The United States government has failed to protect its citizens’ rights at least not as good as it claims. Forgetting the fact that MKO aka MEK/PMOIhas assassinated a number of American citizens in Iran back in the 1970s, is a good proof for this claim…
I was shocked when our State Dept. under Hillary Clinton announced last fall that MKO/MEK/PMOI was being rehabilitated by taking them off the terror list. It seems the International Criminal Court might be off the hook for doing absolutely nothing about this group, thinking I guess that mass murderers only lived in the Balkans or Africa.
the de-listing of the MEK was mostly a quid pro quo to get most of the group’s members in Iraq to relocate from its old base at Camp Ashraf. It also fails to mention that many of the people at Camp Ashraf were being held there against their will. Taken together with the many disgraceful displays of support by members of Congress and various former officials, all of this creates the impression that the group’s “rehabilitation” is much more meaningful than it is.
… A lengthy lobbying and legal campaign — backed by folks such as former U.N. ambassador John Bolton; Rep. Dana Rohrabacher; former presidential candidates Newt Gingrich (R), Rudy Giuliani (R) and Howard Dean (D); and former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell — eventually forced the State Department …
An Iranian opposition group that was once considered a terrorist front by the State Department has hired an ex-senator to lobby for them….The MEK was blamed by the State Department for several attacks in the 1970s that killed Americans in Iran…
Critics of the NCRI have called the group a front for the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, or MEK, the group of Islamic Marxists that helped violently overthrew the Pahlavi Shah during a 1979 revolution in Iran and was credited with killing six American citizens that decade. As recently as 2002, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation told the State Department that ‘‘[i]t is the unanimous view of the FBI personnel who are involved in and familiar with the FBI’s investigation of the [MEK] that the NCRI is not a separate organization
Some US critics of the NCRI [MKO/MEK/PMOI]say there are no grounds for believing the group has anything of a positive image, let alone actual support, in Iran. Going further, they point to the high speaking and lobbying fees that some of the group’s prominent American advocates have reportedly been paid as evidence of Washington support that is only dollars-and-cents deep.
The US supported MKO/MEK/PMOI killed 12,000 of them, but Americans know nothing of it. One Israeli died in the last Gaza ‘war’, but Americans do know that. Do you see something a little out of balance here?Yes, some of this mass killing was done while Saddam was using the MKO, but when the US took over it kept the MKO bases in operation under its protection.
Israel’s disingenuous attempts to approach Syria are only one of several prescribed strategies Brookings called for in their 2009 report that have already come to pass. Another was Brookings’ suggestion to delist and arm the bizarre terrorist cult, Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK). MEK had been listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the US State Department for decades, yet …
we have to remember of course that Albania particularly Kosovo is home to the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) and they are a particularly murderous group of drug runners and terrorists who would have been utilized for operations around the world. In the background of this Albania has said it is ready to take in some 200 members of the MKO or MEK (Mojahedin-e-Khalq) organization..I think this omens very badly the fact that of all the places that they could be going that they’re going to be going Albania where they may be rubbing shoulders with former members of the KLA.