The People’s Mujahedin Organisation of Iran is set to be taken off the UK terrorism blacklist. It’s a mistake - this is a violent, criminal group

We are now used to seeing British newspapers and commentators look to the US in amazement and at times with more than a bit of smugness. Perhaps it’s difficult not to be smug when the leader of the so-called free world carries out torture at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay, and secret CIA prisons.

The phrase "land of the free and home of the brave" rings hollow when set alongside extraordinary rendition as well as the curtailing of civil rights in the US after the atrocities on September 11 2001. America has lost its moral compass, they say, rather self-righteously at times, implying that these things just do not happen in the UK.

Well, many unfortunate things have happened in the UK during the past few years, but one of the most disgraceful of them all was yesterday’s court of appeal ruling that the people’s Mujahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI - also known as a the Mujahedin-e Khalq organisation, MeK or MKO) should be removed from the government’s blacklist of terrorist organisations.

The Home Office has argued that the temporary cessation of terrorist acts by this organisation was quite possibly for pragmatic reasons and that these attacks might be resumed in the future. Of course, one could ask the government why it has allowed this terrorist organisation and its affiliated bodies to carry their activities - including organising, propaganda, and fundraising - with impunity in this country over the last two and a half decades.

The British government said that it is opposed to the removal of the PMOI from the blacklist, in order to protect the public. Its stance, in other words, has nothing to do with protecting the people of Iran or Iraq from this ruthless organisation.

Not only did this terrorist group kill innocent Iranians through attacks against civilian targets, but for two decades it was a tool in the hands of Saddam Hussein. During Saddam’s war of aggression against Iran, the PMOI worked hand in hand with Iraqi intelligence against the people of Iran. Three years later, after the Iraqi army was crushed and humiliated in Kuwait during the Desert Storm operations, it helped Saddam to crush the popular rebellion in the north and south of the country. Make no mistake, this didn’t just involve crushing the Shia uprising in 1991, it also included assisting genocide in Halabja.

After the invasion of Iraq, the US has shamelessly protected the PMOI in Camp Ashraf rather than try them for acts of terrorism and genocide against the US military, the people of Iran, and the Iraqi Shias and Kurds. Though it is hated by Iranians of all political and ideological persuasions, the PMOI is propped up by the neoconservatives and Israel in their quest for a regime change in Iran.

Besides being a terrorist organisation the PMOI is also a cult, which tortures and murders its own dissenting members - as we know from extraordinary revelations by some of its ex-leading figures. Western human rights bodies have condemned the PMOI’s terrorist activities and the gross violations of human rights of its own members. Some may also remember the disturbing scenes a few years ago - a number of the PMOI members set themselves on fire in various European capitals including London when a number of fellow members were briefly detained by French anti-terrorism police. However, the most dangerous fire has been lit by the UK’s court of appeal. Not only has it legitimised the activities of a well-funded and merciless group whose members have slaughtered tens of thousands innocent Iraqi and Iranian civilians over the past three decades and whose leaders are just as criminal as Saddam Hussein, but it has also earned the contempt of tens of millions of Iranians and Iraqis for supporting mass murder and terrorism.

For me, however, the only remaining question is why are British political commentators are silent and why the country’s intellectuals aren’t outraged. Many, like the British judiciary, have supported an organisation which to its countless non-European and non-white victims is just as criminal as al-Qaida. There are many cases to be argued regarding the list of proscribed organisations as wrongly targeting freedom fighters. Like al-Qaida, this is not one.

By Seyed Mohammad Marandi

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CASMII Press Release

12/05/08 "ICH" — - In a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were not made in Iran at all.

According to a report by the LA Times correspondent Tina Susman in Baghdad: "A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was cancelled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously reported the items were of Iranian origin. When U.S. explosives experts went to investigate, they discovered they were not Iranian after all."

The US, which until two weeks ago had never provided any proof for its allegations, finally handed over its "evidence" of the Iranian origin of these weapons to the Iraqi government. Last week, an Iraqi delegation to Iran presented the US "evidence" to Iranian officials. According to Al-Abadi, a parliament member from the ruling United Iraqi Alliance who was on the delegation, the Iranian officials totally refuted "training, financing and arming" militant groups in Iraq . Consequently the Iraqi government announced that there is no hard evidence against Iran.

