Posted on 12/18/2011 10:00:30 PM PST by neverdem
U.S. troops are set to completely withdraw from Iraq on the 31st of December. That is also the date for another more ominous deadline: al-Maliki's government has ordered what looks to be a bloody attack on innocent political refugees on that very same day, despite strong condemnations from human rights groups, parliamentarians, and journalists from around the world. Maliki's order to empty Camp Ashraf, which will no doubt lead to a massacre, came after his meeting with the Iranian leader Khamenei. Dispersion of the camp residents no doubt will resemble what happened to the Jewish community during the Second World War.
The attack will target the 3,400 residents of Ashraf, or "Camp New Iraq," who are Iranian political dissidents hated by Iraq's powerful neighbor. The camp has been attacked by Iraqi forces twice before, once in April this year and once in 2009, and in total more than 47 of the civilian residents were killed -- either shot or run over by armored vehicles. At present the camp is inhumanely blockaded by Iraqi troops who prevent medical and other vital supplies, journalists, human rights groups, and parliamentarians from entering. Al-Maliki is now summoned by the tribunal court in Spain for crime against humanity. The fact is that the Iraqi government's plan is now to disperse rather than allowing the U.N. high commissioner for refugees the time needed to safely resettle the residents in Europe.
The residents of the camp have a complicated history. They fled Iran after tens of thousands of political dissidents were executed by the Khomeini regime in the eighties. They were welcomed in Iraq, which, with the support of Western governments, was at war with Iran. Most of the residents have lived in or near Ashraf now for a quarter-century and have built lives, schools, and a...
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Pretty bad for the residents, too.
As US troops leave Iraq, an assault is planned that should shame us all
(See post #11 in thread for link to the article.)
I know a lady who was just a little girl when we left Vietnam. She was escaping on a boat as people were being shot. The left has no heart.
This is the same camp we bombed in April 2002... it’s a MEK camp, a group that was put on our terrorism list in 1997 and a group Saddam Hussein sponsored in his war against Iran.
1960s : (MIDDLE EAST : IRAN : THE MARXIST GROUP MUJAHEDIN-E KHALQ aka MEK/MKO IS FOUNDED — See IRAQ’S SADDAM HUSSEIN, CHE GUEVARA, HO CHI MINH, PLO, 1979 US EMBASSY TAKEOVER & “HOSTAGE CRISIS”)
No matter how the regime in the Oval Office tries to paper this over, this is a bug-out.
A lot like Viet Nam on April 30, 1975. Except no artillery bambardment is raining down on the departing Americans and the last of the refugees.
And there will be a flood of refugees from the coming engagement of the Sunni and Shi’ite factions.
Thanks for the link.
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