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TYT: MEK to be taken off terrorist watch list by Obama Admin

submitted by radx

1 decade 1 year 10 months ago

-- YouTube --

"...The MEK, which fiercely opposes the current regime in Iran, has mounted a high-priced lobbying and legal battle to get off the terrorist list in recent years. The group was placed on the list in 1997 by the Clinton Administration, which cited its record of attacks against Iranian targets. The group also "assassinated several U.S. military personnel and U.S. civilians working on defense projects in Tehran" in the 1970s when the U.S. was allied with the Shah, according to the State Department.

The MEK says it has renounced violence. A federal appeals court last month ordered the State Department to decide within four months whether the MEK should remain on the list. Groups supporting the MEK have paid millions of dollars to attract former officials and retired military officers to appear at events supporting the group in recent years. But because the MEK is an officially designated terrorist organization, it is illegal for Americans to accept money from the MEK itself...".

Who's taking money from this group? The list might surprise you. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

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Remember, the SCOTUS upheld this atrocious provision of the Patriot Act in the case Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project. "Material support for terrorism" is what got others into jail for considerably less than what these open advocates of MEK are doing.

This guy, for instance, was sentenced to 69 months in prison for "providing satellite television services to Hezbollah’s television station, Al Manar".

But hey, if the Israelis are working with them, they can't be terrorists, right? Israel and state-sponsored terrorism? Nah, never.

Besides, members of MEK were trained by JSOC at the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site. So if they were terrorists, the US would be equally guilty of state-sponsored terrorism. Luckily though, being on the State Department's terrorist watch list doesn't make you a terrorist by US definition.

Opposition to US interests makes you a terrorist. Support of WikiLeaks makes you a terrorist.

GenjiKilpatrick

It hurts my heart that this is reality.

It seems so surreal when you listen to it.

Moving this video to radx's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

pumkinandstorm

*promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by pumkinandstorm.

Wow, how did this get missed over the first time around?
This is important stuff though I notice mainstream news hasn't said a word - hmmm, who's getting paid here?

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