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US provided material support for MEK foreign terrorists in Nevada

Nejat SocietyApril 29, 2012077 views

HRW says the testimony of former MEK prisoners paints a grim picture of how the organization treated its members, particularly those who held dissenting opinions .. Other witnesses told Human Rights Watch claimed it was the practice of MEK interrogators to tie thick ropes around prisoners’ necks and drag them along the ground. One witness told investigators:”Sometimes prisoners returned to the cell with extremely swollen necks–their head and neck as big as a pillow.”

MEK:the Israel tool to keep the War Book open

Nejat SocietyApril 28, 2012098 views

WHY, is Israel so interested in having the MeK removed as a terrorist organization, ..Well, again, let us consider what the MeK aka MKO/PMOI does and why it is listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the USGOV— Terror…The MeK can travel, and in the process, the members of this terrorist organization can put all that training they received from Israel and the U.S. to good use, such as in– –Blowing up schools, mosques, churches

Take MEK claims of Iran’s nuclear capability with a grain of salt

Nejat SocietyApril 24, 2012050 views

Alireza Jafarzadeh’s recent commentary is eerily reminiscent of the manipulations of Iraqi exile Ahmad Chalabi who shamelessly fed the US government false information with the express aim of advocating a military invasion of Iraq in 2003 in order to promote his own personal political and economic fortunes.Just as Mr. Jafarzadeh openly sides with the exiled Iranian terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq aka MEK/MKO/PMOI

Rendell and Ridge: From “Militant” Labelers to Terrorist Enablers

Nejat SocietyApril 24, 2012068 views

Rendell received $160,000 on his MEK-funded speaking tour. He and others are now under a legal investigation and were issued a subpoena by the U.S. Department of Treasury …While citizens concerned about the impacts from fracking and reckless gas industry practices are being labeled “eco-terrorists” and “an insurgengy,” those responsible, directly or indirectly for having them labeled as such, are shilling on behalf of a State Department-designated terrorist organization.

U.S. Training MEK Terrorists to Kill Iranians

Nejat SocietyApril 24, 2012079 views

Bush and Cheney saw advantage in using MEK/MKO/PMOI to attack targets in Iran. At the Nevada site, and also in an undisclosed Israeli facility, MEK fighters were trained in the arts of assassination, bombing and surveillance. And they were not the only terrorists given training. Members of Jundullah, a Sunni group based in Pakistan and linked to the Taliban, were flown to Nevada with Iranian Kurds specially selected by Mossad. In effect, Washington ..

Who Will Convict the US Gov. for Material Support of Terrorism?

Nejat SocietyApril 21, 2012077 views

Political hypocrisy is a given in our cynical culture, a daily fact of life. We are so used to the double standards when it comes to ‘crime and punishment’ that many of us are blind to it when it occurs.So, the US government can train terrorists [MKO/MEK/PMOI] in the Nevada desert that it’s own State Department has designated part of a “foreign terrorist organization” and no one blinks an eye..

Why are the US allowed to train MEK terrorists?

Nejat SocietyApril 21, 2012075 views

This eye-opening list of the recent US “great and good” reveals the utterly subjective approach to Washington’s interpretation of terrorist – as well as their contempt for law (law is something that applies to ordinary people, not the powerful). It has been argued that the MEK/MKO/PMOI do not deserve to be on the terrorist list, having officially renounced violence. The group are accused of having killed three US Army Officers and three US civilians ..

Ex-federal officials investigated after advocating for MEK terrorists

Nejat SocietyApril 19, 2012059 views

The Treasury Department also sent a subpoena to a speaking company for former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, an MSNBC contributor, who made $160,000 throughout 2011 for appearing at conferences and rallies in places like Paris, Brussels and Geneva.Federal investigators are looking to see if these officials took payments from the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) aka MKO/PMOI, a designated terrorist group, and thereby violating federal law ..

The MEK and terrorism double standards

Nejat SocietyApril 18, 2012085 views

The Mujahedeen Khalq, or People’s Mujahedeen, known as the M.E.K has been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Dept. for 15 years.The M.E.K. are terrorists. They were driven out of Iran and given a home at a place called Camp Ashraf in Iraq by Saddam Hussein, who they supported. Saddam Hussein used the M.E.K. to carry out terrorist acts in Iran. Now that Hussein is gone, the Iraqi’s want the M.E.K. out of Iraq as they also see it as a dangerous group.

Terrorism; US rhetoric and politics

Nejat SocietyApril 14, 2012052 views

after the creation of the Foreign Terrorist Organization list, MEK was one of the first couple to be put on there. One—well, the factual predicate for them being on there is that they assassinated several Americans in Tehran back during the Shah’s era, specifically three military officers and three civilians who were military contractors. They also did various attacks against American interests and assassination attempts during the time. And the MEK have been violent