Friday, April 8, 2011

Iraqi forces clash with Mujahideen-e-Khalq in Camp Ashraf ...

(Reuters) - "At least 10 Iranian exiles were killed at Camp Ashraf in Iraq Friday, a hospital source said, after security forces clashed with residents of the Iranian dissident camp north of Baghdad overnight... Ali al-Moussawi, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's media adviser, said fighting broke out after government forces tried to reclaim land from camp residents and return it to farmers who owned it... Iran, Iraq and the United States consider the PMOI a terrorist organization... The National Council of Resistance of Iran, the PMOI's political wing, said Iraqi forces were ordered by Maliki to attack the camp ... Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein gave the PMOI shelter in Iraq and some of the group's guerrillas fought with him against Iran..."

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