THE INDEPENDENT America’s involvement in the second Gulf War in Iraq – whether you were in favour of it or opposed it – is about to end. The Prime Minister of the “new” Iraq was in Washington this week as the guest of President Obama. Most people assumed that any future government would abide by…
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Obama must act before the US implicates itself in a war crime at Camp Ashraf
NEW INTERNATIONALIST It is rare that the US will find itself singing from the same hymn sheet as the brutal religious theocracy in Iran. As I write this letter, a peculiar and tragic piece of politics is being played out in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, which has, inconceivably, united these two opposite parties. Camp Ashraf is…
Decision to close Iran exile camp ‘irreversible’: Iraq PM
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE BAGHDAD — Iraq’s decision to close a camp housing Iranian dissidents by year-end is “irreversible,” Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told AFP on Thursday, rejecting UN calls for a delay to avoid bloodshed. Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad, houses some 3,400 Iranian refugees hostile to the regime in Tehran. It is controlled by…
Camp Ashraf refugees get all-party support
CBC News MPs say Iraq’s Camp Ashraf residents have been ‘indiscriminately massacred’ Government and opposition MPs concerned for the safety of 3,400 refugees — predominantly Iranians — facing expulsion from Iraq’s Camp Ashraf have joined forces to call for assistance from Canadian allies. Residents are mostly members of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq of Iran, which is listed…
Refugees or terrorists? They’ll soon be dead
TORONTO SUN They are half-a-world away and there are only seven of them, but the members of Parliament on a House of Commons human rights committee are doing whatever they can for the 3,400 refugees at Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad, who, the MPs believe, are in imminent danger. There are two Canadians among the…