Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade

2:30 pm

Photo of Peter MathewsPeter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

This is a question. The Minister knows, because I told him privately. Camp Liberty, which is underwritten for the safety of its occupants, outside Baghdad near the airport, was attacked by a bombardment of over 80 missiles for ten minutes, with 23 dead and more than 20 wounded. That was in spite of the written UN and US guarantee that the safety of the people in Camp Liberty would be assured for several years. Only five weeks earlier I had written to John Kerry, Secretary of State-----

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