Iraqi army raids Iranian exile camp; 10 dead

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: cbs/AP

(AP)

CAMP ASHRAF, Iraq - Iraq security forces raided the settlement of an Iranian exile group that the Shiite-led government has long tried to oust and at least 10 people were killed in the pre-dawn clashes Friday, officials said.

The People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran exiles jeer Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as a puppet of Tehran, partly because the Shiite premier has sought to close their camp in Iraq's northeast Diyala province over their ties to former Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein.

Tensions boiled over this week when the Iraqi army moved new troops near Camp Ashraf, prompting its residents to pelt soldiers with stones and throw themselves in front of military trucks. About an hour before dawn Friday, the army stormed the camp, hurling smoke bombs at a crowd of about 100 masked people and chasing them with Humvees.



Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/08/501364/main20052321.shtml#ixzz1IynA4Far

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1. These are the terrorists of MEK

Which is also a kind of cult -- sort of an Islamo-Marxist scientology.

The Neocons have recently adopted them and their treatment by the Iraqi government as a pet cause and are trying to drum up undeserved sympathy for them.

They've probably gotten a raw deal in some respects, but they're nobody to waste a lot of tears over.

[MisterP]

2. don't forget genocidal!