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Iraq: Camp closure a preliminary measure to end MKO existence

Nejat SocietyDecember 19, 2009062 views

We spoke with the world states and told them that we welcome anyone who wants to host them. We will not force this organization to return to Iran or to extradite it to it, but we will not allow an organization, which is accused of terrorism, to stay in Iraq. .. Moving them from this camp is a prelude to moving them to outside Iraq and to any state that would accept them, or perhaps if they benefit from any pardon, which the Iranian Government would offer them …

Nuri al-Maliki: Iraq no conduit for Mojahedin Khalq Terrorists

Nejat SocietyDecember 19, 2009082 views

… Maliki stressed that Iraq is not a conduit for any terrorist organization and that the presence of the MKO in Iraq is temporary. According to the history of this organization and its acts of terrorism, of course, they have no place in Iraq. Maliki stressed that the elections will certainly go ahead whatever the terrorists do …

MKO refuses to comply with Iraqi order to leave

Nejat SocietyDecember 17, 2009055 views

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.

PMOI relocation voluntary, Iraq says

Nejat SocietyDecember 17, 2009063 views

Iranian dissidents at Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala province can transfer to another facility on a voluntary basis, Iraqi military officials said Tuesday..Baghdad plans to relocate the PMOI first to Baghdad and then to another facility in the south of the country.Iraqi Brig. Bassel Hamad added that if the residents defied government efforts to close Camp Ashraf, Baghdad would”find suitable solutions for this.”

US lawmakers warn Iraq over MKO relocation

Nejat SocietyDecember 17, 2009067 views

… In Iraq, MKO is seen as “a brainwashed cult from a high-trained terrorist organization” which assisted the Saddam regime in oppressing the Iraqi nation and suppressing the Kurds and Shias in the 1990’s. A resolution presented by Democratic lawmakers has also called on President Barack Obama to stop the relocation of members of the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) from Iraq …

Iraqi Maysan residents reject presence of MKO

Nejat SocietyDecember 17, 2009068 views

… [Abd-al-Husayn Abd-al-Ridha al-Sa’idi, chairman of Maysan Governorate Council, addressing a news conference] There are documents proving that, over the past years, this organization and its affiliates were involved in criminal acts and in killing large numbers of Iraqi people in a flagrant manner…

MKO;Iran ex-rebels defy police orders to quit Iraq camp

Nejat SocietyDecember 16, 2009069 views

People’s Mujahedeen aka MKO/MEK/PMOI representative Mehdi Farahi told Iraqi officials residents would not leave Camp Ashraf, where they were installed by Saddam’s regime 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of Baghdad in 1985. “Any attempt to expel us forcibly will lead to the same clashes and confrontations as those of July 28 and 29,” he said, referring to violence at the camp this year in which the group says 11 people were killed.

Iraq orders MKO to vacate Camp Ashraf

Nejat SocietyDecember 16, 20090106 views

Iranian dissidents protest the Iraqi government’s orders that they vacate Camp Ashraf, even as Iraqi policemen stood ready at Camp Ashraf in case violence erupted. The government says it intends to take the exiles, members of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, to camps in the south. (Hadi Mizban/associated Press) Iraqi policemen, at right, stood ready in case violence erupted. The government says it intends to take the exiles, members of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, to camps in the south.

MKO attacks reporters prior to covering Ashraf relocate

Nejat SocietyDecember 16, 2009055 views

… Upon a call from the Iraqi government, the reporters were going to go to Camp Ashraf to cover the MKO’s relocate to Baghdad. The blast at least wounded a reporter who was waiting with colleagues at Baghdad’s Green Zone to move to the camp. Another car bomb was blasted in a car park opposite to the Iranian embassy in Baghdad …

France respects Iraqi sovereignty, supports dismantlement of Camp Ashraf

Nejat SocietyDecember 15, 2009092 views

… This requirement of respect for human rights must also apply to officers of the PMOI which, by all accounts, continues to use practices to intimidate the camp residents. Thus, they would not be free to decide their fate. As you know, France had objected that the PMOI/MKO/MEK, on the list of European terrorist organizations since 2002, was withdrawn in 2008 …