To: AppyPappy
The MEK is an Iranian opposition group formerly based in Baghdad but with a continuing strong presence in the United States, primarily for fundraising and efforts to reverse its terrorist designation, first imposed in 1997.
The U.S. intelligence community alleges the MEK was responsible for the deaths of at least six American servicemen and civilians in Iran during the mid-1970s and actively participated in the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure in Tehran. Having fallen afoul of Khomeini, in 1986 the group took refuge in Baghdad under Saddam Hussein.
In addition to its periodic hit-and-runs inside Iran, intelligence sources say, the MEK took part in Saddams grisly suppression of the Kurdish and Shiite minorities.
Saddams backing of the MEK was used as one justification for the Iraq war, and coalition forces viewed the MEK as enemy combatants. Last fall, federal law enforcement raided several MEK-related organizations in the Washington area.
from the link that Galt provided...
8 posted on
01/21/2004 10:50:39 AM PST by
Pan_Yans Wife
(He who has never hoped can never despair.)
To: Pan_Yans Wife
The U.S. intelligence community alleges the MEK was responsible for the deaths of at least six American servicemen and civilians in Iran during the mid-1970s and actively participated in the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure in Tehran. Having fallen afoul of Khomeini, in 1986 the group took refuge in Baghdad under Saddam Hussein.They're also, as I understand, out and out loonies, basically worshiping some charasmatic leader in cultlike manner.
24 posted on
01/22/2004 1:51:03 PM PST by
Stultis
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