Germany rejects taking in Iraq-based MKO terrorists
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Berlin, April 11, IRNA -- The German government has ruled out accepting Iraqi-based MKO terrorists amid their imminent expulsion from Iraq as a result of their terrorist activities since the 1980s, the German website net-tribune reported Saturday.
There are currently no plans to take in members of the group in Germany, an unnamed German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman was quoted saying.
The MKO terrorist grouplet which is still under surveillance by Germany's domestic Verfassungsschutz secret service, has reportedly stepped up lobbying efforts among German parliamentarians to prevent the closure of their main terrorist base Camp Ashraf, located near Baghdad.
The Iraqi government has ordered the expulsion of all remaining MKO terrorists from its soil.
The US military protected the grouplet's terrorist camp in Iraq since the 2003 invasion.
It handed over control of the camp to Iraqi security forces in February.
Iraq's late dictator Saddam Hussein used the MKO during his eight-year war against Iran in the 1980s.
The Israeli-backed terror grouplet played also a major role in Saddam's bloody suppression of Shiite and Kurdish uprisings after the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
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