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Arfan Bhatti

Arfan Qadeer Bhatti (9 August 1977-) was a Norwegian Islamist activist and ISIL recruiter.

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Arfan Qadeer Bhatti was born in Oslo, Norway on 9 August 1977 to a family of Pakistani origin, and he joined the Young Guns youth gang at the age of 13 and received his first conviction at the age of 15 after stabbing a store owner with a broken bottle. He was diagnosed with dissocial personality disorder, and he moved to Pakistan in the early 2000s and became a radical Islamist. From 2006 to 2009, he was jailed in Norway after shooting at the Oslo Synagogue and making plans to bomb the American and Israeli embassies in Oslo. In 2012, he became a leader of the Salafist Profetens Ummah activist group, protesting outside the Norwegian Parliament. From 2013 to 2014, he was imprisoned in Pakistan. In January 2015, he returned to Norway after the lifting of his flight ban, and he went on a pilgrimage to Mecca in April while appealing domestic abuse charges. He later failed to enter Syria via Turkey.

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