In a hearing in the U.S. Senate on Nov 15, 2011, attended by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, the leadership and members of the Committee on Armed Services expressed serious concern for the fate of the residents of Camp Ashraf once the Dec 31 deadline…
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Tensions Mounting for Iranian Exiles Fearful of Another Massacre
THE EPOCH TIMES High-profile former officials tell Secretary Clinton to take the MEK off the terrorist list WASHINGTON—When President Obama announced on Oct. 21 that all American combat troops would be out of Iraq by year’s end, no one in Iraq could be more impacted than the people residing in a little known refugee site…
Policy, Human Rights Scholars Urge Congressional Action to Avert Massacre at Camp Ashraf after US Troop Withdrawal
PRNewswire WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — At a briefing in the US Senate, entitled “US Troop Drawdown in Iraq: 50 Days to Impending Humanitarian Catastrophe at Camp Ashraf,” Professor Ruth Wedgwood, Director of the International Law and Organizations Program of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University; Professor Raymond Tanter, former…
Defense chief clashes with senators over Iraq
REUTERS WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta rejected accusations at a heated Senate hearing on Tuesday that U.S. politics helped drive the decision to completely withdraw from Iraq this year without leaving any troops behind as trainers. The October 21 drawdown announcement by President Barack Obama followed failed negotiations with Baghdad to secure an…
Sarajavo-style siege at refugee camp in Iraq
THE INDEPENDENT Who remembers the siege of Sarajevo? Today’s world leaders might have forgotten the early 1990s and the four-year encirclement of the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Serbian forces. Known as one of the longest sieges in modern warfare, it was also a bloodbath – thousands of lives were lost, many of them…