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Rudy and the MEK Terrorists

The MEK Terrorists Take Over Camp Liberty(TTL)

Terrorists rule America. They serve other terrorists. They employ other terrorists. They conspire and “plot and plan” with other terrorists. They betray other terrorists and they worship other terrorists. They use other terrorists to fulfill their terrorist agendas. They covet what some terrorists have while they lust for the same things that other terrorists want. Terrorists rule America. By deception they make war. By complicity they make allies. By terror they profit.
“There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it… I have now surpassed.
My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others… I want no one to escape.
But even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant… nothing.” Patrick Bateman
The U.S. State Department, under heavy pressure from a D.C. based advocacy group (the Global Initiative for Democracy) and their paid shills, has decided to hand over Camp Liberty ( Temporary Transit Location) in Iraq to a terrorist organization, the MEK, which has not only killed U.S. servicemen and committed acts of indiscriminate terror inside Iran, but under another name of their organization called the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) they also oversaw the slaughter of thousands of Iraqi Kurds, the very same Iraqi Kurds that the Bush administration eventually used as proof that Saddam Hussein must be removed from power because he was a brutal tyrant who killed his own people (those self-same Iraqi Kurds)
“U.N. special representative in Iraq Martin Kobler, with help from the U.S. Embassy in Iraq and the State Department, has organized efforts to relocate the MEK to Camp Liberty ( Temporary Transit Location), a former U.S. military base near the Baghdad airport. The first convoy of about 400 MEK members arrived there last month. The second convoy of about 400 MEK members arrived Thursday at Camp Liberty (TTL), Reuters reported” Foreign Policy
The MEK is listed as a terrorist organization at the State Department for a good reason: they’re terrorists… but like the Cuban exiles and the Contras and bin Laden… they’re our terrorists. They serve a purpose: mammon.
“MEK has carried out decades of brutal terrorist attacks, assassinations, and espionage against the Iranian government and its people, as well as targeting Americans including the attempted kidnapping of US Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II, the attempted assassination of USAF Brigadier General Harold Price, the successful assassination of Lieutenant Colonel Louis Lee Hawkins, the double assassinations of Colonel Paul Shaffer and Lieutenant Colonel Jack Turner, and the successful ambush and killing of American Rockwell International employees William Cottrell, Donald Smith, and Robert Krongard.

