MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Six Killed in Shelling of Iranian Refugee Camp in Iraq, Hezbollah claims responsibilty
By artappraiser on Sun, 02/10/2013 - 8:17am |By Yasir Ghazi, New York Times, Feb. 9/10, 2013
[....] The camp, on the site of a former American military base near the Baghdad airport known as Camp Liberty, is home to about 3,400 Iranian exiles who are members of Mujahedeen Khalq, or M.E.K., a militant organization. It was removed from the State Department’s terrorist list in September after years of intensive lobbying from prominent American politicians and former military officers, who viewed the group as a legitimate democratic alternative to the Iranian government.
In an e-mail sent to news media outlets in Iraq, the military wing of Hezbollah in Iraq, a militant organization believed to have connections to the main Lebanese group and to Iran, claimed responsibility for the attack and warned that others would follow. [....]
Also see:
Attack on Iranian dissident group in Iraq
By Jane Arraf in Baghdad, Al Jazeera, Feb. 9, 2013
URL:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/world/middleeast/mortars-kill-several-in-a-refugee-camp-in-iraq.html?ref=world
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