U.S. Congress threatens to cut off aid to Iraq in the event of a repetition of any attack on MEK

U.S. Congress threatens to cut off aid to Iraq in the event of a repetition of any attack on MEK



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Editor: AJ, BS 10.4.2013 16:26 readings: 467







Range Press / Baghdad

Threatened members prominent in the U.S. Congress, on Friday, Iraq "to cut aid allocated to it if repeat any attack on the MKO", and Pena that "it is unlikely to approve any sale of futuristic weapons to Iraq," in that event, and stressed that the Congress "began running out of patience over the continued failure of the Iraqi government in Hmyatem ".

The newspaper said (Washington Times) U.S. in a report published today, and briefed him (range Press), said that "each of Democratic Senator Robert Mendez chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate, and Republican Senator John McCain Qama telling a senior official in the U.S. State Department that knows Iraqi government that Congress is running out of patience at the continuing failure to maintain the integrity of the MKO elements of the attacks. "

Said Senator McCain, according to the paper the U.S., "The United States took over the protection of elements of the PMOI after he handed over their weapons to U.S. forces in 2003," he continued, "After six years, recognizes the Iraq file the residents of Camp Ashraf in a timely and totaling 3,500 element."

He said McCain "We unfortunately have not adhered to our promise and hope to raise this issue with the Iraqi government," pointing out that "we will have in Congress see the type of assistance provided to Iraq and how to hold them if they worked the Iraqi government to curb this act."

While Senator Mendes said that "it is unlikely that his committee agrees on any future sale of arms to Iraq if the camp population exposure to other attacks."

For her part, said Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, "The Foreign Ministry is engaged in the Foreign Relations Committee, Congress is concerned about the attack on the camp on the first of September and which has left more than 52 dead."

Sherman added that "the Iraqi government camp is provided by 50,000 sandbags with security barriers to protect the camp guests who are present now in Camp Liberty in Baghdad."

And I do Alsinato then Mendez angrily, "I do not care how they put tons of sand bags, but when there are elements of the joint Iraqi forces actually what happened the sand bags will not have any interest in order to avoid the problem."

The Commission end the file of the MKO announced, in (September 22, 2013), that the Iraqi government had lost patience on file PMOI opposition, and confirmed that it is considering other options to issue a binding decision to end their presence in the camp of Liberty (Liberty), and called upon the States concerned camp to provide money to resettle in other countries and not just advice, "charged the United Nations, the Iraqi government responsible for the safety and security of the camp's residents.

The UN mission in Iraq announced, in (September 12, 2013), about the success of the transition of the last group of the residents of Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty, while called for the Iraqi government to ensure their safety until their departure from Iraq, welcomed the U.S. State Department, the process of transfer.

The leadership of Diyala provincial police said, in the (September 12, 2013), the transfer of the meal the last of the residents of Camp Ashraf of the People's Mojahedin in Diyala province, to Camp Liberty in Baghdad, and while confirming that the number of people who were relocated reached 48 element, indicated that the transfer took place under the direct supervised by the United Nations.

It comes move the residents of Camp Ashraf after about ten days to declare the PMOI opposition, in the second of September, 2013, that 55 of its members were killed and a large number after storming Iraqi security forces to Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad, in conjunction with the fall of the mortar, and accused the Prime Minister Iraqi Minister Nuri al-Maliki of being behind the operation, called "Send" delegation from the United Nations and the United States of America to the camp to "stop the massacre" that camp residents are exposed.

The United States, condemned, on the ninth of September 2013, the attack on elements of PMOI in Iraq early September current, while called on the Iraqi government to provide protection for the remainder of the elements of the organization who are in Camp Ashraf, demanded the administration to create b "Cooperation with the UN mission (UNAMI) for the transfer of the remaining camp of freedom.

With condemned the UN Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), the killing of the elements of the MKO at Camp Ashraf during the storming of the attempt by an Iraqi security force, and called on Baghdad to "open an urgent investigation into the case" and ensure the safety of the injured from the elements of the organization.

The attack is the second exposed to the elements of the MKO in Iraq in about six months, as the press freedom organization, on the ninth of February 2013, that 35 mortar shells and rockets landed on Camp Liberty, west of Baghdad, killing or wounding At least 106 people, warning of the death of the wounded because of "the Iraqi government's refusal to" take them to hospitals outside the camp.

And condemned the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), on the same day, the attack on Camp Liberty, which includes elements of the PMOI, demanding the Iraqi government to secure the protection of occupants until find quick solutions to them, calling that they are people who asylum seekers, and apply to them the provisions of caring for refugees in accordance with international conventions, promised what he suffered Liberty as a "despicable attack", called upon the United Nations, at the same time, the Iraqi government to open an urgent investigation into the incident.


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