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Maliki Underlines Expulsion of MKO Members from Iraq

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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Tuesday stressed his government’s resolve to expel members of the anti-Iran terrorist group, Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI), from his country..Iraqi security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf – about 60km (37 miles) north of Baghdad – last Tuesday 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.

MKO not to be welcomed in Pakistan

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With Iraq determined to rid its soil of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI), members of the terrorist group set out to seek political asylum in Pakistan.After the Pakistan-based Jundullah terror group admitted to receiving MKO support and assistance, Iraqi National Security Adviser, Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, said the soon-to-be expelled group may decide to move to Pakistan. ..Pakistani officials asserted that they would never allow MKO terrorists station themselves in their country and threaten the interests of their neighboring states.

Reuters:Iraq says Iranian exiles not allowed to stay

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Iraq’s state security minister said on Tuesday that no Iranian exiles[MKO/MEK/PMOI] living in Camp Ashraf on the border with Iran would be granted asylum in Iraq, including 56 he said were wanted in Iranian courts…Iraq’s Shi’ite-led government has said it wants to close the camp and send residents to Iran or a third country, a proposal they are bitterly resisting. The dissidents fear they will be imprisoned or executed if they are sent home.Iraqi Minister of State for National Security Shirwan al-Waeli said his country had no qualms about sending them back.

Iraq will not grant asylum to MKO members

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Iraqi Minister of State for National Security Shirwan al-Waeli says Baghdad will not grant asylum to any Iranian living at Camp Ashraf..The Iraqi government has declared that it wants to close the camp and send its residents to Iran or a third country.. .Last week, Iraqi security forces stormed the camp that housed members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) and seized control of it.

36 MKO members arrested in Iraq

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Iraqi police have arrested 36 members of the Mojahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) after clashes erupted between MKO operatives and security forces in Camp Ashraf..The arrests were confirmed by Abdul Nassir al-Mehdawi, governor of Diyala province.”Their cases are being investigated now. They are being charged with inciting trouble,”he said.”We will deal with them according to Iraqi law; we won’t send them back to Iran.”

Mass grave links Mojahedin Khalq to Kuwait invasion

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Police officials in the Iraqi province of Diyalah said Sunday that the mass graves contained Kuwaiti nationals who had fallen victim to the Ba’ath regime’s seven month-long invasion of Kuwait…If confirmed, the reports would expose MKO complicity in Saddam Hussein’s war on Kuwait, which killed more than 3,664 Iraqis and 1,000 Kuwaitis

35 Iranian dissidents sent to Baghdad for questioning

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Thirty-five Iranian dissidents arrested by Iraqi security forces during a takeover of their base were transferred to Baghdad for questioning on Sunday, a senior Iraqi official told AFP…The group set up Camp Ashraf in the 1980s — when former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was at war with the Islamic republic ..

Iraq gives MKO a month to leave

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The Iraqi government has set a month-long deadline for members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) to leave Iraqi soil.”Members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) at Camp of New Iraq have to comply with the one-month time limit to leave Iraq. The organization members should either return to Iran or seek asylum in a third country,”Diyala province’s Police Chief Major General Abdulhussein al-Shimari told reporters on Saturday.

Iraqi official : MKO has no choice but leaving Iraq

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Iraqi Diala Province Police chief said that members of Mojahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) in ‘New Iraq Camp’ (formerly Ashraf Camp) has no choice but leaving Iraq… the committee for investigation of ‘New Iraq Camp’ dossier has determined a one-month deadline for them ( members of MKO/MEK/PMOI) to depart Iraq, and they have to decide on either returning to their homeland (Iran) or leaving for a third country.

Al Rubaie : No Plans to Send Mujahideen-e-Khalq to Pakistan

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“The US forces considered the idea when they were responsible for the security situation in Iraq since the US administration wanted to put them in confrontation with Iran there. But now the Iraqi government is responsible for their conditions and for Camp Ashraf,” Rubaie told Asharq Al-Awsat ..Al Rubaie stressed that “Iraq is committed to international conventions and to the American administration that it will preserve the security and wellbeing of those present in Camp Ashraf.