30 Oct 2015

Iraqi security forces are investigating a rocket attack on a camp housing a dissident Iranian organization which the exiled group said killed more than 20 people, a spokesman said Friday.
“The investigation is under way,” joint operations command spokesman said of the attack, which drew condemnation from the United States and United Nations.
The former US military base, near the international airport, houses members of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, an opposition group that has been exiled since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
The group says 80 rockets were fired, killing 23 of its members in what it described as the worst such attack since it was moved to Camp Liberty after the 2011 US troop withdrawal from Iraq.
The Mujahedin said the rockets used in the attack were Katyusha and rockets dubbed Falaq which are produced by Iran.
“The United States strongly condemns today’s brutal, senseless terrorist attack on Camp Hurriya that killed and injured camp residents,” US Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement, using the camp’s Arabic name.
“No matter the circumstances, on this point we remain absolute: the United States remains committed to assisting the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in the relocation of all Camp Hurriya residents to a permanent and safe location outside of Iraq,” he said.
“This is a most deplorable act, and I am greatly concerned at the harm that has been inflicted on those living at Camp Liberty,” the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said.
“Every effort must continue to be made for the injured and to identify and bring to account those responsible.”