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October 12,2006
 
BBC reports thatBritish ForeignSecretary Mar-garet Beckett, inher first exclu-sive meetingwith the for-eign press inthe UK, re-sponded to aquestion onthe MKO and,about why thegroup was stillactive in Iraqsaid: "Britainconsiders MKO aterrorist organi-zation and op-poses thisgroup. However,banning the ac-tivities of thisgroup in Iraq isup to the Iraqigovernment andthe US as thecommander of coalition forcesin Iraq."BBC also re-ported that Brit-ish Foreign Sec-retary MargaretBeckett said onWednesday inLondon that the
Beckett: MKO is a Terrorist Group
 
NEJAT SOCIETY
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 Nejat Society is aiming to rescue the members of the MKO who are still captivein Ashraf Camp in Iraq.
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 Nejat Society is in con- stant contact with the families of members of  MKO, trying to connect them to their beloved  ones.
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 Nejat Society is trying to build a good international  support for its cause to save the MKO members from cultic relationships.
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 Nejat Society is organis-ing meetings and confer-ences for the members and the families in order to bring them together and ease their grieves.
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 Nejat Society is willing touse all means possible to reach its goals and there- fore seeks and needs your support
 
2006-10-01
Mojahedin took meto Iraq and taughtme to kill.
 In l992 they askedme if I'd like to go toIraq for some mili-tary training. I knewas a member of an"armed struggle"
 
this might be re-quired, so I didn'tresist, although Iknew I couldnever kill any-one. I learnedhow to drive atruck, march andshoot a gun, but Iclearly wasn't sol-dier material. I lovedthe camp and theirresponsibility - Iobeyed orders and itfelt liberating. Ihad this childlikefeeling that if Iput myself intheir hand, I’d beOK, . . .(Full article onpages 4 and 5)
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Kids sent to MKOCamps in Iraq
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US Citizen helpedthe Terrorist MKO7British House of Lords’ Debate6MKO supporterhelps Al-Qaeda6
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UK governmentstill believes theMKO is a terror-ist organization."This group isbanned andthere have beenno changes inits status," shesaid.She addedthat there wasno relationshipbetween Lon-don and thisterrorist or-ganization, de-claring that thefinal fate of theMKO elementsin Iraq shouldbe determinedby the Iraqigovernment.
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PARIS, Sept. 19 /U.S.Newswire/ -- Followingis a statement of IranInterlink on captives inIraq:
 
For three years U.S. forceshave protected a terroristgroup in Iraq even thoughmost of them want to re-turn home totheir families.
 
MojahedinKhalq combat-ants are beingheld againsttheir will inCamp Ashraf say former members whohave returned home in thepast two years.
 
Now, a sevenmember dele-gation from theIranian NGO,Nejat Associa-tion, has ar-rived in Paris toalert publicopinion to thesituation of 3,000 men andwomen held against theirwill in an Iraqi base of theIranian Moja-hedin Khalqunder the lead-ership of Maryam Rajavi.
 
U.S. forces saythey cannotintervene in-side the camp,leaving residents unable toaccess humanitarian helpfrom the ICRC and theUNHCR.
 
Several cases of retentionby force have been con-firmed by personal testi-mony from former captivesin the MKO camp who saythat basic human rights arebeing violated daily. Signifi-cant amongthese cases areIranian prison-ers of war(POWs) cap-tured by theIraqi forcesduring theeight yearIran-Iraq warand who were then deliv-ered by Saddam Hussein tothe Mojahedinto boost num-bers.
 
Nejat Associa-tion comprisesformer mem-bers and fami-lies of theCamp Ashraf captives. Theydemand the immediate andfull implementation of UNProtected Persons status sothat they canhave free andunfettered con-tact with theirrelatives insidethe camp.
 
Arash Sameti-pour, a formercombatant of the MKO whospent several years in Evinprison says: "We know thatthe majority of people
Captives of Maryam Rajavi's Mojahedin Khalq in IraqAre Human Rights Victims
 
trapped inside CampAshraf would like toleave. We hear this fromthose who have recentlyescaped the group. Whatwe are asking is for theinternational community toimplement all the condi-tions of the Fourth GenevaConvention so that the resi-dents of Camp Ashraf canget help from their fami-lies."
 
Nejat Association says thisis a grave humanitarian cri-sis and that Camp Ashraf residents should not beused as pawns in politicalwrangles between westerngovernments and Iran.
 
The Iraqi government hasannounced that Camp Ash-raf must be dismantled andthe residents removed fromIraqi territory. Responsibil-ity for the safety and well-being of these individualsnow rests with westerngovernments and interna-tional humanitarian agen-cies.
 
Captive in Ashraf Camp
 
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Interview by MassoudKhodabandeh.
Paris, September 27, 2006Participating:
Mr. Babak Amin
, head of the Nejat delegation inParis. Amin was recruitedby the MKO while a studentin Austria and trained in itsterrorist camps in Iraq. Hecarried out over 10 terroristoperations in Iran beforebeing arrested by the Ira-nian securityforces. He wassentenced to tenyears imprison-ment in Evinprison. He served 5years and was re-leased after serv-ing half his sen-tence. Amin is nowcontinuing his ITdegree in the University of Tehran and working parttime in an IT consultancycompany.
Mr. Arash Sametipour
,recruited as a teenager bythe MKO inWashington DCthrough theiragent in the USA,Alireza Jafar-zadeh. Sameti-pour was trainedin the MKO's ter-rorist camps inIraq before beingsent to perform an armedoperation in Tehran. Hetried to kill himself at the time of hisarrest by takinghis cyanide pilland exploding agrenade. He sur-vived but lost hisright hand. Heserved 4.5 yearsof his sentence inEvin prison and isnow continuing hisstudy as well as working asa language teacher.Sametipour was recently
ety’s activities towards help-ing the families of the vic-tims of Rajavi’s TerroristCult. He also explained theweek long ac-tivities of thedelegation inParis includingofficial meet-ings withFrench govern-mental and non-governmental authorities aswell as visiting human rightsbodies and the media.Gentlemen Arash Sameti-pour, Ali Moradi, Ali AsgharNejat Press Release Sept. 23
Nejat Society
hold a PressConference in Paris on Fri-day Sept. 22 at 10am.The seven member delega-tion sent to Paris by the Soci-ety described the situation of those captured in MKOcamp in Iraq.The Press Conference wasopened by Mr AlainChevalerias the Director of French Anti-terrorism Re-search Institute. Then MrBabak Amin, head of thedelegation, gave a brief background about the Soci-
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Press Conference in Paris on Friday Sept. 22
 
Torabi, and ladies Zahra Bo-zorganfar, Massoumeh Rezaiand Nasrin Dadkhah por-trayed to the audience theobstacles on theway of rescuingthe captives heldin Ashraf Camp.The representa-tives of Nejat So-ciety in this con-ference emphasized that theirinternational official trip wasregarded successful and theSociety intends to occasion-ally send more delegations toWestern countries.
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Mr. Ali Moradi
, a sergeantin the Iranian military, hewas captured byIraqi forces at thestart of the Iran-Iraq war. Givento the MKO bySaddam afterserving 9 yearsas a POW, Moradinever acceptedthe MKO andeventually took refuge fromthe MKO with the Americanarmy after the invasion of Iraq. He was recently mar-ried and is self-employedas a trader and cab driver.Moradi is also the head of Nejat Association in Lore-stan province.
 
The interview was carriedout in Bastille, Paris as thedelegation emerged fromone meeting on their wayto catch the next one at thestart of their intensive twoweek schedule.
 Babak Amin (right) and  Arash Sametipour (left) Ali Moradi
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