Experts on the MEK accuse its leaders of holding its own members hostage to efforts to get the organisation removed from the U.S. State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organisations.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106259
The Barack Obama administration and the United Nations are struggling to convince the leadership of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian opposition group with cult-like characteristics, to vacate a camp in Iraq and allow residents to move to another
From proposals to fund and arm terrorist organizations like the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), to fomenting foreign-backed "color revolutions" in the streets of Tehran, to carrying out covert US-Israeli military operations within Iran itself, it is clear that the Brookings Institution either was writing the playbook on conquering Iran or was reading from it when compiling "Which Path to Persia?"
Nearly every option described within the Fortune 500-funded Brookings Institution 2009 "Which
According to top U.S. officials, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) leadership is blocking efforts to protect residents at the organization’s encampment at Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
http://www.niacouncil.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7785&security=1&news_iv_ctrl=-1
According to top U.S. officials, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) leadership is blocking efforts to protect residents at the organization’s encampment at Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
A December 31st deadline set by the Iraqi
From now on MeK leadership is preparing the troops to sacrifice, also he is inducing them that being Ashrafi means that we will never retreat, even one step; and we force the Iraqi government to withdraw by our deaths. However, until last week, he was promising the desperate forces that US, UN, and the EU will protect them.
After UNHCR, European Union confirmed Iraqi government decision to relocate the MeK inside its country, and to evacuate Camp Ashraf under control of the UN
In an article for “the Atlantic” Wendy Kaminer uncovers that by advocating this organization, these politicians and former high-ranking officials would be regarded as human rights activists, by means of which they find loopholes in paying taxes.
On Sunday NY Times revealed the extraordinary efforts of US politicians to reverse the terrorist designation of the group, the Mujahedeen Khalq, and proved that those efforts were all responded by huge sums of money.
In an article for
The United States is mulling over removing the anti-Iranian Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from its terrorist watch list and giving refuge to its members, a move which indicates Washington's support for terrorism.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/212420.html
Former CIA directors James Woolsey and Porter Goss together with former FBI director Louis Freeh are among those lobbying President Barack Obama to delist the MKO from the US terrorist list, The New York Times reported.
According to Habilian Association database quoting from Tehran e Emrouz Daily, Shi’ites, Iraqi Kurds, and a great number of Sunnis are against remaining MKO in Iraq; besides, political parties in Iraq such as Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, Sadrist Movement, Islamic Dawa Party, and Kurdistan Democratic Party all emphasize expulsion of MKO terrorists from Iraq.
Iraqi government’s decision to expel MKO will lead to their expulsion
The decision to close down Camp Ashraf has been
MEK claims it has foresworn terrorism, but a 2004 FBI report states that a “Los Angeles investigation has determined that the MEK is currently actively involved in planning and executing acts of terrorism.” US diplomatic and intelligence officials maintain the MEK “trained females at Camp Ashraf in Iraq to perform suicide attacks in Karbala.”
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/11/13/the-armageddon-network/
In November 14, 2011, Justin Raimondo wrote an article for
All U.S. troops out of Iraq by year's end, it was a good news for American troops willing to come back home, however bad news for members of the MKO housed in Camp Ashraf who have tenuously benefited from the troops' residence.
