Bomb attack on Ashraf City's water station violates Iraq's sovereignty - Iraqi National Accord

Sunday, 17 February 2008

NCRI - Iraqi National Accord headed by Dr. Ayad Allawi, former Iraqi Prime Minister condemned the last week bomb attack on the water station of Ashraf City, home to the members of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in Iraq.

"Iraqi National Accord condemns the inhumane and un-Islamic act that violates Iraqi sovereignty and has targeted the Iraqi people’s security and integrity", Mr. Zia al-Sheikhly, spokesman for the group said.

"We ask the Iraqi government to form an investigative committee to identify the criminal agents involved in the attack", he added.

On February 8, the Qods Force terrorists in a cowardly act blew up the water pumping station supplying water to Ashraf City residents and 20,000 Iraqis living in the vicinity.

The incident took place at 3:30 a.m. local time on Friday. More than 300 kg of TNT was used in this bombing and as a result water pumps, installations of the station and offices were destroyed and supply of water to Ashraf City and 20,000 Iraqis living in the area were cut off.

The bombing of Ashraf City's power station followed by the assassination on February 6 of a local tribe council member, Sheikh Hamid Ziab, in charge of protection of the power station.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) revealed that the Iranian regime in past few weeks dispatched a number of agents of Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) as well as Qods Force elements from Iran and abroad to Iraq. The agents were identified as: Massoud Khodabandeh, Mostafa Mohammadi, Reza Akbari Nasab and Alireza Bashiri. The team leader for the group belonging to the Qods Force is Tabatabaie.

These rogue elements were to prepare for subsequent plots for terrorist attacks against the PMOI members residing in Ashraf City. The mullahs' embassy in Baghdad accommodated them in Al-Mansur Hotel in Baghdad and kept a constant contact with the agents. A number of MOIS and Qods Force agents are presently staying in Al-Mansur Hotel in Baghdad.

On November 8, 2007, four members of the MOIS went to Khalis directly from the Iranian regime's embassy in Baghdad and met with Abdul-Rassoul Mullah Hamid Al-Saadi (aka Abu-Heidar) head of the local office for Badr Brigade in Khalis. At the meeting there were two commanders of the hit squads identified as Abu Tabarak Al-Saedi and Khezr Mohammad Ahmad (aka Abu-Osama Khalesi). The latter was involved in a terrorist attack on a bus carrying workers to Ashraf City in May 2006.