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MEK/MKO/PMOI/NCRI delisted in London

"The Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission (POAC) ruled yesterday that the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, acted illegally in refusing to take the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) off the proscribed terrorist blacklist drawn up under the 2000 Terrorist Act."

The MEK/MEO/PMOI/... was among the first organisations to be banned under Britain's Terrorism Act 2000.

The claim is that they haven't carried out any ops, anywhere, since their armor was turned over to CENTCOM, and any exfiltration from and to Camp Ashraf to operational objectives in Iran would have to pass through the American Zone of Control and coordinate with US forces to the point of insertion into the Islamic Republic to avoid "friendly fire" incidents.

It is a reasonable claim, but is it sufficient to make the organization "civil"? And if any of the "information" sourced by the MEK/MKO/PMOI/NCRI since 2003 on the "Iran's covert nuclear weapons program" they've created is as bogus as the NYTimes' information on the "Iraq's covert nuclear weapons program" , how is fabrication of causus belli an act that doesn't result in proscription?

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