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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of
Monday, 10 September 2007. Translated and/or compiled
by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free
Arab Voice.
Monday, 10 September 2007.
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Resistance bomb destroys US armored vehicle, wounding
three Marines in al-Khalidiyah Monday afternoon.
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Sectarian murder spree continues: 10 more bodies found
dumped in various parts of Baghdad Monday.
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US says seven American soldiers, two Iraqi “suspects”
killed in “traffic accident” Monday.
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US admits two more troops killed in combat operations in
Iraq Sunday.
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Patriotic Iraqi Shi‘i religious leader exposes Iran’s
regional hegemonic ambitions.
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In hour-long battle: Residents of as-Sayyidiyah in
Baghdad beat back assaults by Shi‘i sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi
gunmen attempting to drive out Sunnis to facilitate
sectarian partition of Iraq.
·
US troops make nighttime raids in “Madinat as-Sadr” area
of Baghdad. Sadr’s Jaysh al-Mahdi ordered not to fight
Americans.
·
Humanitarian crisis stalks residents of as-Siniyah near
Bayji, after six-day lockdown by US troops.
·
US forces kill two women, wound, abduct three women and
a child in Samarra’.
·
American troops gun down three civilians south of Tikrit
Monday morning.
·
US aircraft, artillery blast civilians in Tikrit area
for two hours at dawn Monday morning, refuse to allow
wounded to be evacuated for treatment.
·
Mysterious truck bomb kills 10 in disputed Zammar area
near al-Mawsil Monday afternoon.
Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Khalidiyah.
Resistance bomb destroys US armored vehicle, wounding
three Marines in al-Khalidiyah Monday afternoon.
In a
dispatch posted at 9:15pm Baghdad time Monday night, the
Yaqen News Agency reported that an Iraqi
Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol in the
al-Jazirah area about 4km north of al-Khalidiyah (which
is 90km west of Baghdad) at 3pm local time Monday
afternoon.
Yaqen
reported sources in the al-Khalidiyah puppet police who
asked not to be identified as saying that the powerful
explosion shook the entire area and destroyed a US
armored vehicle, wounding the three US Marines who were
inside.
The
source told Yaqen that the other Marines in the patrol
were observed pulling three men out of the blazing
vehicle. They were quickly taken away to the
US-occupied al-Habbaniyah base for treatment.
The
source said that the wounded men were probably in grave
condition given the fact that the powerful bomb scored a
direct hit on the vehicle, which it totally destroyed.
After
the attack, US troops surrounded the area for a whole
hour and arrested 16 local people as “suspects.” The
captives were taken off to al-Habbaniya base as well.
It is the standard US practice to carry out raids and
arrests after every attack on one of their patrols.
Al-Fallujah.
Car
bomber targets puppet police north of al-Fallujah Sunday
evening.
In a
dispatch posted at 9:49am Baghdad time Monday morning,
the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI)
reported that a car bomber drove an explosives-laden
vehicle into a checkpoint manned by the puppet police on
the road between al-Fallujah (which is 60km west of
Baghdad) and the town of as-Saqlawiyah, 17km north of
al-Fallujah Sunday evening.
In a
dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:19pm Monday
afternoon Beijing time, the Xinhua News Agency
reported that the attack killed two puppet policemen and
wounded 18 more people, including a number of civilians,
according to a source in the puppet police directorate.
Baghdad.
Sectarian murder spree continues: 10 more bodies of
victims found dumped in various parts of Baghdad Monday.
In a
dispatch posted at 9:51pm Baghdad time Monday night, the
Aswat al-‘Iraq news agency, which was set up by
Reuters and the U.N. Development Agency, reported that
the puppet police had retrieved the bodies of 10 more
victims of sectarian murder that had been dumped in
various parts of Baghdad on Monday.
Aswat al-‘Iraq
reported a source in the puppet “Ministry of the
Interior” who asked not to be identified as saying that
the victims were all shot to death.
US says
seven soldiers, two Iraqi “suspects” killed in “traffic
accident” in Baghdad Monday.
In a
dispatch posted at 11:51pm Baghdad time Monday
afternoon, the Aswat al-‘Iraq news agency, which
was set up by Reuters and the U.N. Development Agency,
reported that the US military had announced that seven
American troops had been killed and 11 more injured in a
“traffic accident” which, it said, took place in the
western districts of Baghdad on Monday.
