Assailants fired rockets and mortar rounds at the refugee camp outside
Baghdad housing members of Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK or MKO), killing at least
six people and injuring more than 100 people, several of them critically. Camp
spokesman Shahin Gobadi released photographs of five bloodied bodies swaddled in blankets,
including one of a woman. (AP, 9 February)
The camp, a former American military base
known as Camp Liberty, is home to some 3,100 members of the militant
Iranian organization. The group’s political umbrella group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) is based in
Paris. The Obama administration took the MEK off the
U.S. terrorism list in late September.
Iraqi police said assailants fired rockets, while UN officials who supervise the camp said it was hit by mortar rounds.
NCRI President Maryam Rajavi called on UN High
Commission for Refugees to immediately declare the refugee status of the
residents of Camp Liberty in order to protect their lives and well being.
File photo: Camp Liberty outside Baghdad (AP)
