Interpol has issued arrest warrant for 12 members of the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) for involvement in ‘illegal’ operations, wrote an Iraqi daily.Al-Sabah in its Monday issue quoted a judicial source in Iraqi Diyala province as saying that 12 of the terrorist MKO/PMOI/MEK members are accused of being involved in ‘illegal’ operations, including kidnapping.
Iraq is in talks with Australia, seeking an alternative place for the MKO/PMOI/MEK members as Baghdad has decided to shut down the group’s headquarters. National Security Advisor Mowaffaq al-Rubaie has initiated efforts to persuade the Australian government to accommodate members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), al-Bayyina al-jadida daily reported.
In a face to face meeting of the Cabinet with people of 17th, 18th, 19th municipality districts of Tehran, he added that the Iraq government has the choice to take a decision regarding expulsion of MKO/PMOI/MEK from its territory. Countries claiming to fight terrorism should not deal with terrorist group whose hands are stained with Iranians’ bloods in a double-standard manner, he said.
Rubay’i says about 1,000 of them have US and European passports and resident permits or political asylum status in the United States and in Europe and they can go there, noting that”900 women are in the camp,”and adding that they can return them to Iran, but stressing that”we will not send anyone to Iran against his will.”..
Iraq has warned that the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) has outstayed its welcome in the country and is obliged to pack its bags. Iraqi National Security Advisor Mowaffaq al-Rubaie said at a Friday news conference that the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) had to leave Iraq soon but did not give any time-frame … The MKO, blacklisted as a terrorist organization by many international entities and countries
Iraq’s national security adviser said Friday that the government intends to move an Iranian opposition group[MEK/PMOI/MKO] from its sanctuary near the Iranian border to a location where leaders and”brainwashed cult members”will be separated and the latter”detoxified.”.Members of the group”should understand that their days in Iraq are numbered,”Rubaie told Western journalists
The first group of MKO terrorists has reportedly been transferred to Europe after their training ground in Iraq came under threat. The group, comprised of 64 senior members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization, were transferred from Jordan to an unknown European state by two military planes, the Tabnak website reported.
Maliki also warned the Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mujahideen of Iran (PMOI), that they must leave Iraq, reiterating a pledge by National Security Adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie to close down Camp Ashraf on the Iranian border, where the PMOI are currently based.”We have informed this terrorist organization that Iraq can be no place for you..
We do not wish to take responsibility for the sin of the presence of a terrorist organisation in Iraq, which causes us domestic problems and problems with countries of the region, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told Reuters.We ask the international community … to find another place for them other than Iraq, he added.
“Available intelligence reports, which are very accurate, indicate that several political figures and groups have taken bribes from the MKO in exchange for their support,”Iraqi National Security Advisor.”From a legal perspective, these briberies have reached a stage where they can be considered criminal activity