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July 7th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “The Iraqi government is committed to closing it, and any plan to wait out the government in the hope that something will change is irresponsible and dangerous,” Reuters quoted Daniel Benjamin, the US State Department’s coordinator for counter-terrorism, as saying on Friday.
“It is past time for the MEK (MKO) to recognize that Ashraf is not going to remain an MEK base in Iraq,” Benjamin cautioned, noting that Baghdad’s patience was running out.
Under an agreement reached between the United Nations and the Iraqi government in December 2011, some 3,000 members of the terrorist MKO group are to relocate from Camp New Iraq, formerly known as Camp Ashraf, to a new location, Camp Liberty – a former US military base near the Baghdad International Airport.
About 2,000 members of the terrorist group have left Camp Ashraf, but according to Benjamin 1,200 to 1,300 remain. No new relocations have reportedly happened since May 5, while the Iraqi government has set a deadline for the group to vacate the camp entirely by July 20.
The MKO fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up its camp near the Iranian border.
The group is also known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds. The group has carried out numerous acts of violence against the Iranian civilians and government officials.
Iran has repeatedly called on the Iraqi government to expel the group, but the US has attempted to block the expulsion by mounting pressure on the Iraqi government.
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