Former members of the MEK

Five more MKO defectors repatriated

Nejat Society correspondent:

Mehrabad Airport- five more members of MEK fled from the evil Rajavi’s Organization and repatriated, on August 23, 2005 . According to received news these defectors returned to Iran on a private flight by the help of International Red Cross.

They stated that they have separated from the organization less than a month ago and joined the American camp.

Nejat Society congratulates the return of our beloveds to the families and hopes that all of the members captured in Rajavi’s cult, choose the right way and return to their families.

Eskandarie, Samad from Zanjan

Rahmanie, Ghader from Oroumieh

Seyed Mohammadie, Jahan Shah from Kermanshah

Mohammadie, Karim from Kermanshah

Salehi, Iraj from Mazandaran

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Terrorist Group Profiles

Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) From: Country Reports on Terrorism, 2004. United States Department of State, April 2005. ——————————————————————————– Other Names The National Liberation Army of Iran The People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI) National Council of Resistance (NCR) National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) Muslim Iranian Student’s Society Description The MEK philosophy mixes Marxism and Islam. Formed in the 1960s, the organization was expelled from Iran after the Islamic Revolution in 1979, and its primary support came from the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein starting in the late 1980s. The MEK conducted anti-West-ern attacks prior to the Islamic Revolution. Since then, it has conducted terrorist attacks against the interests of the clerical regime in Iran and abroad. The MEK advocates the overthrow of the Iranian regime and its replacement with the group’s own leadership. Activities The group’s worldwide campaign against the Iranian Government stresses propaganda and occasionally uses terrorism. During the 1970s, the MEK killed US military personnel and US civilians working on defense projects in Tehran and supported the takeover in 1979 of the US Embassy in Tehran. In 1981, the MEK detonated bombs in the head office of the Islamic Republic Party and the Premier’s office, killing some 70 high-ranking Iranian officials, including Chief Justice Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, President Mohammad-Ali Rajaei, and Premier Mohammad-Javad Bahonar. Near the end of the 19801988 war with Iran, Baghdad armed the MEK with military equipment and sent it into action against Iranian forces. In 1991, the MEK assisted the Government of Iraq in suppressing the Shia and Kurdish uprisings in southern Iraq and the Kurdish uprisings in the north. In April 1992, the MEK conducted near-simultaneous attacks on Iranian embassies and installations in 13 countries, demonstrating the group’s ability to mount large-scale operations overseas. In April 1999, the MEK targeted key military officers and assassinated the deputy chief of the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff. In April 2000, the MEK attempted to assassinate the commander of the Nasr Headquarters, Tehran’s interagency board responsible for coordinating policies on Iraq. The normal pace of anti-Iranian operations increased during "Operation Great Bahman" in February 2000, when the group launched a dozen attacks against Iran. One of those attacks included a mortar attack against the leadership complex in Tehran that housed the offices of the Supreme Leader and the President. In 2000 and 2001, the MEK was involved regularly in mortar attacks and hit-and-run raids on Iranian military and law enforcement units and Government buildings near the Iran-Iraq border, although MEK terrorism in Iran declined toward the end of 2001. After Coalition aircraft bombed MEK bases at the outset of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the MEK leadership ordered its members not to resist Coalition forces, and a formal cease-fire arrangement was reached in May 2003. Strength Over 3,000 MEK members are currently confined to Camp Ashraf, the MEK’s main compound north of Baghdad, where they remain under the Geneva Convention’s "protected person" status and Coalition control. As a condition of the cease-fire agreement, the group relinquished its weapons, including tanks, armored vehicles, and heavy artillery. A significant number of MEK personnel have "defected" from the Ashraf group, and several dozen of them have been voluntarily repatriated to Iran. Location/Area of Operation In the 1980s, the MEK’s leaders were forced by Iranian security forces to flee to France. On resettling in Iraq in 1987, almost all of its armed units were stationed in fortified bases near the border with Iran. Since Operation Iraqi Freedom, the bulk of the group is limited to Camp Ashraf, although an overseas support structure remains with associates and supporters scattered throughout Europe and North America. External Aid Before Operation Iraqi Freedom, the group received all of its military assistance, and most of its financial support, from the former Iraqi regime. The MEK also has used front organizations to solicit contributions from expatriate Iranian communities. ——————————————————————————– This is an official U.S. Navy web site

