Afghan Biographies

Rauf, Abdul Mohammad


Name Rauf, Abdul Mohammad
Ethnic backgr. Pashtun
Date of birth 1960
Function/Grade Ex Taliban Ministry of Health official
History and Biodata

2. Previous Functions:
Ministry of Health official during Taliban regime
3. Biodata:
Abdul Rauf
Mohammad was born 1960 in Afghanistan. He went into Exile to Drammen, Norwegen via Pakistan in May 2001after had sought refuge with at United Nation office in Pakistan. Mohammad claimed developing differences with Taliban’s leadership after criticising their methods. He was granted asylum in exchange for confidential information. A report from the UN’s office in Peshawar claimed Mohammad knew several of Taliban government’s secrets that could humiliate them internationally. During the Taliban Regime he worked at the Ministry of Health.
He was also linked to the arrests of several young men on terror charges in 2009, but he denied efforts to radicalise young Muslims in Norway. In 2011, the Norwegian authorities served him with a warning of deportation. In Norway since 2009 he played a controversial role because he was said to be a very conservative islamic fundamentalist who played a decisive role in a few islamic communities in Oslo, Norway. 8th July 2014 he was deported from Norway to Kabul. Abdul Rauf Mohammad was perceived as a threat to Norway’s security. 1996 -2001 he meet Osama bin Laden serveral times. (20140806)
 

The Ministry of Justice and Public Security said Mohammad poses a threat to Norwegian and allied interests. He worked in the Taliban’s Ministry of Health between 1996 and 1999, which gave him key information on them. He would also be Acting Minister of Health on occasion, NRK reported. The Police Security Service (PST) also applied for family reunion to get his family to safety from Pakistan to Norway for his continued cooperation. This, which occurred after 9/11, was even though they did not fulfil the requirements for residence under these regulations. The application was granted. The PST had already told the Directorate of Immigration (UDI) that Mohammad was cooperating with Western intelligence services – including them – and getting the information Mohammad had quickly was of utmost importance. They also regarded him as a key bargaining card.

According to VG, Islamist groups plotting terror in Norway had ties with the Mosque where Mohammad served as Imam and mentor in the Scandinavian country. The PST subsequently took action against 25 people in this Islamist community in 2009. Mohammad denied all claims of terrorist ties and said he is teaching ideology at a meeting at Oslo’s Litteraturhuset the same year.

Norway’s UDI had issued his first expulsion order after he had been convicted of violence against his daughter. Mohammad was sentenced to 120 days in jail but not deported. The Immigration Appeals Board (UNE) formally expelled Mohammad in 2011 on the grounds of national interests. This was done at the behest of the Ministry of Justice. John Christian Elden, Mohammad’s former lawyer, appealed the expulsion and asked the UNE to provide additional grounds for the decision. Mohammad was transported to Trandum Police Immigration Detention Centre and spent one day there, before being put on a plane back to Kabul in Afghanistan.

A few weeks ago on his entry to Frankfurt Airport/Germany, it was noticeable that Abdul Rauf's passport was a fake. He had then applied for asylum for himself and his family. In the examination by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf), it turned out that Norway had granted the former Taliban minister asylum for years, but then had withdrawn the refugee status from him and deported him because of the threat to national security.

On the basis of this information, the Bamf had then rejected the asylum procedure in the fast-track procedure; A confirmation of the decision by the Verwaltungsgericht Frankfurt took place on 15 November. Mohammed had not been allowed to leave the Frankfurt airport during the examination of his application for asylum and had been sent back to Saudi Arabia following the refusal of his decision. From there, he apparently traveled to Afghanistan.(20161216)


One Norwegian  police official accused him in 2001 of assaulting his wife and daughter.

 

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