization calling itself the Prophet’s Ummah called for a demonstration at the US embassy. A number of people associated with the group traveled to Syria. Aisha Kausar was a member. Photo: Kyrre Lien / NTB/Scanpix Took her son to Syria For a while, the young mother sat alone with her son in a dormitory in Oslo. In the book “”Den andre””, where Kausar openly tells about all parts of her life to the news journalist Kristin Solberg, she had then tried to establish herself in Islamic environments both in Pakistan and in London, without finding her way . In 2014, she left Oslo with her then one-year-old son, and went to Syria to join IS. That is why we identify Aisha Shezadi Kausar Aisha Kausar has over several years belonged to a Norwegian network which has stood for an extreme interpretation of Islam. She has appeared in public several times and talked about her extreme attitudes, and she has also openly talked about her support for the terrorist organization IS. She took her child with her and traveled to Syria in 2014, and was subsequently charged by Norwegian prosecutors with joining a terrorist organisation. Last autumn, she was charged with complicity in the terrorist attack during Pride in Oslo on 25 June 2022. The police believe the woman acted as an intermediary between an agent who worked for the E-service and Kausar’s former husband Arfan Bhatti, who is also charged in the same the terrorist case. In connection with the trial against Zaniar Matapour, her role will be highlighted, and after an overall assessment, news believes it is right to identify her by name and photo. Before she left, she had married the Norwegian foreign fighter Bastian Vasquez online. This is how she became his second wife in Syria. Aisha Shezadi Kausar became the second wife of the Norwegian foreign fighter Bastian Vasquez in Syria. Photo: Skjermdump Vasquez was a Norwegian-Chilean convert from Skien, who held a leadership position in the terrorist group IS before he was killed in an explosion accident in one of IS’s primitive bomb factories in 2015. In Norway, he had previously been prosecuted for threats against the King and the Government. He never appeared when the case started in the district court. The little boy Kausar took to Syria is said to have been abused to death by Vasquez a few months later, in November 2014. The police assume that Arfan Bhatti was the father of the son. A Norwegian investigation into the death ended with the case being dismissed, on the grounds that the presumed perpetrator was dead. Kausar soon remarried, to a Tunisian foreign fighter, and had a son with him. Kausar and his son were captured by Kurdish forces when IS was defeated in 2017, and then detained in a prison camp in Syria. Asked for help from Norway In 2018, Kausar asked for assistance from the Norwegian authorities for the first time to travel to Norway. In October 2019, Kausar told news that she distanced herself from IS, and that she escaped from the IS caliphate in 2017. – I ran because they were unfair. There are people here who say that the Islamic State will last forever. I think it’s disgusting. I can’t stand it, said Kausar to news. In an interview with news, later that year, Kausar said that she had changed her mind and no longer wanted to go to Norway. But in 2021 she turned around again, and again asked for help. She justified it with regard to her son. She has also told Aftenposten that she is not dangerous to anyone. – I am no threat to anyone, neither to Norway nor to others, she told the newspaper in May 2021. When news interviewed her in the Roj camp in October 2021, she said that she regretted what she had done. – Now a far more moderate version of me will return home, she told news then. – When it comes to IS’s ideology, I just have to state clearly that I distance myself from it. In April 2022, everything was ready for her to be brought to Norway, but then she no longer wants to return. Two months later, she is said to have reported terror with the agent for the E-service.
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