Admissions to the deaths of the Rockwell International employees can be found within a report written by former US State Department and Department of Defense official Lincoln Bloomfield Jr. on behalf of the lobbying firm Akin Gump in an attempt to dismiss concerns over MEK’s violent past and how it connects to its current campaign of armed terror – a testament to the depths of depravity from which Washington and London lobbyists operate.” Tony Cartalucci
How’s that for irony? We go to Iraq, supposedly to fight the Global War on Terror, we stage our soldiers have-way around the world at Camp Liberty (TTL) among other places, then we move (some) of them out and bring in the terrorists to take up residence at their old base which they defended with their lives from… the terrorists.
Irony is perhaps the wrong word. Maybe “insult” or “treason” would be a better choice.
The MEK (PMOI) is a cult of fanatical Iranian dissidents led by the husband and wife duo of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi. They do not allow the women in their group of say 5,000 living in exile in Iraq to marry. They must devote their entire lives to the cause, and by extention to the Rajavis. While the MEK live in squalor in Iraq, hated by even the Iraqis for their terrorist and treasonous history, the Rajavis live in splendor in Paris occasionally jet-setting over to the U.S. to plead for more money and get their marching orders from Clinton or Cheney or whomever is in office at the time.
In 1981 after the Iranian Revolution, Massoud Rajavi planned and carried out a terrorist act against the new regime. It’s effects were devastating.
“The Mujahedeen (MEK) detonated a powerful bomb that killed more than 70 officials in the Iranian theocracy. (Today’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, lost the use of his right arm in one such explosion that year.)” New York Times
After being chased out of France long ago, the terrorist duo landed in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and Massoud quickly betrayed his Iranian brothers by providing intel to Saddam that ended up causing the deaths of thousands of Iranians. Then, when Saddam faced an uprising in the north, it was the MEK (PMOI) he sent in to deal with it.
“Iraqi intelligence officers, Kurdish commanders and human rights groups — said that in 1991 Hussein used the Mujahedeen and its tanks as advance forces to crush the Kurdish uprisings in the north and the Shia uprisings in the south. And former Mujahedeen members remember Maryam Rajavi’s infamous command at the time: ”Take the Kurds under your tanks, and save your bullets for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.”” New York Times
The PMOI (MEK) have a long history of terrorist activity but they also have a long history of being supported by certain factions within the United States… anyone who wishes to help Israel pick a fight and force a regime change in Iran.
Back in February there was a conference held by Iranian dissident groups who wish to cause the violent overthrow of the Iranian regime. Several retired U.S. politicians and intelligence officials decided to cash in on the momentum and help the terrorist organization, the MEK (PMOI), in their bid to be removed from the State Department’s terrorist organization list. The MEK touts a long list of this kind of supporter here in America.
“The campaign has included huge rallies outside the State Department, massive sit-ins at congressional hearings, and an ongoing vigil outside the State Department’s C Street entrance. MEK supporters there tout the support of a long list of officials, including Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, former FBI Director Louis Freeh, former Sen. Robert Torricelli, former Rep. Patrick Kennedy, former National Security Advisor Gen. James Jones, former Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard Myers, former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card, retired Gen. Wesley Clark, former Rep. Lee Hamilton, former CIA Director Porter Goss, senior advisor to the Romney campaign Mitchell Reiss, retired Gen. Anthony Zinni, and former Sen. Evan Bayh.” Foreign Policy
The “famed” Watergate journalist, Carl Bernstein, recently spoke at a GID conference on behalf of the MEK and the dissident Iranians living outside Iran who want nothing more than to have the United States bomb the crap out of their home country so they can regain power and hand over the nations assets to their globalist banker CEO friends. This is part of what he said…
“One of the things that we do as journalists, the most important thing we do, is decide what is news. And this is news, … And one of the things we do when we decide what is news is we decide what portion of the story is devoted to what we know to be fact and what portion of the story is devoted to what we know is a lie.” “famed Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein“
