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MKO attacks Iraqi security forces

Members of the Mujahedin Khalgh Organization and Iraqi security forces clashed in the central province of Diyala on Friday.

Clashes erupted when Iraqi security forces began to return some of the land that was confiscated by Saddam Hussein to setup the MKO camp. Officials say, members of the camp began hurling stones and attacking the security forces with knives and other weapons as they were carrying out their duty.

According to the spokesperson of the Iraqi defense ministry, the Iraqi government has issued a judicial decree to reduce the 50 Km camp to 30 Km and have the rest of the lands returned to its original owners.

The commander of the Iraqi infantry forces warned the MKO that if they continue to incite violence then they will face strong reaction.

The Iraqi soldiers who were wounded in the clashes say the MKO members had been hurling stones at them for the last two days, and that the attacks against them were unprovoked.

The original owners of the lands had been urging the Iraqi government for some time now to get rid of the camp and its residents and to return the lands back to its rightful owners.

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community, and is responsible for numerous terrorist acts against both Iranian and Iraqi civilians.

Iraqis have repeatedly called on the government to expel the group, but as observers say, the US has been blocking the expulsion by pressuring the Iraqi government.

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April 10, 2011 0 comments

The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Right Group Calls on Iraqi PM to Close the MEK file forever

The recent assaults and armed clashes sparked by the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) at the group’s main camp in the Diyala province necessitate the Baghdad government to accelerate expulsion of the terrorist group from Iraq, a human rights group stressed.

The Habilian association, a human rights group formed of the family members and relatives of the Iranian victims of terrorism, in a statement issued on Saturday praised the Iraqi army for repelling the attack and soothing the new tension stirred by the MKO members in the Camp of New Iraq (formerly known as Camp Ashraf).
Meantime, the right group stressed that such moves by the Iraqi forces merely present temporary solutions to the grave problems and serious threats posed by the terrorist group both to the Iraq and Iranian nations, and asked the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, to take the opportunity to materialize the Iraqi people’s call for the expulsion of the terrorist group from Iraq’s soil.

“No doubt, you (Maliki) should take the chance and close the case of the MKO,” Habilian reiterated.

Iraq’s government took control of Ashraf Camp in the wake of violent clashes between the MKO and Iraqi forces on Friday.

Iraqi State Minister and Cabinet spokesman Ali Al Dabbagh said in a statement that riots were spurred by MKO members around the camp which required the intervention of security forces.

Iraqi security forces showed high self-restraint with rioters, Dabbagh said adding that 5 officers were seriously wounded after MKO members attacked them by throwing stones.
The MKO has been in Iraq’s Diyala province since the 1980s.

Iraqi security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf – about 60km (37 miles) north of Baghdad – in 2009 and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group.

The Iraqi authority also changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq.
The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States.
Before an overture by the EU, the MKO was on the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze. Yet, the MKO puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visited Brussels and despite the ban enjoyed full freedom in Europe.

The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a recent letter in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list. The EU officials also added that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988).

Many of the MKO members abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so.
A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations.
According to the Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts defectors under torture and jail terms.

The group, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and Western targets.

The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the revolution in a bid to take control of the newly established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran’s new leaders in the early years after the revolution, including the then President, Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar and the Judiciary Chief, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in 1981.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.
The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.

Since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group, which now adheres to a pro-free-market philosophy, has been strongly backed by neo-conservatives in the United States, who also argue for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list.

April 10, 2011 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

Two MKO members set themselves alight

Camp Ashraf clash leaves 3 dead-Two Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) members set themselves alight prior to the clash

Camp Ashraf clashes casualties up Two Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) members set themselves alight prior to the clash
BAGHDAD- A Youtube clip showed an Iraqi army force storming Camp Ashraf, which hosts the residents of the Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq, on Friday, leaving 28 people killed and dozens others wounded, according to MEK sources.

The clip, shot by MEK supporters, showed Iraqi forces using armor vehicles in their raid on the camp, which had been under the protection of U.S.
forces after they entered Iraq in 2003 prior to transferring the responsibility of its protection to Iraqi security forces.

Earlier on Friday, an Iraqi military source said three MEK refugees were killed and 13 more wounded by Iraqi forces inside Camp Ashraf in Diala.

“Three Iranians were killed when Iraqi forces from the 5th Division tried to set up a checkpoint inside Camp Ashraf,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
“The Iranian group clashed with the Iraqi forces, prompting the Iraqi security to open fire on them,” he explained.

“Two Iranians set themselves alight in front of the Iraqi forces prior to the clashes, while others pelted the Iraqi soldiers with stones, injuring six of them,” he added.

The Iranian group announced on its website that nine of its elements were killed in the attack by Iraqi forces.

