The MEK as Saddam’s private army

Iraq parliament recognizes chemical attack on Halabja as genocide

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… The Iraqi parliament has officially recognized the chemical attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988 as genocide.Halabja . The decision came during a parliamentary session on Thursday where the proposal was put to vote and was approved by the majority of the parliament. Halabja, situated 81km south east of Sulaimaniyah and 364 km north east of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, was subjected to an airborne chemical weapon attack in March 1988 by the former Iraqi regime. ..

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Why does no one deal with Mojahedin Khalq?

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… We should bear in mind that Saddam Hussein hired mercenaries from terrorist groups, particularly from the MEK, those who were hired to kill, torture and harass the Iraqi people and who settled in prosperous military townships. Unfortunately, they are still in Iraq even 8 years after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, for no specific reason, living in the townships of Saddam Hussein who prepared them for their use. No one seems to ask why members of the group that attacked Iraqis and tortured people remain under a protective umbrella..

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The Saddam Oil Vouchers Affair and MKO

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The Mujahideen Khalq (36.5) is an organization which opposes the Iranian regime which had operated from within Iraq under the Saddam regime. The United States has classified it as a terrorist organization and it has recently been ordered to leave Iraq.

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MKO leader famously said”take Kurds under your tanks, save bulletes”

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..Saddam did not have the armybut he did have a series of concentric circles of supporters loyal to him because of the patronage he extended them ..In the same way that Mr. Qaddafi has turned to foreign mercenaries, he could also rely on his own foreign legion, the Mojahid[in]-e-Khalq organisation [MKO/MEK/PMOI]whose divisions were used to fight both against the Kurds and the Shia down south (Mariam Rajavi, one of the group’s leaders, famously said”take the Kurds under your tanks and save your bullets for the Islamic Guard”).

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The ‘MKO; Black Plague’ Exhibition held in Karbala

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The Black Plague photographic exhibition was to expose the crimes and practices of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization during Saddam Hussein’s era.The exhibition which was held at Karbala City continued for 3 days and attended by political figures and media along with civil organizations and a large number of people..Maliki pointed that such conferences and gatherings will be held at future as well aiming to expel MKO terrorists from Iraqi soil.

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Senior Iraqi MP Asks for Trying MKO Ringleaders

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“There have been recently revealed some documents proving the[MKO/MEK/PMOI] terrorist organization’s involvement in terrorist activities against the Iraqi people and its collaboration with the former regime in repressing the Sha’baniyeh Intifada in 1991,”Abdolhossein Abtan said on Monday.”Therefore, all these people should be tried in the same criminal court which tried elements of the former regime,”he added.

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Why do we seek prosecution of Rajavi?

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… Massoud Rajavi and the heads of his cult[MKO/MEK/PMOI] have a huge file in the Iraqi judiciary which is truly bigger than the one of Saddam Hussein and his aides. But the trial of the leaders of the cult has had the same fate as Maryam Rajavi’s file in Paris – she was arrested and charged with attempting terrorist activities against defectors and fraud and money laundry more than seven and a half years ago and she is still waiting trial – since for the time being she has been hired by the Americans and the Israelis …

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Iranian Prof: U.S. Support For MEK Would Anger Ordinary Iranians

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..”The Mujahedin have absolutely no backing in Iran,”Sadri told TPM. He said he’d first become aware of the MEK 40 years ago, when he occasionally listened to the group’s clandestine radio shows, broadcast before the fall of the Shah. He described the MEK in its early days as a”vanguard organization.”Sadri, who moved from Iran to the U.S. in the mid-1970s to attend a Ph.D program at The New School, said”never heard a positive word uttered”about the MEK..

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MKO faces 24 judicial cases in Iraq including assassination of Iraqi citizens

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…”Twenty-four judicial cases have been raised by Diala citizens against members of Mujahedin E-Khalq Organization aka MKO/MEK/PMOI, who are using Ashraf Camp in Diala’s Udheim township as their headquarters, among their control on broad areas of agricultural lands, belonging to Diala citizens, along with involvement of the Organization’s members in the assassination of a number of the Province’s citizens ..

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Iraqi FM: Mojahedin Khalq terrorists will be expelled humanely

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… What about the issue of the Iranian opposition Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization [MKO]? Zebari: the Iraqi Constitution includes a clear and explicit paragraph according to which no foreign armed group is allowed to operate on Iraqi territories, or to launch attacks on neighbouring countries. Therefore the MKO attacks were taking place during the era of the previous regime. We have stressed that this is no longer allowed. ..

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