Commander of mullahs' Air Force directed air strikes against two NLA basecamps

Brigadier Habib Baghaii, the commander of the regime's Air Force, personally commanded the air strikes on two basecamps of the National Liberation Army in Iraq, reports from Iran say. Baghaii and brigadier Reza Pardis, the Air Force's operational commander, have set up their headquarters since yesterday at Vahdati AFB in Dezful, southwest Iran.

At 7:00 a.m. today, nine Phantom and Tiger jets dropped 500 and 1,000 pound anti-personnel bombs on two National Liberation Army basecamps near the city of Kut (170 kms southeast of Baghdad) and Jalula (130 kms northeast of Baghdad).

These kinds of bombs are used for mass destruction. Due to the NLA's anti-aircraft fire, however, the jets were forced to escape before they could drop all their bombs. The bombs created craters two meters deep and four meters wide in and around the NLA basecamps.

The NLA did not suffer any casualties, and only the buildings located at the bases sustained some damage.

Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran and Commander in Chief of the National Liberation Army, sent a telegram to the Secretary General and members of the U.N. Security Council, urging them to condemn this terrorist attack which violates, among others, the U.N. Security Council resolution 598.

Mr. Rajavi emphasized that the silence and inaction of the Security Council towards the mullahs' aggressive and criminal attacks, including its air raids on NLA on April 92 and May 93, and its Scud-B missile attack in November 94, have so emboldened the regime that it systematically uses the no-fly zone - controlled by the permanent members of the Security Council - for its aggressions.

Office of the People's Mojahedin of Iran - Baghdad
September 29, 1997

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