Albania

US, EU Back Albania’s Regional Center to Fight Radicalism

During his visit, Rama praised the United States for its strong support of Albania since the collapse of communism in the early 1990s. Albania, a NATO member since 2009, enjoys a strategic partnership with the United States. The Balkan nation has been helping relocate thousands of members of the exiled Iranian Mujahedeen-e-Khalq opposition group. Over the past year and a half, Albania has taken in about 1,000 members of the group …

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Clinton-Albania deal ensures MEK members stay as terrorists

This means that when people like Bidi and Rastar choose to reject membership of this terrorist group, they not only face the wrath of the MEK/MKO/PMOI – which has promised to kill Bidi in particular because he is so vocal about this predicament – but they are also left destitute because the state doesn’t recognise them except as members of that terrorist group. After the UNHCR pulled the plug on its support, Bidi …

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Go back to the MEK, or go to the Iranian embassy

Bidi says that already a few members have been forced to humiliate themselves and beg the MEK/MKO/PMOI to be allowed again to become terrorists for money. They all have refugee status. When Bidi questioned Nicola and other authorities they said ‘there are two ways; either go back to the MEK, or go to the Iranian embassy and ask to be taken back to Iran…

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Khodabandeh: It would be wrong to ignore the Mojahedin in Albania

The actual risk to Albania will be if the MEK is not disbanded as a group. Disbanding means that each refugee should be treated as an individual. They must be de-radicalised and then integrated back into normal society as ordinary citizens with homes and jobs and families. The MEK must not be allowed to re-organise as a quasi-military group. Clearly, Albania is not as strong as western European countries in this respect and so the process …

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Can Albania deradicalise Mojahedin Khalq Rajavi cult

It is impossible to ignore the fact that MEK members are radicalized to the core. They are not ordinary refugees. Enough of them have been trained in Iraq by the former Saddam regime for terrorist activities as well as forgery, intelligence, military operations and even torture methods, to make them extremely dangerous. Above all, the nature of the MEK leadership style is cultic. This means the followers …

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Albania to take in all Camp Liberty residents

U.S. officials traveling with Kerry said that while the reforms are needed for their own sake as well as E.U. membership, they also were key to Albania’s fulfilling a commitment to relocate thousands of members of the exiled Iranian Mujahedeen-e-Khalq opposition group. Saddam Hussein had welcomed the Iranian group into Iraq in the 1980s, but Iraq’s current Shiite-led government considers their presence illegal. The group lost …

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A group of 22 TTL residents moved to Albania

Eventually under the pressure of UNHCR and UNAMI office in Iraq, the cult leaders forced to comply and the relocation process resumed at February4th, 2016. So as a group of 22 residents of Temporary Transit Location (Camp Liberty) transferred to Albania, Peyvand-e Rahayee Website reported.

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