UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL LONDON, July 31 (UPI) — It is a sad day when a U.N. ambassador becomes the stooge of a repressive regime but it’s happening. Martin Kobler, the United Nations’ Iraq envoy, has brought shame on the institution by allowing himself to be duped into doing Baghdad’s dirty work. His recent report to…
Iraq: A Prison For Iranian Dissidents Called ‘Liberty’
EURASIAREVIEW About seven months ago, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative in Iraq, Martin Kobler, and the Iraqi government for the relocation of 3400 residents of a camp, situated north of Baghdad, known as camp Ashraf. Until this day, some 2000 members of an Iranian opposition group,…
The time has come for the UN Secretary General to pick a new representative in Iraq
DAILY MAIL Would you negotiate with the murderers of your friends and relatives? This is precisely what the Iranian refugees of Camp Ashraf in Iraq are being asked to do. Baghdad appointed Colonel Sadeq Mohammad Kazem to head talks to decide the fate of the 3,400 men and women split between Camp Ashraf and their…
What is a UN Promise Worth? The Cost of the UN’s Games
StopFundamentalism.COM On July 24, the United Nations issued a press release stating that its mission in Iraq, UNAMI, has presented a “roadmap” to the Government of Iraq in dealing with the “temporary” relocation of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK)—a major opposition group to the mullah’s of Iran—to a squalid refugee camp called “Liberty,” 40 kilometers, near…
Appalling Conditions At Camp Liberty, Hollow Promises in Mr. Kobler’s ‘Roadmap’
NEWS BLAZE The International Parliamentary Committee in Defence of Ashraf has consistently warned about the inhumane conditions in Camp Liberty-Iraq, where 2,000 former residents of Camp Ashraf have settled in order to peacefully end the Ashraf crisis. Unfortunately due to the systematic negligence of the UN authority in charge of the project, Mr Martin Kobler,…