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Euro-Citizen exposes activities of the terrorist Mojahedin in
European political centres
National Resistance Council of Iran revealed as
terrorist front organisation
08-10-2005
There is a TV campaign running in
the UK at the moment for a well known firm of paint manufacturers which uses
the catch line “IT DOES WHAT IT SAYS ON THE TIN”
If only life was so simple!
SMEs in the European Union are bound hand and foot by legislation which
prevents them from telling lies about their product, ingredients or
additives. Tobacco manufacturers are forced to add disclaimers on packets of
cigarettes which state “Smoking can be dangerous to your health” yet on the
streets of European cities dangerous practices far more lethal than the
contents of a tin, the ingredients of a food product or the effects of
tobacco on newborn babies abound.
In the temporary entrance to the European Parliament in Brussels a
dishevelled lady begs for money, her small child by her side. If you give
her a few coins are you providing food for her child, or funding arms for a
terrorist organisation?
In the European Parliament, well meaning MEPs host delegates from ostensibly
respectable movements which claim to be “freedom fighters”, “resistance
movements” or “opposition in exile”.
Should you ask yourself, do they do what they say on the tin?
For instance: the National Resistance Council of Iran, respectable
organisation or front for the MKO, the Mojahedin Khalgh Organisation, an
illegal terrorist cult listed as a banned terrorist organization by the EU?
Well meaning MEPs support it through the seemingly respectable “Friends of
Iran”, even hosting members of this organization at meetings within the
Parliament.
Not only are they banned by the COTERR, the EU’s committee on Counter
terrorism, but also by the UK government and the US State Department.
It is time MEPs awoke to the situation, and asked themselves, “Do they do
what they say on the tin”? and do so before its too late?
By IAN LAKOMEX
Ian lakomex is writer in justice, security and terrorism,
Outlawed terrorist organisation operates freely on the
streets of Brussels
08-11-2005
Just as European governments
attempt to put in place tougher anti-terrorism laws, a banned terrorist
organisation has held protest demonstration in the centre of Brussels
unchallenged by the Belgian police or security services.
In the Place Schumann on Monday, directly in front of the European
Institutions, members of the Iranian Mujahedin Khalq Organisation (also
known as the National Council of Resistance or NCRI), a banned organisation
on the EU’s list of terrorist organisations, demonstrated in an attempt to
get their name removed from the list.
Members of the MKO/NCRI, for which there are 72 outstanding Interpol arrest
warrants, freely engaged in a display of adoration of their leader, Maryam
Rajavi, throwing roses at her feet.
In scenes which invoke comparisons with the days in Paris preceding the
return of the Ayatollah Khomeini to Iran, a cult of personality worship
spilled freely onto the streets of Brussels unchecked.
Those with memories of the fire which was fanned by the personality cult of
Khomeini will also remember back draft of the 444 days imprisonment which
followed for the hostages.
If European leaders are serious about protecting the public from acts of
terrorism on the streets of our cities, they should instruct the authorities
to put a stop to these cynical displays, and also ensure that organisations
such as the MKO are not only banned in name but also in reality. They should
also ensure that they cannot re-emerge under a different name, such as the
National Council for Resistance (NCRI) and operate freely.
A businessman in Brussels who is convicted of illegal activity cannot just
change the name of his business and open up for business again unchecked.
However, it appears that a dangerous terrorist cult on the EU list of banned
organisations can operate on the streets of European capitals unchallenged,
and by changing its name even be welcomed inside the European institutions.
EU concern at terrorist front organisations
25-11-2005
There is growing concern within
the European Commission at the open access being granted to front
organisations acting on behalf of terrorist groups.
The EU’s Committee on Terrorism has placed over 40 organisations and
individuals on its list of banned terrorist organisations, but by changing
its name an organisation can operate without impunity.
For example, The Iraqi based MKO – Mojahedin Khalgh Organisation – an
Iranian opposition terror group is on the EU’s list of banned terrorist
groups. Its front organisation – the National Council of Resistance for Iran
– is not banned and operates throughout European cities.
The leadership of both organisations is the same, with a common membership
list. There are 72 Interpol arrest warrants outstanding against MKO members,
but the NCRI is openly welcomed into the European Institutions, even taking
part in TV discussion programmes within the Parliament.
Officials at the European Parliament are deeply worried that NCRI members
who may have had terrorist training in Iraq can wander freely throughout the
Parliament as guests of well meaning but naive MEPs.
Terrorism and security experts from member states are calling for the NCRI
to be placed on the list of banned terrorist groups as soon as possible
NGO or terrorist front?
14-12-2005
A report by the US State
Department Office of Counterterrorism has recently named a range of foreign
organisations it believes are terrorists or fronts for terrorist
organisations.