Aswat
al-‘Iraq reported the
American statement as adding that “two suspects” were
also killed in the “traffic accident” and a third
“suspect” was wounded.
US
admits two more soldiers killed in combat in Iraq
Sunday.
In a
dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 6:11pm Monday
afternoon Beijing time, the Xinhua News Agency
reported that the US military had announced that an
Iraqi Resistance rocket attack in Kirkuk, 255km north of
Baghdad, had killed one more of its troops and wounded a
second.
Xinhua reported the
American statement as saying that the rocket struck a US
patrol operating in the city Sunday. The wounded
soldier was taken to a medical facility for treatment,
the US statement added.
Meanwhile, in a dispatch posted at 9:42am Baghdad time
Monday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of
Iraq (AMSI) reported that the US military admitted that
one more American soldier had been killed and two more
of US troops and their Iraqi translator wounded in
Baghdad on Sunday.
The AMSI
reported a US statement as saying that the casualties
occurred during American combat operations in west
Baghdad.
Patriotic Iraqi Shi‘i religious leader exposes Iran’s
regional hegemonic ambitions.
In a
dispatch posted on its website Monday, Quds Press
reported that a prominent Iraqi patriotic political
leader outlined the regional hegemonic plans of the
Iranian regime at a press conference in Amman, Jordan.
Patriotic Iraqi Shi‘i religious authority, the Marja‘
Husayn al-Mu’ayyad, said that Iran had prepared cells of
agents in the Arab Gulf countries who would be activated
in case of a US attack on Iran. Shaykh al-Mu’ayyad said
that the Iranian agents would then work to separate
Shi‘i minority areas from their Arab environment, using
religion to try to dissolve national bonds.
Shaykh
al-Mu’ayyad told an Amman press conference Monday that
“Tehran has a strategy of regional expansionism,” and
added that among the Iranian regime’s strategic goals is
the separation of Saudi Arabia’s eastern region – where
there is a Shi‘i minority – from the rest of the country
and the transference of the Islamic holy cities of
Makkah and al-Madinah in Saudi Arabia from Saudi
administration to control by a “general Islamic”
administration.
Shaykh
al-Mu’ayyad, said that the current Iraqi regime under
puppet “Prime Minister” Nuri al-Maliki “takes its orders
from Iran” and that the current “rulers” of Iraq are
“Iranian creatures.”
Al-Mu’ayyad, who is President of the Patriotic Iraqi
Current, is a political émigré and a man “wanted” by the
American-installed puppet regime in Baghdad.
Illustrating the political dependence of the current
“leaders” of Iraq on Iran, al-Mu’ayyad noted that the
Da‘wah Party, of which Nuri al-Maliki and his
predecessor Ibrahim al-Ja‘fari are leading members, was
created by Iran. “All the rest of the forces and
militias active in the Iraqi political arena are
supported by Iranian intelligence agencies,” al-Mu’ayyad
pointed out.
Shaykh
al-Mu’ayyad said, however, that there are “positive
signs” in contemporary Iraq and that those positive
features could develop and “overturn the current
predominant equation in the country if they receive Arab
support.”
Shaykh
al-Mu’ayyad said that the wave of sectarianism in Iraq
was beginning to ebb, “after it was fostered and backed
by forces inside and outside the country, that worked to
replace the concept of citizenship with that of
sectarian identity. It was with the use of this
sectarian wave that the current forces were able to
sweep into their present positions of authority in the
occupied country, Shaykh al-Mu’ayyad told the press
conference.
Unexplained car bomb explodes near al-Karakh Hospital in
northern Baghdad Monday morning.
In a
dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:32pm Monday
afternoon Beijing time, the Xinhua News Agency
reported that two people were killed and five more
injured when a car bomb exploded near the al-Karakh
Hospital in northern Baghdad Monday morning.
Xinhua reported a source
in the puppet police as saying that an explosives-laden
car that had been parked near the emergency medical
center belonging to the al-Karakh Hospital blew up
before noon Monday.
In
addition to the casualties, one of the hospital’s
ambulances was badly damaged in the blast as were
several civilian cars. Puppet security forces responded
to the attack by cordoning off the area and transporting
the injured people to hospital for treatment.