Notice that Bernstein didn’t say that telling the truth or exposing the truth was the most important thing for journalists, but rather it’s deciding what is or is not news and then deciding what portion is true and what is a lie. That makes perfect sense considering it was the MEK who provided the now infamous “laptop” forgery that fingered Iran for having a nuclear program in the first place.
Interesting that Bernstein would make such a claim at a conference promoting the forced regime change in Iran on behalf of Israeli interests.
Right on cue, enter former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani claiming that Camp Liberty (TTL)isn’t good enough for his newly found terrorist friends. It was good enough for our soldiers who fought and died there, but apparently Rudy thinks it’s a “concentration camp” that is beneath the gold standard status of a well equipped terrorist training facility we should provide for the MEK.
“Camp Liberty (TTL): A Prison For Iranian Dissidents in Iraq,” reads a March 3 full-page ad in the New York Times, leveling the surprising accusation that the former U.S. military base is unfit for human occupation. The ad quotes former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani calling Camp Liberty (TTL) “a concentration camp” — a charge Giuliani made at an MEK-sponsored conference late last month in Paris.” Foreign Policy
Giuliani went on Fox News recently and spewed one outrageous lie after another dealing with Iran. The president, the intelligence community, even the Israeli Prime Minister all admit that Iran doesn’t have a nuclear weapon program and has not as of yet even decided to create one. But that doesn’t stop someone like Giuliani from lying through his teeth except at the point where he says that if the MEK actually did commit terrorist acts in Iran killing nuclear scientists (teachers and workers at power plants) then they should be made TIME magazine’s persons of the year.
Some would say killing a scientist, a civilian, is an act of terrorism.
Giuliani: uh. uh. yes if they are building weapons of mass destruction to give to a madman. Would it be terrorism if we killed Hitler’s scientists?
)in fact, we didn’t kill Hitler’s scientists, we brought them over here and gave them security clearances. Operation Paperclip)
The lies and circular logic on display in this deplorable interview is enough to make your head explode. This is what the war-mongering chicken hawks are reduced to. Pay careful attention to the part near the end where Rudy wonders aloud that if we have to determine that the MEK are terrorists for killing Iranian scientists then we would also have to declare the people who attacked Libya and Syria as terrorists as well.
Well, since it’s WELL KNOWN that al Qaeda is committing acts of terrorism in Syria on behalf of the Free Syrian Army and since it’s also WELL KNOWN that several NTC leaders in Libya are ex-al Qaeda recruiters and trainers… yes, I guess we could make that conclusion, couldn’t we?
But Iran is not building weapons of mass destruction. WMDs are an affront to Islam according to their religious leaders. The scientists who were killed by the MEK and their glorious leaders the Rajavis were simply citizens murdered in an act of terrorism. After all, it is acknowledged by the United States and Israel both that Iran is not in fact building a nuclear weapon.
So by that standard, by Giuliani’s own admission, the MEK and Massoud and Maryam Rajavi are terrorists because the MEK did not murder people in the process of building a weapon of mass destruction to give to a madman, as Rudy so desperately put it.
Ergo, even by Rudy’s convoluted and desperate logic, the MEK are terrorists. Period.
The shock of seeing someone like Rudy Giuliani praise the terrorists who supposedly attacked us on 9/11 as “Persons of the Year” does not elicit even a dull pain these days. I saw it coming years ago.
What I find interesting is watching their panicked little dances around the history and the facts of the last few decades. It’s an ever spiraling streamer of tail flaming justifications and minced logic rushing headlong down the toilet that was once our great republic.
But the look on his face was priceless when that reporter asked the great “terrorist fighter” Rudy Giuliani if he was supporting terrorists by backing the MEK. You could see the toilet flushing in his little geeked out overloaded brain.
He certainly felt more at ease hanging out with them (what’s he doing? Chopping up lines with his credit card? (
Terrorists rule America. They serve other terrorists. They employ other terrorists. They conspire and “plot and plan” with other terrorists. They betray other terrorists and they worship other terrorists. They use other terrorists to fulfill their terrorist agendas. They covet what some terrorists have while they lust for the same things that other terrorists want. Terrorists rule America. By deception they make war. By complicity they make allies. By terror they profit.
by Scott Creighton

