Iraq to Shutdown Camp Ashraf

Iraq confirms its intention to remove the Mojahedin Khalq

… The National Security Adviser said that the organization”has, in the recent parliamentary elections, provided a European Member of Parliament with misrepresentations on the issue of fraud in the elections in Iraq..Al-Sheik said,”The Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization[MKO/MEK/PMOI] working in Iraq under the guise of a number of organizations is deceptive,…

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Iraqis demand MKO’s ouster by next Iraqi government

The people of Al-Khalis urged the next government to expel the members of terrorist MKO aka MEK/PMOI group, stationed in Camp Ashraf in Diyala province. They said the MKO’s case was resolved through the country’s constitution and the group had no place in Iraq, Iran’s Mehr News Agency quoted Nahrain news website as saying…Meanwhile, a leader of Badr Organization, Abbas Al-faridavi in Diyala Province reiterated that the MKO group is behind the assassination of Shia leaders ..

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UK: It is in the interest of Ashraf residents to cooperate with Iraq

… Government of Iraq would deal with the residents of the camp Ashraf [PMOI/MEK/MKO] with respect for their human rights in co-operation with the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross. We believe it is in the interests of the residents to respect and accept the decision made by the Government of Iraq, and to cooperate peacefully with the Iraqi authorities …

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Iraqi Deputy FM:MKO hated even under Saddam

“The MKO has been hated even under Saddam Hussein and we consider it as a terrorist group,” Muhammad Hajj Hamoud insisted.“The Iraqi government has decided to relocate the terrorist cult to a southern region and this is a step to expel it,” he added.Hajj Hamoud hoped that the cult will be expelled from Iraq as soon as possible..“The presence of terrorists, including the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), in Iraq is sadly hurting the peace and stability in the country and will make matters worse,” Hasheminejad said.

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Camp Ashraf, gone with the wind

..Saddam’s granted huge sums of money to MKO/MEK/PMOI cut from the pocket of the oppressed people, and Rajavi’s physical and psychological exploitation of his cult’s victims, turned the scorched piece of land into an oasis that none of the people around it had the right to enter or use.

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MKO members to be transferred to Al-Khazra region

The deputy head of the council of Dyala governorate said the Mojahedin-e Khalq members will be transferred from Ashraf Camp to “Al-Khazra” region in near future… “Sadegh Al-Hosseini told the reporter of Iraqi website “Al-Nun”: the MKO[MEK/PMOI] members have resorted to a new kind of dangerous weapon in order to remain in Ashraf Camp. This new weapon is hunger strike, hitting each other by knife or having poison.

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Iraqis Set to Reclaim Usurped Lands from MKO

Iraqi citizens in the city of Khalis in Diyala province filed lawsuits to regain ownership of their lands usurped by the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), during the rule of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.”A number of Iraqi citizens have filed lawsuits against the MKO at the local courts in the city of Khalis demanding reparation for the usurpation and occupation of 1500 hectares of their farming lands by the grouplet during the recent years,”Deputy Governor-General of Diyala Odai al-Khadran said.

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Iraq’s decision to expel MKO backed by international law

Iraq’s Media Development Centre held a conference in Baghdad on the government’s decision to expel the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) terrorist group. A number of Iraqi popular as well as media figures attended the conference, held in Baghdad Al-Mansour Hotel, to express their views on the issue, Habilian Association (families of Iranian terror victims) news website quoted Iraq’s Media Development Centre as reporting.

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Iraq: Geneva Conventions ‘not applicable’ to Mojahedin Khalq

… The MKO aka MEK/PMOI, which has been residing in a camp to the northeast of Baghdad for two decades, was exiled from Iran and resettled in Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and US-led forces after the invasion of the country in March 2003 … Salim said that the Iraqi government has taken the very first step to relocate the members of the group from their headquarters, Camp Ashraf, to a camp inside Baghdad under the supervision of the United Nations..

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MKO refuses to comply with Iraqi order to leave

After Iraq moved to transfer the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) from their camp in the country, members of the group defied the Iraqi government’s orders to leave.. According to a plan ordered by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki the group should first be moved to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and later to a 1950s detention camp in southern Iraq.”Any attempt to expel us forcibly will lead to the same clashes and confrontations as those of July 28 and 29,”MKO representative said, referring to a July incident during which Iraqi forces raided the camp in a melee leaving 11 people dead.

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