The Third View on Mujahedin Khalq

Giuliani, Dean Paid To Advocate For Terrorist Group

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The question of what to do with the residents of Camp Ashraf — which includes a number of children — is a tough one, but it should be separated out from whether they should be taken off the terrorism list. Barbara Slavin had a very good piece in March, looking at the delusion of some high-profile MEK/MKO/PMOI supporters that the U.S. could support them as a credible Iranian political opposition force…Kombiz Lavasany wrote via Twitter, “In Chalabi’s defense, not sure Iraqis knew or cared about him. Everyone in Iran just hates the MEK.”

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For as little as 25k we will take MEK off the list

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These officials, and others including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former heads of the military Joint Chiefs of Staff, have taken the podium to praise the group. The speakers wouldn’t disclose their speaking fees, but many of them charge between $25,000 and $40,000 per appearance…Condoleezza Rice wrote in a 2009 internal cable released by anti-secrecy group Wikileaks:”The most powerful myth the MeK has been able to lodge in the minds of most supporters is that they are the democratic alternative to the current regime..

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Is France doing Washngton’s Dirty work?

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France has dropped charges against two dozen members of the notorious Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) that were arrested and charged back in 2003. In June 2003, French anti-terrorist police rounded up 165 MKO members in and around Paris for associating with criminal elements in connection with committing terrorist acts. French investigators announced on Thursday they have decided to drop terror charges against 24 of the detainees, the Associated Press reported. However, judiciary officials said that nine members remained under investigation for financial crimes, including financing terrorist groups …

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MEPs warned not to fall victim to misleading MKO lobby

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MEPs from five political groups have sent a letter to their colleagues to brief them about the PMOI lobby in the European Parliament.The letter says that while the deaths at Camp Ashraf were uncacceptable, MEPs should not ignore the MEKs history ..The support the PMOI receives from members of Parliament allows its leadership to perpetuate their absolute power over the rank and file, of which most are believed to want to desperately leave the group. The hundreds of members who have managed to escape from Ashraf and have been screened by the UNHCR ..

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Zebari: Time is ripe to solve the question of Ashraf

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… In a statement by Iraqi Foreign Ministry, Minister Ashton said”the European Union is keen to develop and activate its relations with Iraq according to the agreement signed between the two sides, which reached its final stages for ratification”.”The EU is keen to cooperate in the fields of oil and gas”, Ashton added in the statement. Zebari expressed the stand and decision of the Iraqi government”to close the camp by the end of this year”and to demand from European countries”to accept the residents of the camp in their countries.” …

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U.S. drafts new plan for Iranian camp Ashraf in Iraq

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The official said the Iraqi government was studying the new U.S. plan, which would now be presented to the leaders of Camp Ashraf, the base of the People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran which the United States, Iraq and Iran consider a terrorist organization. ..The group, seeking the overthrow of Iran’s Islamic government, mounted attacks on Iran from Iraq before Saddam Hussein’s 2003 downfall. In the 1970s, it led a guerrilla campaign against the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran, including attacks on U.S. targets.

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Hundreds in Diala protest against Mojahedin Khalq

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… Hundreds of Diala residents staged on Friday a massive protest in front of Ashraf Camp demanding to deport members of the Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) out of the province, Khales mayor said. “The protestors called for deporting the members of the organization for their involvement in supporting armed groups and destabilizing the security condition in Diala,” Uday al-Khadran told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.The members of the organization live in a fenced-off camp in Diala, north of Baghdad. The MKO, which began as part of the Iranian resistance to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s rule in the mid-1960s …

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Americans last attempt to rescue their terror group

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The relocation would be temporary, the official said, with final settlement of the inhabitants in other countries. That would not include the United States, the official said, since U.S. law bars anyone associated with a terrorist organization from settling there.The new location would be”chosen and maintained and operated”by Iraq and appropriate humanitarian conditions would have to be maintained in this camp, the official said. The new location would be”chosen and maintained and operated”by Iraq and appropriate humanitarian conditions would have to be maintained in this camp, the official said.”..

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EU to move Mojahedin Khalq to Canada

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… Though Shi’i, these people are very popular with the Iraqi ‘Sunnis’, particularly with the Ba’thists, who abhor everything Iranian, except for the ‘Mojahedin-e Khalq’ organization, to whom the Ashraf City dwellers belong, owing to the close alliance this organization used to maintain with the former Iraqi regime. On the other hand, these Ashraf City dwellers are deeply hated by pro-Iranian Iraqi ‘Shi’is’, basically on account of their alleged role in quelling the 1991 Iraqi Shi’i uprising… a sin for which they have never been forgiven by the Shi’i political parties running the show in Iraq today …

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PMOI separatists: The group interferes in Iraq’s issues

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During the first years of war, Rajavi was drawing in Iraqis to train them and give them positions inside the government. His aim was to stay in Iraq by using these people as a support for PMOI group”, Kikha’i said. “Rajavi formed a committee inside the camp and established work departments for social communication with Iraqis. He drew in a number of Iraqi citizens and gave them personal salaries and handouts to turn against the government”, MKO defected member …

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