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When Making a Revolution, Allies Matter

‘ font-size: 10pt”>An Iranian opposition group that figures prominently on the State Department’s list of international terrorist organizations will openly flaunt U.S. law today, when supporters demonstrate in Lafayette Park in Washington, DC, just across the street from the White House.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Organizers of the January 19 demonstration openly refer to the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran, banned from operating in the United States, as the "largest and most popular resistance group inside Iran."

‘ font-size: 10pt”>The former Shah called them "Marxist-Islamists," because they had been trained by the Soviet Union in guerilla warfare and supported Khomeini.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>The FBI has been tracking the activities of the Mujahedin, known in Persian as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), since the mid-1970s, when MEK members assassinated U.S. military officers then working in Iran. MEK members actively took part in the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, according to a U.S. government report.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Despite this track record, the FBI has refused to ban demonstrations by supporters of the banned group, who have formed a variety of organizations ostensibly headed by U.S. citizens.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>An FBI spokesman in Washington, DC told FrontPage magazine on the eve of the White House protest that the demonstrators were "exercising their 1st Amendment Rights. Whether they have been acknowledged by the United States Government as a terrorist group is a separate matter. Any gathering of people to protest is Constitutionally-protected and we acknowledge that and will do nothing to quash it."

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Why does any of this matter? Because the MEK has convinced many Members of Congress that they are the "democratic alternative" to the clerical regime in Tehran and deserve U.S. government support.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>MEK supporters roam the halls of Congress asking unsuspecting twenty-something aides if their Member will sign a "Dear Colleague" letter calling for freedom and democracy in Iran. They have conducted similar influence operations in Britain, France, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Canada, and elsewhere.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Iranian-Americans openly refer to MEK leader Massoud Rajavi as the "Pol Pot" of Iran, because they believe he would conduct wholesale massacres of his political opponents should the current regime implode and the MEK seize power through organized street violence. In the group’s "16 points" for a future "democratic" Iran, they promise political freedom to all &endash; except their political enemies.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Rajavi has insisted that MEK members divorce their spouses, and live in communist-style collective houses. In 1983, he divorced his own wife &endash; the daughter of former president Abolhassan Banisadr, with whom he had a political falling out &endash; and married the wife of a political rival.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>In 1986,the Rajavis and the top MEK leadership left France for Iraq, where Saddam Hussein extended a warm welcome to the group and gave them weapons and financial assistance.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Following the 1991 Gulf war, Saddam used MEK military forces as shock troops to attack dissident Iraqi Kurds in northern Iraq, an experience that Iraq’s democratically-elected president, former Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani, has never forgotten.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>According to the definitive 1993 Department of State report that led to the banning of the organization’s activities in the United States, the MEK not only killed Americans, but provided hit teams during the 1979 revolution against the Shah that allegedly assassinated thousands of senior Iranian military officers.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Members of Congress worried by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s terrorist record and its nuclear weapons programs in August 1993 (yes, 1993) petitioned then Secretary of State Warren Christopher to open an official U.S. dialogue with the main MEK front organization, the National Council of Resistance.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Christopher’s September 20, 1993 reply was devastating.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>"Concerning contacts with Iranian opposition groups, there are numerous such groups in the United States and abroad that do not espouse violence and whose political aims range from supporting a return of the monarchy to establishing a constitutional democracy. Many focus their efforts on Iranian human rights abuses, and work closely with the UN. Human Rights Committee and private human rights groups. We do meet with representatives of such groups at their request, and believe these contacts are useful as an informational exchange.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>"However, the National Council of Resistance is closely linked to the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI), also known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). Both groups are led by Masud Rajavi. The Administration maintains a policy of no contacts with the PMOI and, by extension, the NCR. This decision is based on our opposition to the PMOI’s use of terrorism."

