Report: US becomes a state sponsor of terrorist groups: "In Raw Story today, a report that the Pentagon has unleashed the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), an exile Iranian organizationpreviously identified as a ‘foreign terrorist organization’ by our State Department in its annual report on terrorism.*

The Pentagon is bypassing official US intelligence channels and turning to a dangerous and unruly cast of characters in order to create strife in Iran in preparation for any possible attack, former and current intelligence officials say.

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The MEK, in fact, was the only identified terrorist group with substantial operations on soil controlled by Saddam’s regime. Other terrorist camps were located in the Kurdish-controlled north. From page 116 of the State Department’s 2002 report:

Description
The MEK philosophy mixes Marxism and Islam. Formed in the 1960s, the organization was expelled from Iran after the Islamic Revolution in 1979, and its primary support now comes from the Iraqi regime. The MEK’s history is studded with anti-Western attacks as well as terrorist attacks on the interests of the clerical regime in Iran and abroad. The MEK now advocates a secular Iranian regime.

Activities
The worldwide campaign against the Iranian Government stresses propaganda and occasionally uses terrorist violence. During the 1970s, the MEK killed US military personnel and US civilians working on defense projects in Tehran and supported the takeover in 1979 of the US Embassy in Tehran."

(Via Martini Republic.)