Group Of Congress Members Warns Iraq After Attack On Iranian Refugees
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Source: Agence France-Presse
By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, February 17, 2013 17:20 EST
A team of US Congressmen met with the Iranian dissident group MEK in Paris on Sunday and threatened to declare Iraqs prime minister a sponsor of terrorism after a deadly attack on an Iranian exile camp there.
The bi-partisan team, led by Dana Rohrabacher the chair of the sub-committee on Europe expressed strong support for the Peoples Mujahedeen of Iran (MEK) which has accused Irans supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of ordering a deadly attack on its camp in Iraq on February 9.
The government of Iraq has clearly broken its word to us, Rohrabacher said, recalling that seven people died and several were injured in the assault on Camp Liberty, a former US military base near Baghdad housing about 3,100 members of the MEK.
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Rohrabacher said Iraqs Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki would feel the heat if further assaults pursued.
If there is another attack on these helpless refugees obviously cleared by the government of Iraq, we will move in the US Congress
and put forward a resolution declaring Prime Minister Maliki and his government state sponsors of terrorism.
Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20130217-us-congress-team-warns-iraq-after-attack-iranian-refugees
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)France 24 link which refers AFP here : http://www.france24.com/en/20130217-us-congress-team-warns-iraq-after-attack-iranian-refugees
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)That would mean sanctions against Iraq.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Oh wait...
LeftInTX
(25,555 posts)timdog44
(1,388 posts)it makes you wonder who is in bed with who in the middle east. An Iraqi leader kills some Iranians and we are proposing going to war with an ally? And I am not diminishing the lives of the Iranians, just saying.
If there is another attack on these helpless refugees obviously cleared by the government of Iraq, we will move in the US Congress
and put forward a resolution declaring Prime Minister Maliki and his government state sponsors of terrorism.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Mayhaps a solution presents itself. Get the hell out of the Middle East where we don't know ally from enemy. We could come home and deal with the enemies we have here. Some are in DC.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)benld74
(9,909 posts)especially when Congress is telling everyone, Tough decisions have to be made?
Mason Kennedy
(62 posts)Take 2.