In another extraordinary event this week, the US spokesman in Iraq, Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner, for the first time did not blame Iran for the violence in Iraq and in fact did not make any reference to Iran at all in his introductory remarks to the world media on Wednesday when he described the large arsenal of weapons found by Iraqi forces in Karbala.

In contrast, the Pentagon in August 2007 admitted that it had lost track of a third of the weapons distributed to the Iraqi security forces in 2004/2005. The 190,000 assault rifles and pistols roam free in Iraqi streets today.

In the past year, the US leaders have been relentless in propagating their charges of Iranian meddling and fomenting violence in Iraq and since the release of the key judgments of the US National Intelligence Estimate in December that Iran does not have a nuclear weaponisation programme, these accusations have sharply intensified.

The US charges of Iranian interference in Iraq too have now collapsed. Any threat of military strike against Iran is in violation of the UN charter and the IAEA’s continued supervision on Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities means there is no justification for sanctions.

CASMII calls on the US to change course and enter into comprehensive and unconditional negotiations with Iran.

Some politicians and lawmakers have chosen to stand with the MKO and have spoken on their behalf in different occasions (like removing them from the terrorist list, falsely presenting them as a “third alternative”, and so on).

We are asking that you make an appeal on behalf of people who are left without a voice in their plight.

As you know there are more than 3000 members of MKO stationed in Iraq on an isolated location called Camp Ashraf (or Ashraf City as is also known). Here they have been imprisoned since 2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

As relations between the governments of Iran and Iraq got better, some attempts were made by families of MKO members in camp Ashraf to arrange for a visit with their sons & daughters. These attempts were made primarily by the parents or siblings of the members in camp Ashraf. The very first attempts started as early as 2003, some months after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Family members had to travel on very harsh and dangerous roads to reach Camp Ashraf which at that point was under the control of the United States Army.

Today however the MKO have made it impossible and downright dangerous for family members to get anywhere near Camp Ashraf. Parents and siblings who haven’t met their loved ones in years or decades are turned away at the gates under threats and abuse. The Mojahedin accuse them of being “spies” for the Iranian regime, even though all they want to do is meet their sons and daughters after years of separation.

This matter goes beyond politics and is just a basic matter of human rights. We ask respectfully that you make any effort possible to convince the leaders of the MKO to do the right thing in this matter and allow the families to visit their loved ones in camp Ashraf.

Please voice your concern on this matter to the MKO and demand that they allow the families of their own members to reconnect with their parents and siblings.

Here are some articles and videos highlighting this issue:

Children of ‘the resistance’ – Canadian National Post article from 2006

Parents of MKO members in Camp Ashraf - Baghdad 2003 - YouTube Video / Parents getting denied to enter Camp Ashraf and accused of being agents of the Iranian Regime

With regards

Karim Haggi

Iran Peyvand Association

Asia Times

By Gareth Porter 
WASHINGTON - The George W Bush administration has long pushed the "laptop documents" - 1,000 pages of technical documents supposedly from a stolen Iranian laptop - as hard evidence of Iranian intentions to build a nuclear weapon. Now charges based on those documents pose the only remaining obstacles to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declaring that Iran has resolved all unanswered questions about its nuclear program.

But those documents have also been regarded with great suspicion by US and foreign analysts. German officials identified the source of the laptop documents in November 2004 as the Mujahideen e-Khalq (MEK), which along with its political arm, the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), is listed by the US

State Department as a terrorist organization.

There are some indications, moreover, that the MEK obtained the documents not from an Iranian source but from Israel’s Mossad.

In its latest report on Iran, circulated on February 22, the IAEA, under strong pressure from the Bush administration, included descriptions of plans for a facility to produce "green salt", technical specifications for high explosives testing and the schematic layout of a missile re-entry vehicle that appears capable of holding a nuclear weapon. Iran has been asked to provide full explanations for these alleged activities.
Tehran has denounced the documents on which the charges are based as fabrications provided by the MEK, and has demanded copies of the documents to analyze, but the United States has refused to do so.

The Iranian assertion is supported by statements by German officials. A few days after then-secretary of state Colin Powell announced the laptop documents, Karsten Voight, the coordinator for German-American relations in the German Foreign Ministry, was reported by the Wall Street Journal on November 22, 2004, as saying that the information had been provided by "an Iranian dissident group".
A German official familiar with the issue confirmed to this writer that the NCRI had been the source of the laptop documents. "I can assure you that the documents came from the Iranian resistance organization," the source said.

