family members of the fugitives donated $10,000 to Menendez’s successful 2012 relection campaign, as well as $100,000 to the Democratic Party. Menendez is already the subject of a federal criminal probe into his dealings with Dr. Salomon Melgen …
An influential pro-Israel group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), has been lobbying members of Congress to keep the pressure on Iran. So have members of the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran[MEK/MKO/PMOI] , a group with a violent past whose opposition to the Iranian regime has nonetheless earned it allies in Congress
The U.S. Embassy also said McGurk visited Friday with members of Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, the militant wing of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, whose camp outside Baghdad came under rocket attack last month. The statement said the U.S. diplomat stressed the urgency of relocating the residents of Camp Hurriya to another country …
Why maintain such a terrorist force in the region? Answer: to maintain the upper hand in all foreign affairs by controlling and steering the business interests of the worst criminals. Drug-running, human trafficking, smuggling and kidnapping are only some of the lucrative business used to generate black budget cash and grease the skids of corruption in the Middle East and Central Asia.
After removing the extremist organization Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK)aka MKO/PMOI from its list of terrorist organizations in 2012, the US State Department has been unsuccessfully trying to move militants from this group out of Iraq and closer to sites that are being readied for future armed hostilities….Washington seems to feel that Romania would be an auspicious location…
Jack Straw confirmed that the UK government condemned any form of terrorism.”The British government has condemned the assassination of the Iranian nuclear scientists”, he said.Ben wallace another member of the UK parliamentarian delegation spoke of the probability of relisting of the MKO/MEK/PMOI as a terror group…
Washington may turn Romania into a hotbed of tension, which will prove quite a headache both to Romania proper and the neighbouring countries. The point is the United States is making efforts to move several thousand members of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran organization (Mujahedin-e Khalq) from Iraq to Romania.
Ms. Holl Lute most recently held the post of US Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. She was also the Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of the UN Foundation and the Better World Fund, among other positions. The newly appointed UN official will work with Mr. Ban’s Special Representative in Iraq and UNAMI head …
The United Nations today called on the Iraqi Government to ensure maximum security for some 3,200 Iranian exiles in a camp near Baghdad airport after a rocket attack on the airport last night reportedly killed a number of residents and seriously wounded others.
The Iraqi authorities have made no public comments on the report. However, one security official was quoted by the Associated Press as saying four rockets hit the camp, injuring two people. In September, the MEK/MKO/PMOI accused Iraqi forces of attacking Camp Ashraf north-east of Baghdad and killing 52 of the group’s members. In recent years, Baghdad has been trying …