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http://www.smdp.com/Articles-c-2009-05-01-53415.113116_Local_pleads_guilty_to_funding_terrorism.html By Ashley Archibald May 01, 2009 SANTA ANA — Seven individuals, including one Santa Monica resident, pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. The seven allegedly raised funds for the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian-dissident group that was designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the [...]

A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the State Department to review its designation of the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran as a foreign terrorist organization, strongly suggesting the designation should be revoked. The ruling by the three-judge panel hands yet another foreign-policy hot potato to the Obama administration. The PMOI, also known as the [...]

SALEH AL-MUTLAQ By Saleh al-Mutlaq | April 23, 2008 THERE IS so much tragedy in Iraq that some stories go underreported – eclipsed by other negative news. This one requires attention: Inside Iraq, 20 kilometers west of the Iranian border and 60 kilometers northeast of Baghdad in Diyala province, stands Camp Ashraf where members of [...]