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Chalabi says Iraq must tackle foreign militants

Nejat SocietyNovember 13, 2005071 views

Iraq must do more to stop the country being used as a base for foreign militants seeking to destabilise its neighbours, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi said in comments published on Monday…Chalabi said Britain raised tension in the area by accusing Iran of helping Iraq militants to plant roadside bombs which killed British troops. He added that Iran also inflamed the situation with allegations of British backing for militant Arab separatists in south-west Iran, according to the FT report.

Guns and bombs are not speech

Nejat SocietyNovember 10, 2005076 views

The United States can designate foreign organizations as terrorist groups and bar Americans from financially backing them….The ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was made in a case involving people who raised money in California for Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK, an Iranian opposition group designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government since 1997.

MKO involved in car bombing in Basra

Nejat SocietyNovember 8, 2005065 views

Terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO/PMOI/NCR) was involved in car bombing in the southern port city of Basra on Monday, Iraqi security official told IRNA on Tuesday. ….The British officers have embarked on hiring MKO elements for sabotage and terrorist attacks in Iraq for their own inhumane ends.

MKO members not denying their role in Basra blast

Nejat SocietyNovember 8, 2005074 views

Whenever the meddling of its members in any subversive act is revealed, the MKO terrorist group always denies it by issuing a statement.
According to a security source in Basra, members of MKO were responsible for the Monday explosion in the port city of Basra. At least 20 people, mostly non-military, were killed in the explosion of a car laden with bomb in Basra port city in southern Iraq late Monday and more than 50 others were wounded.

No report on fate of 250 ex-MKO members

Nejat SocietyNovember 8, 2005059 views

No news is at hand in recent days on the fate of 250 members of the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) who have been urging to leave Iraq and return to Iran as a priority, according to former MKO officials who have fled to Europe from Iraq.

Straw rejects call to support Iranian opposition groups

Nejat SocietyNovember 8, 2005064 views

The rejection came after Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells dismissed a call from Binley to back his campaign to deproscribe the MKO as a terrorist group.
“The Mujahideen-e Khalq Organization (MKO) is proscribed in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000. It has a long history of involvement in terrorism in Iran and elsewhere and is, by its own admission, responsible for violent attacks that have resulted in many deaths,”

UK opposed to de-proscribing MKO terrorist group

Nejat SocietyNovember 8, 20050113 views

The British government has dismissed a call from a leading supporter of the so-called National Council of Resistance (NCRI) to provide backing to deproscribe the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e-Khalq as a terrorist group.
“We have no such plans. The Mojahedin-e Khalq (MKO) is proscribed in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000,”Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells said

US urges UK to maintain dialogue with Iran

Nejat SocietyNovember 8, 2005064 views

The debate on recent comments made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Israel was raised by Labour peer, Lord Corbett, a renowned supporter of the Mujahiden-e Khalq terrorist group, who urged the UK government to treat the outlawed group as a”friend.”But the Foreign Office minister rejected the call, saying that the MKO was proscribed under the country’s Terrorism Act 2000 and that the government had”no plans to carry out such a review.”

What Multi-National Forces Say about PMOI?

Nejat SocietyOctober 31, 2005067 views

With assistance from the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Ministry of Human Rights, ten former members of the Iranian Mujahedeen-e Khalq Organization based at Camp Ashraf returned home this month.These former members requested to be repatriated back to Iran upon arrival at the Coalition controlled facility. Since late 2004, over 300 former members of the organization have returned home to Iran through the amnesty program provided by the Iranian Regime.”

US can call foreign groups terrorists, court says

Nejat SocietyOctober 24, 2005069 views

“Leaving the determination of whether a group is a ‘foreign terrorist organization’ to the executive branch … is both a reasonable and a constitutional way to make such determinations,”Judge Andrew Kleinfeld wrote for a three-judge panel. …. The ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was made in a case involving people who raised money in California for Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK,