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| Iraq to shut MKO camp in two months |
| 2009-01-24 |
| Iraq will close within two months a camp where opposition Iranian rebels have been living in exile for two decades, a senior Iraqi security official said on Friday. "Over 3,000 inhabitants of Camp Ashraf have to leave Iraq and the camp will be part of history within two months," Iraqi National Security Adviser Muwaffaq Al Rubaie told a news conference with Saeed Jalili, secretary-general of Iran's National Security Council. "Iran's security cannot be threatened by any factor inside Iraq. Iran's security is our own security." Iraq has said in the past it plans to close the camp eventually, but the two month deadline appears to be new and would leave little time to find a place for its inhabitants. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Maybe we can exchange Gitmo with Camp Ashraf..... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-01-24 13:12 |
| #1 This is gonna be interesting. Strangest little group on the planet - anti-mullah outfit with Marxist tinge, on the US terrorist list, sheltering in an Arab country. Rubaie probably is as much of a loose-cannon jackass as he was when I was there, so there may be some salt needed here, but I wonder what they will do with these folks. Think of Chinese jihadis at Gitmo, or the like, times 500. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2009-01-24 12:29 |