It pains me to write to you of an incident that occurred today in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, home-base of the Iranian resistance organization, the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an organization that has supplied the United States with intelligence about the Iranian regime´s nuclear and missile programs. Camp Ashraf, which has been under the protection of the United States Army until the SOFA agreement of December 2008, in which the right of the residents of Ashraf to continued asylum in Iraq was assured by the Iraqi government, maintaining the status of the MEK in Ashraf that had been in force since its voluntary disarmament in May 2003, was brutally invaded after a siege that has been going on for some five months, by a heavily armed Iraqi police force joined by Iraqi army units of Prime Minister al-Maliki´s special elite Baghdad Brigade, numbering over 2,000 men. As of 5:00 PM (EDT) four members of the MEK have been slain, 31 have disappeared, 385 injured (15 seriously and two in a coma). Leaders of the MEK have been arrested.

I am in pain because I wrote you to warn you that you needed to act to protect Ashraf and the human rights of its residents´ who have been under constant threat from elements in Iraqi Prime Minister Dr. Nouri Kamal al-Maliki´s government, particularly the Interior Ministry - I wrote to you over four months ago—and you did nothing. By doing nothing, their blood now is on your hands Mr. President.