{"id":16055,"date":"2013-02-04T13:56:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T20:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=16055"},"modified":"2013-02-04T13:56:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T20:56:24","slug":"us-delisted-mek-terrorists-last-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=16055","title":{"rendered":"US &#8220;delisted&#8221; MEK terrorists last September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State Department delists MEK as terrorist organization<\/strong><br \/>\n28 September, 2012 &#8211; Joel Gehrke &#8211; The Washington Examiner<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decided to end the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK)  status as a foreign terrorist organization, despite its past terrorist attacks on American citizens, based on recent good behavior and a renunciation of violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith today\u2019s actions, the Department does not overlook or forget the MEK\u2019s past acts of terrorism, including its involvement in the killing of U.S. citizens in Iran in the 1970s and an attack on U.S. soil in 1992.\u201d the State Department said in a statement. \u201cThe Secretary\u2019s decision today took into account the MEK\u2019s public renunciation of violence, the absence of confirmed acts of terrorism by the MEK for more than a decade, and their cooperation in the peaceful closure of Camp Ashraf, their historic paramilitary base.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The State Department said it still \u201chas serious concerns about the MEK as an organization, particularly with regard to allegations of abuse committed against its own members.\u201d  <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/state-department-delists-mek-as-terrorist-organization\/article\/2509337\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D16055&amp;text=US+%22delisted%22+MEK+terrorists+last+September&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Department delists MEK as terrorist organization 28 September, 2012 &#8211; Joel Gehrke &#8211; The Washington Examiner Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decided to end the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) status as a foreign terrorist organization, despite its past terrorist attacks on American citizens, based on recent good behavior and a renunciation of violence. \u201cWith today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=16055#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3962],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16057,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16055\/revisions\/16057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}