Iraqi Army Takes Control Of Iranian Opposition Camp - Source

Source: AFP

BAQUBA, Iraq (AFP)--The Iraqi army Tuesday took control of Camp Ashraf, the main base for Iran's main armed opposition in exile, an Iraqi military source in the northern province of Diyala told AFP.

"After the failure of negotiations with the (People's) Mujahedeen to enter peacefully, the Iraqi army entered Camp Ashraf with force and it now controls all of the interior and all entrances to the camp," the source said.

"There were no injuries, only shouts and insults from the camp's residents."

Camp Ashraf is in Diyala province, north of Baghdad, and is home to about 3, 000 people, according to the Iraqi government.

The People's Mujahedeen, which has been based in Iraq for more than two decades, said in a statement that at 3.00 pm (1200 GMT), "the Iraqi police force started (an) attack on Ashraf by firing pepper gas."

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Vice President Cheney. Not that long ago, Iraq and Iran were at war, a war that cost both countries many, many lives. Now see how our intervention in Iraq has brought peace on the border between Iraq and Iran. Looks like our surrogates in Iraq are backing the Iranian government, legitimate or not. What would have happened had we not gone into Iraq guns blazing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Mujahedeen_of_Iran

In May 2005, Human Rights Watch revealed that the PMOI were running prison camps within Iraq and were committing severe human rights violations.<93> The report described the PMOI as a cult held under the tight control of Maryam Rajavi. The report prompted a response by the PMOI and a few friendly MEPs (European MPs), who published a counter-report in September 2005.<94> They noted that HRW had "relied only on 12 hours interviews with 12 suspicious individuals", and stated that "a delegation of MEPs visited Camp Ashraf in Iraq" and "conducted impromptu inspections of the sites of alleged abuses." Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca (PP), one of the Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament, alleged that Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) was the source of the evidence against the PMOI.<94>

Prompted by the FOFI document, Human Rights Watch re-interviewed all 12 of the original witnesses, conducting private and personal interviews lasting several hours with each of them in Germany and the Netherlands, where the witnesses now live. All of the witnesses restated their claims about the PMOI camps from the 1991-2003 period, saying PMOI officials subjected them to various forms of physical and psychological abuses once they made known their wishes to leave the organization.<95>"

so check a little before you talk about "monsters" in that specific case