Camp Liberty

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The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen during a speech at Camp Liberty in 2011

Camp Liberty is a former United States Armed Forces facility northeast of Baghdad Airport .

It then became a refugee camp and until September 2016 housed members of the People's Mujahedin who were previously housed at Camp Ashraf . The People's Mujahedin are a militant Iranian opposition movement who have been living in exile in their homeland since the revolution ; They regard host Iraq as a terrorist organization .

At the beginning of July 2016, Iranian militias, which are now supporting the Iraqi army in the fight against IS , burned down the camp.

history

The camp was created during the Iraq war in 2003 as Camp Victory North ( Arabic Camp Al-Tahreer ); In mid-September 2004 it was renamed "Camp Liberty" (Arabic Camp Hurriya ).

The facility used by the Multi-National Force - Iraq became part of the Victory Base Complex (VBC). Camp Liberty was twice the size of Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo and one of the largest overseas military bases in the US since the Vietnam War .

By the beginning of September 2016, three quarters of the approximately 1,100 members of the People's Mujahedin had been resettled to Albania , the rest to third countries.

Web links

Commons : Camp Liberty  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shane Scott: Iranian Dissidents Convince US to Drop Terror Label. In: New York Times. Retrieved September 21, 2012 .
  2. ↑ WorldOnAlert on Twitter. In: Twitter. Retrieved September 10, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Abu Ghurayb Presidential Site . GlobalSecurity.Org
  4. ^ Last members of the Iranian Mujahedin-e-Khalq group leave Iraq for Albania. In: rudaw.net. Rudaw , accessed September 10, 2016 .

Coordinates: 33 ° 18 ′ 0.9 ″  N , 44 ° 14 ′ 7.7 ″  E