General Council for the People of Iraq condemned Bombing of Ashraf City water supply pumping station

Sunday, 10 February 2008

NCRI - General Council for the People of Iraq, headed by the prominent Iraqi politician Dr. Adnan al-Dulaimi, condemned bombing of Ashraf City water supply pumping station by the Qods Force terrorist agents of the Iranian regime in Iraq.

In its statement the council described the mullahs' bombing attack on the water pumping station of Ashraf City (home to members of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in Iraq) a "criminal act" against political refugees in Iraq.

General Council for the People of Iraq stated that water outage to residents of Ashraf City, who are recognized as protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention, and 20,000 Iraqi local residents in surrounding areas amounts to war crime.

The Iraqi party called on the Multi-National Force-Iraq, International Red Cross and Iraqi government to investigate the criminal act and prosecute those who planned and perpetrated the bombing.
The incident took place at 3:30 am local time on Friday. More than 300 kg of TNT was used in this bombing and as a result huge water pumps, installations of the station and offices were destroyed and supply of water to Ashraf and 20,000 Iraqis living in the area were cut off.

The bombing of Ashraf City water supply pumping station followed 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.

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.