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| Iraq |
| Ceasefire With MKO |
| 2003-04-17 |
| U.S. and British forces are trying to organize a ceasefire with the Iraq-based People's Mujahedeen Iranian [Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization - MKO] group, Brooks. "There's work that's ongoing right now to secure some sort of agreement that will lead to a ceasefire and capitulation," Brigadier-General Vincent Brooks told reporters. General Richard Myers, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Tuesday Anglo-American warplanes had bombed Mujahedeen camps in Iraq and that some fighters were expected to surrender soon. He noted it was too soon to tell what effect the strikes would have on U.S. relations with Iran, which President George W. Bush last year labeled part of an "axis of evil" along with Iraq and North Korea. Iran, the United States and the European Union all consider the People's Mujahedeen a terrorist organization. That makes it pretty much unanimous, doesn't it? An AFP correspondent who visited the Mujahedeen's vast camp Wednesday at Falluja, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Baghdad, found that its fighters had deserted the isolated compound. Gone... Departed... Not there no mo'... A senior Mujahadeen official, Mohammad Mohaddessin, chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the National Council of the Iranian Resistance, confirmed the talks with the U.S. forces, though he did not refer to a surrender. "We are trying to reach a mutually acceptable agreement and understanding with them," he told AFP Thursday. Why don't you turn out the lights and go home? He said he could not say where the negotiations were taking place or when they might conclude, but added, "Our commanders are talking to their commanders." "That's assuming we can find any of our commanders, and they still have somebody left to command..." Calling the bombing of Mujahadeen bases "astounding and regrettable," he said the Mujahadeen had been told by intermediaries before the war that the United States did not consider them targets. Referring to Brooks' use of the term "ceasefire," he said at no time had the Mukahadeen fired on Anglo-American forces, and they would continue to refrain from confrontation. "Hell, no! Everybody'd run by the time they got there!" |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 I'm still hoping to move MKO into the "retired" column. They don't appear to have anyplace left to go, and all their cannon fodder's beat it... |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-04-17 20:41:18 |
| #1 Interpretation: The current champ at that weight has too much punch. Gonna cut down to bantam and take on Kashmiris. |
| Posted by: Scott 2003-04-17 20:35:56 |