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Bush Gives Terrorists U.S. Military Uniforms

MKO agents in US uniform deployed close to Iranian border


05/09/03: (IRNA) Tehran, US troops are closely cooperating with members of
militant Iranian opposition, the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), allowing the terrorist group to dress American military uniform for controlling border checkpoints between Iran and Iraq, press said Tuesday.

The Persian daily Jomhuri-ye Eslami cited a witness which the paper said had just returned from Iraq, as saying that MKO operatives had been assigned to search bodies of those who crossed the border.

"The Munafeqin (MKO) forces are disarmed at these checkpoints but they move around with arms in several other cities such as Samera (which is a religious city with a major Shiite Muslim population)," the paper said.

"Some Munafeqin wear Arabic dress at pilgrimage sites and are closely cooperating with invading forces on security issues," Jomhuri-ye Eslami cited the witness as saying.

US has reportedly been seeking to use MKO in suppressing opposition to Iraq's occupation by American-led coalition forces.

Washington, which has included MKO among terrorist groups, made a U-turn recently as it confirmed it had reached an accord with the group, which included letting the clique to keep its arms and bases in Iraq and continue their hit-and-run operations against Iran.

MKO has internationally been classified as a 'terrorist organization', including by the European Union.

"America is telling a lie and playing tricks while it boasts of fighting terrorism and uses those (MKO), who have a chequered history of terrorism, for repressing the Iraqi people," a senior Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Jannati, said here Friday.

"Munfaqin served Saddam for years. Now, they have become America's servants," he added.

Tehran has voiced indignation at reports of ceasefire agreement between Washington and MKO, which was widely said to have been party to Saddam Hussein's ruthless crackdown on Iraqi opposition.

The MKO, officially outlawed in Iran because of a long record of political assassinations, bomb blasts and terrorist schemes since 1981, was based in neighboring Iraq from where it planned sporadic attacks
against the Islamic Republic.

Members of the group were initially said to be on the run following the US-led invasion and their isolated camps occupied by looters and stray dogs.

An official recently said that Iran was negotiating with certain parties to encourage members of the group to return home following the US-led invasion of that country.

The official also rang out a warning against sheltering members of the terrorist group, calling on world countries to extradite senior leaders of MKO.

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