Join us for an evening of solidarity with the victims of Bam earthquake and regime change in Iran.

http://www.iran-solidarity.org/ ^ | Jan 21, 2004 | http://www.iran-solidarity.org/

[faludeh_shirazi]

Join us for an evening of solidarity with the victims of the devastating Bam earthquake and in support of referendum for regime change in Iran.

[JohnGalt]

Terrorists plan D.C. fundraiser

House Administration Chairman Robert Ney (R-Ohio) will ask Attorney General John Ashcroft today to investigate a charity event for ties to an Iranian terrorist group backed by Saddam Hussein.

The event, to be held Saturday at the Washington Convention Center, is billed as a “night of solidarity with Iran.” The organizers, led by the Iranian-American Society of Northern Virginia, hope to raise $140,000 to help survivors of the earthquake in Bam on Dec. 26, which killed 30,000 people.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Of the 23 organizations listed as sponsors for the event, 17 are known MEK front groups or linked to prominent MEK members and activists. None appears to be registered with the Internal Revenue Service or state agencies as legitimate businesses or charities.

The MEK has often created fictional philanthropic and social organizations to convey legitimacy. In a 1994 dossier on the group, the State Department noted that “many of these member groups are actually shell organizations, established by the [MEK] in order to make [it] appear representative and … popular.

[JohnGalt]

Thought you all might like to see some of the names of this guys ping list...strange days on FR indeed!

To: knighthawk; McGavin999; SJackson; tet68; Eala; Stultis; river rat; risk; F14 Pilot; DoctorZIn; ...
SUPER PING TIME

2 posted on 12/02/2003 9:22:53 AM PST by faludeh_shirazi
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[faludeh_shirazi]

Yah - Just saw the newsbrief.. It's unfortunate if true - however I don't think its fair to call Iranian Resistance MEK - many Iranian activist call themselves "resistance" but oppose MEK completely..

[AppyPappy]

MEK?

[faludeh_shirazi]

John - are you trying to imply something... If it's related to news contradicting the event.. I merely saw the event when I did a search for BAM in google and posted it.. please explain your point?

[Pan_Yans Wife]

The MEK is an Iranian opposition group formerly based in Baghdad but with a continuing strong presence in the United States, primarily for fundraising and efforts to reverse its terrorist designation, first imposed in 1997.

The U.S. intelligence community alleges the MEK was responsible for the deaths of at least six American servicemen and civilians in Iran during the mid-1970s and actively participated in the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure in Tehran. Having fallen afoul of Khomeini, in 1986 the group took refuge in Baghdad under Saddam Hussein.

In addition to its periodic hit-and-runs inside Iran, intelligence sources say, the MEK took part in Saddam’s grisly suppression of the Kurdish and Shiite minorities.

Saddam’s backing of the MEK was used as one justification for the Iraq war, and coalition forces viewed the MEK as enemy combatants. Last fall, federal law enforcement raided several MEK-related organizations in the Washington area.

from the link that Galt provided...

[Pan_Yans Wife]

You forgot me, John... I'm on that ping list, too.

[faludeh_shirazi]

An Iranian group deemed "Terrorist" for their Anti-Islamic Regime attacks operarted out of IRaq and backed by Saddam.. Some of their attacks injured and killed innocent Iranians.. They have operated out of France for years but we recently shut down there and many are held and protect by American forces in Iraq.. The majority of group are Women and they apparently are highly educated and trained group//

[JohnGalt]

Yes, but I like you.

Peace to you and yours,

[faludeh_shirazi]

I guess I'm in the dark right now.. what was the whole thing about posting my ping list..?

[faludeh_shirazi]

Ohh okay - not trying to win any friends John - but only confused why you took a shot at me from that post...

sorry to upset ya..
khodahafez.

[JohnGalt]

Imply? I alerted some of my fellow travelers that they might find an 'ad' for a suspected terrorist charity event interesting. Further, I think they find it even more interesting who your political allies on this site are.

You have your clique; I have mine.

[JohnGalt]

I am sure you have a good heart, and God's speed liberty in Iran, but that is your people's issue, not America's issue.

[faludeh_shirazi]

Allies ? Only those who notified me that they wanted to be pinged.. Ohh - then that's a good thing what you did.. I had logged into post the report i found shortly after on iranvajahan and saw you had already taken care of it which is good.. I think if you look at my history of posts you can see exactly where I stand.. - appreciate it.

[faludeh_shirazi]

Actually you're wrong.. it is America's issue if we mean what we saw when we talk about War on Terrorism.. Everybody who knows anything about the situation in the Middle East knows exactly who the problems are and that Libya, Saddam, etc.. were all stepping stones.. SECONDLY: nobody is asking for American Military support - just moral and other/all non-military help..

THIRD BRO - Born in America... Catholic.. and 75% Persian..

take care

[JohnGalt]

Who is this 'we' you speak of?

Everybody who knows anything about the situation in the Middle East knows exactly who the problems are and that Libya, Saddam, etc.. were all stepping stones

Are you saying that the administration's policy is to topple successive regimes in the Middle East and this is something all American people know? And then you actually suggest "nobody is asking for American Military support"?

LOL

"Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests"

George Washington

[faludeh_shirazi]

Dude - what the hell are you talking about.. go read a book..

[Pan_Yans Wife]

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