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BAGHDAD — An Iranian opposition camp has come under heavy rocket
fire in Iraq.

At least six people were killed when 40 mortars and rockets
landed in Iraq’s Camp Liberty, the new home of the Iranian opposition
Mujahadeen Khalq and operated by the United Nations. Another 40 members of
Khalq as well as three Iraqi police officers were injured in an attack on
Feb. 9 in which nobody claimed responsibility.

“We have our monitors on the ground to follow-up,” the UN mission in
Iraq said.

This marked the first attack on Camp Liberty since some 3,000 Mujahadeen members and their families settled in late 2012. Opposition leaders had warned that Camp Liberty, despite pledges by the UN and the Baghdad government, remained vulnerable to Iranian-sponsored attacks.

“The government of Iraq dispatches notorious suppressive SWAT force into
Camp Liberty instead of sending medical teams and equipment to treat the
wounded and to replace damaged residential containers,” the National Council
for Resistance in Iran, which released photographs, said.

Iranian opposition sources said the attack, reported to have included 18
BM-21 Katyusha rockets, stemmed from an Iranian-sponsored militia in Iraq.
They did not rule out involvement by Hizbullah, said to have directed
Shi’ite militias to attack opponents in Iraq.

“The camp is located at the heart of a military zone, and it is not
accessible without coordination with the Iraqi government,” NCRI said.

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