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Canada

Terrorism in Canada

 This is a list of international terrorist attacks that occurred in Canada. * April 7, 1868 – Thomas D’Arcy McGee is assassinated in Ottawa by an Irish nationalist. * November 25, 1965 – Croatian nationalists bomb the Yugoslavian consulate in Toronto. * September 22, 1966 – A bazooka attack on the Cuban embassy in Ottawa is made. * October 5, 1966 – Anti-Castro forces bomb the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Ottawa. * January 29, 1967 – The Yugoslavian embassy in Ottawa and the consulate in Toronto are among six Yugoslavian offices bombed in North America. * May 31, 1967: A small bomb explodes at the Cuba Pavilion at Expo ’67 in Montreal. The attack is attributed to Cuban Nationalist Action. * October 15, 1967: A bomb explodes at the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Montreal. * May 29, 1969: A bomb is placed in the doorway of the Cuban consulate in Montreal, it fails to go off. * July 12, 1971: Another small bomb goes off at the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Montreal. * April 4, 1972: Cuban official Sergio Pérez Castillo is killed by an explosion at the Cuban consulate at Montreal. * January 21, 1974: A bomb explodes at the Cuban embassy in Ottawa. It is attributed to Orlando Bosch. * September 22, 1976: An explosive device is thrown from a car at the Cuban consulate in Montreal. * January 14, 1980: A large explosion significantly damages the Cuban consulate in Montreal. * April 8, 1982 – Turkish Commercial Counselor to Canada Kani Güngör is paralyzed after an attack by Armenian nationalists at his Ottawa apartment. * August 23, 1982 – Turkish military attaché to Canada, Col. Atilla Altikat, is assassinated by Armenian terrorists in Ottawa. * October 14, 1982 – The anarchist group Direct Action bombs a Litton Industries factory north of Toronto that is manufacturing guidance devices for American cruise missiles, ten are injured. * March 12, 1985 – A group of Armenian terrorists seize the Turkish embassy, killing a Canadian security guard * June 23, 1985 – Air India flight 182 leaving Montreal’s Mirabel International Airport is blown up by Sikh separatists. * May 26, 1986 – An attempt is made to assassinate Malkiat Singh Sidhu a cabinet minister in the Indian province of Punjab in Vancouver * August 28, 1988 – Indo-Canadian Times editor Tara Singh Hayer is shot and partially paralyzed * April 5, 1992 – The Iranian embassy in Ottawa is stormed by members of MEK, an Iraq supported leftist group. * November 18, 1995 – Newspaper editor Tara Singh Hayer is assassinated for his strident opposition to Sikh militants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_terrorist_attacks_in_Canada ——————————————————————————– http://www.psepc.gc.ca/national_security/counter-terrorism/Entities_e.asp Terror organizations in Canada The following list is established for the purposes of Part II.1 of the Criminal Code (July 23, 2002). 1. Armed Islamic Group (GIA) (also known as Groupe islamique armé) 2. Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) (also known as Groupe salafiste pour la prédication et le combat) 3. Al Jihad (AJ)(aka Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ)) 4. Vanguards of Conquest (VOC) 5. Al Qaida 6. Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya (AGAI)(aka Islamic Group, (IG)) 7. Al-Ittihad Al-Islam (AIAI) The following list is established for the purposes of Part II.1 of the Criminal Code (November 27, 2002). 8. Islamic Army of Aden (IAA) (also known among other names as the Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan (IAAA), the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army (AAIA), Aden Islamic Army, Islamic Aden Army, Muhammed’s Army / Army of Mohammed and the Jaish Adan Al Islami). 9. Harakat ul-Mudjahidin (HuM) (also known among other names as Al-Faran, Al-Hadid, Al-Hadith, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Harakat ul-Mujahideen, Harakat al-Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Ansar, Harakat ul-Ansar, Harakat al-Ansar, Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami, Harkat Mujahideen, Harakat-ul-Mujahideen al-Almi, Holy Warriors Movement, Movement of the Mujahideen, Movement of the Helpers, Movement of Islamic Fighters and Al Qanoon). 10. Asbat Al-Ansar ("The League of Partisans") (also known among other names as Osbat Al Ansar, Usbat Al Ansar, Esbat Al-Ansar, Isbat Al Ansar and Usbat-ul-Ansar). 11. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) (also known among other names as Islamic Jihad Palestine (IJP), Islamic Jihad – Palestine Faction and Islamic Holy War). 12. Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) (also known among other names as Jaish-i-Mohammed (Mohammad, Muhammad, Muhammed), Jaish-e-Mohammad (Muhammed), Jaish-e-Mohammad Mujahideen E-Tanzeem, Jeish-e-Mahammed, Army of Mohammed, Mohammed’s Army, Tehrik Ul-Furqaan, National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty and Army of the Prophet). 13. Hamas (Harakat Al-Muqawama Al-Islamiya) ("Islamic Resistance Movement") The following list is established for the purposes of Part II.1 of the Criminal Code (December 11, 2002). 14. Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) (also known among other names as Kurdistan Workers Party, Partya Karkeren Kurdistan, Kurdistan Labor Party, Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress, KADEK, Kurdistan People’s Congress, Kurdistan Halk Kongresi (KHK), People’s Congress of Kurdistan, Kongra-Gel). 15. Aum Shinrikyo (also known among other names as Aum Shinri Kyo, Aum, Aum Supreme Truth, A. I. C. Comprehensive Research Institute, A. I. C. Sogo Kenkyusho and Aleph). 16. Hizballah (also known among other names as Hizbullah, Hizbollah, Hezbollah, Hezballah, Hizbu’llah, The Party of God, Islamic Jihad (Islamic Holy War), Islamic Jihad Organization, Islamic Resistance, Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, Ansar al-Allah (Followers of God/Partisans of God/God’s Helpers), Ansarollah (Followers of God/Partisans of God/God’s Helpers), Ansar Allah (Followers of God/Partisans of God/God’s Helpers), Al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah (Islamic Resistance), Organization of the Oppressed, Organization of the Oppressed on Earth, Revolutionary Justice Organization, Organization of Right Against Wrong and Followers of the Prophet Muhammed). The following list is established for the purposes of Part II.1 of the Criminal Code (February 12, 2003). 17. Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) (also known among other names as Fatah Revolutionary Council, Revolutionary Council, Revolutionary Council of Fatah, Al-Fatah Revolutionary Council, Fatah-the Revolutionary Council, Black June, Arab Revolutionary Brigades, Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims, Black September, Egyptian Revolution, Arab Fedayeen Cells, Palestine Revolutionary Council and Organization of Jund al Haq). 18. Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) (also known among other names as Al Harakat Al Islamiyya (AHAI), Al Harakat-ul Al Islamiyya, Al-Harakatul-Islamia, Al Harakat Al Aslamiya, Abou Sayaf Armed Band (ASAB), Abu Sayaff Group, Abu Sayyef Group and Mujahideen Commando Freedom Fighters (MCFF)). 19. Sendero Luminoso (SL) (also known among other names as Shining Path, Partido Comunista del Peru en el Sendero Luminoso de Jose Carlos Mariategui, Communist Party of Peru on the Shining Path of Jose Carlos Mariategui, Partido Comunista del Peru, Communist Party of Peru, The Communist Party of Peru by the Shining Path of Jose Carlos Mariategui and Marxism, Leninism, Maoism and the Thoughts of Chairman Gonzalo, Revolutionary Student Front for the Shining Path of Mariategui, Communist Party of Peru – By Way of the Shining Path of Mariategui, PCP – por el Sendero Luminoso de Mariategui, PCP and PCP-SL). The following list is established for the purposes of Part II.1 of the Criminal Code (April 2, 2003). 20. Jemaah Islamiyyah (JI) (also known among other names as Jemaa Islamiyah, Jema’a Islamiyya, Jema’a Islamiyyah, Jema’ah Islamiyah, Jema’ah Islamiyyah, Jemaa Islamiya, Jemaa Islamiyya, Jemaah Islamiyya, Jemaa Islamiyyah, Jemaah Islamiah, Jemaah Islamiyah, Jemaah Islamiyyah, Jemaah Islamiya, Jamaah Islamiyah, Jamaa Islamiya, Jemaah Islam, Jemahh Islamiyah, Jama’ah Islamiyah, Al-Jama’ah Al Islamiyyah, Islamic Group and Islamic Community). 21. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) 22. Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) (also known among other names as Basque Homeland and Liberty, Euzkadi Ta Azkatasuna, Euzkadi Ta Askatasanu, Basque Nation and Liberty, Basque Fatherland and Liberty and Basque Homeland and Freedom). 23. Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade (AAMB) (also known among other names as Al-Aqsa Intifada Martyrs’ Group, Al-Aqsa Brigades, Martyrs of al-Aqsa group, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Battalion and Armed Militias of the Al-Aqsa Martyr Battalions). 24. Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) (also known among other names as Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo, FARC-EP), National Finance Commission (Comisión Nacional de Finanzas) and Coordinadora Nacional Guerrillera Simon Bolivar (CNGSB)). 25. Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) (also known among other names as Autodéfenses unies de Colombie and United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia). 26. Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) (also known among other names as National Liberation Army and the Army of National Liberation). The following list is established for the purposes of Part II.1 of the Criminal Code (June 18, 2003). 27. Babbar Khalsa (BK) 28. Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) 29. International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF) 30. Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) (also known among other names as Lashkar-e-Toiba, Lashkar-i-Toiba (LiT), Lashkar-i-Taiba (Holy Regiment), Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT) (Army of the Righteous), Lashkar-e-Taibyya, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (Army of the Pure and Righteous), Lashkar-e-Taiba (Righteous Army), Lashkar-Taiba (Army of the Good), Lashkar e Toiba, Lashkar e Taiba, Lashkar-E-Tayyaba, Lashkar e Tayyiba). 31. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) (also known among other names as Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, Lashkar-e-Jhangvie, Laskar-e-Jhangvi, Lashkare Jhangvi, Lashkar-e-Jhangwi, Lashkar-i-Jhangwi, Jhangvi Army, Lashkar-e Jhangvi, Lashkar Jhangvi, Lashkar-e-Jhanvi (LeJ), Lashkar-i-Jangvi, Lashkar e Jhangvi, Lashkar Jangvi, Laskar e Jahangvi). The following list is established for the purposes of Part II.1 of the Criminal Code (November 13, 2003). 32. Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) (also known among other names as PLF – Abu Abbas Faction, Front for the Liberation of Palestine (FLP)). 33. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (Al-Jibha al-Sha’biya lil-Tahrir Filistin). 34. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC) (Al-Jibha Sha’biya lil-Tahrir Filistin-al-Qadiya al-Ama). The following list is established for the purposes of Part II.1 of the Criminal Code (May 17, 2004). 35. Ansar al-Islam (AI) (also known as the Partisans of Islam, Helpers of Islam, Supporters of Islam, Soldiers of God, Kurdistan Taliban, Soldiers of Islam, Kurdistan Supporters of Islam, Supporters of Islam in Kurdistan, Followers of Islam in Kurdistan). On November 17, 2004, the two-year review of the list was completed pursuant to subsections 83.05(9) and 83.05(10) of the Criminal Code. The following list is established for the purposes of Part II.1 of the Criminal Code (May 24, 2005). 36. GULBUDDIN HEKMATYAR (also known as: Gulabudin Hekmatyar; Gulbuddin Khekmatiyar; Gulbuddin Hekmatiar; Gulbuddin Hekmartyar; Gulbudin Hekmetyar; Golboddin Hikmetyar; and Gulbuddin Hekmetyar). 37. KAHANE CHAI (KACH) is also known by several other names. They are: the Repression of Traitors, the State of Yehuda, the Sword of David, Dikuy Bogdim, DOV, the Judea Police, Kahane Lives, the Kfar Tapuah Fund, State of Judea, the Judean Legion, the Judean Voice, the Qomemiyut Movement, the Way of the Torah, and the Yeshiva of the Jewish Idea. 38. MUJAHEDIN-E-KHALQ (MEK) From its original Persian name, Sãzimãn-i Mujãhidn-i Khalq-i Irãn (Holy Warrior Organization of the Iranian People) / Sazman-i Mojahedin-i Khalq-i Iran (Organization of the Freedom Fighters of the Iranian People) / Sazeman-e Mojahedin-e Khalq-e Iran (Organization of People’s Holy Warriors of Iran) / Sazeman-e-Mujahideen-e-Khalq-e-Iran, the group’s name was shortened to Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) or Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO). Other spellings: Mujahiddin e Khahq, al-Khalq Mujahideen Organization , Mujahedeen Khalq, Modjaheddins khalg, Moudjahiddin-é Khalq. The MEK is also known as: National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA) (the military wing of the MEK) / Armée de Libération nationale iranienne (ALNI); People’s Mujahidin Organization of Iran (PMOI) / People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI) / Organisation des moudjahiddin du peuple d’Iran (OMPI) / Organisation des moudjahidines du peuple.

