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Romney adviser blasts government investigation, Says Bring It On

Nejat SocietyApril 3, 2012093 views

MEK’s supporters have included Andrew Card, Howard Dean, John Bolton, Rudy Giuliani, Bill Richardson, Wesley Clark, and many others. And the MEK has treated some of them very nicely. According to a March report by NBC’s Michael Isikoff, pro-MEK speakers can earn up to”$30,000 or more per talk and first-class flights to European capitals.”(The office of former Pennsylvannia Governor Ed Rendell, just one such speaker, told Isikoff that he’d earned $160,000 in 2011 ..

Romancing The MEK: America’s Love Affair With Terrorists

Nejat SocietyApril 2, 20120114 views

America has had a long-standing love affair with terrorists. Support for terrorist groups and governments has been part and parcel of American policy. According to William Odom, President Reagan’s former NSA Director, terrorism is a tactic with the having a long record of supporting terrorists. But what is unique and novel about romancing the MEK is the political elite’s brazen public display of support for the group[MKO/MEK/PMOI],..

MEK Pays US Officials, But Where Do The Iranian Exiles Get Their Money?

Nejat SocietyApril 2, 20120130 views

Where does an organization based in an Iraqi refugee camp for the last 25 years get so much money? While MEK has organized rallies and campaigns to have it delisted as a terrorist group in the past, it has never, by all accounts, spent the amount of money it has over the past year.Currently, there are rumors that the Israeli secret service is paying MEK to carry out assassinations..Israel would not be the first government to pay for MEK’s military expertise

Giuliani claims ‘terrorist’ MEK only chance to stop Iran

Nejat SocietyApril 2, 2012087 views

The MEK aka MKO/PMOI has forsaken its anti-Western and radical Islamist roots, and promotes itself as a secular, democratic government-in-waiting – to its Western backers. But at its base in a refugee camp in Iraq it enforces strict discipline – celibacy, limited sleep, no electronic communication, forced divorce for married members, and a personality cult surrounding its leader . Human Rights Watch has accused it of severe human rights violations.

Guest Op-Ed: MEK and its material supporters in Washington

Nejat SocietyMarch 29, 20120177 views

in determining whether MEK belongs on the Terrorist list, what conceivable difference should it make whether MEK is cooperative in moving from Camp Ashraf as the U.S. Government wants? What does their cooperation or lack thereof have to do with whether they are a Terrorist organization? The answer, of course, is that the U.S. list of Terrorist organizations (like its list of state sponsors of Terrorism) has little or nothing to do with who are and are not actually Terrorists..

Detach the Destiny of the Enslaved from Terrorists

Nejat SocietyMarch 29, 20120115 views

Was it a thoughtful statement or for any untold reason, for outsiders Clinton’s remarks were somehow viewed as an indication that the US is close to removing the terrorist group from its blacklist. But inside the group, Mrs. Clinton’s words were grabbed at as an offer that led MKO under the delusion that now it had an upper hand for any bargain over the lives of the residing members at Ashraf. Maybe she was looking for a fast and peaceful solution ..

The Vain Struggle to Keep Ashraf Open

Nejat SocietyMarch 28, 2012094 views

The ground reasons for the closure of Camp Ashraf are more than enough to present. The Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki, made it clear that the camp had to be closed simultaneous with the exit of the American forces from Iraq. America also left the decision for the group’s future to the Iraqi government. However, under outside pressures and to show its good-will for humanitarian reasons, the Iraqi Government agreed to extend..

State Dept to court: Don’t meddle with terror list decisions

Nejat SocietyMarch 28, 2012095 views

The State Department is asking a U.S. appeals court to deny a suit that would force Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to decide, within 30 days, whether to remove an Iranian opposition group from the U.S. list of foreign terror organizations.The group, the Mujahadin-e Khalq aka MEK/PMOI/MKO, was placed on the terror list in 1997 because of the deaths of Americans during attacks in the 1970s ..

MKO from TTL to third countries

Nejat SocietyMarch 28, 2012097 views

At the meeting that was held in Geneva, Guterres said:”The UNHCR does not give asylum to groups, but it will be given only to individuals, if they quit violence.”So, MeK aka MKO/PMOI Have a tough road ahead from TTL to European countries. Renounce of violence and rejection of the sectarian organization is the first and the most important step to pass this arduous path. Considering what was said above, UN, UNHCR, and ICRC can play ..

MKO’s supporters throw party in U.S. Congress

Nejat SocietyMarch 26, 20120209 views

there were no MEK signs or banners at the event, as one usually sees wherever the MEK is camped out. .. Congressional aides attended the event on Thursday in the hearing room both out of curiosity and hunger for free food. But multiple aides told The Cable the event was bizarre, even by Congressional standards.