Bulgaria’s parliament has approved a government decision to send up to 155 troops to guard an Iraqi camp.
Earlier this month the Socialist-led government agreed to deploy a non-combat unit of 120 lightly armed soldiers plus support staff to guard a camp of mainly Iranian refugees in Ashraf, about 70 km north of Baghdad.
Referring to the Britain Anti-terrorism Law, passed in year 2000, Dalton named Mojahedin organization as a terroristic group and said the members of the group have no right to be active in Britain.
The Bulgarian government will make a decision of sending a non-combat unit to an Iraqi refugee camp in two weeks, Defense Minister Veselin Bliznakov revealed on Saturday.
Bliznakov told the local Darik radio that there is already a consensus on this issue within the three-party ruling coalition and the government is to decide on the deployment of the non-combat unit of 154 soldiers to Ashraf in the next two weeks.
The leader of the Iranian mujahadeen, Massoud Rajavi, who was thought to have been in hiding since the American occupation of Iraq, is under house arrest there, according to the Paris-based website, roozonline. Massoud Rajavi and another 27 leaders of the Iranian movement, who were confined in the Ashraf base, after the fall of Saddam Hussein, have reportedly been shifted to US military custody in the Mercury Camp.
…the cult of Rajavi is trying to introduce all accidents and events as the “plots” of Badr brigade against Sunnis. They attribute all terrorist acts in Iraq to Shiites, in order to win the attraction of Americans beside softening the anti-MKO atmosphere in Iraq.
In an analysis on the activities of terrorist groups in Iraq , including the MKO, to exaggerate the issue of a detention center in the Interior ministry, an Iraqi political expert said: “This plot was planned to weaken the Iraqi coalition list and Iraq’s enemies try to demonize Shiites and weaken their position, by attributing these illegal affairs to them.”
UK Foreign Office reiterated proscription of the MKO as a terrorist organization.
In a conference on the activities of the terrorist MKO, foreign office once again said that this group is a foreign terrorist organization…
…The MKO, also known as Munafiqin (hypocrites), has been campaigning hard for the removal of its name from the blacklist in which the terrorist group was put in 2002.The EU began drawing its blacklist following the 9/11 attacks in the US in its campaign to fight global terrorism. The European bloc regularly updates the list.
A number of former members of Mojahedin-e khalq organization,held a press conference on Wednesday (November 10) in London’s Ambassador Hotel. They wanted to give information to journalists about the relations between the MKO and Saddam Hussein and the role of this organization in suppressing Shiites and Kurds in 1991 but the meeting was disrupted with the intervention of a number of people who seemed to be MKO supporters.
Home Secretary Charles Clarke is being urged to provide adequate protection in the UK to journalists threatened by the Iraq-based Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist group [MKO – Iranian opposition group] for reporting about their activities.
Iraq must do more to stop the country being used as a base for foreign militants seeking to destabilise its neighbours, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi said in comments published on Monday…Chalabi said Britain raised tension in the area by accusing Iran of helping Iraq militants to plant roadside bombs which killed British troops. He added that Iran also inflamed the situation with allegations of British backing for militant Arab separatists in south-west Iran, according to the FT report.