March 10, 2012 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

The MEK’s Useful Idiots

If you are a Muslim American who is appalled by U.S. foreign policy, most specifically its Philip Giraldi penchant for invading Islamic countries in a bid to change their regimes, and you make the mistake of saying something to that effect on the phone or writing about your concerns in an email, there is a good chance that the FBI will come after you. You will in short order find yourself with a new friend who is a Muslim just like you and who shares your frustration with American foreign policy. At a certain point he will reveal his affiliation with a certain overseas group that is interested in obtaining revenge for all the Muslims who have been killed or injured by the United States. He will suggest that doing something about the problem would be neither sinful nor really wrong, and he will hint that he has access to the weapons or bombs that could be used for a revenge attack. You take the bait. The bomb or gun is a dud and the new friend turns out to be an FBI informant. Another “terrorist” is arrested and sent to jail for 20 years. End of story.
Americans who are not Muslim should be concerned by the repeated entrapment of so-called terrorists, first of all because the process reveals that our private communications are no longer very private. Second, the law enforcement use of a planted informant to encourage and enable someone to commit a crime used to be illegal. It is not so anymore.
Many of the terrorism cases are not related to actual terror but rather to what is described as material support. It is interesting to read what exactly the United States Code states. It is 18 USC § 2339A — Providing Material Support to Terrorists:
)a) Offense.— Whoever provides material support or resources or conceals or disguises the nature, location, source, or ownership of material support or resources, knowing or intending that they are to be used in preparation for, or in carrying out, a violation of section [38 sections and acts are cited] or in preparation for, or in carrying out, the concealment of an escape from the commission of any such violation, or attempts or conspires to do such an act, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 15 years, or both, and, if the death of any person results, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life. A violation of this section may be prosecuted in any Federal judicial district in which the underlying offense was committed, or in any other Federal judicial district as provided by law.
)b) Definitions [my emphasis]: As used in this section—(1) the term “material support or resources” means any property, tangible or intangible, or service, including currency or monetary instruments or financial securities, financial services, lodging, training, expert advice or assistance, safe houses, false documentation or identification, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel (1 or more individuals who may be or include oneself), and transportation, except medicine or religious materials; … (3) the term “expert advice or assistance” means advice or assistance derived from scientific, technical or other specialized knowledge.
To see how loose the definition of support can be, consider an actual case dating from September 2011. Pakistan-born Jubair Ahmad, 24, was accused of providing material support to the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is designated by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization. Ahmad produced and posted a propaganda video for LeT “glorifying violent jihad” in 2010, some three years after he arrived in the United States with his parents and two younger brothers. “Terrorist organizations such as LeT … use the Internet and other media as part of well-orchestrated propaganda campaigns,” the FBI stated in its affidavit on Ahmad. Though the charge is not spelled out in any more detail, one would assume that Ahmad is considered to be guilty of providing “expert advice or assistance” to LeT.
Which brings me to the subject of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, better known as MEK. The MEK has been on the State Department roster of foreign terrorist organizations since the list was established in 1997. Its inclusion derives from its having killed six Americans in the 1970s and from its record of violence both inside and outside Iran since that time. The group was driven out of Iran, denied refuge in France, and eventually armed and given a military base by Saddam Hussein. Saddam used the group to carry out terrorist acts inside Iran. The MEK is widely regarded as a cult and is headed by spouses Massoud and Maryam Rajavi. Its members are required to be celibate, and there are reports that they are subjected to extensive brainwashing, physical torture, severe beatings even unto death, and prolonged solitary confinement if they question the leadership. One scholar who has studied them describes their beliefs as a “weird combination of Marxism and Islamic fundamentalism.” Like many other terrorist groups, the MEK has a political wing that operates openly, the National Council of Resistance, which is based in Paris, and another front organization called Executive Action, which operates in Washington.
The U.S. military and the CIA have in the past recruited MEK agents to enter Iran and report on nuclear facilities. Other MEK agents, recruited and trained by Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, have recently killed a number of Iranian nuclear scientists and officials. The group appears to have ample financial resources, and it is generally believed that at least some of the money comes from Mossad. The MEK is able to place full-page ads in major U.S. newspapers and is also known to pay hefty speaker’s fees to major political figures who are willing to speak publicly on its behalf. The group claims to want regime-change in Iran to restore democracy to the country, an odd assertion as it itself has no internal democracy.
Because the MEK is a resource being used by Israel in its clandestine war against Iran, it is perhaps inevitable that many friends of Israel in the United States are campaigning vigorously to have the group removed from the terrorism list. Indeed, neocons at their various think-tanks and publications as well as AIPAC all support delisting the group. At this moment, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, not surprisingly, appears to be inclined to give in to the pressure and delist the MEK once it completes its departure from Camp Ashraf in Iraq, where it has been based for the past 20 years. There might be some problem in arranging the move, as few countries want to take the MEK supporters, fearing that they would have to be deprogrammed from their brainwashing.
The MEK’s friends argue that the group has not killed anyone since 1999, though the recent assassinations employing MEK members belie that assertion, as do FBI reports revealing terrorist planning as late as 2004. Many speakers defending the MEK have also admitted that they do not know much about the group, most particularly in regard to its cult status, though they insist that their support is based on the fact that the organization is now not lethal (and, of course, the handsome speaking fees they have received).
The well-connected friends of the MEK include well-known neocons like John Bolton and James Woolsey. And there is also the paid supporting cast including former head of the Democratic Party Howard Dean; former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani; ex-CIA director Michael Hayden; former generals Anthony Zinni, Peter Pace, and Hugh Shelton; former congressman Lee Hamilton; ex–attorney general Michael Mukasey; former Homeland Security director Tom Ridge; former national security adviser Jim Jones; ex-senator Robert Torricelli; former FBI director Louis Freeh; and former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson. Current representatives Dana Rohrabacher and Brad Sherman also openly support the MEK and joined 96 other congressmen in calling for the lifting of the terrorism label.
Lee Hamilton has praised the MEK for providing useful intelligence on Iran’s nuclear facility at Natanz, but some of the intelligence in question is believed to be fabricated by the Mossad. Hamilton subsequently admitted that he was paid a “substantial amount” to speak and conceded that he might have been fooled by the group’s democratic credentials. “You always can be misled,” he said. Ethically challenged former senator and current lobbyist Robert Torricelli is less flexible, stating that he is “personally offended” by the group being listed as terrorist, noting that it can be “used” against Iran.
In August 2011, Rep. Ted Poe of Texas struck a similar note, referring to the MEK as “freedom fighters,” the only “real” opposition to the government in Tehran. Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney advocates delisting the group so it can undertake “provocative actions” against Iran, which he describes as killing Iranians if and when they kill Americans. So the objective for some MEK supporters clearly seems to be to give a pass to a terrorist group and to even encourage it to undertake violent action, as long as it is “our” terrorist group attacking people that we consider the bad guys.
Given the history of the MEK as a terrorist organization and the deliberately broad wording of the relevant U.S. statute, it would seem that speaking on behalf of the group amounts to material support of terrorism. So I have to ask why is it that the numerous prominent MEK supporters are walking free while Jubair Ahmad can be called a terrorist for the exercise of what might well appear to be similar First Amendment rights in producing something for a website? Can it be that the richly compensated MEK spokesmen are too important to arrest? Or is there one justice system for working-class Muslims and another for blowhards like John Bolton? Or is it just a fool’s game with the usual Washington crowd queuing up for a bad cause because they are both lining their pockets and thinking they are helping Israel? In any event, it is a poor bargain for the rest of us, but that hardly seems to matter anymore.

