re: "The massacre at Camp Ashraf"

Melanie Phillips at The Spectator ("don't think alike") brings disturbing word from Iraq, that you won't get from the "news" media.

Money quote(s):

"(W)e must not overlook the massacre that took place earlier this month of members of the Iranian opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), at their base in Ashraf in Iraq.

Despite the fact that the PMOI are ‘protected persons’ under the 4th Geneva Convention, on April 8 they were the victims of an unprovoked attack which was apparently carried out on the orders of the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki. The unarmed civilian residents of Ashraf were fired at with machine-gun rounds, as a result of which 35 of them were killed and some 350 injured.

According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the Iraqi Army used 2,500 troops equipped with armoured vehicles to attack Ashraf in tandem with the feared al Qods force of Iran." Bold type added for emphasis. - CAA.

The PMOI (a.k.a., MEK) are the military wing of the NCRI. Or perhaps the NCRI is the political wing of the PMOI/MEK. Experts disagree.

But the bottom line is that the PMOI members interned at Camp Ashraf are protected persons, declared to be by our own military commanders in Iraq, under the Geneva Protocols.

"(T)here are strong fears that the Iraqis are preparing to inflict further violence on the residents of Ashraf -- and no less disturbing, claims that both the Iraqis and the Americans have been either actively preventing or doing nothing to provide medical aid for those injured in the attack." Embedded link added. - CAA.

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"(T)he last thing the British and Americans want to acknowledge is that the Iraqi government of Nuri al Maliki – the country in which so much British and American blood and treasure has been so painfully spent in the cause of making it safe for the west -- has merely become (as has been suggested on this blog many times) a puppet of the Iranians, the west’s most lethal foe"

Does no one else recall the shame of Operation Keelhaul? I fear we will see even worse this time around.