 

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Designations of Terrorists and Terrorist Organizations

Designations of Terrorists and Terrorist Organizations Pursuant to Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001 SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the designation by the Secretary of State of foreign persons whose property and interests in property have been blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001. These designations comprise 8 individuals and 29 organizations determined to meet the criteria set forth under subsection 1(b) of Executive Order 13224. DATES: These determinations were made by the Secretary of State on October 12, 2001, October 31, 2001, December 18, 2001, and December 31, 2001, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and Attorney General. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Frederick W. Axelgard, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Department of State; telephone: (202) 647-9892; fax: (202) 647-0221. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background On September 23, 2001, President Bush issued Executive Order 13224 (the “Order”) imposing economic sanctions on persons (defined as including individuals or entities) who, inter alia, commit, threaten to commit, or support certain acts of terrorism. In an annex to the Order, President Bush identified 12 individuals and 15 entities whose assets are blocked pursuant to the Order (66 FR 49079, September 25, 2001). The property and interests in property of an additional 33 individuals and 6 entities were blocked pursuant to determinations by the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury (effective October 12, 2001), referenced in a Federal Register Notice published by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department of the Treasury (66 FR 54404, October 26, 2001). Further determinations made by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General, on November 7, 2001, and December 4, 2001, December 20, 2001, January 9, 2002, February 26, and March 11 are addressed in a separate notice published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register. Pursuant to subsection 1(b) of the Order, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General, has determined to date that 8 foreign individuals and 29 foreign organizations have been determined to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of U.S. nationals or the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States. The Secretary of State’s etermination that each of these individuals and organizations meets the criteria set forth under subsection 1(b) of the Order subjects each of these individuals and organizations to sanctions. 23 of the organizations determined on October 31, 2001 and December 18, 2001 to meet the criteria set forth under subsection 1(b) of the Order are also subject to sanctions imposed pursuant to their designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, 8 U.S.C. 1189. Pursuant to the determination made by the Secretary of State under subsection 1(b) of the Order, all property and interests in property of any listed person that are in the United States, that come within the United States, or that come within the possession or control of United States persons, including their overseas branches, are blocked. All transactions or dealings by U.S. persons or within the United States in property or interests in property of any listed person are prohibited unless licensed by the Department of the Treasury’s Office of foreign Assets Control or exempted by statute.The determinations of the Secretary of State were effective on October 12, 2001, October 31, 2001, December 18, 2001, and December 31, 2001. In Section 10 of the Order, the President determined that because of the ability to transfer funds or assets instantaneously, prior notice to persons listed in the Annex to, or determined to be subject to, the Order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, would render ineffectual the blocking and other measures authorized in the Order. The President therefore determined that for these measures to be effective in addressing the national emergency declared in the Order, no prior notification of a listing or determination pursuant to the Order need be provided to any person who might have a constitutional presence in the United States. The property and interests of property of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported,withdrawn or otherwise dealt in except as authorized by regulations,orders, directives, rulings, instructions, licenses or otherwise: Designations by the Secretary of State on October 12, 2001 ADBELKARIM HUSSEIN MOHAMMED AL-NASSER AHMAD IBRAHIM AL-MUGHASSIL ALI SAED BIN ALI EL-HOORIE IBRAHIM SALIH MOHAMMED AL-YACOUB ALI ATWA HASAN IZZ-AL-DIN IMAD FAYEZ MUGNIYAH KHALID SHAIKH MOHAMMED Designations by the Secretary of State on October 31, 2001 ABU NIDAL ORGANIZATION a.k.a. ANO; a.k.a. BLACK SEPTEMBER a.k.a. FATAH REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL a.k.a. ARAB REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL a.k.a. ARAB REVOLUTIONARY BRIGADES a.k.a. REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATION OF SOCIALIST MUSLIMS AUM SHINRIKYO