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Operating under a number of fronts following the Christopher letter, Mujahedin supporters bundled more than $204,000 in campaign contributions to U.S. Representatives Robert Torricelli (D, NJ) Gary Ackerman (D, NY) and others in Congress, in a failed effort to lift the State Department designation of the group as an international terrorist organization.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Over the past year, a new pro-MEK group known as the "Iran Policy Committee" has sought endorsements from well-known former policy makers, including respected FoxNews commentators Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely and Lt. Gen. Tom McInerny.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>IPC chairman Ray Tanter, a former Reagan administration NSC official, regularly appears at pro-MEK press conferences and has likened a proposed U.S. alliance with the MEK against the mullahs in Tehran to FDR’s alliance with Stalin to defeat Hitler.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Allying with terrorists is not just wrong for strategic reasons. It is just plain wrong. The Rajavi cult has a known track record. They have murdered Americans. They have murdered their fellow Iranians. And their dedication to democratic principles is as thin as the ether of the Internet, created for public consumption.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Promoting the Mujahedin in Iran is no different from supporting former Baathists in Iraq in the vain hope they will do the heavy lifting the U.S. policy and intelligence community is unwilling or unable to do.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Pro-democracy groups are struggling to be heard and to organize inside Iran, and they deserve urgent and massive U.S. support. President Bush has repeatedly pledged his support for their cause, but until now the State Department has blocked funds appropriated by Congress from reaching groups inside Iran.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>As we skate ever-closer to a nuclear showdown with Iran, we must not in our impatience make the mistake of helping a violent group to overthrow a dedicated and dangerous enemy, in the vain hope they will shed their violent ways once they have achieved victory.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>When making a revolution, it is critical to choose one’s allies well. The future depends on it.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>FrontPageMagazine

January 19, 2006 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Terrorism is Terrorists does

"One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter": This is one of the more fatuous opinions about terrorism. Unfortunately, too many people believe it.

While terrorism taints all those who practice it, many prefer to trust insurgents with whom they sympathize. This is always a mistake.

Terrorism has never been precisely defined. Attempts to draw a line through the gray areas where terrorists and guerrillas, or terrorists and gangsters, overlap have always failed. Terrorists often are partners in organized crime and guerrilla campaigns can use terrorism as a strategy.

Most people can recognize terrorism for what it is and general descriptions of the phenomenon have been widely accepted. These point out that terrorism is covert in practice; political in aim; and asymmetric — in that the terrorist has few resources and many targets while those opposed to them have ample resources and few targets. Terrorists are also unaccountable as they answer to no morality but their own ideological constructs.

Few insurgents care to see themselves as skulking cowards, which is why — for example — blowing up office towers, massacring civilians, or murdering off-duty soldiers are seen as heroic acts. Those who sympathize with — for example — the Tamil Tigers or the Japanese Red Army, or the Provisional Wing of the IRA, often state that these actions are regrettable but necessary.

Many of these sympathizers are less than objective. Underground movements do have parallel aboveground political arms that propagandize and raise funds. Moreover, ever since Lenin, insurgents have learned that in pursuit of the "higher" truth (their own goals), "lesser" forms of truth can be dispensed with.

Ireland, Israel and the United States are often cited as nations whose birth was facilitated by these questionable means. However, the American Revolutionary War was not a terrorist campaign — partisans on both sides behaved in ugly ways, but this was no one’s strategy. Both Ireland and Israel took hard action to suppress the IRA and Irgun respectively shortly after independence.

Terrorists might be tolerated by some freedom movements, but their penchant for atrocity and mendacity make them lousy nation-builders.

In its annual listing of international terrorists, the US State Department includes the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) and an assortment of aboveground front groups that garner support for it. These include the National Council of Resistance, the People’s Mujahadin of Iran and the Iranian Student’s Society.

The Mujahadin-e Khalq has made much of its record of action against the Iranian theocracy. However, MEK began in the 1960s as a Leftist insurgency — apparently with some Soviet backing — against the Shah.

As widespread opposition to the Shah grew in the 1970s, the Marxism of MEK became infused with Islamic ideology. MEK joined in the Islamic Revolution, but the Mullahs were certainly not prepared to tolerate them either. The survivors fled overseas, or rallied in Iraq — which was just beginning its own opportunistic war against Iran.

In the Iranian Diaspora that followed 1980, members and supporters of MEK spread throughout the Western World. In Canada, members of the group have earnestly solicited funds and preserved links with Canada’s anachronistic Marxist community. They have also attacked the Iranian embassy in Ottawa, as part of a coordinated assault on 13 embassies in Europe and the Americas.

Still, MEK has done itself few favours over the years. Its main base is still in exile in Iraq, and depends on the generosity of Saddam Hussein. By trying to fuse Islam with Marxism, it is not really embraced by Western Leftists or by Muslims. Unlike some other groups, it seems incapable of resorting to organized crime for funding. Its attacks on Iranian targets in the West have attracted little public attention.

So why won’t the Mujahadin-e Khalq call it quits? The attempt by one member, Mahnaz Samadi, to claim refugee status in Canada, suggests that she is not yet ready to give up the struggle — and the whole case rests on whether MEK is a terrorist group or not.

Perhaps her case reflects one last point about terrorist groups… that few of them know when to quit. From Ulster to Colombia to Cambodia, aging insurgencies have continued long after the conditions than generated them have vanished.

There is a trap in terrorism, the self-deception necessary to engage in it means that one can not really give up the fight without victory. To do otherwise means to accept the fact that the cause — and all the sacrifices made for it — were flawed from the beginning. Lacking the courage to do anything else, many insurgents limp on to irrelevance. So goes MEK

One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter? Perhaps a more accurate statement might be one man’s terrorist is everyone’s problem.

John Thompson is President of the Mackenzie Institute which studies political instability and terrorism. He can be reached at: mailto:jt@mackenzieinstitute.com

January 16, 2006 0 comments

Bulgaria

Bulgaria to decide new Iraqi mission in 2 weeks

SOFIA, Jan. 14 (Xinhuanet) — The Bulgarian government will make a decision of sending a non-combat unit to an Iraqi refugee camp in two weeks, Defense Minister Veselin Bliznakov revealed on Saturday.

Bliznakov told the local Darik radio that there is already a consensus on this issue within the three-party ruling coalition and the government is to decide on the deployment of the non-combat unit of 154 soldiers to Ashraf in the next two weeks.

The decision is expected to be passed successfully by the Parliament later, said Bliznakov.

The unit will not stay there for more than one year, stressed the minister, nor it will be the only one sent to Iraq by Bulgariain the future.

The fifth Bulgarian peacekeeping unit in Iraq, which all returned to Bulgaria by Dec. 30, 2005, will be officially disbanded on Jan. 27, and this form of Bulgarian participation in Iraqi reconstruction will finish then, said Bliznakov.

Just one day ago, Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev also made a statement in Parliament that Bulgaria should not and can not withdraw from the process in Iraq, as its national interests require its participation in the stabilization and restoration of Iraq, within the framework of the relevant solutions of the Security Council of the United Nations.

chinaview.cn – 2006.1.5

January 16, 2006 0 comments

Open letter to the leaders of the main political Parties of Britain

Open letter from Mr. Mohammad Hossein Sobhani to the leaders of the main political Parties of Britain

January 6, 2006

Rt. Honourable Tony Blair

Rt. Honourable David Cameron

Rt. Honourable Charles Kennedy

The document published by the US Department of State on October 11, 2005 emphasised that the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (aka MEK, MKO, NCR, NLA, …) has been assigned to the permanent list of terrorist organisations. As you are aware, the British government and the European Union have also continued to acknowledge the Mojahedin organisation as a terrorist entity.