by Philip Giraldi

March 10, 2012 0 comments

The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

400 MKO terrorists relocated to former US base in Iraq

Around 400 members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group have been moved from Camp Ashraf to a former US military base near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
The transfer of the anti-Iran terrorist group to the former US base, Camp Liberty (Temporary Transit Location), near the Baghdad airport, is reportedly part of an agreement reached between the UN and Iraq back in December.
Under the deal, the UN and the Iraqi government agreed to relocate the 3,400 MKO members living in Camp Ashraf until their refugee status is determined.
Last month, another 400 members of the MKO terrorists were relocated to TTL.
In a statement issued on Saturday, the terrorist group expressed displeasure over the living conditions at TTL and sought a temporary relocation to another site near the Jordanian border.
The statement by the terrorist organization claimed that so far, "none of the minimum assurances that (Camp) Ashraf residents had sought has been met."
Most MKO terrorists fled to Iraq in 1986 after Iranian security forces discovered most of their hideouts broke up their terrorist network and arrested hundreds of them in various operations.
Having waged a war against Iran in 1980, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein allowed the terrorist group to set up the paramilitary Camp Ashraf base near Iran’s border in order to aid his regime with military and intelligence operations against the Iranian forces as well as civilians.
The group is also known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds. It has also carried out numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians, scientists and government officials.
Iran has repeatedly called on the Iraqi government to expel the group, but the US has vigorously attempted to block the expulsion by mounting pressure on the Iraqi government.
In late February, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a House committee that the MKO’s cooperation in a relocation plan from Camp Ashraf "will be a key factor in any decision" on whether to take it off the US list of foreign terrorist organizations.
Clinton’s remarks were viewed as a clear indication that the US is close to removing the terrorist group from its blacklist.

March 10, 2012 0 comments

The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

MKO’s expulsion in five stages

A member of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq says that according to the MOU signed with the UN, MKO’s relocation to Camp Liberty[Temporary Transit Location] will be done in several stages. MKO’s expulsion in five stages

“Mujahedin-e Khalq’s expulsion from Camp Liberty [TTL] is divided into five stages”, the Vice President of the Diyala provincial council Sadeq Al-Husseini told Habilian. “And even the name of the elements that must leave the camp in each stage is determined.”

“MKO put all its efforts into obstructing their relocation and the residents of Ashraf are telling lies,” Husseini added.

