US Protects Terrorist Organization in Iraq

The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), an Iraqi-based Iranian opposition group, is considered a terrorist organization by the United States. Any American supporting the group can be charged with a crime. Yet the MEK “gets protection from the U.S. military despite Iraqi pressure to leave the country,” and “regularly escorts MEK supply runs between Baghdad and its base, Camp Ashraf.”

But you probably missed the story because (according to a reader who sent it to me) it was posted very briefly on CNN's front page and then quickly disappeared. No other major outlet (and very few minor ones) seem to have picked it up.

  Harper's article

There's a CNN report on YouTube here.

This is not a new group for us. Way back when, I posted on our support of this terrorist group.

From Justin Raimondo:

Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio) is demanding an investigation into how an organization officially deemed a terrorist group could operate so openly in Washington. Let the process start with an inquiry into the Perle connection.

  YWA post 1/28/04

The military signed an April 16 cease-fire with the Mujahedeen Khalq after warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq and bombed Mujahedeen Khalq sites. The group agreed to disarm and was not attacked again.

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Pentagon officials have defended the cease-fire decision, saying the military's focus at the time was to defeat Iraq, and American troops could not afford to be fighting another heavily armed group at the same time.

So, if we cannot afford to fight them, we'll negotiate with them.

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These guys are in camps, disarmed (although Armitage says he believes they were disarmed only of their major weapons and that they still have sidearms). Why aren't they in Guantanamo?

  YWA post 10/29/03

We have quite a little history with this group.

And Bush is still saying that we won't tolerate anyone who deals with terrorists.

I think you should read that Harper's article. It's short.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.