{"id":11637,"date":"2012-01-24T19:39:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T19:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/ashraf-liberty\/11637-general-david-phillips-and-sara-phillips-we-left-ashraf-residents-to-real-terrorists"},"modified":"2023-01-14T02:53:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T01:53:13","slug":"general-david-phillips-and-sara-phillips-we-left-ashraf-residents-to-real-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/ashraf-liberty\/general-david-phillips-and-sara-phillips-we-left-ashraf-residents-to-real-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"General David Phillips and Sara Phillips \u2013 We Left Ashraf Residents to Real Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"

NCRI – In the international conference held in Paris on Friday, January 20, 2012 in defense of Ashraf, General David Phillips, former officer responsible for the safety and security of PMOI members at Camp Ashraf made the following remarks: (During General Phillips remarks, his daughter Sara Phillips joined him for supportive arguments.)
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Thank you.\u00a0 Madame Rajavi, distinguished guests, freedom loving people around the world, and most importantly the 3,400 residents of Camp Ashraf, I\u2019m honored to be here with you today.\u00a0 Those of you at Ashraf, you\u2019ve endured much while spending nearly nine years in virtual captivity.\u00a0 Make no qualms about it.\u00a0 The first six years were under the protection of the coalition forces.\u00a0 And for the past three years, under the barbaric captivity of the Al-Maliki regime.\u00a0 This speech is about my friends at Camp Ashraf who I know personally, but it\u2019s important also that this speech is to bring attention to the world in highlighting the plight of those 3,400 men and women.<\/p>\n

I can only imagine how the mullahs laughed when under orders my unit shut down and confiscated the MEK radio transmitters, silencing the voice of freedom for the Iranian people.\u00a0 The reason given to me was because the MEK were terrorists so obviously they\u2019re sending terroristic broadcasts.\u00a0 The decision to cut this link off between the MEK and the people living under the iron grip of the mullahs was ridiculous.\u00a0 When you step back and look at these decisions you\u2019ve really got to wonder.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Consolidating the MEK at Camp Ashraf, I was part of that.\u00a0 Disarming them, I was there.\u00a0 Placing them under detention like restrictions.\u00a0 I implemented that.\u00a0 And silencing their radio.\u00a0 It sounds like we were working for the mullahs instead of the multinational coalition forces.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the soldiers of the 89th Military Police Brigade, my brigade, detained 3,400 members at Camp Ashraf, the mullah regime was simultaneously providing weaponry and EFPs and other munitions designed to kill those soldiers.\u00a0 And we were actually doing the mullahs\u2019 bidding by taking the MEK off of the battlefield and out of the equation.\u00a0 The mullahs could not have paid or bribed or extorted or blackmailed such an effective effort to thwart their number one opposition, the MEK.\u00a0 We, the U.S., we did it for them.<\/p>\n

To make matters worse, we walked away from a written promise to protect them, thereby abandoning the very people who can bring about change in Iran.\u00a0 We left them to the real terrorists.\u00a0 The Al-Maliki has a tarnished record in many areas, but none so much as the abusive and sadistic and barbaric treatment of the unarmed men and women at Camp Ashraf, the Iranian resistance.<\/p>\n

Al-Maliki, you may want to use revisionist history but there\u2019s no taking away the blood on your hands for the murder of over 40 unarmed people who were guaranteed protected status under the rights of the Fourth Geneva Convention, not to mention over a thousand who were wounded, some critically.\u00a0 I lose sleep because I was the spokesperson for the coalition forces with the MEK at Camp Ashraf.\u00a0 As the commander of the 89th MP Brigade, I conducted sweep operations looking for violations of the agreement the MEK made to disarm.\u00a0 I never found a violation.\u00a0 I directed my forces to search every square inch of that 36 square kilometer facility and not one piece of contraband, not one violation was found.\u00a0 My forces also participated with other government agencies in determining the status of every one of those 3,400 hundred people.\u00a0 And not one was found to be associated with terrorism or even any criminal acts.<\/p>\n

The residents of Ashraf were each given a written, individually each of them a written promise of protection.\u00a0 I personally delivered the first written promise.\u00a0 And that promise was broken when we abandoned the 3,400 men and women to an undisciplined force under the command and control of the Iranian puppets, Al-Maliki.<\/p>\n

I lose sleep each night because we did wrong.\u00a0 We did the morally unconscionable act of reneging on a national promise to protect these people.\u00a0 Al-Maliki, I suspect you lose sleep too because you sold your soul.\u00a0 The Mullahs probably laugh out loud at your foolhardy actions in advancing their cause of murdering and destroying everything that threatens their absolute fascist power.\u00a0 Yes, you lose sleep at night knowing that you were responsible for the murder of over 40 of the members of the MEK.<\/p>\n