He pointed out that Diyala’s provincial police chief has positioned himself at al-Azim district in Khalis for five consecutive days in order for the group to be relocated to the new camp, but they are looking for extending the deadline by presenting false claims such as lack of preparation or poor health.

He further noted that MKO’s stalling as well as their request to extend the deadline may last a few days but have no results.

In response to Habilian reporter’s question about Iraqi government’s plans to prosecute the leaders against whom arrest warrants have been issued, Sadegh al-Husseini said, “it is solely related to the Iraqi judicial system and we respect it.”

Following the MOU signed between Iraq and the United Nations, in mid-February some 397 MKO members while being barred to carry their stuff were relocated to Temporary Transit Location.

Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged the group to complete the move, but they are complaining about the conditions at TTL which the UN confirmed that it meets the international standards. MKO leaders accuse the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq of lying and misrepresenting the conditions at TTL.

In order to prevent the expulsion of MKO members from Iraq and being transferred to Temporary Transit Location which culminates in the collapse of her cult, Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorist group’s ringleader Maryam Rajavi begged the US on Sunday to let them live a temporarily nomadic life on the Jordanian side of the border instead of their temporary relocation to TTL.

March 8, 2012 0 comments

The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Second stage of MKO’s relocation today

Governor of the town of Khalis – north of Baghdad, in which Camp Ashraf is located – announced that the second group of Mujahedin-e Khalq elements are due to be expelled from Camp Ashraf today. Second stage of MKO’s relocation today

According to Habilian, on Wednesday Oday Khadran was quoted by an Iraqi news agency as declaring: “tomorrow 400 other members will be expelled from Ashraf and transferred to Camp Liberty [TTL].”

“The second stage of expulsion was due to be done last week, but because of some technical obstacles it was postponed,” Khadran said.

“According to an agreement reached between United Nations and Iraq, all the members of the group will be expelled from Iraq over the next four months,” added the governor of Khalis.

The first step towards the relocation of the Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorist organization’s elements was taken in mid-February and some 400 were relocated to Temporary Transit Location, former U.S. military base near Baghdad International Airport.

March 8, 2012 0 comments

UK supports UN and GOI efforts to transfer MEK members

Lord Maginnis of Drumglass (Crossbench)

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Howell of Guildford on 27 UK supports UN and GOI efforts to transfer MEK members February (HL15532), whether they will place in the Library of the House a copy of the memorandum of understanding signed by the Government of Iraq in respect of Camp Liberty infrastructure and facilities.

Lord Howell of Guildford (Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Conservative)

The memorandum of understanding governing the voluntary transfer of residents of Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty [Temporary Transit Location] is a document between the United Nations (UN) and the Government of Iraq. It has not been made publicly available and I regret that the Government are not in a position to place a copy of this memorandum in the Library of the House.

The UN has said publicly, however, that under the terms of the memorandum of understanding, conditions at Camp Liberty[Temporary Transit Location] would meet basic humanitarian standards including: adequate accommodation; dining and food preparation facilities; hygiene infrastructure (water and sanitation); medical care; community spaces; separate accommodation and spaces for women; and facilities for religious observance. The UN conducted a thorough assessment of the conditions at the camp before the relocation of the first residents from Ashraf to Liberty [TTL]. The residents can also use contractors to further improve conditions at Camp Liberty [TTL].

Regarding access to lawyers and families, we would hope that the Government of Iraq would adhere to the undertakings we understand they have made to allow such access. With regard to personal belongings, we understand that those transferring from Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty[TTL] would be able to take personal belongings with them. Iraqi authorities and representatives of the residents have discussed what this includes.

The UN continues to monitor the situation at Camp Liberty[TTL] on a daily basis, and officials at our embassy in Baghdad are in close touch with the UN. We continue to support the UN in its efforts to find a durable and peaceful solution to the issue of the future of the residents of Camp Ashraf.

March 8, 2012 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

MKO’s weapon: nonstop propaganda campaign in media

“Dirty, unusable, water shortage, power outage, highly controlled prison equipped with espionage cameras”; these are the alleged imperfections of Temporary Transit Location that are widely launched in the Mujahedin Khalq Organization’s hues and cries, these days. The first group of 397 members of the MKO moved to TTL on February 18.

