Rocket attack kills Iranian exiles in Iraq
▻http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/02/20132971155517980.html
Katyusha rockets fired on a camp housing Iranian dissidents near Baghdad have killed five members of the opposition group, Iraqi security officials say.
About 40 members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) group were wounded in Saturday’s attack, along with three Iraqi policemen.
MEK calls for the overthrow of Iran’s leaders and fought alongside the forces of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack on the transit camp, a former American military base known as Camp Liberty, adjacent to Baghdad’s international airport.
J’ai un peu de mal avec la chronologie :
Camp Liberty is home to more than 1,000 residents from the MEK who were moved last year, on Iraq’s insistence, from their historic paramilitary camp of the 1980s - Camp Ashraf.
Aide-moi un peu, s’il te plaît : je crois ici comprendre que, de tout le temps où les Ricains étaient directement responsables de la gestion de l’Irak, il y avait un camp parfaitement identifié où se trouvaient 1000 membres d’un groupe placé sur la liste américaines des organisations terroristes ?
Britain struck the group off its terror list in June 2008, followed by the European Union in 2009 and the US in September 2012.
Ah oui, jusqu’en 2009, il semble que le camp était directement contrôlé par les Américains :
▻http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Ashraf
Camp Ashraf or Ashraf City was a refugee camp in Iraq’s Diyala province and headquarters of the exiled People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK).[1][2] The population used to be around 3,400 in 2012 but 2,000 have been relocated to BIOP with 1,500 of the leadership and staunch resisters, remain at Camp Ashraf.
Camp Ashraf (aka US Forward Operating Base Grizzly) is situated 10 km northeast of the Iraq the town of Khalis, about 80 kilometers west of the Iran border and 40 kilometers north of Baghdad. On January 1, 2009, the US Government formally transferred control over to the Iraqi government. Over the past 10 year, Camp Ashraf has been attacked several times the last being on April 8, 2011 when Iraqi security forces stormed the camp and killed as many as 36 and wounding 320 residents and also on 17 October 2010 on the eve of al-Maliki’s visit to Tehran.[1][3] The Iraqi government planned to close the camp at the end of December 2011.[2][dated info]
