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In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

  
  The Cult of Rajavi
Several months ago, she e-mailed the Mujahedeen, who then facilitated her passage to Turkey, where she was met at the border, put on a train to Ankara and then Iraq.
I had heard that the Mujahedeen must take a vow of ''eternal divorce,'' that the young ones can never marry or have children and that the older ones had to divorce their spouses sometime in the late 1980's.
Today, one of the standard lines of the Mujahedeen's National Council of Resistance to politicians in Europe and America is that it is advocating a secular, democratic government in Iran, and that when it overthrows the regime, it will set up a six-month interim government with Maryam as president and then hold free elections.
cscs.umich.edu /~crshalizi/sloth/2003-07-15.html   (4342 words)

  
  Worker-communist Party of Iran - Mujahed's Forbidden Dreams Why a Mujahed Government stands no chance of Coming to ...
The Mujahedeen's task in the interval is regarded as that of having to establish itself as the natural and obvious 'alternative' of the crumbling regime.
The Mujahedeen Organisation itself knows that a number of units made up of relatives and sympathisers dispatched from Europe, with 13 borrowed helicopters and 11 tanks which cannot even be serviced would, in today's world, not stand up to the forces loyal to the elder of the first village on the way.
The Mujahedeen strategy to form government, maybe despite their own wishes, is only one of the possible detonators for the situation to explode, and for the nightmare of civil war and chaos in Iran to be unleashed.
www.wpiran.org /publications/nader_Mujahedin_Forbidden_Dream.htm   (4654 words)

  
 RAWA.ORG:Islamists and Mujahedeen Secure Victory in Afghan Vote
Among the winners are some of the prominent men of the past two decades of war and turbulent politics.
Leaders of two mujahedeen, or jihadi, parties that fought the Soviet occupation - former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, head of Jamiat-i-Islami, and Abdul Rab Rassoul Sayyaf, leader of Ittehad-e-Islami - won seats, as did a number of their supporters.
Karzai recently, but their loyalty is not assured because they have much in common with the opposition: support for the mujahedeen who fought the jihad, conservative values and a demand for the northern ethnic groups to receive a fair share of power.
www.rawa.org /election-result.htm   (825 words)

  
 Nieuwsselectie: Voorpagina
Daarom was het in het verleden ook structureel beleid om Mujahedeen een verblijfsstatus te geven."
Het was (en is) voor deze organisatie van het grootste belang zoveel mogelijk Iraniërs een vluchtelingenstatus in het Westen te bezorgen.
Waarmee zij impliciet stelde dat de uit Irak komende Mujahedeen daar niet meer worden toegelaten.
www.nrc.nl /W2/Nieuws/1999/07/16/Vp/02.html   (988 words)

  
 A Continuum of Terror - From Mujahedeen to al-Qaeda
A native of Egypt, Ali Abdelsoud Mohamed rose to the rank of major in Egypt's special forces before being forced out of Egypt's military in 1984 because he was considered a religious extremist.
Mohamed's new friends in California took it for granted that he was working for the CIA in their proxy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
Like the Saudi Arabian leader, bin Laden, the mujahedeen were recruited by the CIA from across the Arab world to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
www.commondreams.org /views01/1128-10.htm   (999 words)

  
 From Mujahedeen to Farmer | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 03.01.2004
Two years on, the country is in the process of rebuilding itself and drafting a constitution, but there are still just as many armed mujahedeen as there were before the war.
He has tried to blend out the four horrid years between, in which mujahedeen turned against and began to slaughter each other, transforming the capital city of Kabul into a desert wasteland.
At the beginning of November, the commandants in the region began sending tired or inexperienced mujahedeen to be disarmed in the presence of interim President Hamid Karsai, who flew in to Kunduz especially for the event.
www.dw-world.de /popups/popup_printcontent/0,,1047466,00.html   (617 words)

  
 Nieuwsselectie: Binnenland
Sinds zijn 18de was hij fanatiek aanhanger van de Mujahedeen Khalq, een Iraanse oppositiegroep die met geweld het bewind in Teheran omver hoopt te werpen.
We moesten zeggen dat we aanhangers waren van de Mujahedeen en dat onze advocaat, die Albert heette, gewaarschuwd moest worden.
We mochten van hem onder geen beding zeggen dat we uit Irak waren gekomen.
www.nrc.nl /W2/Nieuws/1999/07/17/Vp/03.html   (943 words)