US tank
falls from highway overpass onto civilian car in
Baghdad.
In a
dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:11pm Monday
afternoon Beijing time, the Xinhua News Agency
reported that a US tank fell from a highway overpass in
northwestern Baghdad, wounding the five members of its
crew and four civilians.
Xinhua reported that a US
tank was driving along the highway near the ash-Shu‘lah
neighborhood of northwestern Baghdad when it fell off
the overpass onto an intersection, striking a civilian
car.
Five US
troops inside the tank were wounded in the fall and the
four Iraqi civilians who were in the car on which the
tank fell were also injured, some of them severely. A
source told Xinhua that an American helicopter landed
near the scene and transported the wounded Americans to
a US military hospital.
In
hour-long battle: Residents of as-Sayyidiyah in Baghdad
beat back assaults by Shi‘i sectarian gunmen attempting
to drive out Sunnis to facilitate sectarian partition of
Iraq.
In a
dispatch posted on its website on Monday, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that the people of the Baghdad
district of as-Sayyidiyah had repulsed massiveassaults
by Shi‘i sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi gument before noon on
Monday.
Yaqen
reported eyewitnesses as saying that the pro-Iranian Shi
‘ sectarian militias attacked as-Sayyidiyah in an
apparent attempt to seize control and “purge” it of
Sunni residents as they have done elsewhere in Baghdad
and other parts of the country.
Witnesses reported that residents noticed unusual
activity on the part of the US-backed “Iraqi Interior
Ministry Shock Troops (Maghawir)” many of whose members
are concurrently members of the Jaysh al-Mahdi sectarian
militia. Anticipating a sectarian attack, the residents
of as-Sayyidiah prepared and were ready when in fact the
attack took place later in the morning. Yaqen
reported the witnesses as saying that the defenders
killed a number of the attackers and destroyed several
of their vehicles, eventually forcing them to withdraw,
leaving the bodies of their dead behind them.
The witnesses said that the fighting raged between lots 825 and 829 and
then extended to the commercial street. Residents were
able to kill at least 10 of the sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi
attackers and wound another 20 of them. They were only
able to retrieve their dead after US forces intervened
after the end of the fighting, which lasted for more
than an hour.
The
witnesses reported that the Shi‘i sectarian attackers
assaulted the as-Sayyidiyah district from the districts
of al-Bayya‘ and al-‘Amil. The sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi
gunmen in those districts are the ones who have launched
most of the many attacks to which as-Sayyidiyah has been
subjected as they strive to expel Sunnis from much of
Baghdad in order to facilitate the partition of Iraq on
sectarian lines envisioned by US and Zionist think tanks
since the 1980s.
US
troops make nighttime raids in “Madinat as-Sadr” area of
Baghdad. Sadr’s Jaysh al-Mahdi ordered not to fight
Americans.
In a
dispatch posted at 11:34am Baghdad time Monday morning,
the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI)
reported that US occupation troops raided areas of the
Madinat ath-Thawrah section of Baghdad (dubbed “Madinat
as-Sadr” since the US invasion) during the pre-dawn
hours of Monday.
The AMSI
reported eyewitnesses as saying that American troops
under air cover from helicopter gun ships and warplanes
stormed into the as-Sab‘inat neighborhoods, the areas
furthest inside “Madinat as-Sadr,” beginning at 2am
local time Monday morning. The raids lasted until dawn
and in the course of them, the US troops arrested a
number of local citizens. As of the time of reporting,
the Americans had made no statements about the raids.
Later,
in a dispatch posted at 1:46pm Baghdad time Monday
afternoon, the Aswat al-‘Iraq news agency, which
was set up by Reuters and the U.N. Development Agency,
reported that an official in the office of Shi‘i
sectarian cleric Muqtada as-Sadr issued a statement
claiming that at dawn Monday the US struck the so-called
“Madinat as-Sadr” area, targeting concentrations of the
Jaysh al-Mahdi militia from 2am until 4am.
Aswat
al-‘Iraq reported that the
as-Sadr Movement official said that the Shi‘i sectarian
Jaysh al-Mahdi – which is actively engaged in attacks on
Sunni Iraqis – were given strict orders to avoid any
confrontation with the Americans and to try to evade
capture as well, by moving away rather than engaging US
troops in combat.
