Pressure on Administration to Take MKO terror Group off Terrorist List
… The State Department describes the MEK as a “cult-like” terrorist organization that “uses propaganda and terrorism to achieve its objectives.” Human Rights Watch has reported that MEK leadership has engaged in human rights violations against its membership at Camp Ashraf in Iraq… six Members of Congress signed a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging that the State Department remove the Marxist Islamist group from the US list of FTOs. The letter highlights a House resolution, H.Res. 1431, calling for the group’s removal from the terrorist list, introduced by California Democratic Representative Bob Filner, one of the MEK’s staunchest supporters in Congress…