This, on one side, should be celebrated as yet another victory for peace and for non-violent means to achieve political aims, and from the other side as a defeat for violence, terrorism and the “strategy of armed struggle” of the Mojahedin organisation. It is noticeable that inclusion of the Mojahedin in the lists of terrorist entities has been a decisive factor in preventing this organisation from pursuing its armed, violent activities, at least on the surface; although it is clear that they still believe in violent, armed struggle and would follow this path in the future.

Honourable leaders of the three major political parties of Great Britain.

On the 5th January 2006, some of the websites dependent on the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation issued a statement in Persian claiming it to be a “joint statement by members of both Houses of Parliament” (websites Iran Liberty and Hambastegimeli).

The writing, as well as the culture behind the writing, shows no respect for the usual political standards associated with the members of the British parliament. For me, as an ex member of the Central Committee of the Mojahedin who has had close association with this organisation for more than 30 years, there is no doubt that this so called “statement” has been fabricated (or at best meddled with) by the organisation.

It is worth noting that the statement has no date and no name or signatures with it.

Why?

Could we accept that a member of parliament would not actually sign a statement when they claim to support it? If not, then why would such statement not have any names, date or signatures?

Of course this is only one of many reasons which indicate clearly that the statement has been fabricated by the Mojahedin Khalq organisation. And of course, this is one of the reasons I am writing this letter to your good selves as there are no names to respond to.

Dear leaders of the major political parties of Great Britain,

During the time since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime and the forced disarmament of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation by the American army, the Mojahedin have been trying to put a mask on their violent, terrorist faces in Europe and America in a bid to remove the organisation from the list of terrorist entities in US, EU and Canada and ….

But due to pressure from the political and diplomatic activities of disaffected members of Mojahedin and also the report ‘No Exit’ published on 18 May 2005 by Human Rights Watch on human rights abuses inside the Mojahedin, the efforts of the Mojahedin cult to be removed from the lists, faced stiff resistance. In fact, the main reason the Mojahedin started their new wave of attacks and intimidation against ex members was more than anything, the publication of the ‘No Exit’ report by Human Rights Watch, partly based on the testimony of these victims.

After the fall of Saddam and the forced disarmament of the Mojahedin, it was clear for the leaders of the organisation that they would have to cover up their strategy of “arms and terrorism” and slogans such as “Long Live the National Liberation Army”. Instead, they would have to adopt a mask and hide behind slogans like “democratic change” and/or “the third way” in front of western personalities and members of western parliaments, as well as western governments, if their bid to come out of the lists were to have any chance of success. It is not an exaggeration to say that they have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and have dedicated all their human resources in the cult to this issue and have still, fortunately, not been successful.

Dear friends,

The MEK claims that a few members of British parliament together with Mr. Paolo Casaca (MEP from Portugal) who are all core supporters of the organisation travelled to Iraq in the second half of 2005 in order to ‘prove’ to HRW that during 1990 to 2002 there have been no prisons and or torture chambers in the Mojahedin organisation.

In the so called “joint statement by the members of both Houses of Parliament” on their websites, the MEK have claimed that:

“… The report by HRW has failed to acknowledge the fact that the American officials in Camp Ashraf have rejected any claim that people are being forced not to leave the camp. On March 19, 2005, the Night Ridder news agency reported from Ashraf that : ‘the American army has investigated allegations that the Mojahedin are preventing people from leaving the camp and has not found any strong evidence.’ The same news agency also quotes from a high ranking official of the American army that: ‘they are not prisoners. They are physically and logically free to leave the place…’.”

Another part of the so called “statement” quotes members of the British Parliament:

“… on August 2002 the Mojahedin revealed a confidential document from the intelligence ministry of Iran that shows that one of the key witnesses used in the HRW report, Mohammed Hussein Sobhani is a team leader and a long serving agent of the intelligence ministry of Iran. It has also been shown that most of the people interviewed by HRW have been sent to Europe with the specific aim of making an evil image for the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation…”

Dear leaders of the main political parties in Britain,

Considering the abovementioned points, may I put forward the following points for your and your colleagues’ information.