The Germans have been deeply involved in intelligence collection and analysis regarding the Iranian nuclear program. According to a story by Washington Post reporter Dafna Linzer soon after the laptop documents were first mentioned publicly by Powell in late 2004, US officials said they had been stolen from an Iranian whom German intelligence had been trying to recruit, and had been given to intelligence officials of an unnamed country in Turkey.
The German account of the origins of the laptop documents contradicts the insistence by unnamed US intelligence officials who insisted to journalists William J Broad and David Sanger in November 2005 that the laptop documents did not come from any Iranian resistance groups.

Despite the fact that it was listed as a terrorist organization, the MEK was a favorite of neo-conservatives in the Pentagon, who were proposing in 2003-2004 to use it as part of a policy to destabilize Iran. The United States is known to have used intelligence from the MEK on Iranian military questions for years. It was considered a credible source of intelligence on the Iranian nuclear program after 2002, mainly because of its identification of the facility in Natanz as a nuclear site.

The German source said he did not know whether the documents were authentic or not. However, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)analysts, and European and IAEA officials who were given access to the laptop documents in 2005, were very skeptical about their authenticity.
The Guardian’s Julian Borger last February quoted an IAEA official as saying there is "doubt over the provenance of the computer".
A senior European diplomat who had examined the documents was quoted by the New York Times in November 2005 as saying, "I can fabricate that data. It looks beautiful, but is open to doubt."

Scott Ritter, the former US military intelligence officer who was chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, noted in an interview that the CIA has the capability to check the authenticity of laptop documents through forensic tests that would reveal when different versions of different documents were created.
The fact that the agency could not rule out the possibility of fabrication, according to Ritter, indicates that it had either chosen not to do such tests or that the tests had revealed fraud.
Despite its having been credited with the Natanz intelligence coup in 2002, the overall record of the MEK on the Iranian nuclear program has been very poor. The CIA continued to submit intelligence from the Iranian group about alleged Iranian nuclear weapons-related work to the IAEA over the next five years, without identifying the source.

But that intelligence turned out to be unreliable. A senior IAEA official told the Los Angeles Times in February 2007 that, since 2002, "pretty much all the intelligence that has come to us has proved to be wrong".
Former State Department deputy intelligence director for the Near East and South Asia Wayne White doubts that the MEK has actually had the contacts within the Iranian bureaucracy and scientific community necessary to come up with intelligence such as Natanz and the laptop documents. "I find it very hard to believe that supporters of the MEK haven’t been thoroughly rooted out of the Iranian bureaucracy," says White. "I think they are without key sources in the Iranian government."

In her February 2006 report on the laptop documents, the Post’s Linzer said CIA analysts had originally speculated that a "third country, such as Israel, had fabricated the evidence". They eventually "discounted that theory", she wrote, without explaining why.
Since 2002, new information has emerged indicating that the MEK did not obtain the 2002 data on Natanz itself but received it from the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. Yossi Melman and Meier Javadanfar, who co-authored a book on the Iranian nuclear program last year, write that they were told by "very senior Israeli Intelligence officials" in late 2006 that Israeli intelligence had known about Natanz for a full year before the Iranian group’s press conference. They explained that they had chosen not to reveal it to the public "because of safety concerns for the sources that provided the information".
Shahriar Ahy, an adviser to monarchist leader Reza Pahlavi, told journalist Connie Bruck that the detailed information on Natanz had not come from the MEK but from "a friendly government, and it had come to more than one opposition group, not only the Mujahideen".

Bruck wrote in the New Yorker on March, 16, 2006, that when he was asked if the "friendly government" was Israel, Ahy smiled and said, "The friendly government did not want to be the source of it, publicly. If the friendly government gives it to the US publicly, then it would be received differently. Better to come from an opposition group."

Israel has maintained a relationship with the MEK since the late 1990s, according to Bruck, including assistance to the organization in beaming broadcasts by the NCRI from Paris into Iran. An Israeli diplomat confirmed that Israel had found the MEK "useful", Bruck reported, but the official declined to elaborate.