a.k.a. A.I.C. COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH INSTITUTE a.k.a. A.I.C. SOGO KENKYUSHO a.k.a. ALEPH a.k.a. AUM SUPREME TRUTH BASQUE FATHERLAND AND LIBERTY a.k.a. ETA a.k.a. EUZKADI TA ASKATASUNA GAMA’A AL-ISLAMIYYA a.k.a. GI a.k.a. ISLAMIC GROUP a.k.a. IG a.k.a. AL-GAMA’AT a.k.a. ISLAMIC GAMA’A a.k.a. EGYPTIAN AL-GAMA’AT AL-ISLAMIYYA HAMAS a.k.a. ISLAMIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT a.k.a. HARAKAT AL-MUQAWAMA AL-ISLAMIYA a.k.a. STUDENTS OF AYYASH a.k.a. STUDENT OF THE ENGINEER a.k.a. YAHYA AYYASH UNITS a.k.a. IZZ AL-DIN AL-QASSIM BRIGADES a.k.a. IZZ AL-DIN AL-QASSIM FORCES a.k.a. IZZ AL-DIN AL-QASSIM BATTALIONS a.k.a. IZZ AL-DIN AL QASSAM BRIGADES a.k.a. IZZ AL-DIN AL QASSAM FORCES a.k.a. IZZ AL-DIN AL QASSAM BATTALIONS HIZBALLAH a.k.a. PARTY OF GOD a.k.a. ISLAMIC JIHAD a.k.a. ISLAMIC JIHAD ORGANIZATION a.k.a. REVOLUTIONARY JUSTICE ORGANIZATION a.k.a. ORGANIZATION OF THE OPPRESSED ON EARTH a.k.a. ISLAMIC JIHAD FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE a.k.a. ORGANIZATION OF RIGHT AGAINST WRONG a.k.a. ANSAR ALLAH a.k.a. FOLLOWERS OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMED KAHANE CHAI a.k.a. COMMITTEE FOR THE SAFETY OF THE ROADS a.k.a. DIKUY BOGDIM a.k.a. DOV a.k.a. FOREFRONT OF THE IDEA a.k.a. JUDEA POLICE a.k.a. KACH a.k.a. KAHANE LIVES a.k.a. KFAR TAPUAH FUND a.k.a. KOACH a.k.a. REPRESSION OF TRAITORS a.k.a. STATE OF JUDEA a.k.a. SWORD OF DAVID a.k.a. THE JUDEAN LEGION a.k.a. THE JUDEAN VOICE a.k.a. THE QOMEMIYUT MOVEMENT a.k.a. THE WAY OF THE TORAH a.k.a. THE YESHIVA OF THE JEWISH IDEA KURDISTAN WORKERS’ PARTY a.k.a. HALU MESRU SAVUNMA KUVVETI (HSK) a.k.a. PARTIYA KARKERAN KURDISTAN a.k.a. PKK a.k.a. THE PEOPLE’S DEFENSE FORCE LIBERATION TIGERS OF TAMIL EELAM a.k.a. LTTE a.k.a. TAMIL TIGERS a.k.a. ELLALAN FORCE MUJAHEDIN-E KHALQ a.k.a. MUJAHEDIN-E KHALQ ORGANIZATION a.k.a. MEK a.k.a. MKO a.k.a. NLA a.k.a. ORGANIZATION OF THE PEOPLE’S HOLY WARRIORS OF IRAN a.k.a. PEOPLE’S MUJAHEDIN ORGANIZATION OF IRAN a.k.a. PMOI a.k.a. SAZEMAN-E MUJAHEDIN-E KHALQ-E IRAN a.k.a. THE NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY OF IRAN NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY a.k.a. ELN a.k.a. EJERCITO DE LIBERACION NACIONAL PALESTINE ISLAMIC JIHAD–SHAQAQI FACTION a.k.a. ABU GHUNAYM SQUAD OF THE HIZBALLAH BAYT AL-MAQDIS a.k.a. AL-AWDAH BRIGADES a.k.a. AL-QUDS BRIGADES a.k.a. AL-QUDS SQUADS a.k.a. ISLAMIC JIHAD IN PALESTINE a.k.a. ISLAMIC JIHAD OF PALESTINE a.k.a. PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD a.k.a. PIJ a.k.a. PIJ-SHALLAH FACTION a.k.a. PIJ-SHAQAQI FACTION a.k.a. SAYARA AL-QUDS PALESTINE LIBERATION FRONT–ABU ABBAS FACTION a.k.a. PALESTINE LIBERATION FRONT a.k.a. PLF a.k.a. PLF-ABU ABBAS POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE–GENERAL COMMAND a.k.a. PFLP-GC REAL IRA a.k.a. 32 COUNTY SOVEREIGNTY COMMITTEE a.k.a. 32 COUNTY SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENT a.k.a. IRISH REPUBLICAN PRISONERS WELFARE ASSOCIATION a.k.a. REAL IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY a.k.a. REAL OGLAIGH NA HEIREANN a.k.a. RIRA REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES OF COLOMBIA a.k.a. FARC REVOLUTIONARY NUCLEI a.k.a. POPULAR REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE a.k.a. EPANASTATIKOS LAIKOS AGONAS a.k.a. REVOLUTIONARY POPULAR STRUGGLE a.k.a. REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE’S STRUGGLE a.k.a. JUNE 78 a.k.a. ORGANIZATION OF REVOLUTIONARY INTERNATIONALIST SOLIDARITY a.k.a. ELA a.k.a. REVOLUTIONARY CELLS a.k.a. LIBERATION STRUGGLE REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATION 17 NOVEMBER a.k.a. 17 NOVEMBER a.k.a. EPANASTATIKI ORGANOSI 17 NOEMVRI REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE’S LIBERATION PARTY/FRONT a.k.a. DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS PARTISI-CEPHESI a.k.a. DHKP/C; [[Page 12635]] a.k.a. DEVRIMCI SOL a.k.a. REVOLUTIONARY LEFT a.k.a. DEV SOL a.k.a. DEV SOL SILAHLI DEVRIMCI BIRLIKLERI a.k.a. DEV SOL SDB a.k.a. DEV SOL ARMED REVOLUTIONARY UNITS SHINING PATH a.k.a. SENDERO LUMINOSO a.k.a. SL a.k.a. PARTIDO COMUNISTA DEL PERU EN EL SENDERO LUMINOSO DE JOSE CARLOS MARIATEGUI (COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERU ON THE SHINING PATH OF JOSE CARLOS MARIATEGUI) a.k.a. PARTIDO COMUNISTA DEL PERU (COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERU) a.k.a. PCP a.k.a. SOCORRO POPULAR DEL PERU (PEOPLE’S AID OF PERU) a.k.a. SPP a.k.a. EJERCITO GUERRILLERO POPULAR (PEOPLE’S GUERRILLA ARMY) a.k.a. EGP a.k.a. EJERCITO POPULAR DE LIBERACION (PEOPLE’S LIBERATION ARMY) a.k.a. EPL UNITED SELF-DEFENSE FORCES OF COLOMBIA a.k.a. AUC a.k.a. AUTODEFENSAS UNIDAS DE COLOMBIA Designation by the Secretary of State on December 18, 2001 LASHKAR-E-TAIBA a.k.a. LASHKAR E-TAYYIBA a.k.a. LASKAR E-TOIBA a.k.a. ARMY OF THE RIGHTEOUS Designations by the Secretary of State on December 31, 2001 CONTINUITY IRA (CIRA) LOYALIST VOLUNTEER FORCE (LVF) ORANGE VOLUNTEERS (OV) RED HAND DEFENDERS (RHD) ULSTER DEFENCE ASSOCIATION/ULSTER FREEDOM FIGHTERS (UDA/UFF) FIRST OF OCTOBER ANTIFASCIST RESISTANCE GROUP (GRAPO) Dated: March 13, 2002. Francis X. Taylor, Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Department of State. [FR Doc. 02-6577 Filed 3-14-02; 3:48 pm] BILLING CODE 4710-10-P immigration.com

