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Iraqi speaker urges MKO expulsion by year end

Iraqi Parliament Speaker Osama Nujaifi called on the UN to take proper measures to facilitate expulsion of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) aka MEK/PMOI from Iraq’s soil.Speaking to reporters, Nujaifi reiterated Baghdad’s decisive stance on MKO’s expulsion from Iraq’s soil, and said their expulsion should take place through coordination with the United Nations.. the main suggestion seems to be moving MKO member to a third country and not to another area in Iraq.

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Khalis police arrest MEK members on terrorism charges

police arrested eleven people on Sunday 11 December in the Khalis district who were of different nationalities, all with fake IDs. They were arrested while in vehicles which were masquerading as governmental vehicles coming out of Camp Ashraf. The source, who declined to be named at this point of time, said that two of the suspects where U.S. citizens and three of them were members of the Mojahedin Khalq, all speaking fluent Arabic…

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Iraq’s decision to expel MKO irrevocable

Iraqi Ambassador to Tehran Mohammad Majid al-Sheikh underscored Baghdad’s serious decision for expelling the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from Iraq, and said the decision is irreversible.”Based on the Iraqi government’s decision, the MKO/MEK/PMOI members should leave our country by the end of 2011,”al-Sheikh old FNA, and reiterated,”The decision is irreversible and definite.”..

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Protesters renew demand to shut down Camp Ashraf

Thousands of Iraqis gathered in front of Camp Ahsraf, where almost 3,500 Iranian dissidents of the Mojahedine Khalqe Iran Organization reside, in order to renew a demand for closing down the Camp…ISCI chief in Jadida Shat in Diyala, told AKnews the gathering is to readdress the demand for expelling the Camp residents out of Iraq before Iraqi officials as well as the international community… this year alone 20 protest rallies were held ..

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Iraqi PM: No Legal Basis to Keep MKO in Iraq

“The residents of Camp Ashraf (the Camp of New Iraq) have caused a great deal of controversy here (Iraq) and in the United States. I would like to see this complex issue resolved peacefully and with the help of the UN.””The camp’s residents are classified as a terrorist organization by many countries and thus have no legal basis to remain in Iraq,”Maliki added…”No country would accept the presence of foreign insurgents on its soil, but we will work hard to find a peaceful solution

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Azerbaijan to take in MKO members

Azerbaijan and a number of other countries have agreed to receive nearly 900 members of the terrorist group of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization.“Necessary measures are being taken through the cooperation of the Red Cross and Iraqi officials to transfer these individuals,” Mohammad Majid al-Sheikh …“The decision to expel MKO aka MEK/PMOI from Iraq is irreversible, and non-extendable,”..

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Iraqis want MKO terrorists expelled

Hundreds of Iraqis have taken part in a protest rally to demand the expulsion of members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) from their country, Press TV reports.The protesters rallied outside the notorious Camp Ashraf in Diyala Province on Friday where the MKO aka MEK/PMOI has been based since the early 1980s, urging the Iraqi government to close the camp and expel its members from Iraq.

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Iraqi Official Reiterates Definite Expulsion of MKO

“The Iraqi government’s decision on the case is definite and the decision has been made based on the country’s constitution because based on the law no armed group is allowed to be present on Iraq’s soil,”Abawi noted.Earlier, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said that Baghdad will definitely expel the terrorist group[MKO/MEK/PMOI] from Iraq’s soil by the near future.

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MKO members agree to leave Iraq

The special spokesperson for the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) has announced that the members of the terrorist group will leave Iraq and give up their ‘right’ to claim asylum in the country..the spokesperson said, “However, our situation will not be conducive to the departure of the country until the end of the current year.”..The Leaders of the terrorist group had repeatedly claimed their right to stay in Iraq..

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Rights Group Calls on UN to Rescue Women from MKO Captivity

The letter further mentioned that women in the MKO/MEK/PMOI stronghold in Iraq are deprived of their most basic rights like marriage, pregnancy and even hairdressing.It also revealed that the MKO ringleaders even force married women to divorce and force them to have hysterectomy in a bid to avoid pregnancies.A defected member of the MKO revealed in March that the female members of the group had been living in captivity for more than 25 years ..

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