Surely you must realize when you are no longer useful to the mullahs they\u2019re going to discard you too.\u00a0 Yes, we both lose sleep at night.\u00a0 Only I am doing everything I can to save the lives of those 3,400 men and women, while you, Al-Maliki, are doing the opposite.\u00a0 [applause] Thank you for allowing me to get involved with writing a wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been much false propaganda and lies in the international media.\u00a0 Spread by individuals like Ann singleton, and Renee Behinifar.\u00a0 Their firsthand at Camp Ashraf is almost nonexistent yet they speak as if they\u2019ve got an innate intuition.\u00a0 I\u2019ve read their writing, most recently Ms. Behinifar\u2019s article on the 29th of November.\u00a0 If the topic wasn\u2019t so serious and slanderous it would make a good fictional story, because that\u2019s all it is is fiction.<\/p>\n

What about another woman, an Iranian-American?\u00a0 But unlike the two I\u2019ve previously mentioned, she is\u2014I\u2019m sorry, I need to rephrase that into another tense, past tense.\u00a0 She was a brilliant medical student in Houston, Texas, and she was gunned down in her car last week.\u00a0 Her name was Gelareh Bagherzadeh.\u00a0 What was her crime?\u00a0 Nothing more than speaking out for women\u2019s\u00a0 rights, particularly the women of Iran who are horribly abused and subjugated by the insecure male mullahs.\u00a0 My guess, and it\u2019s only a guess based on 35 years of law enforcement and military police experience, that when the suspect is found, the assailant, that individual will be found to have disagreed with her right to speak out.\u00a0 The investigation\u2019s ongoing, we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

I lived with the people of Camp Ashraf for well over a year and I\u2019ve worked with them for many more.\u00a0 Few people know them better.\u00a0 My first hand information is from my personal experiences, not obtained through politics or propaganda or lies.\u00a0 I saw it, I lived it, unlike some other people that write with little or no experience or firsthand knowledge from ivory towers and repeatedly spew unsubstantiated allegations.\u00a0 One of those reports was published by an organization which I formerly respected.\u00a0 It was the Human Rights Watch report on Camp Ashraf.\u00a0 Although I was still on active duty at the time, I felt it was so ridiculously far-fetched that I had to speak out.\u00a0 I countered in writing to the director of the Human Rights Watch that report.\u00a0 I can think of few things that have made me prouder than having stood up and refuted the garbage that was in it.\u00a0 I made reference in my letter to wanting my own daughter to visit and spend time at Camp Ashraf.\u00a0 Interestingly, I didn\u2019t receive a single comment from the director of Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n

But I now gotta bring up some very troubling information from my sources in the Iraqi government and Ministry of Interior.\u00a0 My Iraqi friends tell me that not only was Camp Liberty looted, vandalized and pilfered away, and that a small facility was constructed as a prison facility not to house all 3,400 members of the MEK.\u00a0 My personal sources, who I served with, I bled with and I fought with, so I trust them, they say that Camp Cropper on the other side of the BIAP facility, the Baghdad International Airport, is being reopened.\u00a0 That\u2019s the facility where we kept the former senior leaders of the Baathist regime.\u00a0\u00a0 I know, my forces ran that facility.\u00a0 That it is being reopened for the senior leaders of the MEK who have arrest warrants for them.\u00a0 Well, Secretary Clinton, if it\u2019s not so, let\u2019s verify that.\u00a0 I\u2019ll personally fly to Baghdad and take a look and I will report back. And this will cost U.S. taxpayers nothing.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ll do it at my own expense.\u00a0 President Obama, send me as a former general who is very familiar with Camp Liberty, having lived there too, and knows what it takes to billet thousands of people while providing for minimum essentials for hygiene, quality of life, food\u2014oh let\u2019s talk about quality of life.\u00a0 Even the basketball back hoops have been looted away.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got the pictures of what Liberty looks like now.\u00a0 I mentioned the Human Rights Watch report and not contacting me, but I was contacted from other quarters.\u00a0 Most of it was positive but there was some negative.\u00a0 On the negative side they accused me of using my daughter\u2019s name in vain.\u00a0 Oh those foolish people.\u00a0 They don\u2019t know my daughter.\u00a0 [applause] Like the women of the MEK, my daughter\u2019s dedication and determination is a scary thought to the mullahs or Iran.\u00a0 As I reported, I\u2019m very proud to have written and refuted that report.\u00a0 [applause] So for those of you that said I used my daughter\u2019s name in vain in that letter, why not hear it from her?\u00a0 Sara, would you come up here and tell me whether I used your name in vain?<\/p>\n

Sarah PHILLIPS:<\/strong> Thank you.\u00a0 And forgive me; I\u2019m not well-versed in public speaking, so I will do my best.\u00a0 As my father said, my name is Sara Phillips, and I am his daughter.\u00a0 I like to tell you a little bit of history about how I came to learn about the people of Ashraf.<\/p>\n

