The lawyer of Mullah Krekar has followed up his clients resounding victory in a lower court Monday, by accusing the government of undue pressure against the prosecution.

Brynjar Meling first mentioned the alleged contacs in a TV-debate last night. He said they had been contacted by civil servants who reacted strongly to way Krekar was treated by the government. Meling said they were told that prominent civil servants had had meeting with the investigating branch, implying there had been undue pressure.

Meling is even threatening taking the government to court to force it to come clean about their contacts.

The media eagerly seized on this latest development, suggesting a conspiracy to have Krekar arrested and tried. There is a whiff of Iraq and spiced intelligence-reports in the air: one attributes the most vile motives to the powers that be. Krekar is a Kurd, the USA wants him behind bars, and it seems plausible that the methods employed are as bad as in London and Washington. Those assumptions are present as an unspoken premise in the reporting, and has been so for quite some time. It apparently made no impression that the US commander in Northern Iraq, Bullion, yesterday told an NRK-correspondent in Arbil that they had been following Krekar for a long time, and were convinced that he was still active at least as a spiritual guide for Ansar al-Islam.