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journalists’ visit to Camp Ashraf

Associated Press, December 15, 2009

Iraqi officials also took journalists on Tuesday to a camp of Iranian exiles near the border, which they are planning to move.
The Iranian Opposition group, the People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, was hosted in Iraq for years by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, but Iraq’s new Shiite dominated government has announced plans to move their camp to the southwest of the country.
The trip was an apparent attempt to show that they are treating the exiles fairly, following international criticism of the move.
During the tour, Iraqi military personnel using loudspeakers, read a statement to the camp’s residents in Farsi, emphasizing that the camp would be moved but that none of the residents would be forcibly returned to Iran.
The effort was met by derision by many of the group’s members who shouted that they would not leave their camp.