The witnesses interviewed by HRW, including myself who spent over 8 years in solitary confinement in Mojahedin prisons, have never claimed that we were imprisoned after the fall of Saddam or at any time during 2002 and 2005, but have testified that during the years 1990 and 2002 we have been variously imprisoned in Mojahedin as well as in Abu Ghraib prisons in Iraq.

Why is it that the “statement” published by the MEK under the title “joint statement by members of both Houses of Parliament” is trying to prove that after the intervention of the US Armed Forces, the Mojahedin have no prisons in Camp Ashraf? Are they trying to dismiss the HRW report with this argument?

It is clear that any dictator or torturer, including the Rajavis, after the fall of Saddam brought a new wind of freedom, had the experience and sense to strategically change the use of their prisons and torture chambers.

A month after the fall of Saddam many who had been in these prisons from one month up to 8 years raised the alarm that Rajavi is changing the use of these places. I should say that the Mojahedin’s supporters were perhaps a little bit tardy in coming to camp Ashraf!

All the MEK’s supporters should be reminded that the victims interviewed by HRW are available in Europe and are ready to testify to and be examined by them. Why did they have to go to Iraq?

I should remind you that the Mojahedin Khalq terrorist organization claims to have daily meetings in the buildings of the Houses of Parliament in Britain. Putting aside the exaggerations and propaganda for which the MEK is famous, are you, as leaders of the main political parties, aware of the presence of this terrorist organisation in the Houses of Parliament?

I ask you for the sake of peace and rejection of violence to interfere and stop admitting this terrorist organisation into the British Parliament.

Myself and my other colleagues are always ready to present ourselves to Parliament and/or your Party offices to inform about the serious human rights abuses inside the Mojahedin during the years of cooperation between Rajavi and Saddam Hussein,

Mohammad Hossein Sobhani

January 16, 2006 0 comments

Ann Singleton Former members of the MEK

Singleton Talks to Frankfurter Rundschau

Anne Singleton, who had worked for 20 years with the terrorist organization of MKO, talked to Frankfurter Rundschau, revealing some facts from this terrorist group.

"Mojahedin spent the money we had collected with difficulties for buying houses, or gave that money to other people as loan.

Mojahedin does everything from human trafficking to money laundering.

My husband, who was for years the bodyguard of Rajavi, has talked to me of physical torture and rape in the MKO.

I was not recruited by this organization by chance, since such terrorist groups are fully aware of recruiting methods.

When I was a university student in Leeds, I was very passionate about human rights, justice and at that time I met this group.

My friend at that time was Iranian who took me to the meetings of this organization.

I was neither a religious person, nor a Muslim. MKO recruited me by deception. I took part in the demonstrations of the group, distributing their handbills; I also helped them in getting financial aid for them.

I gave them my money, sold my car, and even gave up my job to be able to serve for the organization in its headquarters in London.

To make their members dependent, Mojahedin use different tricks such as isolation from society, diets, and sleep deprivation.

I slept less than 5 hours and I was always transferred from one point to another so that I could never understand the leadership’s intentions.

After ten years in the organization, I was sent to Iraq, in order to participate in a training camp. At that time, Saddam used this group against Iran. I passed all military courses there.

In response to a question whether she would have used violence under the name of organization, Singleton answered:

Today, I find it frightening, because I cannot say no to this question since they had treated me in a way that I was ready to do everything.

On what led her to decide to leave the MKO, she said:

"I was in a situation which forced me to think and this thinking made big changes in me so that I decided to leave this terrorist organization."

January 16, 2006 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Four defectors of Rajavi’s cult repatriated

Nejat Society Reporter – Mehr Abad Airport Tehran

Four defectors of MKO, who were under pressure since long ago, could escape from Camp Ashraf and join American camp. After a while, by cooperation of IRC they returned to their homeland and welcomed on Jan.14, 2006 at 2 p.m.