The list includes, amongst others, the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO), Basque
Fatherland and Liberty (ETA), Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the
Real IRA, the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) and the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
In total 33 organisations are on the list, including al-Qa’ida
The full list, published in Washington, DC on October 11, 2005, can be
accessed on http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/37191.htm
Of particular interest to European citizens will be the Iranian terror group
the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO or MEK), also known as the PMOI, NLA,
NCR and NCRI. All the same name for one dangerous terrorist cult.
The MKO is also on the EU’s list of banned terrorist organisations, but
operates freely in Brussels and other European cities under its front
organisation, the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
Why the NCRI should escape the EU’s ban is either the worst form of
administrative oversights or a victory for the handful of misguided MEPs and
others within European institutions who seek to paint the NCRI as a genuine
political movement.
That it is just a terrorist front can be in no doubt. An executive order by
the US Secretary of State, published on 15 August 2003 blocked the assets of
“the Mujahedin-e Khalq, known as the MEK, to add its aliases National
Council of Resistance (NCR) and National Council of Resistance of Iran
(NCRI)”.
This executive order can be accessed on http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2003/23311.htm
Sources close to the State Department also stated that they suspect five
NGOs in Belgium and eleven NGOs in the United Kingdom as being fronts for
the MKO.
These are alleged to collect money under the fake names of charities,
claiming to help Iranian children and refugees and the establishment of
peace, democracy, etc. but in reality generate funds for the terrorist MKO.
As the EU comes together to agree a common policy on terrorism, it must
address the issue of front organisations in general and the MKO/NCRI in
particular whilst there is still time. Not to do so allows known terrorists
to operate freely among law abiding citizens on the streets of Europe
unchecked. A disaster waiting to happen.
MEP employs known terrorist as research assistant
07-02-2006
Concern is being express within
the European Parliament at the employment of a member of a banned Iranian
terror organisation as a research assistant by an MEP.
Firouz Mahvi , a member of the banned Iranian terrorist groups the Mojahedin
Khalgh Organisation - MKO – and National Liberation Army – NLA- is employed
as an assistant within the European Parliament by Portuguese MEP Paulo
Casaca
According to sources within the French intelligence service, Firouz Mahvi
has quiet a record:
1- In 1983 he joined the MKO in England.
2- During 1983-91 he worked for the MKO in England.
3- In 1991, the MKO transferred him to Iraq to be engaged in NLA terrorist
bases.
4- In 1991 he worked in the NLA intelligence section and was active in
spying along Iran- Iraq border against the people of Iran.
5- In 2000 joining the NLA operations, he accompanied MKO terrorist teams,
as NLA squad commander, with the purpose of reconnaissance and infiltration
into borders of Iran.
6- His last position was commanding NLA mechanized fighting squad of
military personal carrier in one of NLA bases in Iraq.
Many within the Parliament are now asking if it is safe to have a known
terrorist such as Mahvi enjoying unfettered access in Brussels and
Strasbourg
Pro MKO / NCRI Members of the European Parliament attack
Euro-Citizen
13-02-2006
Euro-Citizen has been the subject
of an attack by MEPs Paulo Casaca and Struan Stevenson in a recent issue of
the Brussels based EU Reporter newspaper.
Far from being a front organisation for the Iranian secret police as they
accuse, we at Euro-Citizen are a group of concerned citizens born, educated,
living and working in the EU who are deeply worried about the actions of
banned terrorist groups within Europe and in particularly EU institutions.
We have been contacted by the family and friends of those who are subjected
to the horrors of the MKO’s terrorist training camp at Ashraf in Iraq.
We invite Mr Casaca and Mr Stevenson to answer the following questions:
Do they accept that the MKO - Mojahedin Khalgh Organisation – is a banned
terrorist organization as defined by the EU?
Do they accept that the NCRI - National Council for Resistance in Iran – is
a front organization for the MKO and have common aims?
Do they accept that the NCRI and the MKO have common membership and common
leadership – ie Masoud Rajavi and his wife Maryam Rajavi ?
The public will then be able to make up their own minds on Mr. Casaca's and
Mr. Stevenson's support for a dangerous banned terrorist organization as
defined by the EU Council and the US State Department.
Europe and US urged to harmonise terrorism legislation
08-03-2006
A report by the US State
Department Office of Counter-terrorism has recently named a range of foreign
organisations it believes are terrorist, or fronts for terrorist
organisations. In total 33 organisations are in the list published in
Washington DC on October 11, 2005,
(which can be accessed on http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/37191.htm)
These organisations are also designated as banned terrorist organisations by
the Council of the European Union in their Council decision of 17th October
2005, published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 18th
October 2005.