MEK has been based in Camp Ashraf in Diala province, 57 km northeast of Baghdad, since 1980s during the eight-year-long Iran-Iraq war.

Several politicians within the Iraqi government have been striving to drive the organization out of the Iraqi territories, claiming that the Mujahideen-e-Khalq fighters took part in suppressing the Shiite uprising that broke out in southern Iraq after the second Gulf War in 1991 against the former regime.

The restive province of Diala lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad.

April 9, 2011 0 comments

Iraq

Iraq Army‘s practical act in expelling MKO from the country

After the Iraqi criminal court ruling for the dismissal of Mujahedin –e khalq organization (a.k.a MKO, MEK, PMOI, NCRI, NLA, Rajavis’ cult…) from Iraq and repeated warnings of the Iraqi government asking the terror cell to leave Iraq and the group’s inattention, Eventually the Iraq army practically acted in expelling MKO from the country.

Clashes erupted as the Iraqi Army was setting up a security checkpoint in a cemetery inside the camp, when Mujahedin-e Khalq clashed with the Iraqi Army using batons and stones. 13 Iraqi soldiers were injured during the clashes including five officers among whom a Major.

MKO with a long history of terror and violence is responsible for the assassination of over 12,000 innocent people in Iran and even a vey larger number in Iraq while assisting former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in massacre of Iraqi Kurds and suppressing the Shiites intifada.

The MKO parasitic presence in Iraq is against the Iraqi constitution and the will of Iraqi people as well.

Holding several protest rallies and demonstrations, The Iraqi people frequently demanded the group’s expulsion from Iraq for the crimes they have so far committed against the Iraqi nation as Saddam’s private army.

April 9, 2011 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Politicians in Diala renew rejection to Mujahideen Khalq presence

Politicians in Diala province on Wednesday renewed their rejection to the presence of the Mujahideen Khalq organization in the Iraqi territories because of its interference in the internal affairs.

Speaking to Aswat al-Iraq news agency, Awad al-Rabie, a member of the municipality council of Abi Saida district, said “the council has proof and evidence that assert the involvement of the Iranian opposition group in supporting the armed groups, in addition to their continued attempts to flare up sectarian unrests in the country.”

He accused them of violating human rights in the Ashraf camp, as well as interfering in Iraqi internal affairs.
The Iranian opposition organization of Mujahideen-e-Khalq has been based in Camp Ashraf in Diala province, 57 km northeast of Baghdad, since 1980s during the eight-year-long Iran-Iraq war.

Many political parties in the Iraqi government have been striving to drive the organization out of the Iraqi territories claiming that the Mujahideen-e-Khalq fighters took part in suppressing the Shiite uprising that broke out in southern Iraq after the second Gulf War in 1991 against the former regime.

By Haleema Al-Azzawi – Aswat Al Iraq

April 9, 2011 0 comments

Duplicity of the MEK nature

Ex-Member: MKO Falsifying Quranic Verses to Deceive Members

A defected member of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization revealed that MKO ringleaders have fabricated Quranic verses in a bid to deceive the members and justify their misbehaviors and the group’s terrorist nature.

According to a report by Nedaye Enghelab (Voice of Revolution) News Network, the defected member of the MKO wrote in a memo about his time in Camp Ashraf (MKO’s main training camp in Iraq) that the terrorist group has resorted to the falsification of the holy Quranic verses in a bid to justify its plans.

He said that in one case he and a member of the MKO had unsuccessfully tried to look up such verses in the holy Quran and then they referred the issue to the camp authorities and asked them for help.

"Thus, we went to the authorities with a holy Quran in our hand and asked them to show us the relevant verse. But because all their words were lies, they took away our Quran and told us that they would let us know later.

"The next day the camp authorities removed all the Qurans from our resting places in the camp in a bid to block the members’ access to the holy book," he continued.

News coming out of the camp is still more shocking. The MKO ringleaders are reportedly using torture and pressure on their own dissident members, barring the dissident members from leaving the organization and joining their families.

An Iraq-based right group unveiled in a December report that ringleaders of the MKO resorted to various forms of mass killing in a bid to bring the group out of the current impasse in Iraq.
According to a report by Iraqi daily Motamar, also published by Edalat (Justice) Society web site – an organ of the families of the Iranian victims of terrorism – the Iraqi right group has sent serious warnings to civil society and human rights bodies as well as the Iraqi government about the ongoing humanitarian disaster in the MKO’s main training camp in Northern Iraq.

The Sahar Family Foundation also said that the MKO’s ringleaders are forcing the dissident members of the group to commit suicide, and if they refuse to do so, the leaders massacre defectors themselves.

The right group called on the Iraqi judiciary system, international court of justice and all international human rights bodies as well as the Iraqi and international media to take urgent action to stop the human catastrophe in the camp which, they said, now looks more like a slaughterhouse.

