New York Post By Linda Chavez The deaths of Middle Eastern refugees are becoming so commonplace they rarely make it on to the front pages in the United States. However, the deaths of 23 refugees in a rocket attack in Iraq on Oct. 29 should have been the exception. The US has pledged to protect…
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Lawmakers demand urgent U.S. action to protect Camp Liberty residents
U.S. Republican lawmakers say efforts to relocate a group of Iranian dissidents living in Iraq must be expedited and that the Obama administration has been too passive in the wake of a missile barrage last week that killed dozens of refugees, the Washington Examiner reported on Friday. At a commemoration on Capitol Hill Thursday, Rep….
Senator Charles Schumer strongly condemns rocket attack on Camp Liberty
NCRI – U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer on Friday strongly condemned the October 29 terrorist rocket attack on members of the main Iranian opposition group People’s Mojahedin (PMOI or MEK) in Camp Liberty, Iraq, which left at least 24 residents killed and dozens more injured. A statement from the office of the Democratic Senator from New York…
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen urges Kerry to act on Camp Liberty
NCRI – U.S. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa, has written to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urging protection for thousands of members of the main Iranian opposition group People’s Mojahedin (PMOI or MEK) in Camp Liberty, Iraq. The camp came under a terrorist rocket…
U.S. Senator John Boozman urges solidarity with Camp Liberty residents
NCRI – U.S. Senator John Boozman has urged the Obama administration to stand in solidarity with members of the main Iranian opposition group People’s Mojahedin (PMOI or MEK) in Camp Liberty, Iraq, who came under a terrorist rocket attack on October 29 which left at least 24 residents killed and dozens more injured. A statement from…