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MKO attacks Iraqi security forces

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.

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Two MKO members set themselves alight

… Earlier on Friday, an Iraqi military source said three MEK refugees were killed and 13 more wounded by Iraqi forces inside Camp Ashraf in Diala. “Three Iranians were killed when Iraqi forces from the 5th Division tried to set up a checkpoint inside Camp Ashraf,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The Iranian group clashed with the Iraqi forces, prompting the Iraqi security to open fire on them,” he explained. “Two Iranians set themselves alight in front of the Iraqi forces prior to the clashes, while others pelted the Iraqi soldiers with stones, injuring six of them,” he added …

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Ex-Member: MKO Falsifying Quranic Verses to Deceive Members

..”Thus, we went to the authorities[of the MKO/MEK/PMOI] with a holy Quran in our hand and asked them to show us the relevant verse. But because all their words were lies, they took away our Quran and told us that they would let us know later.”The next day the camp authorities removed all the Qurans from our resting places in the camp in a bid to block the members’ access to the holy book,”he continued..

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Iraqi Army, rejects accusation made by MKO terror group

…”It’s a replacement of forces, not a new deployment,”Brigadier Tarek Azzawi, chief of military operations in Diyala province, north of Baghdad, told AFP.”The Fifth Division in Diyala has replaced the Ninth Division that protects Ashraf, and we have not advanced even one metre (yard),”he said.”There were no clashes,”he added. The People’s Mujahedeen, a left-wing and Islamic movement, was founded in 1965 in opposition to the shah of Iran. The group set up Camp Ashraf in the 1980s — when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime was at war with the Islamic republic. It was disarmed following the US-led invasion of 2003 …

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Mojahedin Khalq terrorist operations using American vehicles

… Sheikh Ibrahim Abdullah Al- jabouri also added: “nobody dares to make any obstacles on the way of American vehicles’ arrival at camp Ashraf and they easily enter the camp without being questioned. Then they would take MKO members out of the camp for terrorist operation and then would carry them back to the camp when they are finished… He said:”We have devoted numerous martyrs in the way of defending our country; but we would do our best to expel terrorist groups, Mujahedin-e Khalq in particular, from our country and …

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The MKO Advertises—Does Anyone Care About What They Don’t Tell You?

With the MEK however, and the ad they ran in the *New York Times*, there was little or no resistance to its presence simply because not many people know about the MEK aka MKO/PMOI and not many people care. There was no dialogue to speak of, and yet there seems to be a growing concern over Iran. Why isn’t any one questioning this group?Here’s what you should know about the MEK. The group is a cult and it is true that members’ rights are being violated–by their own leaders, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, not the US government, not the Iranian government and not the Iraqi government…

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Iraqi CMTE urges seizing Camp Ashraf

… 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.. .

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Official: international organizations hinder efforts to close the file”Mujahideen Khalq”

… The Iraqi government decided last year to transfer residents of Camp Ashraf to another province but the government adviser Saad Muttalibi stressed that all local governments refused to receive Iranian refugees in the provinces. Muttalibi said the government will continue its contacts with international organizations concerned with the subject of processing Iranian refugees[Mojahedin Khalq, MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult), but he stressed that such organizations do not cooperate with the Iraqi ..

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Economist: Saddam used MEK to crush Iraqi Kurds

Allegations concerning the uprising of 1991 are currently being aired before Iraq’s High Tribunal, which has already heard the testimony of numerous victims who say they were targeted by the Mojahedin e-Khalq (MEK/MKO/PMOI)..Professor Raymond Tanter,wrote a paper in which he states: “Following their expulsion from Iran by Ayatollah Khomeini in the early 1980s, the MEK allied with Saddam Hussein and, in exchange for providing domestic security operations against Iraqi Shiites and Kurds..

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UK confirms – MKO leaders deny families’ access to their captive relatives inside Camp Ashraf

… We are aware of reports that loudspeakers are being used outside the Camp Ashraf entrance. The Government of Iraq have publicly stated that the purpose of the loudspeakers is to allow family members to communicate with residents inside Camp Ashraf, as they have apparently been forbidden any contact by the camp’s leadership. Ashraf Committee is composed of members from the Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Human Rights, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Foreign Affairs…

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