Also in December, Makki Rafi’ee, another defected member of the MKO, had revealed that the ringleaders of the group have ordered their agents to torture dissidents in a bid to dissuade defection.

Rafi’ee disclosed that agents of the MKO resorted to various types of torture and pressure against him during the last 15 years, and that he had been jailed in the notorious Camp Ashraf in Northern Iraq all these years.

"After 15 years of imprisonment in Camp Ashraf and tolerating various tortures by the agents of the grouplet, I managed to escape from the Camp and surrender myself to the Iraqi security forces," he added.

Also, a November report by the Habilian Association, an Iran-based human rights group, said that under the direct order of MKO’s Ringleader Maryam Rajavi, leaders of the terrorist group in the Camp of New Iraq (formerly known as Camp Ashraf) allow their members to receive medical aids, healthcare and other services in return for given levels of cooperation.

Based on the order, dissident members are deprived of medicine and other medical services or, at least, face much hardship and difficulty in procuring their necessary medicines.

The right group added that the new measure came after protests remarkably increased inside the group, specially in the camp. Right groups are gravely concerned that a large number of MKO members may lose their lives soon if UN, human rights and Iraqi officials do not force the group leaders to end their tortures and pressures against the dissident members.

In relevant development, a report revealed in November that Ahmad Razzani, a veteran member of the MKO, had been killed inside the Camp.

According to an August report by the Habilian Association, the MKO leaders have increased their pressures and control over the members of the terrorist group to prevent possible defection and escape by unsatisfied members.

Reports also said that all exit and entry doors have been locked and none of the members, even those suffering from acute diseases and illnesses, are allowed to leave the camp.
MKO ringleaders have ordered the camp guards to stage snap inspections of the group’s members and their personal belongings under the pretext of finding the lost weapons.

Such behaviors have sparked discontent among a number of MKO members and made them escape the camp and return to their anguished families.

The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a letter last year in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list. The EU officials also added that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988).

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.

April 6, 2011 0 comments

Iraq

Iraqi Army Strongly Denies MKO Claim

The Iraqi army strongly denied the claim raised by the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) that it has entered the terrorist group’s main training base, known as Camp Ashraf, in the Northern Diyala province.

The MKO alleged on Sunday that Iraqi forces had invaded the Camp Ashraf base, saying, "The forces of Iraq’s Fifth Division invaded Camp Ashraf with columns of armored vehicles, occupying areas inside the camp, since midnight on Saturday."

The Iraqi army denied the MKO’s accusation, underlining that no invasion or military advancement has occurred.

"It’s a replacement of forces, not a new deployment," Brigadier Tarek Azzawi, chief of military operations in Diyala province, North of Baghdad, told AFP.

"The Fifth Division in Diyala has replaced the Ninth Division that protects Ashraf, and we have not advanced even one meter (yard)," he said. "There were no clashes," he added.
The MKO has been in Iraq’s Diyala province since the 1980s.

Iraqi security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf – about 60km (37 miles) north of Baghdad – in 2009 and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group.
The Iraqi authority also changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq.

The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States.

Before an overture by the EU, the MKO was on the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze. Yet, the MKO puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visited Brussels and despite the ban enjoyed full freedom in Europe.
The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a recent letter in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list in 2009. The EU officials also added that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988).
Many of the MKO members abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so.

A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations.
According to the Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts defectors under torture and jail terms.
Numerous articles and letters posted on the Internet by family members of MKO recruits confirm reports of the horrific abuse that the group inflicts on its own members and the alluring recruitment methods it uses.

The most shocking of such stories includes accounts given by former British MKO member Ann Singleton and Mustafa Mohammadi – the father of an Iranian-Canadian girl who was drawn into the group during an MKO recruitment campaign in Canada.

Mohammadi recounts his desperate efforts to contact his daughter, who disappeared several years ago – a result of what the MKO called a ‘two-month tour’ of Camp Ashraf for teenagers.
He also explains how the group forces the families of its recruits to take part in pro-MKO demonstrations in Western countries by threatening to kill their loved ones.

Lacking a foothold in Iran, the terrorist group recruits ill-informed teens from Iranian immigrant communities in Western states and blocks their departure afterwards.
The group, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and Western targets.
Leaders of the group have been fighting to shed its terrorist tag after a series of bloody anti-Western attacks in the 1970s, and nearly 30 years of violent struggle against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In recent months, high-ranking MKO members have been lobbying governments around the world in the hope of acknowledgement as a legitimate opposition group.
The UK initiative, however, prompted the European Union to establish relations with the exiled organization now based in Paris. The European Court of First Instance threw its weight behind the MKO in December 2009 and annulled its previous decision to freeze its funds.
The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the revolution in a bid to take control of the newly established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran’s new leaders in the early years after the revolution, including the then President Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar and Judiciary Chief Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in 1981.
The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.