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Re-designation of Foreign Terrorist Organization

DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Coordinator for Counter-terrorism [Public Notice 3795] Re-designation of Foreign Terrorist Organization AGENCY: Department of State. ACTION: Re-designation of foreign terrorist organizations. Pursuant to Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act  (“INA”), as added by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty  Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-132, Sec. 302, 110 Stat. 1214, 1248  (1996), and amended by the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant  Responsibility Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-208, 110 Stat. 3009 (1996),  the Secretary of State hereby redesignates, effective October 5, 2001,  the following organizations as foreign terrorist organizations: Abu Nidal Organization

Also known as ANO

Also known as Black September

Also known as the Fatah Revolutionary Council

Also known as the Arab Revolutionary Council

Also known as the Arab Revolutionary Brigades

Also known as the Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims

Abu Sayyaf Group

Also known as Al Harakat Al Islamiyya

Armed Islamic Group

Also known as GIA

Also known as Groupement Islamique Arme

Also known as Al-Jama’ah al-Islamiyah al-Musallah

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Aum Shinrikyo

Also known as Aleph

Also known as Aum Supreme Truth

Also known as A.I.C. Sogo Kenkyusho

Also known as A.I.C. Comprehensive Research Institute

Basque Fatherland and Liberty

Also known as Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna

Also known as ETA

Gama’a al-Islamiyya

Also known as the Islamic Group

Also known as IG

Also known as al-Gama’at

Also known as Islamic Gama’at

Also known as Egyptian al-Gama’at al-Islamiyya

Also known as GI

Hamas

Also known as the Islamic Resistance Movement

Also known as Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya

Also known as Students of Ayyash

Also known as Students of the Engineer

Also known as Yahya Ayyash Units

Also known as Izz Al-Din Al-Qassim Brigades

Also known as Izz Al-Din Al-Qassim Forces

Also known as Izz Al-Din Al-Qassim Battalions

Also known as Izz al-Din Al Qassam Brigades

Also known as Izz al-Din Al Qassam Forces

Also known as Izz al-Din Al Qassam Battalions

Harakat ul-Mujahideen

Also known as HUM

Also known as Harakat ul-Ansar

Also known as HUA

Hizballah

Also known as the Party of God

Also known as Islamic Jihad

Also known as Islamic Jihad Organization

Also known as Revolutionary Justice Organization

Also known as Organization of the Oppressed on Earth

Also known as Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine

Also known as Organization of Right Against Wrong

Also known as Ansar Allah

Also known as Followers of the Prophet Muhammed

al-Jihad

Also known as Egyptian al-Jihad

Also known as New Jihad

Also known as Egyptian Islamic Jihad

Also known as Jihad Group

Kahane Chai

Also known as Kach

Also known as Kahane Lives

Also known as the Kfar Tapuah Fund

Also known as The Judean Voice

Also known as The Judean Legion

Also known as The Way of the Torah

Also known as The Yeshiva of the Jewish Idea

Also known as the Repression of Traitors

Also known as Dikuy Bogdim

Also known as DOV

Also known as the State of Judea

Also known as the Committee for the Safety of the Roads

Also known as the Sword of David

Also known as Judea Police

Also known as Forefront of the Idea

Also known as The Qomemiyut Movement

and

Also known as KOACH

Kurdistan Workers’ Party

Also known as the PKK

Also known as Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan

Also known as the People’s Defense Force

Also known as Halu Mesru Savunma Kuvveti (HSK)

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Also known as LTTE

Also known as Tamil Tigers

Also known as Ellalan Force

Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization

 

Also known as MEK

Also known as MKO

Also known as Mujahedin-e Khalq

Also known as People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran

Also known as PMOI

Also known as Organization of the People’s Holy Warriors of Iran

Also known as Sazeman-e Mujahedin-e Khalq-e Iran

Also known as National Council of Resistance

Also known as NCR

Also known as National Council of Resistance of Iran

Also known as NCRI

Also known as the National Liberation Army of Iran

Also known as NLA

National Liberation Army

Also known as the ELN,

Also known as Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional

Palestine Islamic Jihad-Shaqaqi Faction

Also known as PIJ-Shaqaqi Faction

Also known as PIJ-Shallah Faction

Also known as Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Also known as PIJ

Also known as Islamic Jihad of Palestine

Also known as Islamic Jihad in Palestine

Also known as Abu Ghunaym Squad of the Hizballah Bayt Al-Maqdis

Also known as the Al-Quds Squads

Also known as the Al-Quds Brigades

Also known as Saraya Al-Quds

Also known as Al-Awdah Brigades

Palestine Liberation Front-Abu Abbas Faction

Also known as the Palestine Liberation Front

Also known as the PLF

Also known as PLF-Abu Abbas

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Also known as the PFLP

Also known as the Red Eagles

Also known as the Red Eagle Group

Also known as the Red Eagle Gang

Also known as the Halhul Gang

Also known as the Halhul Squad

Also known as Palestinian Popular Resistance Forces

Also known as PPRF

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command

Also known as PFLP-GC

al Qa’ida

Also known as al Qaeda

Also known as “the Base”

Also known as the Islamic Army

Also known as the World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and

Crusaders

Also known as the Islamic Army for the Liberation of the Holy Places

Also known as the Usama Bin Laden Network

Also known as the Usama Bin Laden Organization

Also known as Islamic Salvation Foundation

Also known as The Group for the Preservation of the Holy Sites

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

Also known as FARC

Also known as Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia

Revolutionary Nuclei

Also known as the Revolutionary People’s Struggle

Also known as Epanastatikos Laikos Agonas

Also known as ELA

Also known as Revolutionary Popular Struggle

Also known as Popular Revolutionary Struggle

Also known as June 78

Also known as Organization of Revolutionary Internationalist Solidarity

Also known as Revolutionary Cells

Also known as Liberation Struggle

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Revolutionary Organization 17 November

Also known as 17 November

Also known as Epanastatiki Organosi 17 Noemvri

Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front

Also known as Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Partisi-Cephesi

Also known as the DHKP/C

Also known as Devrimci Sol

Also known as Revolutionary Left

Also known as Dev Sol

Also known as Dev Sol Silahli Devrimci Birlikleri

Also known as Dev Sol SDB

Also known as Dev Sol Armed Revolutionary Units

Shining Path Also known in Spanish as Sendero Luminoso

Also known as SL

Also known as Partido Comunista del Peru en el Sendero Luminoso de Jose

Carlos Mariategui

Also known as Communist Party of Peru on the Shining Path of Jose

Carlos Mariategui

Also known as Partido Comunista del Peru

Also known as Communist Party of Peru

Also known as PCP

Also known as Socorro Popular del Peru

Also known as People’s Aid of Peru

Also known as SPP

Also known as Ejercito Guerrillero Popular

Also known as People’s Guerrilla Army

Also known as EGP

Also known as Ejercito Popular de Liberacion

Also known as People’s Liberation Army

Also known as the EPL.

Dated: September 28, 2001.

Francis X. Taylor,

Coordinator for Counter-terrorism, Department of State.

[FR Doc. 01-24911 Filed 10-4-01; 8:45 am]

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

MEK sleazy terrorists

Remember those terrorists Iraq was accused of harboring and training before the war? They’re on Washington’s side now.

One of the terrorist organizations that the U.S. accused Iraq of supporting during the run-up to the war, the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK) or the "People’s Combatants", has been lobbying House Republicans and Democrats.

More than 300 U.S. legislators from both parties have at one time or other signed petitions in support of the MEK since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, and MEK spokesmen say they have offered the sect’s services to the United States.

According to a Guardian story, "Now US ponders attack on Iran” (1/18/2005) "the Pentagon was recently contemplating the infiltration of members of the Iranian rebel group, Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) over the Iraq-Iran border, to collect intelligence. The group, based at Camp Ashraf, near Baghdad, was under the protection of Saddam Hussein, and is under US guard while Washington decides on its strategy. The MEK has been declared a terrorist group by the state department, but a former Farsi-speaking CIA officer said he had been asked by neo-conservatives in the Pentagon to travel to Iraq to oversee ‘MEK cross-border operations’.”