  
 'Mujahedeen of the Victorious Sect' vows more raids - War on Iraq - smh.com.au
Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera today reported it had received a statement and videotape from an Iraqi resistance group - calling itself Mujahedeen of the Victorious Sect - that claimed responsibility for attacks on US forces and promised more.
It was believed to be the first such claim, and the first time a group said it had organised the increasingly bloody offensive.
In a news broadcast early today, the al-Jazeera announcer read from a statement by a previously unheard of group calling itself the Mujahedeen of the Victorious Sect.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/06/26/1056449342724.html   (379 words)

  
 Hussain Hindawi & John R. Thomson on Iran & Mujahedeen-e-Khalq on National Review
What follows promises to be a bitter contest among the entrenched clerics of the Islamic Republic, the armed Mujahedeen opposition and the overwhelming majority of Iranians, led by their youth and encouraged by the United States.
The Mujahedeen are particularly weak with dissident 20- and 30-somethings across the land, critical to any group's success with 60 percent of Iranians under the age of 25.
Nevertheless, in the Byzantine bypaths of Middle Eastern politics, Massoud, Maryam, and their Mujahedeen mates continue to fight twin battles: overthrow the regime in Tehran and gain recognition of Mujahedeen-e-Khalq as legitimate leaders of the opposition.
www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-hindawi-thomson070703.asp   (1054 words)

  
 Iranian Resistance Group Seen as Leverage in Nuclear Dispute
The Iranian opposition group is listed as a terrorist organization in Europe and the United States, yet it continues to stage rallies and court lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic.
In the past, the Mujahedeen has been blamed for launching strikes against Iran from its base in Iraq, and for terrorist activities targeting Iranian interests overseas.
Terrorism expert Bob Ayers, of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, says the Mujahedeen could be of limited use to Western governments in their current standoff with Iran.
www.voanews.com /english/2006-01-23-voa73.cfm   (978 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: Iran
The Mujahedeen Khalq began in the early 1960s, funded by radical university students in Tehran and adopting an ideology that combines elements of Marxism and Islam.
Officially in Canada, the mujahedeen are classified as terrorists on a UN list that allows their assets to be frozen.
Most western countries have yet to crack down on the mujahedeen, with the exception of France, where the mujahedeen's political organization is based.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/iran/peoples_mujahedeen.html   (995 words)

  
 ZNet Commentary: Unilateral “Negotiations” and Collective Punishment in Falluja
in which the U.S. is engaged with the mujahedeen in Falluja boil down to this: the mujahedeen are to relinquish their ?heavy weaponry?
In the beginning of April, some residents of Fallujah killed four Blackwater Security mercenaries in their flashy white SUV while the professional militants were guarding a food shipment through the city.
Along with the ideologically driven mujahedeen fighting the soldiers in Falluja, an increasing number of residents are simply fighting to defend their homes, their families, their mosques and their city.
www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2004-04/26jamail.cfm   (933 words)

  
 US grants People's Mujahedeen members protection. 27/07/2004. ABC News Online
Iran says the decision destroys the United States' claims to be fighting terrorist groups.
American officials are trying to play down this move and deny that it is contradictory.
For years, the People's Mujahedeen, or Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, was the main Iranian opposition group.
www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200407/s1163249.htm   (203 words)

  
 mujahedeen: Blogs, Photos, Videos and more on Technorati
Jaish al Mujahedeen: Angriff auf Humvee der Amerikaner
From Harry's place: Daniel Pipes is the director of Middle East Forum, a think tank designed to “promote American interests in the Middle East,” and a founder of its journal, the Middle East Quarterly.
[IMG] In der Erklärung wird zu den militärischen Operationen der Mujahedeen während der letzten beiden Monate Stellung genommen.
technorati.com /tag/mujahedeen   (513 words)

  
 KtB - A Mantra for the Mujahedeen
I’m caught in a convocation of languages in the cracks between tongues as I watch the World Trade Center towers fall again and again in slo-mo, and I can’t seem to make sense of it in my native tongue.
Gospodi God have mercy on the unholy warriors, the mujahedeen, for we know not what they do, for the word of Allah is not their witness.
Written on the wind, the names of the innocent dead, Muslims among them.
www.killingthebuddha.com /dogma/mujahedeen.htm   (1245 words)

  
 Mujahedeen-e Khalq
Iran immediately comes back with a more limited proposal, offering to hand over a group of al-Qaeda leaders being held in Iran in return for the US to hand over leaders of the Mujahedeen of Iran (MEK).
The US Treasury Department freezes the assets of the Iranian-American Community of Northern Virginia after the organization holds a fundraising event (see January 24, 2004), the stated purpose of which was to provide support to earthquake victims.
The FBI believes that some of the money raised was also meant to fund the Mujahedeen -e Khalq (MEK), a US-designated terrorist organization whose mission is to overthrow the government of Iran.
www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=mujahedeen-e_khalq   (5401 words)

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