MEK Compound

Camp Fallujah
Fallujah, Iraq

Camp Fallujah Insignia
Coordinates 33°18′54.95″N 43°52′59.41″E / 33.3152639°N 43.8831694°E / 33.3152639; 43.8831694Coordinates: 33°18′54.95″N 43°52′59.41″E / 33.3152639°N 43.8831694°E / 33.3152639; 43.8831694
Type Expeditionary base
Site information
Controlled by Iraqi Army
Site history
In use before 2003 (MEK) — present
Battles/wars Operation Iraqi Freedom
* Operation Vigilant Resolve
* Operation Phantom Fury
Garrison information
Garrison HQ, 1st Division (Iraq)

The MEK Compound (Mujahedin-E Khalq) in Fallujah, Iraq (also known as Camp Fallujah) is a large compound used by the U.S. Marines from 2004 to 2009. Prior to Marine occupation, the Iranian dissident group called Mujahideen-e-Khalq used the MEK as a training camp, but turned it over to the U.S. Army 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment on May 11, 2003 after the Mujahideen-e-Khalq surrender. The 82nd Airborne Division took over the facility in 2013. On March 24, 2004, the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force took over the facility from the 82nd Airborne and used it as a base camp. On January 12, 2009, the Government of Iraq took control of the compound from the United States military.[1] As of January 2010, the camp appears to be the headquarters of the Iraqi Army's 1st Division. The last US force to occupy Camp Fallujah was Guardian Company, IMHG, FMF west.

The MEK is adjacent to the other major U.S. base in Fallujah, the former Baathist resort Camp Baharia (also known as "Dreamland").

An M198 howitzer firing from Camp Fallujah, Iraq in 2004

U.S. Operational Names

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2009/01/iraq-090112-mnfi01.htm @ GlobalSecurity.org
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