Fraudcast News On MEK! It Is Time For Responsible Journalism

by Fabian Mahmoudi

Sadly, once again, I came across a piece written by Josh Rogin on foreign policy which is avoiding every principal of journalistic ethics: references to honesty, avoiding journalistic bias, demonstrating responsibility, striking an appropriate balance between privacy and public interest, shunning financial conflict of interest, and choosing ethical means to obtain information. It would be utterly irresponsible of me to say the piece is not a politically orientated leverage accomplice to the subject of a humanitarian crisis.

As has been the case, I researched and was accommodated with the fact that such fraud-casting is disaster for reputable journalism and must be isolated and disclaimed by the profession. Omission of biased information and facts is the worst any journalist could do to destroy his reputation.
It would be a long and tiresome piece if I were to examine one by one in the bundle delivered by Mr. Rogin the fallacies which undermine one's journalistic integrity, but to stick to the humanitarian concern and volatile situation of Camp Liberty and the relocation of the 4300 refugees. I shall only refer to facts which have not been mentioned in the cast entitled:  Are the MEK’s U.S. friends its worst enemies?

The column slams all those who support the Opposition movement MEK and accuses them of being bought. I would suppose then this MEK movement must be a very strong, capable and desirable alternative to the present dithering and tyrannical regime, strong enough to win the hearts and minds of 4000 parliamentarians in Europe, 1800 jurists, arrive to get the maximum vote of 17 parliaments, and a considerable number of US senate votes in its favor.(*6)

Aswat Al Iraq / Politics , Baghdad Al-Iraqiya Leader attacks Prime Minister Maliki, charging him with hypocrisy and deception

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The Chairman of al-Iraqiya Coalition, Iyad Allawi, has launched a strong attack against Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, charging him with lying, hypocrisy, deception and depending on the foreigner and Iran to become prime minister.

“He (Maliki) has forgotten that he was and still is holding the position of defense, interior, national security ministers and the intelligence chairman, and had depended on the foreigner and was supported by Iran to become prime minister,” Allawi said in a televised interview on Friday.

Egyptian party supports protection of Camp Ashraf

Egypt’s al-Majd al-Dastouri party has released a declaration on Camp Ashraf supported by all of the party’s circles and branches in 16 provinces in Egypt and including close to a million members.

The declaration says, “We condemn all of the crimes, killings and anti-democratic treatment by the Iraqi forces and the Iranian regime’s agents in relation to the suppression of freedoms and rights of Ashraf residents.”

IRAQ- ASHRAF ;Statement of the Council of Sheikhs of al-Radhvania, al-Ameria, and al-Naimia in Iraqi al-Anbar Province in support of European Parliament’s plan .

Guaranteed protection of Camp Ashraf by UN and U.S.

More than 2 months has passed since the attack on Ashraf which bought pain and anguish to the hearts of millions of Iraqis and people worldwide. We had repeatedly warned prior to the attack that the rights of Camp Ashraf residents were being violated. We say that they have been Iraqi people’s guests for decades and are protected persons under international agreements and laws, especially under the Fourth Geneva Convention. We consider the United States and the United Nations directly responsible for this situation.

47th day sit-in , Geneva, for Camp Ashraf

Iraqi VP’s spokesperson supports European Parliament solution on Ashraf .

The media spokesman for the Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi has said that the European Parliament’s proposed solution for the residents of Camp Ashraf is an appropriate, just and humanitarian option that respects international and human rights laws. According to the Iraqi news agency, Abdol elah Kazem said Iraqi nationalist forces are in agreement with this solution and have supported humanitarian result. “We oppose any displacement of the residents of Ashraf to another location in Iraq,” he added.

International Federation of Workers Unions supports the European plan for resolving Ashraf’s crisis .

Guaranteed protection of Camp Ashraf residents is necessary for independent international investigations
International Federation of Workers Unions  , a non-governmental organization at the United Nations Economic and Social Council, with more than 70 million members from 95 countries, supports the European plan for achieving a reasonable, peaceful, and permanent solution for Camp Ashraf, and calls for immediate actions to implement this peaceful plan.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu: The proposal presented by the European Parliament is a peaceful and viable solution for Camp Ashraf .

Camp Ashraf

I join the UNHCHR,  EU,  other  countries  around  the world and  human  rights organizations and personalities to deplore strongly the Iraqi forces’ violent attacks against the defenseless and unarmed residents of Camp Ashraf on April 8th, 2011 which left 35 residents killed and hundreds of others wounded. Concerns exist that if the UN does not immediately assume the protection of the residents, Iraqi authorities will carry out yet another armed attack against Ashraf residents.

Over 300 Belgian Mayors express their support for Ashraf residents, call for their protection .

We would like to declare the support of over 300 Mayors, a majority of city mayors in Belgium, for Ashraf residents. This support from all major cities throughout the country is symbolically important and we hope it will add to the international pressures to save the defenceless people in Ashraf.

Symposium in Kuwait in solidarity with Mojahedin at Camp Ashraf .

In an article entitled “Where are Kuwaiti Shiites when Camp Ashraf Shiites are massacred”, the Kuwaiti al-Seyassah Daily wrote in its front page: “Dr. Walid al-Tabatabaee, a member of Kuwait’s Parliament described the killings committed by the Iranian government and the Iraqi Prime Minister’s military at Camp Ashraf ‘crimes against humanity’ and asked the international community to take ‘serious actions for stopping them.”