The MEK started in Iran as an Islamic-Marxist group, and was expelled in 1979 by the Iranian Islamic Fundamentalist Party that took power. They fled to France where the French foreign minister, Claude Cheysson, convinced the MEK leader Massoud Rajavi to work with the Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz and the Iraqi government during the Iraq-Iran War during the 1980s.

Special U.S. Middle East Envoy, Donald Rumsfeld, frequently met with Tariq Aziz in the ’80s and sent biological and chemical weapons to Iraq to be used against the Iranians. Later, again with the knowledge and acceptance of the Bush government, these weapons were used by the Iraqi military against the the Iranian Army with logistical support from the CIA.

The MEK helped the revolutionary Khomeini regime to take power in 1979. Part of their assistance consisted in burning down restaurants and cinemas. The MEK initiated the idea of taking over the U.S. embassy and holding Americans hostage. Yet within a year, MEK leaders decided that the Khomeini regime wasn’t behaving in a "revolutionary" fashion and soon they were plotting to overthrow Khomeini and the Islamic Fundamentalist leaders of Iran.

In 1987, Jacques Chirac, then Prime Minister of France, allowed the MEK to operate outside Paris by signing an agreement with them that they would not kill any Iranians on French soil.

France intentionally dismantled the group in 2002 several months before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March of 2003."

These sleazy terrorists held a fundraiser for victims of Iran’s devastating December 26 earthquake in January 2004!! Members of congress were invited and many attended. They support a group that kills women and children .

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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Oh where, O where have the terrorists gone?

Remember those terrorists Iraq was accused of harboring and training before the war? They’re on Washington’s side now.

One of the terrorist organizations that the U.S. accused Iraq of supporting during the run-up to the war, the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK) or the "People’s Combatants", has been lobbying House Republicans and Democrats.

More than 300 U.S. legislators from both parties have at one time or other signed petitions in support of the MEK since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, and MEK spokesmen say they have offered the sect’s services to the United States in case of war with Iran.

According to a Guardian story last week, "Now US ponders attack on Iran (1/18/2005) "the Pentagon was recently contemplating the infiltration of members of the Iranian rebel group, Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) over the Iraq-Iran border, to collect intelligence. The group, based at Camp Ashraf, near Baghdad, was under the protection of Saddam Hussein, and is under US guard while Washington decides on its strategy. The MEK has been declared a terrorist group by the state department, but a former Farsi-speaking CIA officer said he had been asked by neo-conservatives in the Pentagon to travel to Iraq to oversee ‘MEK cross-border operations’.

The MEK started in Iran as an Islamic-Marxist group, and was expelled in 1979 by the Iranian Islamic Fundamentalist Party that took power. They fled to France where the French foreign minister, Claude Cheysson, convinced the MEK leader Massoud Rajavi to work with the Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz and the Iraqi government during the Iraq-Iran War during the 1980s.

Special U.S. Middle East Envoy, Donald Rumsfeld, frequently met with Tariq Aziz in the ’80s and sent biological and chemical weapons to Iraq to be used against the Iranians. Later, again with the knowledge and acceptance of the Bush government, these weapons were used by the Iraqi military against the the Iranian Army with logistical support from the CIA.

The MEK helped the revolutionary Khomeini regime to take power in 1979. Part of their assistance consisted in burning down restaurants and cinemas. The MEK initiated the idea of taking over the U.S. embassy and holding Americans hostage. Yet within a year, MEK leaders decided that the Khomeini regime wasn’t behaving in a "revolutionary" fashion and soon they were plotting to overthrow Khomeini and the Islamic Fundamentalist leaders of Iran.

In 1987, Jacques Chirac, then Prime Minister of France, allowed the MEK to operate outside Paris by signing an agreement with them that they would not kill any Iranians on French soil.

France intentionally dismantled the group in 2002 several months before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March of 2003.

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Duplicity of the MEK nature

ALL MKO SAY ARE PURE LIES

LONDON, 20 Aug. (IPS) “All the information the Mojahedeen provides the western media is pure lies and fabricated to discredit the Iranian regime and help the United States and Israel to put more pressures on Iran”, a former senior member of the outlawed, Baghdad-based Mojahedeen Khalq Organisation (MKO) told Iran Press Service.

Referring to recent press conferences held by the MKO spokesmen in various capitals, including Paris, Vienna, London, Berlin and Washington “revealing” secret nuclear sites or the number of centrifuges undeclared to the international nuclear watchdog, the source who asked for anonymity said the MKO has no information about Iran’s sensitive military projects and what they tell the media is what the CIA feeds them.

“Iranian military-oriented installations are kept very secret, with very limited people except the technicians and scientists having access to them

An Iranian Stalinist-Islamist organization financed, equipped, trained and supported by the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during his war against Iran and after, the MKO (a.k.a, MEK, National Council of Resistance of Iran, NCRI, People’s Mojaheedin of Iran, PMOI), is now playing the same role at the hands of the American so-called neo-cons at the Pentagon as an instrument of both political and military pressures on the ruling ayatollahs, analysts said.

“Iranian military-oriented installations are kept very secret, with very limited people except the technicians and scientists having access to them, people that are under regular control by experts. Considering the activities of the Mojahedeens as spies and infiltrators, anyone suspected of the smallest and remote links with them is immediately arrested”, the source, a former high-ranking intelligence and security officer with the group added.

The group, now under US protection in their camps in Iraq, is on the American and European lists of terrorist organizations, but its political branch, the Council of Resistance, is active in major capitals of the world and became a darling of the Western press after it revealed the existence of a heavy water reactor in Arak and the uranium enriching installations in Natanz, both situated in central Iran.

However, the satellite images of the sites put on internet by an American specialized firm a day after confirmed that the information was provided to the group by some Pentagon sources keen to get the MKO out of the terrorist list, giving it the image of a group that has reliable sources inside Iran.

This was confirmed latter by the CIA after President George W. Bush personally praised the MKO for the information it provides to the international community about Iranian military-orientated nuclear activities “hidden” by Tehran.

