{"id":5052,"date":"2013-02-09T11:52:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T11:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2013\/02\/09\/mko-trained-al-qaeda-for-terror-attacks-in-iraq\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:13:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:43:27","slug":"mko-trained-al-qaeda-for-terror-attacks-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/5052","title":{"rendered":"MKO trained al-Qaeda for terror attacks in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Iraqi official says the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) had turned its Camp Ashraf into a base for training al-Qaeda operatives who carried out terrorist attacks against the Iraqi nation.<img alt=\"MKO trained al-Qaeda for terror attacks in Iraq\"src=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/Image\/Persons\/Rajavi_Mas\/MKO_AlQaida.jpg\"style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\"\/><br \/> &nbsp;<br \/> Head of the Security Committee of Diyala Province Meysam al-Tamimi noted that the MKO had transformed Camp Ashraf, situated about 120 kilometers (74 miles) west of the border with Iran, into a training camp for al-Qaeda members when they were in charge.<br \/> &nbsp;<br \/> He said a large amount of money and weapons was also funneled through Camp Ashraf to al-Qaeda and Salafist extremist groups to help them target Iraqis in acts of terror.<br \/> &nbsp;<br \/> The MKO fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq&#8217;s executed dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up its camp near the Iranian border.<br \/> &nbsp;<br \/> The group is also known to have cooperated with Saddam Hussein in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and carrying out the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.<br \/> &nbsp;<br \/> The MKO has carried out numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Iraqi official says the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) had turned its Camp Ashraf into a base for training al-Qaeda operatives who carried out terrorist attacks against the Iraqi nation. Head of the Security Committee of Diyala Province Meysam al-Tamimi noted that the MKO had transformed Camp Ashraf, into a training camp for al-Qaeda members when &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[112,85,83],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[25],"class_list":["post-5052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mko-and-other-terrorist-groups","tag-hot-topics","tag-mujahedin-khalq-terrorism","tag-mko-news","module-news","ctype-story","blog-press-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=5052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}