U.S. Says Woman in Shelter Terror Chief

[ECH1969]

The documents, obtained from Brooklyn court files on Monday, say two confidential informants in Iraq identified Zeinab Taleb-Jedi, 51, as a leader of the Mujahedeen Khalq. The group was identified in court papers as Mujahedin-e Khalq.

The group, also known as the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, and its affiliates were deemed foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. State Department in 1997. The designations bar anyone in the United States from providing material support.

The defendant, who was born in Iran, came to the United States on a student visa in 1978 to pursue a master's degree in political science in Georgia, court papers said. She later moved to Queens before settling in Virginia, where she became a naturalized U.S. citizen.

In her FBI interview, Taleb-Jedi told agents her husband joined the Mujahedeen and went to Iraq in 1986. In 1999, after learning her husband was killed in a bombing, she "left her job, sold all her belongings and traveled" the group's Ashraf Base in Iraq, 40 miles (64 kilometers) north of Baghdad, documents said.

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[crikkett]

1. still trying to make sense of this headline.

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