“We had all these information and have reported them to the Administration”, the CIA source had said, frustrated at the leak of sensitive intelligence documents to the terrorist group.

In fact, while Iran had defaulted by not reporting the construction of the installations to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), but they were quite visible since the construction in both Arak and Natanz were on the ground and not under ground.

“Except the information on Natanz and Arak the group disclosed, documents that were given to them by the Americans, all other material the Mojahedeen gave to the media are open secret, most of them from the Iranian press, like the name of companies and firms that works for the Defence Ministry and are known to the IAEA”, pointed out Mr. Mas’oud Khodabandeh, a former senior officer of the group.

Actually, Iranian nuclear negotiators, including Hojjatoleslam Hasan Rohani, the former most senior supervisor and coordinator of Iranian nuclear projects explained that under the Iranian safeguards agreement as it then existed, the Iranians were not obligated to tell the IAEA about any of that activity until they began processing "source or special nuclear materials" for introduction into those gas centrifuges.

The other reason Iran started to build some of the sites secretly was of fear of facing sanctions by the IAEA and the international community.

Hence, American, Israeli and some European nations’ accusations that Iran is secretly making atomic weapons by diverting nuclear technologies aimed at peaceful and civilian purposes.

“Every time the IAEA had a meeting of its Board of Governors debating Iranian nuclear issue or Iranian and European negotiators met, some unidentified European diplomats revealed new, hidden Iranian activities and at exactly the same time, MKO spokesmen organized press conferences to repeat the same information”, one senior Iranian negotiator told Iran Press Service.

The Mojaheedin collaborated with Ayatollah Khomeini to overthrow the former Shah of Iran. As part of that struggle, they assassinated at least six American citizens, supported the takeover of the U.S. embassy, and opposed the release of American hostages.

After being expelled from France in June 1986, the group, assisted by Saddam Hussein, formed the National Liberation Army and launched its most significant incursion in June and July 1988, when they coordinated an advance into Iran with Iraqi forces. During the same offensive, Iraqi units in other sectors of the front used chemical weapons against Iran.

“On 17 June 1992, Mas’oud Rajavi, the egocentric supreme leader of the organisation and a Mojaheedin delegation visited Saddam Hussein. In his statement, Rajavi said, "Iranian national movements and their masses strongly denounce the Iranian regime’s alliance with U.S imperialism, world Zionism, and regional reactionaries to launch aggression against Iraq, participate in the blockade on it, and interfere in the domestic affairs of this safe, steadfast country in the interests of colonial schemes and conspiracies”, according to a State Department report on 1994.

Except the information on Natanz and Arak the group disclosed, all other material the MKO give to the media are open secret.

Not only the group engaged in Iraq’s war against Iran and killed thousands of innocent Iranians, not only the group collaborated actively with Iraq’s secret services in the slaughter of Iraq Kurds and Shi’ites and took part in Iraq’s attack on neighbouring Kuwait, but is also killed many of its own members, as reported by the New York-based Human Rights Watch.

“Human rights abuses carried out by MKO leaders against dissident members ranged from prolonged incommunicado and solitary confinement to beatings, verbal and psychological abuse, coerced confessions, threats of execution, and torture that in two cases led to death”, the HRW said in one report published last year.

Surprisingly, however, the MKO has some supporters in Congress and this is evidently the result of a long lobbying effort. The effect of this lobbying effort is primarily seen in the repeated claims that some large number of members of Congress have signed on to some statement endorsing the MKO.

In 1990, the Council of Resistance, made of several grouplets most of them existing on letter heads, “elected” Mrs Maryam Rajavi, the third wife of Mas’oud as Iran’s president and started a new wave of terrorist operations inside the country.

“If some one in Iran has reliable information about the regime’s secrets on nuclear or military activities and for whatever reason he wants to pass them to outside world, he would certainly not give them to a completely discredited group like the Mojahedeen, but would give, or sell them to Western intelligence agencies”, added Mr. Khodabandeh, who deserted from the MKO some years ago and is now active in exposing the true face and nature of the Organisation on his internet site “Iran-interlink.org”. ENDS MKO LIES 20805

By Safa Haeri 

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Nejat Publications

Pars Brief – Issue No.17

1.       British embassy denies visit of MKO leader to Britain

2.       Iraqi tribes’ leaders emphasized on MKO’s expulsion

3.       The statement of Iraqi tribes’ leaders and Nejat Society on MKO’s expulsion from Iraq

4.       Voluntarily Return of  Some MKO Defectors

5.       Member of UN Commission at the seminar of "Protecting the Rights of Child Victims of Terror and Violence"

6.       US Openly Supports Iranian Terrorists

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USA

Americans’ Positive Stance in Fighting Terrorism

Pentagon has announced that it will repatriate guantanamo prisoners to their homelands in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russian, France, Saudi Arabia and other European and Asian countries. In this regard, the US has signed an agreement with Afghanistan according to which Afghan prisoners would be taken back to their country in a planned process.

The US treats all terrorist groups and prisoners in the same manner. For instance, after the US invasion on Iraq, the US took the control of the MKO which has been listed as a terrorist organization since 1997. The US disarmed the group and restricted its members into Camp Ashraf near Baghdad. But the responsibility for standing against this terrorist group was left for Iraqi new government, Iran and the Red Cross. If we look carefully at other terrorist groups, we’d be assured that the US has treated them in a similar way. The US authorities try to encourage European countries to participate actively in the field of fighting terrorism.

Some of human rights activists have expressed concerns over the repatriation of terrorists and prisoners to their own nations and believe that their governments violate prisoners’ rights but it should be noted that the Red Cross is responsible for fate of these people after they’re repatriated.

Terrorist attacks around the world have created international unity in the field of fighting terrorism and have forced the nations to cooperate and exchange intelligence and information. The threat is serious so that the US has even asked its old enemy, Iran, for help and active presence on the issue. In addition, US forces have interrogated the members of terrorist MKO and have paved the way for repentant terrorists to return to their country. To date, more than 350 former members of MKO have returned to Iran.

This unprecedented positive step and stance from the US indicates that the US needs the cooperation of all other countries in the war against terrorism.

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