The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.

April 5, 2011 0 comments

Iraq

Iraqi Army, rejects accusation made by MKO terror group

Iraq army denies Iranian opposition claim

An Iranian opposition group said on Sunday that Iraqi forces had invaded its Camp Ashraf base in Iraq’s Diyala province, but the army denied the claim.

"The forces of Iraq’s Fifth Division invaded Camp Ashraf with columns of armoured vehicles, occupying areas inside the camp, since midnight on Saturday," the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI) said in a statement.

The Iraqi army denied the Iranian opposition group’s accusation.
"It’s a replacement of forces, not a new deployment," Brigadier Tarek Azzawi, chief of military operations in Diyala province, north of Baghdad, told AFP.

"The Fifth Division in Diyala has replaced the Ninth Division that protects Ashraf, and we have not advanced even one metre (yard)," he said. "There were no clashes," he added.

The People’s Mujahedeen, a left-wing and Islamic movement, was founded in 1965 in opposition to the shah of Iran and has subsequently fought to oust the clerical regime that took power in Tehran after Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution.

The group set up Camp Ashraf in the 1980s — when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime was at war with the Islamic republic — as a base to operate against Tehran. It was disarmed following the US-led invasion of 2003.

April 5, 2011 0 comments

Iraq

Iraqi Source Discloses US Aid to MKO Terrorist Operations

Political and security sources in Iraq said the US troops deployed in the country provide logistical support and camouflage for the anti-Iran Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) to run terrorist operations.

Sheikh Ibrahim Abdullah Al-Jabouri, a member of the council of Iraqi tribal leaders in Salahiddin, told the Habilian Association – an Iran-based human rights group formed of the family members and relatives of the Iranian victims of terrorism – that the MKO members stationed in Camp Ashraf pass through the Iraqi security check points in US vehicles.

"The American vehicles enter Camp Ashraf and take members of the MKO out of the camp for terrorist operations and after the operation, Americans take them back to the camp," he said.
Iraqi security forces took control of the main training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf – about 60km (37 miles) north of Baghdad – in 2009 and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group.

The Iraqi authority also changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq.

"Nobody dares to make any obstacles on the way of American vehicles’ arrival at camp Ashraf and they easily enter the camp without being questioned. So, they take the MKO members out of the camp for terrorist operation and then carry them back to the camp when they are finished," Sheikh Al-Jabouri continued.

He underlined that the MKO (also known as the MEK, PMOI, NCRI, the Rajavi Cult) terrorist group has never abandoned its terrorist operations, and stated, "We have suffered many losses since the arrival of the Americans in our country and continuation and spread of terrorist operations in Iraq is among them."

"We have devoted numerous martyrs in the way of defending our country, but we would do our best to expel terrorist groups, the Mojahedin-e Khalq in particular, from our country and to bring back security and peace to the people of Iraq," the member of the Salahiddin Tribal Reconcile Committee concluded.

The MKO has been in Iraq’s Diyala province since the 1980s.

The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States.

Many of the MKO members abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so.

A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations.

According to the Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts defectors under torture and jail terms.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.

April 5, 2011 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization

Wahhabism propagates for MKO terrorism

Blatantly declaring support for the notorious MKO terrorist group, the extremist and Wahhabi TV channel of “Vesal “obviously propagates for the terror cell.

Reported by Habilian Association (families of Iranian terror victims) database, the excommunicative channel of Vesal, which is an extremist Wahhabi channel, has recently posted an article on its twitter web page in support for the Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorist cult, in which it has brought the terror group’s web address. Surprisingly the extremist Wahhabis kept their fingers crossed for MKO and asked God victory for the assassins of more than 12,000 innocent people in Iran and even a very larger number, over 25,000 people, in Iraq.

Based on the report, this channel is one of two notorious TV channels affiliated to extremist Wahhabis established two years ago and, in addition to provocative actions for Shiite killings and widening the gap and expanding discrepancy between Shiites and Sunnis from the beginning, it has always been seeking to promote violence through insulting and blaming the Shiite beliefs and has therefore been repeatedly faced condemning by many religious and political as well as media figures around the world.

The report also adds: The so called TV channel has recently cut its daily programs to announce support for the ruling family of Kingdom of Bahrain in suppression and destruction of Bahraini Shiite protesters, whom they called ‘a bunch of terrorists’.

It ‘s worth mentioning that this extremist Wahhabi channel’s last year seductions was about to lead to a civil war between Sunnis and Shiites and cause bloody clashes between Arabic countries; but this problem was resolved with the restraint of religious scholars.

April 5, 2011 0 comments

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