NCRI – At the end of Eid al-Fitr holidays on Monday, 12 August 2013, Iraqi forces resumed taking the protective T-walls away from the surrounding area of Camp Liberty, where some 3,000 Iranians are residing.
Initially there were 17,500 T-walls in Camp Liberty, located near Baghdad, when the U.S. forces were using the camp. The T-walls were used to protect housing trailers against missile and mortar attacks.
After groups of Iranians residents of Camp Ashraf were relocated to the camp, despite residents’ opposition, the Iraqi forces last year began transferring the T-walls to outside the camp, and were stored beyond the camps surrounding walls.
Following the February 9th missile attack, the residents and their representatives have asked Iraqi and U.S. and UN officials in Baghdad, New York, Washington D.C. and Geneva hundreds of times to return the 17500 T-walls back into the camp to reduce the vulnerability of trailers against similar attacks.
The missile attacks on April 29 and June 15 doubled the need for returning the T-walls. However, not only even one of the T-walls have been returned into the camp, but after the third missile attack, the Iraqi forces started to take away them from the area. The number of casualties of the attacks would have been much less with the T-walls in the camp. (See photos)
Meanwhile, the Iraqi forces, upon the orders of the committee in the Iraqi Prime Ministry tasked with suppression of Camp Ashraf residents, are preventing the entry into the camp of sandbags purchased by the residents long ago and they have confiscated them at the camp’s entrance.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
August 13, 2013
