Iraqi legal practitioners and human rights groups have called on the interim government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi to back down on the defunct Iraqi Governing Council decision No. 126, which regarded the Iranian organisation Mujahidi Khalq (MK) as a terrorist organisation and demanding the expulsion of MK members from Iraq. A statement issued here at the Babylon Hotel — attended by more than 1,200 legal practitioners and members of human rights groups — demanded that MK be struck off the list of terror groups because there is no proof that its members have any terrorist leanings.
| "No, no, certainly not! Other than that incident with the bombs, and that unforunate accident with the shipment of rifles, our clients are pure as the driven snow!" |
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