Torstein Dahle

Torstein Dahle (born 20 February 1947 in Oslo) is a Norwegian politician and economist. He works at the Bergen University College and represents Red in the city council of Bergen.

Since its foundation in 2007 Dahle has been leader of the Red, and was previously leader of Red's predecessor, Red Electoral Alliance. Dahle was a founding member of Red Electoral Alliance and Workers' Communist Party in 1973, but left the latter in 1997.

On 23 July 2007 he became subject to media attention when he said that the Taliban and other Afghan rebels had the full right of fighting the Norwegian soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force force stationed in Afghanistan. [ [http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=153500 Full rett til å kjempe mot NATO-soldater] no icon] The attention occurred only days later with the death of that occurred when a Norwegian army officer in the Lowgar Province as a Norwegian military unit came under hostile fire. [ [http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=153480 Styrkene måtte skyte seg ut - Erfaren norsk offiser drept i Afghanistan] , vg.no no icon] . He later commented that he did not support the death of Norwegian military personnel.

Dahle is openly gay. [ [http://www.dagogtid.no/arkiv/1997/35/dahle.html "Dag og Tid" article] no icon]

References

* [http://storenorskeleksikon.no/sa.aspx?artid=13037271 Encyclopedia Norvegica] (in Norwegian)reflist|2