Relocation of more convoys from Ashraf has been halted due to failure of the Iraqi government to provide minimum humanitarian needs.
‘Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me’
The
State department’s new low of sling mudding the main opposition to
clerical tyrants in Iran (MEK), was not a surprise for wise men. The
garbling of facts only put a spotlight on the departments’ malfeasant
while helping us understand the numerous questions raised by the
opposition (MEK) and Camp Ashraf residents:
How dangerous is one “CEMENT BAG” to US national security?
One
of the items discussed during talks for MEK members in Camp Liberty has
been concrete mix, which the residents wish to buy at their own expense
in order to provide walking paths for the handicapped personnel who
have been disabled by US provided Humvees and arms during the violent
attack of Iraqi forces in 2011 and 2009. Surprising as it is, the US
State Departments conduct; blackmailing the residents and offering basic
rights in exchange for closure of Camp Ashraf, is a role model for
“petty crime” and incredibly distant even for Political lows.
How irrelevant is a vehicle for disabled persons in a desert compound?
A guilty conscience needs no accuser:
More than 1000 defenseless residents were seriously wounded and
handicapped during the 2011 violent Iraqi attack on camp Ashraf. 24
majorities of houses of parliament’s world wide condemned the tragedy
and questioned US role and pre-hand knowledge of the attack. The victims
have been extremely contingent on International help to regain the
minimum living conditions stipulated for a “human being” regardless of
political factors. The US
House Committee on Foreign Affairs impeached US negligence during the killings in 2011.
Daniel
Benjamin, the State Department’s coordinator for counter-terrorism has
garbled all tangible ground facts only to highlight US reluctance
towards basic humanitarian laws, which seriously place it on the heavy
side of “Lady Justice.” For hundreds seriously wounded and handicapped
in 2011 by, deprivation of mobility is deprivation of freedom .
Displaying
“minimum” humanitarian gesture by State Department officials would have
only been to the advantage of the Obama Administration at times of a
heated election campaign race.
In this particular case it seems that “Hawks” do “pick out hawks’ eyes”.
Is
Water, food and shades to protect burning sun of 60 degrees centigrade
in anyway undermining “Iraqi Sovereignty” and jeopardizing US interests?
2000
people crammed in temporary bungalows which set temperatures as high as
60 degrees Celsius under the sun, with no shades, no generators t or
electricity to pump water, no cooling systems allowed, are ground facts
concerning Camp Liberty.
All needs have been prevented artfully by Iraqi elements loyal to Tehran after “negotiations”
observed
by US-UN representatives. This, of course is to spare the “observers”
embarrassment of the failure to obligate the Iraqis to commitments.
Chapter
3 of the MoU stipulates that the Iraqi government will respect and
guarantee the humanitarian rights of the camp residents and that the
Iraqi government will allow the residents to obtain, with their own
funds, the basic necessities of the residents such as food, water,
communication devices, hygiene commodities, and cleaning and maintenance
tools. The residents have been deprived of needs since day one of the
Memorandum of Understanding signed between UN and Iraq without their
consent. The irony is the commitment displayed by residents to oblige
the MoU and prevent the Maliki government from slick attempts to dupe
US-UN observers on the ground of their constant breach of agreement.
Weeks
of constant talks involving resident representatives and the
UN-US-Iraqi counterparts over basic needs of Liberty residents have been
grueling and acrimonious. The meetings have evidently been
characterized by sly diplomatic intrigue, brutal arm twisting, pompous
political grandstanding on Iraqi part and foul grandstand of the US
State department. Needs of the residents, are expertly scrapped off the
list when Iraqi elements forwards a new version of inconsistent
‘solutions’ and pretend to play in tune with expectations.
According
to relatives of residents, items such as expensive power generators,
bought by the residents are black listed whilst residents are asked to
buy older versions from third countries.
The only radical
assumption to this would be a grand preparation for a grand looting
scheme in Camp Ashraf , after complete relocation of the residents and
the delay of convoys to the new camp.
The residents’ list of “
needs” is realistic in face of
plots and ploys to “
starve, dehydrate” and force residents to buckle under pressure.
Tehran,
which has enormous political sway over Baghdad in the post-U.S. vacuum,
is terrified at the thought of having MEK supporters on its doorstep.
The two regimes therefore hatched a plan to massacre the 3,400 men,
women and children who had made Ashraf their home or force them to
surrender by the end of last year.
The role of the US however, is under International scrutiny.
The
MEK and Ashraf residents are the litmus test for the US administration
in the eye of all nations in the region. This was a clear message
outspoken by delegations from the Middle East and the Horn of Africa who
looked at the movement as the “key to peace and against Islamic
fundamentalism.
The MEK seems to have delivered its good will gesture. The ball seems to be in US court.
How far is the Administration ready to go with tyrants?
Is Lady Liberty dying?
