Quote from: The Poster With No Name on January 04, 2011, 09:39:17 AM
Ha ha ha ha ha no.
I mean, unless Bernie Sanders was assassinating major figures in the Iranian administration up until quite recently, and also got his compounds in Iraq bombed by the USAF. MEK just realized being an openly vocal Islamist terrorist organization in the post 9/11 world was a bad PR move and made the external propaganda a little less obvious, and then rebranded themselves as an "exiled movement", while trying desperately not to mention they were exiled for murdering people.
And did you, in your vast research on the MEK, notice when the EU took them off their terror list? Did you ever think that the EU's negotiations at the time had any impact on this decision? That maybe the EU was using the existence of their organization in several European capitals as a bargaining chip, sweetening the deal for a halt to the Iranian nuclear program?
Speaking of Iran, there have been a lot of suspicious assassinations there in recent years. Lots of the blame has fallen on Jundullah, but they're an ethnically Baloch group, who operate on the Iranian border. They kind of stand out in an urban environment like Tehran, with the large numbers of Persians and Azeri who typically live in those areas. Not MEK terrorists though. The MEK who has a history of targeted assassinations, and whose members recieved advanced paramilitary and urban warfare training from Saddam Hussein.
I'm sure this all just coincidence however, and we have nothing to worry about. Especially since you seem to know so much about the MEK and have concluded they are no longer a threat.
Well, thanks for putting me straight. No, my comparison wasn't very good. You make some very good points there, and I think I agree with what you're trying to say. And my "vast research on the MEK" wasn't really that vast, or that objective for that matter. An acquaintance of me is involved in the Iranian democracy movement, and now I understand why he doesn't trust the MEK. I'm loving your sarcasm, by the way. :P