All the returnees declared that the depression and disappointing atmosphere in Rajavi’s cult leads every member to escape. A large number of members willing to return to Iran, will return in near future.

These separated members also stated that everybody in Camp has this question in his mind: why the leaders of MKO have all fled to Europe or hidden themselves while this serious situation in Camp.

These defectors also asked for the trial of Masud Rajavi as a war criminal in an international court since it has been revealed that he has been detained by US forces.

January 16, 2006 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Letter to Charles Falconer

Ali Akbar Rastgoo, Awaa Association, January 6, 2006 The Rt Hon Lord Falconer of Thoroton QC Secretary of State Constitutional Affairs Selborne House 54-60 Victoria Street London SW1E 6QW England

At the meeting on 13th December 2005 held in the British Parliament there was a discussion about “the Mojahedin Khalgh Organization, (an Iranian organization which is settled in Iraq). At the same day a web site called “Iran focus” (that is associated to the “Mojahedin Khalgh Organization”), published allegations stipulating that Lord Tony Clark affirmed that 405 Members of the British Parliament are in support of this group, but no names were mentioned.

In diplomatic relations the names of the supporter must be published to confirm the legitimacy of such allegations, therefore this announcement was counterfeit and supported by substantial evidence. Similar actions from the here above mentioned group happened many times before, for instance the counterfeited letters that were published on behalf of the pervious Member of Parliament “Win Griffith”.

The “Mojahedin Khalgh Organization” was recognized as a terrorist group by the United States of America once again in October 2005. This organization also uses several fictitious names such as: “National Freedom Army”, “Muslim Student Association and National Resistance Organization” to distract the attention of the western world. However, all of the above names were added to the official terrorism list. Your government along with the European Union emphasizes to continue on fighting against terrorism.

Dear Sir

My questions are hereby as followed:

How were your name and your parliament member’s names used for the support of terrorism and why did you not show any reaction to that effect?

Do you support the “Mojahein Khalgh Organization” and their actions?

Do you support the war against the present government of Iran?

Do you agree with forming a Totalitarian government by the name of Islamic Democratic Republic?

I would be greatly appreciative to receive a response letter on your behalf Mr. Lord Falconer

Sincerely,

Ali-Akbar Rastgou

Cologne-Germany

January 16, 2006 0 comments

Massoud Rajavi

Iranian Mujahadeen said to be in U.S. Custody

Baghdad, 3 Jan. (AKI) – The leader of the Iranian mujahadeen, Massoud Rajavi, who was thought to have been in hiding since the American occupation of Iraq, is under house arrest there, according to the Paris-based website, roozonline. Massoud Rajavi and another 27 leaders of the Iranian movement, who were confined in the Ashraf base, after the fall of Saddam Hussein, have reportedly been shifted to US military custody in the Mercury Camp. The Iranian mujahadeen is a militant guerrilla movement seeking to overthrow the government of Iran and was based first in France and then in Iraq.

The Mujahadeen of the Iranian People is active in Europe under the name of the National Resistance Council, with a declared aim of overthrowing the Islamic republic of Iran. Listed as a terror group by Washington and the European Union, the Muajahadeen were founded in the late 1960s, before the Islamic Revolution in Iran as the armed wing of a religious movement opposing the then monarchy.

Their first action in that period was the murder of several American military advisors in Tehran to train the troops of the Shah. After briefly cooperating with Ayatollah Khomeini, after the 1979 revolution, the mujahadeen went underground to fight the Islamic regime. During the Iran-Iraq war they transferred their base first to the outskirts of Paris and then to Baghdad, under the protection of Saddam Hussein.

Roozonline argues that the arrest of Massoud Rajavi and other senior figures is the result of the first encounter by the American ambassador to Baghdad, Zalmai Khalilzad, who was tasked by the White House with getting Iranian leaders to the negotiation table. "The negotiations are limited to issues regarding Iraq," said the ambassador.

