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MKO claims to win US protection

Following the Iraqi government’s statement, a White House spokesman, Benjamin Chang, said that the US received guarantees from Baghdad that MKO/PMOI members residing in Iraq would not be”forcibly transferred”to a country where they may face charges. An Iraqi official, however, disputed the claims, indicating that no security guarantees had been granted to MKO members.

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Iraq rejects security guarantees for MKO

The Iraqi government has refuted recent US claims that it has granted immunity to members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/PMOI)… Baghdad announced in a statement on Dec. 22 that MKO members at Camp Ashraf must close their training ground and leave the country no later than six months. Iraq has also drawn up a list of MKO members who must stand trial for the operations they carried out in the war-torn country.

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Iraq calls for international MKO tribunal

A top Iraqi judge has reportedly called on The Hague to probe into the terrorist activities of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/PMOI/MEK). ..”The war on terror has a long way to go and to that end governments and nations need to be united,”said Jom’eh Abdul Davoud..Under the leadership of Massoud Rajavi, the MKO helped the Baath regime of Saddam in the suppression of the Iraqi Kurds in ‘Operation Morvarid’.

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Nejat: Let ailing MKO members out

Director of the Iran-based Nejat [Rescue] Association’s Foreign Relations Department, Arash Sameti, said the United States refuses to hand Camp Ashraf over to the Iraqi government…Most of the MKO members currently in Camp Ashraf are ailing, and being physically and mentally abused by their terrorist leaders, he added. The MKO is blacklisted by several countries, including the EU, as a terrorist organization. The group has launched terrorist attacks inside Iran and has killed nearly 12,000 citizens across the country.

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MKO: Yesterday’s Men?

One guest on this program, Anne Singleton, former member of the MKO (MEK, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) exposed the truth about the MKO. The other guest, a human rights attorney, defended the MKO using the logic that President Bush is the world’s worst terrorist! So, the American neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites) who support these communist terrorists have as political bedfellows those who claim to be Anti-President Bush. As the MKO continues to prove in America and in Europe, there is no shortage of dupes in the world.

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MKO members arrested in Finland

Two MKO/PMOI/MEK members with a long history of terrorist activities have reportedly been apprehended by the Interpol police in Finland. Two men were taken into custody upon entering Finland on Sunday, according to Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat. Hadi Roshanravani and Mohammad-Ali Jaberzadeh Ansari are said to be the two who were arrested.

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Family visits irk MKO leaders

Meetings between the members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization aka PMOI/MEK and their families should take place without the supervision of the leaders who are fearful of their separation from the group; the Iraqi Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Mikhail Salim said on Tuesday..After the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the MKO members showed an increasing willingness to leave the group, prompting the leaders to impose limitations on the family visits which they believed played a major role in its members’ leaving Camp Ashraf in Iraq.

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German Greens say no to Mojahedin Khalq

“The Iranian exile organization of the People’s Mojahedin Organization[PMOI/MKO/MEK] which acts under the cover of the National Council of Resistance of Iran is not a suitable partner in dialogue for a responsible policy towards Iran,”a spokesperson for the Green Party, Claudia Roth said late Thursday .Roth told reporters that the group’s position on the EU terror list should be carefully evaluated, as the Rajavi organization has a ‘past of terror’ and assisted the ‘crimes’ of the deposed dictator, Saddam Hussein, in Iraq.

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