For his
part, Dr. Wi’am Isma‘il, the Director of the as-Sadr
Hospital, said that his institution received the body of
one person who had been killed in the pre-dawn American
attacks. Five more people were wounded in the al-Urfuly
neighborhood of “Madinat as-Sadr” and sought medical
treatment, he said.
Salah ad-Din Province.
Bayji.
Humanitarian crisis stalks residents of as-Siniyah near
Bayji, after six-day lockdown by US troops.
In a
dispatch posted at 12:40am Baghdad time just after
midnight Tuesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency
reported that US forces accompanied by their Iraqi
puppet army allies were continuing a massive “security”
campaign in the as-Siniyah area seven kilometers to the
west of Bayji, about 200km north of Baghdad.
Yaqen
reported residents as saying that US aircraft and land
forces had blockaded the area for more than six days,
completely cutting it off from the outside world. The
Americans then began carrying out raids and searches in
the al-‘Asri neighborhoods looking for arms and
explosives, residents reported.
Muhammad
Jawfan reported that on Sunday the US troops raided and
ransacked his home but found nothing. They broke most
of his furniture and belongings.
Concurrently with the blockade and raids, the Americans
have virtually cut off all electricity to the city for
five days and, with a curfew in force, no on is allowed
out of doors within the city.
The
official spokesman for the Red Crescent Society of Salah
ad-Din Province told Yaqen that the situation in
as-Siniyah is “extremely bad” and he said caravans
bringing aid supplies were needed. As is routine now in
such cases where the Americans seal off towns and try to
starve the residents into submission, the Red Crescent
has called on Islamic organizations to organize caravans
to try to bring humanitarian help to the city and its
blockaded residents.
The
reason for the lockdown of the as-Siniyah area is that
Resistance fighters shot and killed Lieutenant Colonel
Jasim al-Jumayli, the puppet police chief there and
wounded four of his bodyguards in a Resistance bomb
attack last week. The nearby city of Bayji is
undergoing one of its own periodical semi-lockdowns due
to the large numbers of American troops and their puppet
army allies now occupying that city. The Americans and
the Iraqi puppet troops cruise around the city making
random arrests of people they find out in the streets
who somehow do not appeal to them.
The
Bayji-as-Siniyah area is of significant economic
importance, particularly for northern Iraq and the
predominantly Kurdish area as it is the location of the
largest oil refinery complex in northern Iraq, the
source of the fuel consumed in that part of the country.
Samarra’.
US forces kill two women, wound, abduct three women and a child in
Samarra’.
In a
dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:52pm Monday
afternoon Beijing time, the Xinhua News Agency
reported that US forces opened fire on a house on Watban
Street in western Samarra’, 120km north of Baghdad,
killing two women and wounding three more women and one
child.
Xinhua reported Colonel
Hasan Ahmad of the Salah ad-Din Province puppet police
command as saying that the Americans then took the
wounded women and child away to an unknown destination,
while the two bodies were taken to Tikrit General
Hospital.
Three US
troops wounded in battle near Samarra’, US admits.
In a
dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:11pm Monday
afternoon Beijing time, the Xinhua News Agency
reported that the US military had issued an announcement
in which it claimed to have killed 12 armed men near
Samarra’, 120km north of Baghdad.
Xinhua reported the
American statement as saying that the US forces had also
captured three other people and freed a captive in a
battle in which US troops accompanied by their Iraqi
puppet army allies fought armed men.
The
American announcement added that three US troops were
wounded in the battle and later taken to the US airbase
in Balad, 70km north of Baghdad, where they were listed
in “stable” condition.
Tikrit.
American
troops gun down three civilians south of Tikrit Monday
morning.
In a
dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:52pm Monday
afternoon Beijing time, the Xinhua News Agency
reported that US forces killed three Iraqi civilians in
two separate incidents in the ‘Uwaynat area, about 165km
north of Baghdad, on Monday morning.
Xinhua reported that one
group of Americans shot two minibus drivers who were
riding along the main road in the area at a time when US
troops were raiding houses nearby.
Another
group of Americans shot and killed an auto mechanic
outside his shop in the town. As of the time of
reporting, the Americans had issued no reports on the
killings.
US
aircraft, artillery blast civilians in Tikrit area for
two hours at dawn Monday morning, refuse to allow
wounded to be evacuated for treatment.
