Cross-link below -- Doc, do you know anything about this group? Are they good guys or bad? Did france help the student movement with this, or hurt it? I just want to get my facts before I build up an even bigger head of steam at our newest enemy, france.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/930406/posts France Detains Members of Iran Opposition
AP ^ | 06/17/03 | ELAINE GANLEY
PARIS - Masked and heavily armed French police raided the offices Tuesday of an Iranian opposition group accused of links to terrorism, rounding up 165 members and seizing $1.3 million in American currency, the government said.
On the orders of France's leading anti-terrorism judge, some 1,300 police poured into the streets and blew down doors of offices of the People's Mujahedeen of Iran early Tuesday in a vast sweep of sites north and west of Paris.
...On the orders of France's leading anti-terrorism judge, some 1,300 police poured into the streets and blew down doors of offices of the People's Mujahedeen of Iran early Tuesday in a vast sweep of sites north and west of Paris...
The Mujahedeen do not have a good reputation with most Iranians. Saddam supported them in their fight against the government. They are essentially socialist. But France wants to support the Mullahs right now. So the arrests.