MKO terrorists relocated in Iraq

Around four hundred MKO members have been relocated to a new site called Liberty Camp near Baghdad airport, AFP reported on Saturday.

The move is said to be part of an agreement reached between the United Nations and Iraq in December, which is expected to facilitate the MKO’s complete exit from Iraq.

Under the deal, the UN and the Iraqi government agreed to relocate 3,400 MKO members living in Camp Ashraf until their refugee status is determined.

Baghdad had previously promised to close Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala province by the end of 2011, but the government later agreed to extend the deadline to April.

The Ashraf Camp, located about 120 kilometers (74.5 miles) west of the Iranian border, houses more the 3,000 MKO terrorists.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986 where it enjoyed the support of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein and set up Camp Ashraf near the Iranian border.

The group is known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and is responsible for numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and officials back in the 1980s as well as anti-Saddam Iraqi civilians mostly in the 1990s.

Iraq considers the MKO base and its residents a threat to its national security but, has been pressured to extend the existence of the camp on its soil due to US-led efforts.

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