In the documents found at Iraq’s intelligence ministry and other security offices after the toppling of Saddam, the leaders of the terrorist organization have announced that they slaughtered 25,000 Iraqi people on different occasions and over various issues,”different Iraqi groups in the eastern province of Diyala said in a statement released to the country’s Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki.
… but he defends what he calls the”oppressed”members of the Ba’ath party, and the Mujahedin-e Khalq, whose members residing in Camp Ashraf are waiting to be relocated to a desolated camp as decided by the Iraqi Government …
… Camp Ashraf is part of a sovereign and democratic Iraq and the situation there is a matter for the Government of Iraq. We regularly discuss Camp Ashraf with the Iraqi Government, including with the Iraqi Prime Minister and Ministers for Human Rights, Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs. There is no link between the two issues …
The anti-Iran terrorist group MKO has confirmed that five people arrested after last month’s riots in Tehran are members of the organization. The Mojahedin Khalq Organization/MEK/PMOI has told Amnesty International that the five were detained in the Iranian capital after the Ashura day riots on December 27. The group says they had come from their one remaining base in Iraq.
The People’s Mujahidin is sick and tired of being called a terrorist organization by the U.S. government..The government’s lawyer, Douglas Letter, wasn’t about to negotiate with”an organization that for at least 30 years has been involved in terrorism, violence, assassination, et cetera.”He admitted the public record was not sufficient to demonstrate that the group still poses a threat, but he said”it was the classified material”that made it clear that the group still deserves its terrorist listing.
The deputy head of the council of Dyala governorate said the Mojahedin-e Khalq members will be transferred from Ashraf Camp to “Al-Khazra” region in near future… “Sadegh Al-Hosseini told the reporter of Iraqi website “Al-Nun”: the MKO[MEK/PMOI] members have resorted to a new kind of dangerous weapon in order to remain in Ashraf Camp. This new weapon is hunger strike, hitting each other by knife or having poison.
… Zebari said Baghdad will never allow any armed group to use Iraqi territory as a base to attack its neighbors. He added that Baghdad has taken a series of measures to establish its sovereignty over Camp Ashraf, where the terrorists are currently being held. The MKO has been listed as a terrorist organization by many international organizations and countries, including the United States …
In a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister, Iraqi Prime Minister referred to Mojahedin-e Khlaq terrorist organization and asserted that the presence of Mojahedin-e Khlaq in Iraq, which has caused too much harm for both Iranians and Iraqis, is considered as a serious problem and must be solved. ..Nouri Al-Maleki, emphasized on the existence of friendly relations between the two countries. He also stresses on the importance of elections as the means for stabilizing peace and security in the country.
… Head of the Middle East Strategy Consultants in the UK, Massoud Khodabandeh, called on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to stop the MKO from fomenting violence by sending supportive messages to Iran’s opposition movement.”We would expect that you act immediately to prevent the incitement to violence by the terrorist [MKO] from inside the UK,”Khodabandeh, a former MKO member, wrote in a letter to Brown …
Muhammad Al-Hamidawi called the terrorist cult’s presence in Iraq “illegal”, adding that “the conditions for asylum seeking as well as the terms of Geneva Conventions do not apply to the members of the cult”. He said the Iraqi government “is firm and serious in expelling the MKO,” Habilian Association (families of Iranian terror victims) news website quoted Mehr News Agency as reporting…“The MKO entered Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s rule just due to its enmity towards Iran. Now we should destroy this cult, a way of which is their relocation from Camp Ashraf,” said the member of Al-Fadhilah Islamic Party in the Iraqi parliament.