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Iraq
Iraq urges foreign states to accept Iranian rebels
2009-03-20
BAGHDAD - Iraq has appealed to foreign countries to accept members of an Iranian opposition group, which has been based in Iraq for about two decades but which Baghdad sees as a terrorist group and a diplomatic liability.
Get in line, the Euro-rubes are taking Gitmo boyz first ...
Iraqi officials and the PeopleÂ’s Mujahideen of Iran (PMOI) have been at loggerheads for years. The PMOI has run a high-profile campaign alleging abuses by the Iraqi government, and Iraq has labelled its members terrorists and liars.

The PMOI began as a group of Islamist leftists opposed to IranÂ’s shah but fell out with ShiÂ’ite clerics who took power after the 1979 revolution. Allowed to operate in Iraq by Saddam Hussein, who waged war with Iran in the 1980s, the group has been less welcome under the new ShiÂ’ite-led government, which has mostly warm ties with neighbouring ShiÂ’ite Iran.

‘We do not wish to take responsibility for the sin of the presence of a terrorist organisation in Iraq, which causes us domestic problems and problems with countries of the region,’ government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told Reuters. ‘We ask the international community ... to find another place for them other than Iraq,’ he added.

No country has yet come forward, Dabbagh said. The United States views the PMOI as a terrorist group, but the European Union agreed to take the group off its list of terrorist organisations following a protracted legal battle.

Human rights groups say forcing the 3,500 PMOI members out of their base at Camp Ashraf in northeastern Iraq would violate international law.
Everything violates international law.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  Compare wid ISRAELI MIL FORUM > XINJIANG PROVINCE: THE BATTLEFRONT FOR ISLAMIC JIHAD IN CHINA. Are approxi 30.0Milyuhn Chin Muslims incl. 8.5Milyuhn Uighurs + 20+Milyuhn Hui ethnics. ARTIC - DEDICATED ISLAMIC SEPARATISTS HAVE NOT LIMITED THEIR TERR VIOLENCE ONLY TO DOMESTIC CHIN TARGETS.

CHINESE MUSLIM > described that IT IS UN-ACCEPTABLE FOR ANY MUSLIM TO LIVE UNDER THE RULE OF INFIDELS = NON-MUSLIMS, HENCE [Pro-Islamist/Muslim]TERROR + VIOLENCE.

As argued or inferred long ago, SCOPE OF ISLAMIST JIHAD = GLOBAL JIHAD IN SCALE > Radical Islam believes their movement has nothing to lose except USSR-STYLE LT REGRESSION + IMPLOSION, ERGO WILL NOT STOP ATTACKING + DESTABILIZING WORLD REGIONS AMAP ALAP JUST BECUZ DUBYA =USA IS LOCALLY VICTORIOUS OR SUCCESSFUL.
* 9-11 + ISLAMIST JIHAD > WAR/STRUGGLE OF GENERATIONS AND TO THE DEATH, of the US-West or Islam/Islamism.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-03-20 01:34  

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