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Iraq seeks help from UNSC to expel MKO

Iraqi Ambassador to the UN Hamid al-Bayati told the UN Security Council session on Tuesday that with the help of UN Cooperation Delegation for Iraq and efforts of the UN Secretary General Special representative Martin Kobler, 1200 MKO/MEK/PMOI members can be transferred from Ashraf Camp to a transit one.

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MKO pays Iraqi politicians USD 5K

one of the most senior Iraqi officials bribed is lawmaker and spokesman for the al-Iraqiya bloc Haidar al-Mulla, who has been receiving a monthly payment of USD 5,000 from the terrorist cell.The official added that the list of the bribed Iraqi officials also includes Zafar al-Ani, former lawmaker; Sarmad Abdolkarim, Baathist refugee in Denmark who manages the Iraq4allnews.dk website; Safi al-Yaseri, author; and Hamid al-Mutlaq and Maysoon al-Damluji, ..

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Hersh: US facilitates MEK terror in Iran

The communications training in Nevada involved more than teaching how to keep in contact during attacks—it also involved communication intercepts. The United States…at one point found a way to penetrate some major Iranian communications systems. At the time…the U.S. provided M.E.K. operatives with the ability to intercept telephone calls and text messages inside Iran—which M.E.K. operatives translated and shared with American signals intelligence experts.

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Maliki stresses need to adhere to the Agreement on MKO

Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki confirmed the need for commitment to the agreement on the Mujahedeen Khalq Organization of Iranian opposition, especially the deadlines of the eviction of MKO from Iraq.A statement issued by the Prime Minister’s office today”Maliki met with Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Iraq, Martin Kobler.”397 people from the residents of Camp Ashraf were transferred on January 18

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Michael Rubin: Working with the MEK is bad policy

the MEK engaged in terrorism against Americans and that it has embraced a fiercely anti-Western ideology. Proponents of delisting the MEK, however, argue that the group has not engaged in terrorism against the United States or its interests for decades. The State Department may eventually be forced by the letter of the law to delist the MEK. That does not mean the group is entitled to any American support. The group’s culpability in recent terrorist attacks in Iran is murkier. ..

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MKO hostages unaware of their basic rights

UN’s representatives investigating the refugee status of Mujahedin-e Khalq elements in Iraq called these individuals’ unawareness of their most basic rights as “the main hurdle in determining their refugee status”.The report adds that although the process has not yet been started, the sporadic conversations of UN representatives with these individuals reveal that three decades of life in the Ashraf prison and Rajavi’s indoctrination sessions..

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Final batch of MKO members to set Camp Ashraf on fire

Uday Khadran, the governor of Khalis, stated that “the next stage of MKO expulsion will be done next week”, said a Thursday report published by Habilian database.“According to information received from within Camp Ashraf, the last group of MKO members are looking to set the camp on fire”, al-Esteqama newspaper quoted him as saying.

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Iraq to Expel More MKO Members after Arab League Summit

Another group of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) members who were under the Iraqi government’s pressures to leave Camp Ashraf are due to be expelled from the camp after the Arab League summit in Baghdad.The fourth stage of the MKO expulsion from Iraq will be done after the end of the Arab summit in Baghdad late March, an Iraqi official said.

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U.S. urges court to stay out of decision on MEK

The Obama administration on Monday urged a U.S. appeals court not to interfere with its review and decision-making process over whether to remove the Iranian dissident group Mujahadin-e Khalq from a U.S. terrorism blacklist.The group asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to order the State Department to either remove it from the list or require action within a specified period on its request to delist ..

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Iraq begins the Third Round of Expelling Mojahedin Khalq

On Monday night buses moved 400 residents from Camp Ashraf – built under Saddam and which remained under the protection of U.S. forces – to a former U.S. military base in Baghdad, said Uday al-Khadran, mayor of the nearby town of Khalis. The Iraqi government moved similar numbers of Ashraf residents to the temporary processing centre at Camp Liberty on February 18 and March 8 as part of its plans to expel them from the country.

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