April 26, 2011

Former Senior US Government Officials Strongly Condemn Iraqi Forces Unprovoked Attack on Camp Ashraf
Residents and Urge Immediate Removal of Irans Main Opposition, MEK,  from US Terror List.
Symposium guests:

  • Andrew Card, White House Chief of Staff (2001-2006)
  • Howard Dean, former DNC Chairman
  • Mayor Rudy Giuliani
  • Tom Ridge, Homeland Security Secretary (2003-2005)
  • Philip Zelikow, Senior Counselor to the State Department (2005-2007)
  • Michael Sheehan, State Department Coordinator for Counter terrorism (1998-2000)
  • Colonel Gary Morsch, M.D. (USAR), President, Heart to Heart International


The event was organized by Near East Human Rights Initiative (NEHRI) and chaired by Amb. Mitchell Reiss, State
Department Policy Planning Director (2003-2005).

Senior Former US officials Call for Urgent US, UN Action to Protect Residents of Camp Ashraf, Iraq; Urge Removal of Iran's Main Opposition,
MEK, from FTO List: NEHRI Symposium
In addition to the thousands of American troops who have given their lives in Iraq, now thousands of innocent civilians are giving their lives.  
Because, the truth is, the Prime Minister of Iraq is a mass murderer," said Governor Dean while referring to Nouri al-Maliki, adding, "Iraqis
are using the fact that the MEK is on the terrorist list to justify this massacre of the people in Ashraf."    

"It is time for the MEK to be recognized for what it really is: a place where freedoms are practiced, opportunities are realized, hopes are
more than just hope; where seeds of democracy have taken root, and they are looking to be transplanted in a country that desperately
needs those roots to be able to grow… I hope that the U.S. will stand up and say that the MEK is the example that others can follow in the
entire region of the Middle East," Andrew Card remarked.  In part of his remarks, Mayor Giuliani said, "We can certainly delist the MEK, and
then go further than that.  We shouldn't just delist the MEK.  We should applaud them.  We should thank them.  We  should thank them for
the help they have given us in getting realistic about national intelligence estimate telling us that they had stopped the development of
nuclear" weapons.  

Dean calls al-Maliki a ‘mass murderer’

A former head of the Democratic Party called the prime minister of Iraq a “mass murderer” on Tuesday and accused him of ordering a
bloody attack on disarmed Iranian dissidents under international protection.  “The truth is the prime minister of Iraq is a mass murderer,”
said Howard Dean, denouncing Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for an April 8 attack that killed 35 civilians in Camp Ashraf, a refugee
settlement in northeast Iraq

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