Read more at [The New Yorker]
It was here that the Joint Special Operations Command conducted training, beginning in 2005, for members of the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, a dissident Iranian opposition group known in the West as the M.E.K.
The "IT WAS HERE" in the quote above,is the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site northwest of Las Vegas and the the MEK is an Iranian terrorist organization fighting against Iran's government.
The MEK were placed on the US Terrorist list when they were supported by Iraq and Saddam Hussein in their battle against Iran but now that we've thrown out Saddam and can use the MEK in our fight against Iran, we want to redefine them, remove the terrorist label. In fact, there is a group of US elites on the MEK payroll, lobbying the US government to remove the "terrorist" definition. The MEK is the same group, with the same goals and methods but with a different master.
More on the MEK here [Glenn Greenwald: Israel, MEK and state sponsor of terror groups]
In my opinion, this is the problem with a "War on Terrorism". The "Terrorist" can be redefined whenever those in power feel its convenient. The result is state of perpetual war, much like Orwell's 1984, only rather than the shifting alliances of Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, we have a shifting definition of one enemy, "Terrorism".
tnb
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
The US Revolutionary War leaders would have been defined as terrorists by the British government.
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