While Iraqi people widely resist Mojahedin Khalq’s illegal settlement in Iraq because of the group’s close collaboration with Saddam’s Ba’ath regime and its atrocities against innocent Iraqi people, MKO propaganda machine reveal details of the gathering of some 10,000 Iraqis in Ashraf City in support of it.
A French appeals court on Friday eased restrictions on an Iranian exiled opposition group with links to an armed guerrilla movement which is listed as a terrorist group by the United States.
Eleven Iraqis were killed and a dozen more wounded in a blast in a volatile area north of Baghdad on Monday.
The bomb was apparently planted in a bus, 20 km outside the town of Baquba.Police says the Iraqis were traveling to work in the camp of Ashraf, which is currently guarded by a 120-strong Bulgarian contingent.
…….Its deputy director of research, Patrick Clawson, has been a leading proponent of regime change in Iran and of a US confrontation with Tehran over its nuclear program. (AIPAC features him as an expert on its Web site.) Raymond Tanter, an adjunct scholar at the institute, has been championing the MEK, or People’s Mujaheddin, a shadowy group of Iranian guerrillas who want to overthrow the government in Tehran (and whom the State Department regards as terrorists…….
Some Iranian detainees at this facility near Baghdad have applied for asylum. UNHCR has been requested to verify their status and pursue solutions for those who qualify as refugees. Due to lack of access to Ashraf by humanitarian agencies, UNHCR has piloted the first Refugee Status Determination interviews using video tele-conferencing facilities.
Germany has reaffirmed the terrorist status of the MKO grouplet in its 2005 terror report released by the German domestic intelligence service Verfassungsschutz on Monday.
Abudi, a member of Iraq’s anti-terrorist community, expressed regret for terrorists’ presence in Iraq and said:”According to Iraqi constitution, terrorist groups should leave Iraq. Mojahedin-e Khalq is also a terrorist group that Iraqis wish to be expelled from their country.”
The visiting chairman of German Parliament’s Foreign Policy Committee, Ruprecht Polenz met Alaeddin Broujerdi, head of Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy commission on Tuesday in Tehran; important regional and international issues were discussed in this meeting.
Does U.S. policy, based on the notion that an enemy of our enemy is our friend, consider changing its policy towards the PKK or —
MR. McCLELLAN: Our policies haven’t changed on those organizations. They remain the same. And you’re bringing up organizations that we view as terrorist organizations.
Bulgaria’s guarding unit will assume control over the Ashraf camp in Iraq on May 6, the Day of the Bulgarian Army, it appeared during a videoconference with Iraq Friday.
The head of the unit lieutenant-colonel Marin Marinov told during the videoconference …