++ Esmail Fallahranjkesh, who ran away from Camp Liberty during the bombing attack on 29 October, has already been reunited with his family. Another escapee, Shahroud Bahadori, has given an interview from the hotel in Baghdad. He stressed that \u201cnot a single person\u201d in Liberty wants to be there of their own volition. They are all there by force.<\/p>\n
++ 28 more Camp Liberty residents arrived in Tirana this week bringing the total last month to 172. Their names can be found online in the Farsi section of the Iran-Interlink site.<\/p>\n
++ The MEK has suspended all other activity to focus on attacking former members and critics. MEK TV programming is based on this project. MEK websites have been flooded with hundreds of articles and comments written by everybody against everybody. In addition, there have been several instances of threats and intimidation of critics in the streets of Europe. In one such incident, an internal critic who was passing one of the MEK\u2019s street pickets in the Netherlands was jeered at for not joining the picket. As he continued on his way he was first sworn at, then pursued and beaten up.<\/p>\n
++ The MEK has put forward its version of the attack on Camp Liberty on 29 October. It is \u201cbecause the critics have been emboldened\u201d. Nobody except themselves believes this theory. Farsi commentators have written that for decades Rajavi has been trying to kill his own people and live on their blood. Apparently this time Rajavi really has broken the camel\u2019s back and nobody in the world, not even among the MEK\u2019s supporters in America, is willing to go along with Rajavi\u2019s games. All parties place the blame on Rajavi for keeping the MEK in Iraq where they are in great danger. Significantly, in not a single part of its communications does the MEK say they should be removed from Iraq and taken to safety. Rajavi is not even able to pretend that he doesn\u2019t want to leave them in harm\u2019s way. In this respect, this tragic event has worked directly against him and his interests.<\/p>\n
++ Rajavi claims that former MEK members and families of Camp Liberty residents have gone to the camp as spies only to get information about where and how to attack the camp. According to Rajavi\u2019s analysis, they pass this information on to Iran so the regime can formulate attacks. [Note: Camp Liberty is a half a square kilometre space in the former US Army base near Baghdad International Airport. It can be seen clearly by anyone via Google Maps:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/maps\/place\/Camp+Liberty\/@33.2987099,44.2405099,1976m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!1m3!3m2!1s0x1559d793cfffbea7:0x7f709b3469d96187!2sCamp+Liberty!3m1!1s0x1559d793cfffbea7:0x7f709b3469d96187!6m1!1e1]<\/p>\n
In English:<\/p>\n
++ Acclaimed investigative journalist Gareth Porter writing in Fair (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) says \u2018The New Yorker Doesn\u2019t Factcheck What \u2018Everyone Knows\u2019 Is True\u2019. The article is a critique of journalistic standards in relation to \u201cthe subject of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman\u2019s untimely death and its relation to his role in indicting senior Iranian officials for a 1994 Buenos Aires terror bombing\u2026\u201d Porter finds that Dexter Filkins, one of the top journalists covering America\u2019s wars since 9\/11, did not go far enough in \u201cquestioning conventional wisdom\u201d. Typically, Porter uncovers a great deal of important detail. \u201cFilkins appears to have been unaware, however, of Nisman\u2019s reliance on the testimony of the armed opposition to the Iranian regime, with its shady history, for the crucial information on which his indictment of the Iranians was based. \u2018Much of the testimony that guided Nisman toward the Iranian regime,\u2019 Filkins writes, \u2018was provided by a man referred to in court documents as \u2018Witness C\u2019\u2014Abolghasem Mesbahi, an Iranian intelligence agent who defected to Germany in 1996.\u2019<\/p>\n
But in identifying Mesbahi as the key source, Filkins not only misrepresents the alleged evidence in Nisman\u2019s indictment, but also demonstrates a remarkable lack of curiosity about a figure whose record as a witness on this and other cases was marked by serious anomalies and even absurdities.\u201d<\/p>\n
++ Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, writes about Maryam Rajavi\u2019s bloodthirsty propaganda. He points out that both the UN and US are committed to relocating the residents of Camp Liberty but that the process has been very slow because Maryam Rajavi doesn\u2019t want it to happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cHuman casualties are always a tragedy. Particularly, in case of Liberty residents, many of them were not able to leave the cult-like structure of the group. Although most of these members left Iran to struggle for what they called \u201cfreedom\u201d, once they found out that they were laboring for the evil Massoud Rajavi as the mercenary of Saddam Hussein, it was too late for them to return home. They were taken as hostages by the Cult of Rajavi. Maryam Rajavi holds both the US and the UN \u2018officially and legally responsible\u2019 for the loss of lives in Camp Liberty while she never thinks of her own part in the disastrous incident.\u201d<\/p>\n
++ An Open Letter by the sister of one of Rajavi\u2019s victims, killed in the October 29 attack.<\/p>\n
Narges Beheshti was denied contact with her brother Mostafa for 14 years even though she had travelled to Camp Ashraf, Iraq several times and appealed to the UNHCR in Baghdad for help. However, the MKO Cult leaders didn\u2019t allow any families to visit.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is now 4 years that the Camp Ashraf residents have been relocated to Camp Liberty. They were due to stay there as a temporary location to soon be transferred to third countries. However, during all these four years just some 400 individuals have been transferred to Albania that is 100 people a year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe that Rajavi does not intend to save the helpless residents of Liberty. He just thinks about his zeal for power, his relatives and friends. How is it, while my brother and other stranded Liberty residents are kept by the MKO Cult leaders within the violence and insecurity of Iraq as captives and not transferred to third countries\u2026 Rajavi\u2019s own relatives were transferred to foreign countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cI plead with all human rights bodies to probe the suffering families petitions. I declare that Rajavi is personally responsible for the lives of our loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n
++ On November 12, the BBC updated an information page \u201cWho are the Iranian dissident group MEK?\u201d on its English language site. After the 1979 revolution the MEK \u201claunched an armed struggle to topple the Islamic Republic, claiming responsibility for the assassination of several high-profile figures. The authorities launched a bloody purge of supporters of the MEK, also known as the People\u2019s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), and Mr Rajavi fled to Paris. He later relocated to Camp Ashraf in Saddam Hussein\u2019s Iraq, near the Iranian border, with most of his followers. There the movement steadily acquired the characteristics of a cult, with veneration of Massoud Rajavi and his wife, Maryam.\u201d<\/p>\n
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