Iran has for some time been calling for the arrest and the extradition of more than 3,000 Iranian Mujahadeen in Iraq.

After the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iranian mujahadeen camps were bombed by coalition forces and the weaponry seized. The personnel initially placed under armed guard in a camp outside Baghdad. In August 2004, despite considering it a terrorist group, the United States granted the mujahadeen in Iraq Geneva Convention protection, making deportation to Iran illegal.

The Iranian mujahadeen maintained an information office in Washington DC, until it was designated a terrorist group. This designation has never been fully accepted – in 2003, more than a hundred members of congress signed a letter calling for the lifting of this designation.

Aki- adnkronosinternational

January 9, 2006 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

MKO Efforts to Set-Up Crisis in Iraq

Terrorist group of Mujahideen-e Khalq has an active role in stoking the fire of division among tribes of Iraq; the officials of the group, sponsoring terrorists of Diali province, have met a number of tribes’ leaders in Camp Ashraf. In the meetings, MKO has expressed criticism toward the elections in Iraq, announcing it as fraud. It has also warned the Sunni sheikhs that the Shiites want to eliminate all Sunnis in the case of getting to power.

The news published by this group is aimed at taking Iraq into chaos and anarchy. In this regard, MKO has announced that "List 555" has corrupted the votes in large scale in Baghdad, particularly in "Soreh" and "Jamileh" districts and that, supporters of this list have prevented Fili Kurds from casting their votes. On the other hand, they assault the national elected government propagandistically and accuse police and interior ministry of not allowing the participation of Fili Kurds in the elections.

We don’t know why some Iraqi groups are favored this much by the terrorist organization of Mujahideen-e khalq while the history shows that it was involved in massacring Iraqis in the north and that they beat Iraqi citizens in Abu Ghraib district when commuting in the region?

This terrorist group does its best to create new conflicts in the ties between Iran and its neighbors. Particularly, they claimed that Iran sent a truck of forged ballots to Diali province and southern Iraq! Some terrorist partners of this organization are also repeating these claims without having any evidences. Where is this truck? Why it was not shown on TV? Why the drivers, claimed by the MKO to be arrested, are not introduced to the Iraqis?

The propaganda of this organization have targeted the national elected government of Iraq and this itself proves their filthy intents; for the following reasons, this organization should be prosecuted:

1. Interfering in Iraq’s internal affairs, holding meetings and conferences with terrorist leaders in Iraq and supporting terrorists; these acts heighten insecurity in Iraq.

2. Involvement of this group in war crimes of Baath regime and massacring Iraqis in the north and south as well as its participation in attacking neighbors of Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

3. Propagandistic activities against Iraqi people, and efforts for making division among Iraqi ethnic groups.

4. Efforts to corrupt the elected government and its ministers.

5. Releasing newspaper without the agreement of Parliament and Iraqi Premiere.

6. Taking advantage of journalists, athletes and sheikhs of some Iraqi tribes for the purposes against Iraq and Iraqis.

We, as Iraqis, ask the UN Security Council, Human Rights Organization, neighboring countries and coalition forces to issue a statement on this terrorist group to call for the trial of the group officials outside Iraq. We ask Arab League to intervene in the issue; and we call on Arab countries not to give shelter to this terrorist group.

Sotaliraq website

http://www.sotaliraq.com/articles-iraq/nieuws.php?id=23253

January 5, 2006 0 comments

Maryam Rajavi

Where does Maryam Rajavi stand?

When Masud Rajavi found out a risk from the organization’s members, looked for a woman who could save him from that abyss. A woman like “Farah Diba”, the Iranian Shah’s wife. In the meantime he fell in love with Maryam Qajar and after a period of liaison with her, divorced Firouzeh BaniSadr and introduced Maryam as the second person of the organization.

Mujahedin’s people propagandized her character and presented her as an outwardly perfect goddess. They held concerts in which they had publicities to attract western people’s attention.