In a
bulletin posted at 10:22am Baghdad time Monday morning,
the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI)
reported that US aircraft and tanks bombarded the
‘Uwaynat area of Tikrit, 180km north of Baghdad at dawn
Monday.
The AMSI
correspondent in the area reported that US aircraft and
tanks blasted the area for two and a half hours
beginning at 4am. Numerous civilians were killed in the
attack, after which the Americans then sealed off the
area and refused to allow anyone in to tend to the
wounded or to recover bodies of the dead.
The
correspondent in the area added that the American
forces, which included more than a hundred military
vehicles, had clashed with local residents and not
allowed them to recover the dead whose bodies still lay
strewn around the streets of the area pounded by US
shellfire.
Local
witnesses said that the reason for the American attack
and the US refusal to allow anyone to tend to the dead
or wounded was that the Americans were looking for Iraqi
President ‘Izzat Ibrahim ad-Duri, the successor to
President Saddam Husayn. Ad-Duri, who has never
captured by the Americans since their occupation of
Iraq, became the legal President of Iraq following the
assassination of Saddam Husayn by the US-installed
puppet regime on 30 December 2006.
Diyala Province.
Al-Miqdadiyah.
Gunmen
wearing puppet army uniforms kidnap eight civilians near
al-Miqdadiyah Monday evening.
In a
dispatch posted at 9:03pm Baghdad time Monday night, the
Aswat al-‘Iraq news agency, which was set up by
Reuters and the U.N. Development Agency, reported that a
group of men wearing Iraqi puppet army uniforms set up a
checkpont near al-Miqdadiyah, 85km northeast of Baghdad
on Monday evening and kidnapped eight civilians there.
Aswat
al-‘Iraq reported
eyewitnesses as saying that the gunmen in puppet army
uniforms set up their checkpoint at a junction between
al-Miqdadiyah and Dilli ‘Abbas. One witnesses said that
the kidnapped civilians had arrived at the checkpoint in
two cars. The uniformed gunmen stopped them as if to
check their documents and search their cars but then led
them away to an unknown destination.
The
identity of the uniformed gunmen and the purpose of the
abduction remained unknown as of the time of reporting
and the Diyala Province puppet police had as yet made no
statement about the incident.
Bomb
destroys US Humvee in al-Miqdadiyah area midday Monday.
In a
dispatch posted at 3:43pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon,
the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb
exploded by a US military patrol in villages in the
‘Arab Jabbur area around al-Miqdadiyah, 85km northeast
of Baghdad at midday Monday.
Yaqen
reported eyewitnesses as saying that the blast destroyed
a US Humvee, wounding the American troops aboard. The
witnesses said that the Americans responded to the
explosion by firing indiscriminately around the entire
area, shooting at nearby yards and gardens. The US
troops sealed off the area and US Medevac helicopters
were seen landing in there to evacuate the wounded. As
of the time of reporting, the Americans had made no
comment on the attack.
Babil Province.
Al-Yusufiyah.
Bomb
kills two civilians in al-Yusufiyah Monday afternoon.
In a
dispatch posted at 10:01pm Baghdad time Monday night,
the Aswat al-‘Iraq news agency, which was set up
by Reuters and the U.N. Development Agency, reported
that a bomb exploded by the side of the road in the
al-Yusufiyah area, 30km south of Baghdad on Monday
afternoon.
Aswat
al-‘Iraq reported a source
in the puppet police who asked not to be identified as
saying that the blast killed two civilians and wounded
13 more people. Immediately after the explosion, puppet
police closed off the area and the survivors were taken
to hospitals for treatment.
Al-Haswah.
Unexplained mortar shell wounds two women in al-Haswah
Monday evening.
In a
dispatch posted at 9:38pm Baghdad time Monday night, the
Yaqen News Agency reported that a mortar shell
landed in a residential area of al-Haswah, about 33km
south of Baghdad on Monday evening.
Yaqen
reported a source in al-Hillah Hospital as saying that
the mortar round landed in the ‘Adayi neighborhood of
al-Haswah and wounded two women.
Al-Hillah.
Mortar
shell wounds puppet troops north of al-Hillah Monday
afternoon.
