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MKO treats members like prisoners

Nejat SocietyApril 18, 2011059 views

Reports coming out of Camp Ashraf point to the inhumane treatment of residents by the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI), which has recently engaged in an exchange of fire with Iraqi security forces…“I worked with the organization for 25 years… during these years I could not contact my family… using the phone, cell-phone, Internet, other mass media and even listening to the radio is forbidden in the organization,” Abdullatif Shadvari, a former MKO members said.

Iraq determined to expel MKO

Nejat SocietyApril 18, 2011099 views

raq has expressed determination to expel the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from the country by the end of the current year after issuing ultimatums over the past eight years.In an interview with Fars News Agency in Baghdad, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the only option open to MKO/MEK/PMOI members was leaving Iraq.The senior Iraqi official added that helping Saddam Hussein massacre thousands of innocents in Iraq is merely an example of the crimes committed by the MKO.

US urges Iraq to facilitate MKO move

Nejat SocietyApril 14, 2011067 views

The United States has called for a”negotiated plan”to facilitate the move of the Iraq-based terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) to another country.US State Department spokesman Mark Toner urged Iraqi authorities on Tuesday to allow UN officials to visit the terrorist group’s base Camp Ashraf…

Iraq detains six MKO terrorists

Nejat SocietyApril 14, 2011066 views

Iraqi security forces have detained six members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) in Camp Ashraf located north of the capital Baghdad.According to the Iraqi government, the MKO members were taken into custody for interrogation during Friday’s clashes with security forces.The Iraqi parliament has passed legislation, under which the government is obliged to expel members of the terrorist organization.

Iraq: MKO should leave by end of 2011

Nejat SocietyApril 12, 2011065 views

Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said on Monday that the cabinet is determined to shut down Camp Ashraf located north of the capital, Baghdad, and disband the terrorist group, AFP reported….Dabbagh further underlined that the ministers had decided that the MKO members would be forced to leave Iraq”through all means, including political, diplomatic, and cooperation with the United Nations and international organizations.”

Iran refutes MKO’s ‘secret’ factory claim

Nejat SocietyApril 11, 2011097 views

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Saturday the factory mentioned by the MKO was not a “new discovery.”Salehi said the factory located in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran, has been visited by reporters.”We manufacture components there [in the factory], but it is in no way a secret,”he said.

Iraqi government says it is fed up with the MKO terror group

Nejat SocietyApril 11, 2011064 views

“The clashes started at around 4:40 a.m. (0140 GMT) as the army was taking positions inside a cemetery in Ashraf,”said Major Hassan al-Tamimi of the Iraqi army in Diyala’s provincial capital, Baqouba.”The latest toll is three people killed and 27 wounded, among them 13 members of the security forces,”Tamimi said.A source at Baqouba’s main hospital confirmed they had received three bodies…the Iraqi government said it is fed up with the terrorist group which has been launching attacks against people and officials in neighboring Iran over the past three decades.

MKO asylum grant violates intl. norms

Nejat SocietyApril 11, 2011082 views

The top general underlined the West backs any country and group which is of benefit to it, even if they are terrorists or dictators, but counters any nation which is opposed to the West.“In contradictory behavior, they (the West) try to show they are against terrorism by attacking Iraq and Afghanistan, and on the other, fully back the MKO,” he said.

MKO attacks Iraqi security forces

Nejat SocietyApril 10, 2011067 views

Members of the Mujahedin Khalgh Organization[MKO/MEK/PMOI] and Iraqi security forces clashed in the central province of Diyala on Friday.Clashes erupted when Iraqi security forces began to return some of the land that was confiscated by Saddam Hussein to setup the MKO camp. Officials say, members of the camp began hurling stones and attacking the security forces with knives and other weapons as they were carrying out their duty…the Iraqi government has issued a judicial decree to reduce the 50 Km camp to 30 Km and have the rest of the lands returned to its original owners.

Iraqi CMTE urges seizing Camp Ashraf

Nejat SocietyMarch 31, 2011058 views

… The committee announced in a statement that the numerous crimes committed by the terrorist group should be investigated through legal channels. Addressing the elders of nomadic tribes, the representatives of NGOs and anti-MKO campaigners, the committee reiterated that it will voluntarily and without being forced by the government follow the crimes committed at the hands of MKO terrorists. The committee emphasized that it will stand up for the rights of not only the martyrs but also all the individuals wounded or maimed as a result of MKO’s terrorist acts, adding that it will file a lawsuit to.. .