They made a charismatic character of her in order to draw women’s attention to the organization. Pheminist thoughts published in MKO on one hand caused Masud to use it as his own shield and on the other hand, to be worried about replacing of this modern thought instead of his own idea.

When the women were charged with responsibilities and got the high positions, the supporters got angry and started to critisize, some men separated from the MEK. They considered Masud’s new strategies as abusing the women. But will Masud’s wishes be harmonious with Maryam’s feminine ambitions? In 2003, France police arrested her for two weeks. She was accused of using her residence in “Over Sur d’Oise” as a base to launch terrorist attacks. But police were forced to liberate her since the members set themselves on fire in front of Police Station and Iran Embassy.

In the early eighties, Iran witnessed the terror of its high officials and Maryam Rajavi as Masud’s main abettor was accused she was accused of operating terrorist operations, especially after the establishing of National Liberation Army as the military branch of the organization and Maryam was elected as the vice-commandant of the so-called army.

She fled Iran before her death sentence be issued. She had various positions in MKO, until the NCRI members who are completely absorbed by her personality, elected her as Iran President just when Masud pointed out. Therefore she became the executive manager of Masud’s vague ideology and occupied some positions in the organization. She claimed that one third of the organization members are women. On the other hand Iran has placed Maryam and Masud’s names in the list of wanted people and declared that they would never be forgiven. Nowadays Maryam considers herself as the elected president of Iran and tries to collect funds from her supporters from all over the word. She is in the hope of glossing over the accusations of her involvement in Oil – Food program in Iraq. Maryam encouraged her supporters to act terror operations without paying attention to civilians and she is proud of her suicide policy.

Whenever a member of MKO is willing to return to normal life, they take him to their weekly meetings and repress him under high mental pressure of brain washing and repeat this phrase to him:” You were not created for a normal life! Listen to Maryam Rajavi to find a solution to your problems!”

Maryam is also wanted by the US and since 1997 her organization has been in the FTO list. The EU also followed the American policy In 2000. She repeatedly appears on video tapes and asks Jaque Shirak to return the seized funds of the MKO which were found during her arrest operation. She continually talks about a hundred – twenty thousands martyrs and half a million prisoners who are waiting for Bush to end Iran regime and deliver the government to her. She also has used Ahvaz case in order to have Arabs’ attention.

What method does she use and according to which rules does she control her group? She sometimes addresses the members’ suicidal characteristic and asks them to apply Masud’s ideology. She encourages them to die and considers death as a virtue, even though she talks frequently about democracy and secularism.

It has been told that Maryam is Masud’s chain mail. She is the leader of a self – built cult. She has the characteristics of a cult leader. She enjoys a charismatic character and she believes that “the goal justifies the means.” Besides she has gathered a group of people under the cover name of “Iranian Muslim Students Society” and has controlled their minds. Among them she fusses about sexual inequality, she talks about real sexual delight of what the separated members accuse the MKO. The difference between this cult and the other cults and groups is that the MKO is very ambitious and thinks about controlling the entire Iran!?

When in 1980’s Maryam and Masud were expelled from France, they fed themselves with Saddam’s food. She believed in approaching their (Saddam’s and MKO’s) common enemy –Iran. Saddam also gave them an occasion to continue their aggressions.

Where does Maryam stand after the fall of Saddam? Is she the Washington’s winning card? Is she lobbing one of the rooms of the white House among American congress men?

In her last message, she said:”my belief has approached the reality, the US is going to realize that the main solution to deal with Iran can be organized by an Iranian opposition.” On the other hand, a smoke can be seen from Israel Camp which shows that it plans to keep MKO alive in order to use them against Iran as a pressure axis. There is no need to look for Maryam – Saddam Hussein’s colleague. Bush has answered our question with the following phrase:” my country appreciates Iranian’s efforts for freedom”. In addition, he has allocated 3 million $ to support such groups.

Ansaf Lina Alhurani

January 5, 2006 0 comments

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