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Camp Liberty is a former installation of the United States Department of Defense in Baghdad, Iraq. The installation was used from 2012 to September 2016 to house members of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI, also called MEK), who had been forcibly evicted from Camp Ashraf.
On May 11, 2009, five United States military personnel were fatally shot at a military counseling clinic at Camp Liberty, Iraq by Army Sergeant John M. Russell. In the days before the killings, witnesses stated Russell had become distant and was having suicidal thoughts.
Near the end of Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011), the last several camps and forward operating bases were changed to contingency operating bases and sites. At the height of the occupation the US had 170,000 personnel in uniform stationed in 505 bases throughout all provinces of Iraq.
Located between Baghdad and Baghdad International Airport, Camp Liberty was built by the Americans to serve as Multinational Division Baghdad base of operations.
BAGHDAD -- On May 11th, four American soldiers and a sailor were shot to death at the U.S. Army's sprawling Camp Liberty base next to Baghdad International Airport.
30 paź 2015 · Rockets slammed into a former U.S. military base housing Iranian exiles near the Baghdad airport, reportedly causing numerous casualties.
The largest of the new camps, Camp Liberty, previously Camp Victory North, is twice the size of Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo - one of the largest US overseas posts built since the Vietnam...