Two weeks ago, speaking with certainty and resolution, President Obama announced that “after nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over.” [1] Obama spoke after a private video conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and he offered
After the last assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran, Newsweek magazine all but confirmed the role of the Mossad and the MEK in that murder (and the previous episodes as well). The coverage was preposterously positive regarding these killings. And since Israel and the MEK are now full business partners in directing their animus at Iran, the MEK will draw an increasingly free pass in the American media and government, as long as they are doing the Mossad and Israeli
One of the two suspects the US said were involved in a plot to hire a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate Adel al-Jubeir is a "key member" of the MEK. "The person in question has been travelling to different countries under the names of Ali Shakuri/Gholam Shakuri/Gholam-Hossein Shakuri by using fake passports, including forged Iranian passports."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/19/iran-dissident-saudi-ambassador-plot?newsfeed=true
Tehran has pointed the finger at a
And when you see the number of people who have been receiving money from the MEK to engage in public relations work on behalf of the MEK in the US - this includes Tom Ridge, Rudolph Giuliani, several past members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a former FBI counter intelligence expert. Patrick Kennedy the son of Ted Kennedy received 25,000 or 50,000 dollars from these folks.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205246.html
Press TV talks with Mark Dankof, former US Senate candidate in
In fact, this terrorist group has gained the support from a number of prominent American politicians in its massive well-funded campaign to get removed from US State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
Violent extremism on September 11th was the work of terrorists who have been hunted by the US since the disaster. Because of this extremist violence, the US has justified attacks on both Iraq and Afghanistan, and the attacks had, of course, merged into a full
MEK advocates who claim support for the group on humanitarian grounds have not answered key questions about the group's inhumane practices, outlined by Human Rights Watch, including MEK's repeated threats of suicide as a negotiating tactic, according to a RAND Corp. study...
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/09/12/abdi.dont.delist.mek/
Is it possible that a terrorist organization that has killed Americans and tortures its own members could organize a massive lobbying
Some in U.S paving ground for another round of violence…If the ultimate goal of delisting the MEK is to create a political entity with military capacity that could come into play when push comes to shove with Iran, then we’re in for yet another foreign policy disaster....
http://www.iranian.com/main/2011/sep/gambling-terrorism
If anything, the whole 9/11 ordeal revealed in a spectacular way that enhancing an extremist organization and tactically allying with it
…In the first years of the 1979 revolution, young members of the MKO had instructions not to engage with members and affiliates of other political groups. Was this true and is there a similar policy today? Does the MKO see itself responsible to respond to questions such as its cooperation with Saddam Hossein in attacking and invading Iran...?
http://www.roozonline.com/english/opinion/opinion-article/archive/2011/august/22/article/interview-with-maryam-rajavi.html
A few years
Supporting designated terrorist organizations, especially in the context of the indefinitely ongoing War on Terror, is something for which a great number of individuals in the United States are currently serving lengthy prison sentences...In addition to openly acknowledging to have killed thousands of Iranians, MEK is directly implicated in the deaths of American civilians and military officials in Tehran during the 1970’s, killings for which no MEK member has ever been
Camp Ashraf in Iraq belongs to the terrorist group Mujahidin-e Khalq (MEK), and recently the plight of the inhabitants of the camp has been used as a smokescreen to advance the argument to take the group off of the foreign terrorist organization list...
http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2011/08/05/the-mek-and-camp-ashraf/
Camp Ashraf in Iraq belongs to the terrorist group Mujahidin-e Khalq (MEK), and recently the plight of the inhabitants of the camp has been used as a
The response from some of the people tied to these MEK payments is a curious one. Some of them seem to think that it is all right to be paid to speak on behalf of the MEK because they genuinely support the group, as it that made everything all right...
http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2011/08/03/how-the-mek-buys-its-support-in-the-u-s/
The Financial Times had a good story from last Friday on the Mujahidin-e Khalq’s payments to former officials and politicians in the U.S. to
The complicated case of the terrorist, cult-like Mujahedin-e- Khalq Organization has been a controversial debate among US politicians for years now. The group’s lobbying campaign including a number of US former officials pushes the US government to delist the group for its further use against Islamic Republic...
The complicated case of the terrorist, cult-like Mujahedin-e- Khalq Organization has been a controversial debate among US politicians for years now. The group’s
Experts on the MEK accuse its leaders of holding its own members hostage to efforts to get the organisation removed from the U.S. State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organisations.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106259
The Barack Obama administration and the United Nations are struggling to convince the leadership of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian opposition group with cult-like characteristics, to vacate a camp in Iraq and allow residents to move to another
