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Article: Looking For A Few Good Spies; Washington calls the Iranian MEK a terrorist group. But some administration hawks think its members could be useful.
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- Newsweek
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- February 14, 2005
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Byline: Christopher Dickey, Mark Hosenball and Michael Hirsh (With John Barry and Richard Wolffe)
This is a terrorist cult leader? Maryam Rajavi is dressed in a Chanel-style suit with her skirt at midcalf, lilac colored pumps and a matching headscarf. Over a dinner of kebab, rice and French pastries, Rajavi smiles often and laughs easily. She's at once colorful and demure, like many an educated woman in the Middle East. Indeed if George W. Bush--who relies on powerful females for counsel--were pressed to identify a Muslim model of womanhood, this 51-year-old Iranian would look very much the part.
But of course that's exactly the impression Rajavi seeks ...
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