The first group of MKO terrorists has reportedly been transferred to Europe after their training ground in Iraq came under threat. The group, comprised of 64 senior members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization, were transferred from Jordan to an unknown European state by two military planes, the Tabnak website reported.
In a Sunday statement, Iraqi National Security Advisor Mowaffaq al-Rubaie asked MKO/MEK/PMOI leaders to stop using”torture tactics”against members who want to leave the organization.”The MKO violates the freedom of speech in all possible ways. It does not even follow human rights when dealing with its own members,”the statement said.
Iraqi forces have surrounded MKO’s Camp Ashraf, after Baghdad vowed to shut down the camp and end the group’s presence in the country.”Iraqi soldiers [have taken] positions around Camp Ashraf since Thursday after the MKO [terrorists] refused to evacuate a building inside their camp,”an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity on Monday.
This TV documentary reviews on the terrorist MKO’s past atrocious history, its collaboration with the Iraqi ousted dictator and its present situation in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. Following the Iraqi government’s decision to close Camp Ashraf the group is facing an unclear future.
Downing Street still considers the anti-Iran Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) as a terrorist group, says the British justice secretary. ..Straw said he sorely regrets the British court ruling which de-proscribed the grouplet from the country’s terror blacklist. “When I was the home secretary, I said it was a terrorist group and the parliament agreed. The difficulty is that there is an independent kind of court which can make the final decisions out of the law.
The MKO, which identifies itself as a Marxist-Islamist guerilla army, has carried out acts of terror against Iranian nationals and officials. Outlawed in Iran, the group was relocated to Iraq and allegedly assisted former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the massacre of thousands of Iraqi civilians in the 1990s…Baghdad seeks to expel the members of the terrorist group from the country. MKO leaders, meanwhile, are scrambling to woo regional countries to establish a foothold in the region.
A front man for the MKO has protested against Iraq’s decision to bring to trial the leaders of the terrorist group… In a Press TV program aired on Tuesday, Iraq’s National security Advisor, Muwaffaq al-Rubaie said the members of the MKO who had committed crimes against Iraqi civilians had to stand trial in Iraqi courts…The Iraqi government has vowed to expel the members of the group to their country Iran or send them to a third country, maintaining ‘staying in Iraq is not an option for them’.
Iraq says it is standing by a decision to shut down Camp Ashraf and end the terrorist Mujehedin Khalq Organization’s presence on Iraqi soil. “MKO members who are residing in Camp Ashraf (inside Iraq) should either leave Iraq for Iran or a third country because they won’t be granted permission to stay in Iraq,”Iraq’s National security Advisor, Mowaffak Al-Rubaie said in a televised interview with Al-Alam TV network on Sunday.
Iran summons ambassadors of the EU countries to protest against their decision to remove the MKO from the list of terrorist organizations. Earlier in January, the foreign ministers of the European Union countries approved a decision to remove the Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO/PMOI) from the blacklist.
This is a documentary about the terrorist organization, MKO, told through the eyes of former MKO agents who have turned away from their former terror activities. An insight into this organization which has caused terror and is recognized as a terror organization worldwide