Members of the State Department-designated terrorist group known as the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK) have been welcomed into a former U.S. military base in Iraq thanks to an agreement Washington pushed through with Baghdad.
An agreement pushed by the U.S. with the Iraqi government delayed the closure of Camp Ashraf, where up to 3,200 members of the MEK have been living for years. The U.S. also got Baghdad to agree to ensure safe treatment of MEK, since the group’s anti-Tehran views don’t fly with the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
The facility has been officially renamed Camp Hurriya (Arabic for “freedom”) and the first MEK members can now go there on a temporary basis to decide whether to return to Iran or move on to a third country, if they have residency there. MEK leaders have not yet decided to move, however.
The Iranian dissident group has a history of terrorism, including being implicated in the deaths of Americans, and currently advocates the overthrow of the Iranian government, making Washington’s quiet support of them rather suspect. There has been a big money push by many influential people in Washington to get them removed from the State Department’s terrorist list, presumably to make them eligible for U.S. funding.
They all better off going back home, Iran that is, their family and friends are waiting for them.
Obviously they are OUR terrorist bastards, in which case the full 'benifits' of 'Amerikan Exceptionalism' apply.
Amazing. What on earth has happened to antiwar.com? Its still called antiwar, but the message it carries is mostly MSM pro-war propaganda…
The obvious thing that comes to mind with this particular article is to ask the obvious question: Is the US training the MEK in its base? Who, knowing the terrorist methods of the US, could doubt that? Not me. These US terrorists are capable of anything.
speculation is not news
What planet are you from, Dave? If you had a point of view, and ideology, a bias, I could understand, but this is just clueless.
Perhaps you could explain.
>it carries is mostly MSM pro-war propaganda…
There is not enough facepalm on the Earth at this very moment…
This is a perfect example of good recycling: one terrorist moves out and another moves in. That is, provided, I believed that the Iranians are terrorists, of course.
When it comes to Iran, the terrorist are in the government. It is the Iranian government terrorize and execute people on daily basis.
Anti-war failed to understand that MEK is a Resistance group. Read about them here: http://maryam-rajavi.com/en/