Gareth Porter is an historian and national security policy analyst. The paperback edition of his latest book, Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam, was published in 2006.
(Inter Press Service)

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The MKO’s political wing, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), is banned in the United States as a terrorist organization but remains legal in the EU. The MKO advocates overthrowing the Islamic leadership of Iran.
Washington issued no direct rebuttal of the comments.
But Richard Grenell, a spokesman for the U.S. mission to the United Nations, responded by referring to the Security Council’s March 3 adoption of a third round of U.N. sanctions against Iran for refusing to halt its enrichment work.
"Our response to the Iranians was the … Security Council resolution in which the international community said again Iran was in violation of international (nuclear) demands," he said.
Washington also accuses Iran of supporting Middle Eastern militant organizations including Hezbollah and Hamas.
The NCRI first revealed the existence of Iran’s clandestine uranium enrichment program in August 2002. The United States and other Western countries fear it is part of a plan to get the capability to produce atomic weapons but Tehran says is at the heart of a peaceful civilian nuclear energy program.

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… In spring 2003, Iran declared that it was holding senior members of al Qaeda but refused to divulge their identities and proposed to exchange information on its al Qaeda detainees in return for the U.S. providing Iran with information on the anti-Iran terrorist group Mujihidden e Khalk (MEK) which had surrendered to U.S. troops in Iraq. But hardliners in the Bush administration rejected such a deal, on the grounds that MEK should be protected from Iran.

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The enemies of Islam do not want the Islamic countries to maintain unity, he said adding that they have always tried to sow discord among Muslim nations.
In the meeting, head of Iraqi tribes praised support of the Islamic Republic of Iran for different Iraqi ethnic groups in the past few years.
They said that Israel must sign up to Non-Proliferation Treaty and must withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories.

The Iraqi tribes also called for expulsion of members of the terrorist Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) from the Iraqi Diala province.

The Iranian president arrived in Baghdad Sunday, heading a high-ranking political and economic delegation on a two-day official visit.
The visit is taking place at the official invitation of President Jalal Talabani.

The military coalition under the US commandment in Iraq confirmed that some MKO members have left this organisation and their base in Iraq.
Confirmation of this news takes place after some reports were published indicating that in the past few weeks the efforts of dozens of former MKO to escape Iraq and seek refuge in western countries have failed and many of them are left hanging around in Iraq where they are in a very desperate situation.
In the past four years since Iraq was occupied by the US forces and its allies, some MKO members gradually left this organization and Camp Ashraf which is their base in Iraq.
The US army which is guarding Camp Ashraf during this period, kept the dissidents under its own protection in a camp near to this base. As the press office of coalition forces under the US command has informed the BBC, during the last four years 380 individuals of MKO have returned to Iran at their own request. But those dissidents who did not wish to return to Iran despite the efforts made by the United States did not gain the confirmation of any country for their application for refuge.

Meanwhile, reports indicate that within the last few weeks, dozens of them decided to leave the camp they were living in which was protected by the US forces and try to leave Iraq through different ways but this effort was unsuccessful for most of them and they returned to the camp protected by the US forces. Some were arrested after crossing the Turkish border and returned to Iraq, a few managed to remain in Turkey or go to Greece illegally.

The Society for Defending Immigrants and Iranians in France (ARIA) tries to help the MKO dissidents to leave Iraq and settle in another country. According to this society 208 MKO dissidents were staying in the US camp up to last month. The press office of the US forces today gives their number at 110. Javad Firuzmand, the spokesman of ARIA society who himself has left the MKO says that this number had reduced to 50 last week and the number 110 indicates that some of those who had left there have returned to the US camp.

Mr Firuzmand told the BBC that 70 of the dissidents tried to go to Turkey after they left the Americas with the aid of some smugglers, but the Turkish border police arrested them and after one month in prison and remaining in compulsory camp were handed over to the Iraqi Police. One of these people was shot and wounded by the border police and is in hospital now in the city of Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. The spokesman of ARIA society says that the autonomous government of Iraqi Kurdistan is keeping the people who were handed over by the Turkish police in a temporary camp in Arbil. But some of these people tried again to cross the Turkish border. Ten of them were arrested again by the Turkish police and handed over to Iraqi police and they are now in prison in Arbil. Amongst those who managed to cross the border ten were able to reach Greece with the aid of smugglers and 15 are living covertly in Istanbul and Ankara and Van in Turkey.

