[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2517]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           CONDEMNING ATTACKS ON MEK MEMBERS AT CAMP LIBERTY

  (Mr. COTTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COTTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of Chairman Poe's 
resolution condemning the February 9 rocket and mortar attacks at Camp 
Liberty in Iraq and urging the President to work with the Iraqi 
Government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to 
relocate the members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq back to Camp Ashraf.
  These MEK refugees can only be safe and secure at Ashraf where they 
have lived for over 25 years. The Iraqi Government and the High 
Commissioner placed these MEK members at Camp Liberty despite the great 
danger to them there. Now the United Nations should take the necessary 
steps to return them to Ashraf or settle them abroad.
  I look forward to the day when these refugees can return home to Iran 
once the tyrannical regime there has fallen, a day that might have been 
hastened if President Obama had stood with brave Iranian protesters in 
2009 instead of coddling the theocratic mullahs there. Let us not make 
that mistake again.

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