RUDAW By Yerevan Saeed WASHINGTON DC—Lawmakers in the United States condemned rocket attacks on the Iranian dissident group Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) at Liberty Camp in Baghdad on Thursday, calling it a terrorist attack. “The United States strongly condemns today’s brutal, senseless terrorist attack on Camp Hurriya that killed and injured camp residents,” said US…
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More than 20 dead after missile attack on Iranian refugee camp in Baghdad
The GUARDIAN BY ASSOCIATED PRESS No claim of responsibility for attack that hit former military base near Iraqi airport, which houses exiles of Iranian opposition group Mujahedin of Iran More than 20 people are reported to have been killed after a barrage of rockets slammed into a former military base near Baghdad international airport that…
UNHCR statement on today’s attack on vicinity of Baghdad International Airport, including Camp Liberty, in Iraq
29 October 2015 UNHCR strongly condemns today’s rocket attacks in the vicinity of Baghdad International Airport, which have also hit adjacent Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty), reportedly causing injuries to dozens of people of concern and some 20 deaths. Camp Liberty is home to around 2,200 people of concern to the Office. The authorities have evacuated…
Shocking Scenes of Oct. 29 Rocket Attack on Camp Liberty
23 Iranian dissidents, members of People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), who are striving for freedom and democracy in their homeland, were killed tonight in the most lethal attack so far on Camp Liberty near Baghdad airport where some 2400 defenseless PMOI members have been kept in unsafe and inhuman conditions by the Iraqi Government…
Washington Times: Iran responsible for deadly rocket attack on Camp Liberty in Iraq, dissidents say
The Washington Times By Guy Taylor An Iranian dissident group said more than 20 of its members in Iraq were killed Thursday when a barrage of Iranian-made rockets slammed into a former U.S. military base near Baghdad, where the dissidents have been kept in a state of semi-captivity by Iraqi authorities for years. While the…