The MKO’s slanderous statements on the so-called defects of the new location soon came after their resettlement. The group primarily accused the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) which in January said Liberty (Temporary Transit Location) met” international humanitarian standards “ of misrepresenting conditions there, according to AFP.[1]

AFP calls the MKO’s propaganda campaign in the media as “statement issuing ire”. W.G Dunlop of AFP writes,“the PMOI[MKO]’s focus on public relations campaigns marked by frequent statements to the media and cultivating well-known western politicians to speak on its behalf differs dramatically from its past activities,”.[2]
The report states that the MKO’s spokesman Shahriar Kia sends emails accusing the UN of telling ”lies" and filing “unrealistic report” on condition of TTL as well as forcing residents of Ashraf to move to it.

It is far and wide known that TTL (formerly called Camp Liberty) had previously housed 5000 American troops and as Martin Kobler the UN representative ,told AFP” it should be possible to have the infrastructure ready for these 400 persons who are now living there.”[3]

But, it seems that the MKO’s “flurry of statements” speaking of conspiracies, aims to acheive something extra.

On March4, Assasicated Press also reported of a statement issued by the MKO that proposed “to temporarily move to the Jordanian border instead of Camp Liberty near Baghdad.” The group once more criticized the alleged poor conditions of TTL.”None of the minimum assurances that Ashraf residents had sought has been met”, the statement said. And, Maryam Rajavi offered her golden suggestion: “camp residents are ready to relocate temporarily to the Jordanian border this month in an area once set up as a tent city to house asylum seekers after the outbreak of the Iraq war in 2003”, AP reported. [4]

According to the group’s statement, it would handle expenses for the move. [5] What motivation makes Rajavi to propose such a suggestion?

The history of the MKO’s foreign relations includes Jordan as one of the allies of the group especially during Saddam Hussein’s era. In 2008, some members of the House of Representatives of Jordan accepted the group’s invitation to attend its conferences in European capitals. [6]

A day after Rajavi proposed her impudent plan, Jordan authorities in their turn rejected the suggestion.”Jordan is committed in its obligation that it should not interfere in the affairs of other countries,” a source in the Jordanian Interior Ministry told AL Arab Alyawm Newpaper. [7]

It seems promising to conclude that the MKO leader is highly confused about how to handle her cult of personality after the closure of camp Ashraf. She hopes to be able to gather her forces together in a tent city but out of Iraqi control. She might hunt for building another “Camp Ashraf”, this time in Jordanian territory!

By Mazda Parsi

References:
[1] Dunlop, W.G, Iran exiles in Iraq do battle using press release, AFP, March 5, 2012
[2]ibid
[3]ibid
[4]Associated Press, Iranian opposition group eye Jordan relocation, March 4, 2012
[5]ibid
[6]BBC, Jordanian MPs advised not to attend PMOI conference, December 11, 2008
[7]Kuna, Jordan confirms rejection of building a camp for MEK to its territory, March 5, 2012 (Originally Arabic, Translated by Iran-interlink)

March 8, 2012 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq as an Opposition Group

Hundreds of MEK members refuse to move from Camp Ashraf

Mayor of Khalis, Uday Alkhaddran, confirmed on Monday that hundreds of MEK members languishing at Camp Ashraf in Diyala province refused to move to a military base in Baghdad. Alkhaddran called on the government to work to remove them because they were "involved in spilling Iraqi blood and supported other terrorist groups."

Alkhaddran told Alsumaria News "more than 400 members of the MEK organization (PMOI) in Camp Ashraf in Diyala, which represent the second group which the Iraqi government want to transfer to Camp Liberty in Baghdad refused to obey to the order of transfer."

Alkhaddran said, "The Iraqi government has concluded an agreement with the United Nations Organization for the transfer of MEK from Diyala to Baghdad," adding that "members of the organization created false pretences which are not convincing"…

He warned the MEK of "massive popular protests in the province, if it continues the policy of procrastination and creates crises which aim to have the organization stay within the province," and accused the organization of "shedding the blood of thousands of Iraqis over three consecutive decades as it was an effective tool in creating sectarian strife and supporting terrorist groups during the past years."