According to Javad Firuzmand, the MKO dissidents who are staying in Turkey could not approach the Human Rights and Turkish organizations since if they are revealed they would be arrested and returned to Iraq. The ten who stay in Greece are also in covert situation in that country.  The ARIA society spokesman added that about 15 individuals approached Jordan and there is no information about the destiny of other 8.

The BBC’s effort to contact the UNHCR to obtain information about the destiny of these MKO dissidents did not reach anywhere but enquiries are still ongoing. The ARIA society which is a human rights establishment defending Iranians has demanded help for these people and the chance to live legally in European or other free countries. During the last four years some MKO dissidents have returned to Iran - the press office of forces under US command in Iraq gives their number at 380. Javad Firuzmand, the spokesman of ARIA society says that these individuals are living and working in several Iranian cities and are freely active in the society and he himself is in contact with some of them. According to him, inside Camp Ashraf which is still run by the MKO, some 200 individuals have left the MKO too. These people are not willing to move to the American’s camp and they are kept in a separate place inside Ashraf. Mr Firuzmand says that these people also seek refuge from western countries.

Camp Ashraf was established in 1986 after MKO leader [Massoud Rajavi] moved from France to Iraq and the members of this organisation launched an armed struggle against Iran benefiting from the military facilities given by Saddam Hussein’s regime. They participated in military operations against Iran during the Iran Iraq war. This base is situated in the district of Khalis in the province of Dyala in the east of Iraq and the coalition forces under US command have given the total number of individuals living there as 3360. The United States designated the MKO as a terrorist organisation but according to international regulations and Geneva Convention, they are kept under the entity of "protected persons".

The Iranian government demands that Camp Ashraf be dismantled and all MKO members be expelled from Iraq and accuses the Americans of protecting them in order to use them against Iran.

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Centre for International and Inter-governmental Studies of the University of Baghdad Thursday, 31^st of January 2008.

A round table discussion centered on the issue of terrorism in Iraq and possible solutions to this problem.

The Symposium was divided in to 3 parts:

- the general threat posed by terrorist groups and the ways they operate in Iraq

- foreign terrorist organizations in Iraq

- the creation of terrorist organizations in Iraq and the global supporters of these terrorist groups

Participants of the Symposium ranged from university professors including, Dr. Aziz Jabar Shayal, Dr. Samir Alshweely and Dr. Rasheed Saleh, professors of Political Studies from the University of Baghdad. The Symposium was also attended by many governmental and non-governmental representatives from a wide range of ministries and NGOs, including representatives from Iraq’s Ministries of Defence, Human Rights and Security.

Massoud Khodabandeh from the Centre de recherches sur le terrorisme depuis le 11 septembre 2001 (Paris), who was in Baghdad for meetings concerning the fate of the remaining individuals following dismantlement of Camp Ashraf which houses the disarmed Iranian terrorist organisation Mojahedin Khalq Organisation, was invited to participate in the discussion.

Prominent among the participants was Mr. Bassam Alhassani, advisor to Prime Minister Noori Al Maleki.

The Symposium ended with a full report on the issues discussed and Dr. Aziz Jabar Shayal delivered the end resolution in which one paragraph emphasized the necessity for the dismantlement and deportation of the foreign terrorist Mojahedin Khalq organisation and encouragement and facilitation by the government and others to help the remaining individuals find a safe palace outside Iraq and return to normal life.

The symposium was covered by media representatives who reported from the meeting room.

Alaraghia television, Iraq’s main TV network, reported the Symposium and broadcast a brief interview with Massoud Khodabandeh.

In the interview, Massoud Khodabandeh emphasised above all the right of the Iraqi people to enjoy security and have justice served against the perpetrators of violent acts in their country, in particular the criminal heads of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq organisation which was involved in the massacre of the Kurdish and Shiite uprisings against Saddam Hussein in March 1991. Mr Khodabandeh said that in his belief and according to all the studies of the Centre de Recherches sur le Terrorisme, the phenomenon of terrorism cannot have a single solution and needs inter governmental cooperation as well as the involvement of NGOs to protect the human rights of the who have been inveigled by terrorist leaders into this path, and to give them a second chance of integration back into their societies.

