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Iraqi forces storm MKO's Camp Ashraf
Iraqi security forces have stormed the base of the anti-Iranian terrorist group the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization.
An Iraqi military official has said that Iraqi forces have taken complete control of the camp.
MKO spokesman Shahriar Kia said that four people were killed and 300 wounded when Iraqi soldiers and police stormed Camp Ashraf on Tuesday, AFP reported.
The base is located in Diyala province, north of Baghdad, and is home to around 3,500 MKO members and their families.
"After the failure of negotiations with the Mujahedeen (Khalq) to enter peacefully, the Iraqi army entered Camp Ashraf with force and it now controls all of the interior and all entrances to the camp," an Iraqi military source said.
An Iraqi police official has announced that about 50 camp residents have been detained.
After the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, US troops disarmed the MKO members based at the camp and surrounded it until Iraqi forces took over responsibility earlier this year.
The MKO was founded in Iran in the 1960s, but its top leadership and members fled the country in the 1980s after carrying out a series of assassinations and bombings inside the country.
The group is especially notorious in Iran because they allied with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
The United States, Canada, Iraq, and Iran have all designated the MKO as a terrorist organization.
The European Union had also designated the MKO as a terrorist organization but inexplicably removed it from the EU terror list in January 2009.
It is still not clear if the US gave Baghdad the green light to storm Camp Ashraf or if Iraqi officials took the action on their own initiative.
However, US military officials in Iraq say they were not informed about the plan until after it was carried out.
Many political analysts had said the United States had intended to use the Camp Ashraf MKO members as pawns to pressure Iran, so this development will change the political calculus of the region.
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Added: Jul 29 2009 In: middle_east
Recorded on: Jul 28 2009By: dan_man_ 
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- MEK,
- Mujahedin-e-Khalq,
- Iraq,
- anti-Iran
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i gues when ur stuck in shit u can only go deeper in it.
i dont know what would have had been better? to be captured by iran or by killed by iraqis?
Posted Jul-29-2009 by "dontcomplain" (R)
I hope the hang the ************s, they're worse than the mullahs
Posted Jul-29-2009 by "nimrooo" (B)
Nice.
Posted Jul-29-2009 by "Hichkas" (R)
Good job. Those MFs deserve worse. I wanna see all the MKO members lying on the ground. Iranian gov. should finish the job and take over Iraq and kick the Americans out of the Mid-East.
Posted Jul-29-2009 by "iamagoodboy" (R)
You got to love how Dan_Man (aka red pill)
is a blocking deleteing sack of shit of anyone but his anti-israel anti-us buddies
dan fk you too.
Posted Jul-29-2009 by "dan_man_sack_of_shit" (R)
is a blocking deleteing sack of shit of anyone but his anti-israel anti-us buddies
dan fk you too.
dan man got banned but continue
Posted Jul-29-2009 by "GoneWithTheSin" (B)
Id love to see them try. We would finally get a chance to use those F-22's!
Posted Jul-30-2009 by "TOAO_Cyrus" (R)
Id love to see them try. We would finally get a chance to use those F-22's!
lol
Think of your Afghanistan thing first. No chance for you to use those asshole. It's just like use it or lose it!
Posted Jul-30-2009 by "iamagoodboy" (R)