Daniel McAdams at LRC:
"(Washington, D.C.) In a stunning and dramatic move, the former organ of the Beltway neo-conservatives, The Washington Times, has switched sides in the Global War on Terrorism and has thrown its lot in with the violent jihadists. The shift was evidenced in an advertisement printed on page A-7 of today’s edition by the terrorist organization known as the Iranian Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MeK).In agreeing to print an advertisement urging Washington support for the MeK, listed by the State Department as a global terrorist organization, The Washington Times apparently has thrown its lot behind terrorism and has spit in the face of President Bush’s promise to "…direct every resource at our command, every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence and every necessary weapon of war, to the disruption and defeat of the global terror network."
The bill of particulars on the Mujahedeen-e Khalq marks it as one of the most dangerous and adaptable terrorist groups on earth. A bizarre mix of radical Islam and Marxism, this group has brutally murdered American citizens, was a major force behind the 1979 revolution in Iran which installed theocratic rule in that country, has killed hundreds in its home country in dozens of terrorist attacks. In the 1980s, the MeK lined up behind Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, providing valuable assistance to the former Iraqi leader, who now faces a death sentence for murder, in Hussein’s brutal crackdown on Kurdish separatists.
More recently, MeK terrorist training camps in northern Iraq were bombed by Coalition forced during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
There is no word on whether the (in)Justice Department plans to move against The Washington Times for allowing itself to be used as a mouthpiece for one of the world’s most dangerous terrorist organizations."
Maybe the WH is trying to sell a new image for the Mek. They may be useful if you’re going to bring down Iran. Perhaps the WT is just helping the process along.
Recently an American-born Iranian woman, Zeinab Taleb-Jedi, was indicted for her involvement with the MEK. However, there seems to be a double standard. For example, as many as 150 members of Congress have gone on record supporting the MEK. The MEK also appears to serve as mercenaries for the Pentagon and as Chalabi-style intelligence providers on those Iranian WMD. In 2003, the MEK had a full-page ad in the New York Times and the Times wasn’t busted.
There’s a lot of quotes and links here: http://www.pnar.org/mek.htm
McAdams writes:
“There is no word on whether the (in)Justice Department plans to move against The Washington Times for allowing itself to be used as a mouthpiece for one of the world
Sorry to change topics but god damn, have you read about this shit. I just heard about on a radio talk show.
Maybe you all have seen this and discussed it but somehow I missed it. Christ, talk about drug warriors
running completely amuck. This is completely fucking outrageous.
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — As family members spent Thanksgiving Day boarding up the home of a 92-year-old woman who was shot to death during a police drug raid, their spokesman said they will request a federal investigation.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/23/atlanta.shooting/
The Post headline is “92 year old woman dies in shootout with police”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/22/AR2006112201812_pf.html
There is no right to self defense in this fucking police state! These fucking drug warriors are nothing
but jack-booted murderers. They give thugs a bad name.
I’m sure these drug goons in Atlanta were given federal tax dollars so even if you don’t live in Georgia
your tax dollars helped pay for this murder. Ain’t AmeriKKKa wonderful. If you refuse to pay for the
murders of people all over the world and in your own country the state will hunt you down and put
you in a cage and if you try to resist that they will kill you.
Hey, maybe Chucky Rangel will end the drug war by proposing legislation to conscript drug users and
92 year old woman who are in danger of being murdered by pigs, er I mean cops. (Sorry for insulting
swine everywhere.) Then those nice Democrats who infested this blog can once again remind us how
brilliant Rangel is.
At least this guy escaped the army of goons….
http://www.comics.com/comics/herman/archive/herman-20061119.html
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Phil,
He should be more worried than that. I’d meet them on the porch with all my neighbors, lights, cameras – still and video – the works. Ain’t gonna gun me down like a helpless 90 year old woman. Not without it being on TV at least.
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