iyad el—baghdadi, in oslo, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me, stephen.in political asylum in oslo, of course, norway deemed to be a very safe place to be and yet, just a few short weeks ago, you were informed that there were serious threats to your safety. tell me who the warning came from, and what did they suggest might happen to you? well, the warning came from the norwegian intelligence, who over here in norway we call the pst. they showed up at my doorstep and they took me to a meeting at a safe location, where they informed me that they were informed — a partner intelligence agency passed a tip to them saying that i'm a target. and, of course, it was later reported by the guardian that confirmed that that partner agency is indeed the cia. you say they didn't describe the nature of the threat except to say that "i had crosshairs on my back." well, without wishing to be too sensationalist about it, that sounds really very serious. the threat itself was described as unspecified. but the seriousness of this is that — i mean, to me, as someone who is re