The MEK were given an ultimatum.
Stop attacking and we won't kill you.
They are not being supported by the US. Unless, they think not killing them is support.
They have been neutralized.
Electronic Iraq -- found at electronicIraq.net -- is a supplementary news portal from the people who brought you the Electronic Intifada (founded 2001) and veteran antiwar campaigners Voices in the Wilderness (founded 1996).
Electronic Iraq was launched on 8 February 2003 to offer a humanitarian perspective during the then-looming conflict, as the U.S. government made clear its determination to go to war against Iraq.
It was the alternative news moonshot. Before, during, and after the US "Shock & Awe" bombing campaign, eIraq writers from Voices in the Wilderness' Iraq Peace Team reported on what they saw and heard via available Internet and a satellite modem connection. Visitors got a never before seen glimpse of war and its aftermath through the eyes of peace activists based at ground zero.
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Somehow I find it hard to believe that the MEK had "several thousand" tanks in Iraq and the other listed military hardware. I think this article is full of BS.
Hang'em all!
There is no good terrorists!
Moreover, this terror group is condemned by all Human Rights Watch Groups for abusing its own members.
And the groups is heavily hated among Iranian people.
MEK terrorists fought Iranian people along with Saddam in 1980s and they are also accused of helping the seizure of the US Embassy in 1979 in Tehran.
MEK/NCRI is a marxist-islamist group founded in late 1960s to fight the Shah's government.
The group is also accused of killing several American Military Servicemen back in 1970s.
Now you can figure this out!
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/05/18/iran10967.htm
Okay everyone. Before you get too deep into this article go to the originating website and look at the credentials of the organization who tailored this hit piece. This group has a long history of distorting the truth to support their anger over the war on terror and America defending itself.
Whatever the US Government supports, I support.
Such a petty post.
The author offers no support for his assertion that we're "supporting" this terrorist group.
"...the Mujahideen-e-Khalq held a conference at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, which is where many foreign journalists stay and is under the full protection of the U.S. Army."
"The report warned of an increased danger of attacks against the hotel, as anti- U.S. insurgents were likely to attempt to disrupt the conference."
It seems to me the Army was protecting everyone in the hotel, not just one particular group. There were many foreign journalists, the hotel is under the full protection of the Army, and there was an increased danger of attack.
War On Terror?
it's called a "struggle" now
USA, France and China don't want to see a democratic Iran.
Both USA and France will always do anything they can to stop Iran becoming a great democratic country.
They did it before (1979), they'll do it again.
Now China has joined the bandwagon.
France supports the Mujahideen-e-Khalq.
The MEK is based in France and is nearly openly supported by the French government.
My thoughts go to the young Iranians.
Nobody cares about them.I do.
"Despite denying suspected terrorists from Afghanistan and elsewhere prisoner of war status under the Geneva conventions, the US granted this status to detained members of MEK in Iraq [3]."
Whoa!! Huge lefty red-flag there. If they said the sky was blue I would have to go look to be certain.