Final Group of #Camp Liberty# residents left Iraq to Europe
Victory for the PMOI with final Group of Camp Liberty residents leaving Iraq to Europe
BAGHDAD, The New York Times, Sept. 10, 2016 - A camp housing members of an Iranian opposition group in Iraq was officially closed after the last 280 residents were flown to Albania on Friday, the group said. The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) has been based in Iraq since the 1980s. U.S.-led forces disarmed the group after the 2003 invasion and settled them at a base north of Baghdad. The MEK says it renounced violence in 2001. The U.S. military in Iraq signed an agreement with the group in 2004, promising that members would be treated as 'protected persons' under the Fourth Geneva Convention.
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