THE WASHINGTON TIMES Secretary of State John F. Kerry surprised members of Congress on Tuesday by revealing that the whereabouts of seven Iranian dissidents kidnapped in a deadly raid on a refugee camp in Iraq is classified. His comment suggests that the Obama administration knows their whereabouts and whether they are being held by Iraqi…
Month: December 2013
U.S. families of Camp Liberty residents in Congressional Hearing as Secretary Kerry testifies
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Iranian exiles call for probe of Camp Ashraf attack
THE WASHINGTON TIMES Iranian dissidents Monday marked the 100th day since gunmen killed 52 Iranians in an Iraqi refugee camp, as U.N. officials warned that Iraq is violating human rights treaties by failing to account for seven hostages kidnapped in the Sept. 1 raid. The dissidents of the National Council of Resistance of Iran blame…
U.N. experts urge Iraq to probe fate of missing Iranian dissidents
REUTERS UNITED NATIONS – (Reuters) – A United Nations group urged Iraq on Monday to swiftly investigate the disappearance of seven Iranian dissidents who vanished in September after a deadly attack on the Iranians’ camp near Baghdad. Last week a senior Iraqi government official said Iraq was hunting militants, still unidentified, who led the deadly…
Iraq must reveal fate of missing Iran exiles
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Geneva (AFP) — UN rights experts demanded Monday that Baghdad get to the bottom of what happened to seven Iranian opposition members missing since a September attack on a refugee camp in Iraq. “We call upon the government of Iraq to speed up the investigations in order to disclose the fate and…