Of particular interest to European citizens will be the Iranian terror group
the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO or MEK), also known as the PMOI, NLA,
NCR and NCRI. The true nature of this organisation is clearly revealed in a
comprehensive report by Human Rights Watch which can be accessed on http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/05/18/iran10967.htm
An executive order by the US Secretary of State, published on 15 August
2003, blocked the assets of“the Mujahedin-e Khalq, known as the MEK and MKO,
to add its aliases National Council of Resistance (NCR) and National Council
of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)”.
(This executive order can be accessed on http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2003/23311.htm)
As the EU comes together to agree a common policy on terrorism, it must
address the issue of front organisations in general.
We are urge the EU to harmonise differences between the EU and the US lists
of terrorist organisations.’
Terrorism alive and well in Europe, the case against the
MKO and NCRI
24-03-2006
The MKO, or Mujahedeen Kalq
Organisation is a notorious terrorist and violent group formed in 1965 in
Iran. Its ideological basis is a mixture of Islamic ideas mixed with
Marxism, which has evolved into a cult like following of its two charismatic
leaders, the husband and wife team of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi.
The organisation is anti the government of Iran. Firstly it was against the
Shah’s regime, and now is anti the current Islamic government in Tehran.
Until the United States and coalition forces invaded Iraq in 2003, the MKO
enjoyed the patronage of Saddam Hussein. He used it as his private army and
gave the group money, weapons, vehicles and military bases along the
Iran-Iraq border as a launching ground for attacks against the Iranian
government.
When United States and Coalition forces toppled Saddam’s regime, some 5000
MKO fighters, many of them women, were interned in their Ashraf Camp base,
where they are still held under the protection of the Coalition forces. Many
members of the group were sent by Rajavi to Europe and elsewhere in the
world, to build networks of support for future activity. They engaged upon a
violent campaign against Iranian embassies around the world, with
particularly vicious attacks on diplomatic personal and staff in the Iranian
embassy in Australia. Followers of the cult set themselves alight with
petrol on the streets of Europe in attempts to get European policy changed
towards the group.
The US and Coalition governments gave MKO members the opportunity to leave
the camp and return to their homes and families under an amnesty from the
Iranian government. They were treated as escapees from this dangerous cult
which used the entire typical cult like methods of separation, isolation and
brainwashing to exert control over them. A damning report by HumanRights
Watch exposed deprivation, family separation, forced marriages and forced
divorces, beatings and mistreatment of cult members. Many of these
ex-members formed themselves into groups to campaign against the MKO, such
as the “Survivors of Ashraf”.
But Massoud and Maryam Rajavi still harbour ambitions to become the leaders
of Iran, and maintain their cult and powerbase inside Ashraf Camp, as well
as having a sophisticated network of lobbying organisations, fundraising
organisations and front organisations throughout the world, particularly in
Europe.
The MKO was placed on the US State Department’s and European Council’s lists
of banned terrorist organisations. European governments, led by the French,
are deeply concerned at the activities of the group. In particular they are
fearful of having known members of this dangerous cult organisation, who are
trained in terrorist and conventional warfare, operating freely on the
streets of the capitals of Europe.
The group has many aliases and front organisations, in particular the
National Council of Resistance of Iran or NCRI. This group is also classed
as a banned terrorist organisation by the US State Department, but not for
some reason by the EU. It uses this loophole to operate freely in the
corridors of European government, lobbing and fundraising. Although it seems
to be operating lawfully, further investigation shows that funds raised go
towards their armed struggle and are supporting he terrorist MKO activities.
In the European institutions concerned politicians, civil servants and
experts on terrorism are now seeking to have the NCRI placed on the European
Council’s list of banned terrorist organisations and have its activities
outlawed. There is also growing concern over the support for the NCRI and
MKO by a small group of European politicians who either sympathise with the
group or see it as a legitimate weapon against the Islamic regime in Iran.
THIS NEXT PARAGRAPH HAS BEEN REMOVED DUE TO A LEGAL CHALLENGE.
In the United Kingdom the NCRI publishes a newspaper, the Mojahed Weekly,
and an online website of the same name, which openly supports the MKO
activities, uses the MKO logo of a Kalashnikov rifle, and seeks funding from
readers to support the armed struggle against Iran. Evidence has been
presented to the authorities which clearly shows this publication’s
activities are unlawful and in breach of the Prevention of Terrorism Act
2005.
It also broadcasts a television channel on satellite and over the internet
from the United Kingdom – Sima TV – which glorifies the terrorist activities
of the MKO and seeks financial donations to support it. Once again clear
evidence has been presented to the authorities which show that this TV
channel is broadcasting unlawfully and is in breach of both the Prevention
of Terrorism Act 2005 and the OFCOM broadcasting code.
Concerned citizens in the United Kingdom are actively seeking the UK
authorities to prosecute those MKO and NCRI members who are operating this
TV channel, newspaper and website. They also seek to make the activities of
this dangerous terrorist cult known to the British public through the press
and media, so that they will be aware of the activities of known terrorists
operating freely within British society.
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