In 2003, my understanding of the world was shattered.\u00a0 I learned contrary to very popular belief, especially in America, that not all women in the Southwest Asia region remain complacent in the face of oppression.\u00a0 There\u2019s a special group of women who do not just let their lives be dictated for them.\u00a0 My father who was in Iraq at the time told me.\u00a0 He called me on his international cell phone; I was in a dorm room at the time.\u00a0 I remember him calling and saying, \u201cSara, I\u2019ve found your modern day Amazons, those women warriors, the type that you were always seeking and reading about.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

He told me, \u201cYou would never guess where I have found them.\u201d\u00a0 It was that day that I learned about these brave women and actually what was almost more shocking to me is the fact that it wasn\u2019t just women, there was men standing at their side in defiance of tyranny.\u00a0 I learned about the Mojahadin Khalq and I begged my father, I begged him, \u201cLet me meet these women.\u00a0 Even better, even better, let me take their mantle and let me fight with them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

They managed to not only break stereotypes and roles, but they\u2019d overcome insurmountable odds to rise up to a position of authority and power.\u00a0 These women and men of the MEK believe in democracy and equal rights.\u00a0 They believe in freedom.\u00a0 What a beautiful word, freedom.\u00a0 The Webster\u2019s dictionary defines freedom as a quality or state of being free, the absence of necessity, coercion or constraint in choice of action; liberation from restraint from the power of another.\u00a0 Soon after I learned of the people of Camp Ashraf I began corresponding with several of them.\u00a0 If you\u2019re listening today, and I sincerely hope that the women of Ashraf are able to hear my words, I loved receiving your electronic letters and I loved being able to share that information with people on my campus and with friends letting them know what is going on in Ashraf and around the world.\u00a0 [applause] There are not many people in the world as valiant as these women of the MEK who I had the absolute honor of being able to correspond with.\u00a0 We would talk in our e-mails and in our letters of one day meeting in a free not only Ashraf but Tehran, as global sisters, and finally being able to cross those borders. [applause]<\/p>\n

My father has given many speeches lately defending his stance that the MEK should be taken off the terrorist list.\u00a0 Many of you believe him, and you know this to be true as well.\u00a0 But for those of you that might question the stance of my father, and even his character, using his daughter as a tool, I want to tell you something.<\/p>\n

When my father first took over in Iraq, and this is a true story, he would warn me, \u201cSara, do not be so starry-eyed.\u00a0 Do not be so excited by these stories that I tell you because they might still be falsehoods.\u00a0 These are terrorists we\u2019re talking about.\u201d\u00a0 He was as skeptical as any American would be concerning the disposition of the MEK and the perception that they were terrorists.<\/p>\n

But when I told you about my character in standing up here today, the apple does not fall far from the tree.\u00a0 My character is like my father\u2019s.\u00a0 And he walks with open eyes and with an open heart.\u00a0 When he began to realize that the people of Camp Ashraf were not terrorists he began to activate, he began to advocate for them and urge me to pass along what information I could.\u00a0 By the time he left Iraq my father knew, without question, that what he had originally been instructed about the people of Ashraf was a blatant falsehood and propaganda to empower corruption and ruthless men.\u00a0 I always felt that there was not enough I could do, just a simple young girl in America.\u00a0 What can I do knowing about this situation?\u00a0 I always felt that far away my voice would be very small, that my words could not be heard.\u00a0 I\u2019m very lucky to be here today in front of you all and finally let my voice be heard.<\/p>\n

I can only hope that those listening in America who actually do have the power to affect change in the situation for several thousand good people are listening.\u00a0 As things are, I\u2019m afraid for the people of Camp Ashraf.\u00a0 I\u2019m afraid that the women and the men are going to find themselves facing a force without any defense.\u00a0 If all I can offer standing here today as a weapon for them is my voice then I shout for their removal off the terrorist list.\u00a0 These people are good, they are not terrorists.\u00a0 Thank you.\u00a0<\/p>\n

General PHILLIPS: Madame Rajavi, I\u2019m sure your daughter and almost a thousand other young women in the MEK would appreciate having another young woman come there and work with them.\u00a0 Because yes, I would trust the safety of my own daughter in the hands of a supposed terrorist.\u00a0\u00a0 But it\u2019s not up to me.\u00a0 It\u2019s not up to me.\u00a0 It\u2019s up to my daughter.\u00a0 Sara, your choice.\u00a0 If I get the opportunity and the president allows me to go over there, will you go with me even if it means you gotta go to Ashraf?<\/p>\n

Sara PHILLIPS:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I say, let\u2019s roll.<\/p>\n

PHILLIPS:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n

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