The Pentagon should appreciate the non-party privilege, which retains latitude for U.S.-led humanitarian interventions and counter-terrorism actions.
A brief timeline is presented below indicating the major counter-terrorism actions undertaken by the EU in order to develop a critical view of the current situation (Table 1).
This appeases public opinion, which demands robust anti-terrorism action.
Some countries, including the UK, already collect such data, but the absence of a common European scheme is seen as a weak link in the continent's counter-terrorism action.
But despite some public steps to co-ordinate counter-terrorism action, the UK's Home Affairs committee expressed continued exasperation with Facebook, Google and Twitter for failing to effectively enforce their own hate speech rules in a more recent evidence session last month.
Proclaiming a desire for justice rather than large sums of money, they also commended the United States for refusing to bend to Libyan demands to have American sanctions lifted and to be removed from a list of countries that support terrorism -- actions that would have brought each family $10 million, as part of a complicated $2.7 billion compensation deal.
Under current terror legislation, home secretaries have the power to proscribe groups suspected of being "concerned with terrorism", and actions in support of that group can lead to prosecution.
As well as acting as a gateway to terrorism, the actions of these extremists lead to the stigmatisation of the entire Muslim community and the shameful idea of collective responsibility.
But some critics contend that if the MEK's supporters were not so powerful, they would face the same treatment as that meted out to less influential Americans jailed after being convicted of supporting terrorism for actions such as offering conflict resolution advice, donating money for schools and rebroadcasting a Hezbollah television station.