Thanking the organizers of the Symposium Mr Khodabandeh emphasised the cult culture of terrorist organisations and the methods they use to brainwash their followers. He also gave examples of foreign support by some influential groups and parties who facilitate the flow of finance for terrorism. Not the least the relationship between the remainders of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, London, Washington and other countries with the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation, and the way this relationship is becoming clear in the escalation of violence in Diyali province as well as the streets of London and other European countries.

The Symposium lasted for over two hours. Afterwards the participants formed smaller groups to further discuss the variety of issues raised by the Seminar.

A full report and media coverage will be published shortly.

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The failed abduction of a Canadian Iranian family in Iraq by MKO
The Mohammadi family, Mostafa Mohammadi and Mahbobeh arrived in camp TIPF/(Camp Ashraf) in Iraq on December 6, 07.
On December 8, at 3:15 local time , after constant requests from US authority, they were able to meet with their daughter, Somayeh, for 45 minutes during which time Somayeh, out of fear, refused to speak to her father but talked to her mother and refused to acknowledge that she wants to leave camp Ashraf and return back to Canada. Somayeh , told them that” she is in touch regularly with his uncle, Hassan Hamzeh , an active member of MKO in Canada , is passing information on her parents activities in Canada on their collaboration with I.R.I. security services.
In our opinion since she does not have any legal status in any country and the Canadian government refused to recognize her status so far she has been convinced that if she leaves the camp she has only the option of going back to Iran.
However, on the morning of December 9 the U.S. forces in charge of TIPF asked the Mohammadi family to leave the camp since they met with their daughter and received her answer to their plea. Following that, the Americans escorted them to the gates and let them out while still watching them from behind their gates. (mind you that the location of camp is in a deserted area with the closest access to a road and public transportation being 6-7 kilometers away from the camp).

As they started walking the distance they were suddenly confronted by a group of people, confirmed members of MKO who are residing in the adjacent camp Ashraf under the watch of American forces, who pretended to be passing drivers and offered them a lift. Base on their prior knowledge and experiences of the ways of MKO, Mr. Mohammadi and his wife refused to take their offer and kept walking towards the main road. At this point, realizing that they are vigilant about the intention of the MKO members, the guys grabbed Ms. Mohammadi by force and pushed her into a car trying to kidnap her. When Mr. Mohammadi, who was at the same time defending himself against their physical attacks and also trying to secure their bags since they were slashing them by knife and managed to break open their camera trying to remove the memory card by knife, started shouting for help one of the guys pulled a gun from under the driver’s seat and put it on his head.
Realizing the seriousness of the situation the Americans who were watching from a short distance interfered and rescued them from the scene and arranged for a ride to Baghdad for them after making a report of what happened and also kept their broken camera as an evidence of the incident. Though, the Americans were helpful in many occasions they were unable to answer the question of: how these people who are supposed to be disarmed and confined inside the camp are armed and free to carry their operations under the authorities watch.
After arriving in Baghdad Mr. Mohammadi and his wife had to receive medical attention to their injuries and then started contacting the authorities including the Canadian Consul, Ms. Sonia Hooykaas in Jordan, to report the situation. At the same time Ms. Hooykaas kindly informed our Centre that she will report the case to Ottawa and will reflect our concerns regarding this situation.
Mohammadi family are still in Iraq and trying all that is possible to rescue their daughter from the MKO camp/influence and also take a legal action against the leaders of MKO for all the damages to their family including this last case.
Since this is their 9th trip to Iraq since 2003 and the family has exhausted all its limited resources in order to free their child from the clutch of MKO they feel that they need to stay in Iraq in order to finalize this important issue and bring peace to the life of their shattered family and other three children.
We urge every Human Rights organization as well as the authorities of the Canadian and American government to use their power and influence to help this family.

For the full story on Mohammadi family you can read the Stewart Bell ‘s articles published by National post on Saturday, September 23, 2006.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=94a2aa55-56ab-4786-93a1-5f5ed073b98e&k=7636
We also demand that the case with the MKO be investigated immediately and proper control be enforced with regards to violent and illegal activities of MKO members since the continuation of such acts endangers the reallocation of over 200 people, residents of TIPF, who were also the prisoners of MKO and currently recognized refugees of the UNHCR.
In the past week eight people who were released from TIPF in order to obtain visa and arrive in Turkey to continue with their legal procedure with the UNHCR for final reallocation have disappeared and there is no sign of them anywhere.
We hold MKO and American Forces and Iraqi government liable for the safety of the above people.

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