A senior Iraqi lawmaker said that the recent rocket attack on the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization transient settlement in Camp Liberty was a move to convince Iraq to allow the MKO/MEK/PMOI to return to Camp Ashraf, but such actions are futile the group’s return to its main training camp is impossible.
Head of an Iraqi human rights group says Iraq seeks to try in absentia the members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MKO, a.k.a. MEK and PMOI) in Iraq…He said the people of Tuz Khurmato, who are victims of the MKO and the trial is going to be held in their city, expressed happiness and satisfaction over the issue.
Mujahedin-e Khalq organization is not complying quickly enough with the Iraq’s calls on the terrorist group to complete the move from its former military camp. So the Diyala provincial officials are giving the grouplet a new deadline to fully evacuate Camp Ashraf.
The Iraqi government has so far tolerated the cantankerous, strange behaviors of an imposed remnant of the ousted dictator. Neither are they refugees nor prisoners of war waiting repatriation nor trusted temporary settlers to grant them limited autonomous, self-dependent living. It is just a heavy, unthankful burden provided with free, double rations whose potential threats have to be drastically curbed ..
“The UN is in talks with some immigrant-accepting countries to convince them to shelter the MKO aka MEK/PMOI members, but no country has yet accepted to shelter them,”Abawi told FNA when asked about the latest developments in relation to the expulsion of the MKO members from Iraq. ..
Al-Sanid said in an interview for Ashraf News, that Iraq will expel the MEK/MKO/PMOI and end their presence on Iraqi territory. He said,”the Iraqi government, in coordination with the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), will act speedily on the mutually agreed resolution and drive them out.”As leader of the Coalition of State Law, he also stressed …
The office of the Iraqi Prime Minister released a statement saying, “In his Monday visit with Martin Kobler head of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), premier Nuri al-Maliki underscored the necessity of ending the terrorist MKO/MEK/PMOI group’s presence in Iraq before year-end.”
In a conference organized by the Iraqi Center for Media Development, a number of Iraqi officials and ordinary people came together in the capital Baghdad to talk about the efforts of the US government to remove the MKO aka MEK/PMOI from the international terrorist organization’s list.
Iran, having suffered a long record of the killing of its officials in bombings and other acts of terror, mostly carried out by the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) regards itself a victim of terrorism.Out of the 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, some 12,000 of them have fallen victim to MKO terrorism.
President of the IHRS in the United States says Iraq has the right to close Camp Ashraf, Mujahedin-e Khalq’s paramilitary base in Iraq, and the U.N. is responsible for finding third countries for MEK members’ resettlement.