He called on the government to "abide by its promises and the directives of the Diyala authorities."

On Monday the MEK accused the United Nations Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) of not providing adequate services to the MEK members who had been transferred to Camp Liberty west of Baghdad, claiming that the camp lacks the most basic standards.

UNAMI said in its statement at the end of last January that the infrastructure of the facilities at Camp Liberty [Temporary Transit Location] comply with international humanitarian standards set forth in a memorandum of understanding signed between the Iraqi government and the United Nations.

A technical report prepared on January 30, 2012 by an expert on the shelters was based on the UNAMI statement that the camp was set up recently to house 5,500 people…

Alsumaria News, Translated by Iran Interlink

March 7, 2012 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Iraq’s HR ministry raps al-Iraqiya for supporting MKO terrorists

The first reaction to the partial statements of al-Iraqyia bloc in favor of the Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorist group comes from Iraq’s Human Rights ministry.

Human Rights Ministry’s spokesman Kamil Amin said that the relocation of MKO members to Temporary Transit Location in Baghdad takes place under the supervision of the United Nations, Habilian Foundation database reported.

When asked about the supports of al-Irqiya bloc from Mujahedin—e Khalq terrorist group, Kamil Amin said that their stance is political, adding “they’d better give priority to the people of the country.

Speaking to an Iraqi news agency, Kamil Amin underlined that the new camp called TTL (formerly Liberty) is a good place as UN confirmed and the group was aware of the conditions before their move.

“The new location is according to humanitarian standards and al-Iraqiya’s claims are political,” he added.

Earlier this week, al-Iraqiya bloc spokesperson regardless of MKO’s crimes against hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians voiced his support for the terrorist cult and described them as Iraqis’ guests, IRNA quoted him as saying.

The Iraqi people have so far staged so many rallies against MKO presence on their soil.

Finally the Iraqi government responded to the people’s call and decided to evacuate the terrorist cult’s headquarters, Camp Ashraf, in northern Iraq. In this regard, the government of Iraq signed a MOU with the UN on 25 December to temporarily transfer the Ashraf residents to a former military base and they are due to be expelled from Iraq right from this camp (Liberty).

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Ex-member: MKO helps Israeli agents in covert war with Iran

A former top commander of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) says the organization has close ties with Israeli operatives, helping them in their covert operations against Iran.
Ex-member: MKO helps Israeli agents in covert war with Iran
In a telephone interview with Israel’s Maariv radio on March 5, Massoud Khodabandeh noted that it was no surprise to hear about the role of the MKO terrorists in assassinating Iran’s nuclear scientists.

Some US officials told the NBC network last week that the MKO terrorists have been involved in the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists in the past two years.

Since January 2010, a total of six Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated by operatives of Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, which is using the MKO terrorists for the attacks.

“I was not surprised by the recent revelations as I am fully aware of Israel’s relations with the MKO.” Khodabandeh added.

He said the MKO has extensive relations with Israel and its operatives in Europe work with Israeli agents.

According to the ex-MKO official, most members of the organization are women. Their leader Maryam Rajavi, also a woman, is the wife of top MKO member Massoud Rajavi who ‘disappeared’ 10 years ago and there is no information available on his current whereabouts.

The organization has strong financial resources and two major bases; one in the suburbs of Paris and the other Camp Ashraf in Iraq. The MKO elements were recently evacuated from Ashraf to Liberty Camp in Iraq.

Khodabandeh said the organization has 5,000 members, barred from any contact with the outside world, who totally obey the Rajavis.

Ann Singleton, the wife of Khodabandeh and a former MKO member, also noted that the MKO has never been independent and has always relied on foreign support.

She added that it would be quite logical to imagine that the organization has been involved in the assassination of Iranian scientist.

Dr. Trita Parsi, a prominent MKO critic, also noted that the MKO is not a simple organization, but a cult which suppresses even its own members.

The MKO is termed as a terrorist organization under the US law, and has been described by the US State Department officials as a repressive cult.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq’s executed dictator, Saddam Hussein.

The MKO is also known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds. The group has carried out numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.

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