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The Political Uses of the Word “Terror”. Terrorized by “Terror”

The record is clear, however. One example: the United States has just rehabilitated the Mujahedeen-e Khalq -MEK, the radical Iranian organization whose extreme acts of violence got it placed on everyone’s list of terrorist organizations some years ago. Why the turnaround? Other than MEK’s aggressive public relations campaign that involved MEK spreading around millions in speakers fees to …

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How Fast Can Someone Be ‘Radicalized’?

“Masoud Banisadr, a former Iranian MEK [Mojahedin-e-Khalq] cult member came up with this idea – he said after a civil trial, there should be a sharia trial. An Islamic cleric should come in and basically try the person and say, ‘You’re going to hell, because the Koran explicitly states you should not harm women, children, elderly,’” …

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Steve Hassan interviews Masoud Banisadr, former member of MEK

“Masoud Banisadr, a former Iranian MEK [Mojahedin-e-Khalq] cult member came up with this idea – he said after a civil trial, there should be a sharia trial. An Islamic cleric should come in and basically try the person and say, ‘You’re going to hell, because the Koran explicitly states you should not harm women, children, elderly,’” …

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Iraqi MP Urges Swift Expulsion of MKO

“The MKO is a completely terrorist group and its elements are looking for a suitable opportunity to conduct terrorist acts and incite crisis in the country (Iraq),” Al-Alam quoted member of the Iraqi Parliament’s Security and Defense Commission Ammar Tameh as saying.Tameh underlined that the remaining MKO elements should be expelled …

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Iran’s Foreign Ministry Warns About MEK

Mehmanparast also appears to have taken a swipe at US support for the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MEK, sometimes referred to as MKO), which recently opened a lobbying office in Washington, DC, after being taken off the State Department’s terrorist list by former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. Various former government officials have put their support behind the MEK

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MEPs support Martin Kobler’s work in camp Liberty

… The S&D Group fully supports the efforts of Martin Kobler and the UN Assistance Mission to Iraq towards full and permanent resettlement of the residents of Camp Liberty and believes that the decision by the Government of Albania to accept 210 residents is a welcome first step. The urgency of the resettlement was made clear …

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MKO offers to help US stir Iraq situation

The MKO/MEK/PMOI has on many occasions asked the US administration to provide the group with financial support in a bid to make Iraq insecure..The report added that the proposals have been put forward to US officials through former and retired Washington officials who are now among the MKO advocates,

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What If a Drone Attacked in the US? A White Paper Justification

This account of an Iranian drone assassination in the United States and the release of an Iranian white paper justifying the attack are, of course, fictitious. What is not fiction, however, are the assassinations of Iranian university professors and scientists, MEK’s long history, US support for, and it’s delisting of MEK as a Foreign Terrorist Organization at the behest of Giuliani, Dean, Ridge, etc. Also not imaginary are the legal and moral justificatory arguments offered in this illustration

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MEK Terrorists Coordinate Attack on Iran’s Embassy

The well-prepared group first blocked off the street, before using ladders and wirecutters to scale the barbed-wire-topped fence. According to the Iranian Embassy and government officials in Tehran, the attack was coordinated by the Mujahideen e-Khalq (MEK), or People’s Mujahideen, and included individuals who had been at the MEK military base …

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Wilkerson: Delisting Mojahedin Khalq a terrible move by US

..Wilkerson then went on to say that removal of MEK aka MKO/PMOI from the U.S. terror list “was a terrible move in all ‎respects, because terrible move in the way the Iranians perceived it, and a terrible move because it ‎basically acknowledged a terrorist group is now not a terrorist group anymore, and they clearly ‎certainly still are.”‎..

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