In a
dispatch posted at 9:38pm Baghdad time Monday night, the
Yaqen News Agency reported that seven puppet army
troops were wounded when a mortar shell landed at
Command Post No. 18 on the highway north of al-Hillah,
about 100km south of Baghdad on Monday afternoon.
Yaqen
reported a source in the puppet “Scorpion Brigade” as
saying that some of the puppet troops were severely
wounded in the attack and had to be taken to al-Hillah
Hospital for treatment.
Puppet
police station bombarded Sunday night.
In a
dispatch posted at 9:49am Baghdad time Monday morning,
the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI)
reported that the Khaykan puppet police station south of
al-Hillah (which is about 100km south of Baghdad) came
under mortar bombardment on Sunday night.
The AMSI
reported a source in the puppet “Scorpion Brigade” as
saying on Monday that the puppet police station was just
opened on Sunday by US occupation troops at a ceremony
attended by the puppet police commander for Babil
Province, Qays al-Mi‘mari.
Al-Qadisiyah Province.
Ad-Diwaniyah.
US,
puppet forces battle militiamen in ad-Diwaniyah Sunday
night.
In a
dispatch posted at 1:44pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon,
the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI)
reported that armed men battled US and puppet troops in
the as-Sadr and ad-Dubbat neighborhoods of ad-Diwaniyah,
180km south of Baghdad, on Sunday night.
The AMSI
reported that the fighting broke out when US troops
accompanied by their puppet army allies entered the
neighborhoods on a mission to capture a number of
“wanted individuals” there. Fighting raged for about
half an hour as US helicopters prowled the skies
overhead. No information on the nature or extent of
casualties was available.
Ad-Diwaniyah has lately been the scene of a turf war
between the Shi‘i sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi militia and
its rival the Shi‘i sectarian Badr Brigades, many of
whose members are concurrently members of the puppet
army and security forces in ad-Diwaniyah. The Jaysh
al-Mahdi is hoping to seize control of southern Iraq in
expectation of the withdrawal of British and US forces
from the region.
At-Ta’mim Province.
Kirkuk.
Puppet
forces make raids in Kirkuk neighborhoods.
In a
dispatch posted at 11:34am Baghdad time Monday morning,
the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI)
reported that Iraqi puppet security forces raided the
First and Second al-‘Askari neighborhoods in Kirkuk,
255km north of Baghdad.
The AMSI
reported sources in the puppet security forces as saying
that the puppet regime forces arrested one local person
and four visitors from other provinces who had arrived
in Kirkuk without conforming to the rules on travellers
imposed by the US occupation forces and their puppet
regime which is attempting to de-Arabize the city prior
to handing it over to the pro-American Kurdish
separatists in northern Iraq.
Ninwa Provice.
Zammar.
Mysterious truck bomb kills 10 in disputed Zammar area
Monday afternoon.
In a
dispatch posted at 7:39pm Baghdad time Monday evening,
the Yaqen News Agency reported that an
explosives-laden truck blew up in the village of Tall
Marak in the Zammar area, about 45km northwest of
al-Mawsil in northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least
10 people and wounding more than 70 more.
Yaqen
reported the puppet police as saying that there were
still bodies buried under the rubble and the casualty
toll was accordingly expected to rise.
In a
dispatch posted on its website Monday, Quds Press
reported that Brigadier General ‘Abd al-Karim
al-Jabburi, the Ninwa Province puppet police operations
director, said that the bomb had been of high explosive
material. He added that the puppet authorities were
reinforcing their forces and increasing their operations
in the area where the attack occurred.
In a
dispatch posted at 4:29pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon,
the Aswat al-‘Iraq news agency, which was set up
by Reuters and the U.N. Development Agency, reported
that the truck bomb exploded in Tall Marak, which is
about 15km west of Zammar, at about 3pm local time
Monday afternoon.
In a
dispatch posted at 4:47pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon,
Aswat al-‘Iraq reported that the area around
Zammar is ethnically mixed with 78 Kurdish villages and
29 Arab ones according to Kurdish separatist claims.
The pro-American Kurdish separatist parties that
dominate northern Iraq have been pushing to get the
Zammar area included in their planned separate
“Kurdistan” state in northern Iraq, but such plans are
resisted by Arab residents.
The
western part of Zammar is also of strategic importance
geographically and economically, as it dominates roads
leading from northern Iraq into Syria and it is also a
junction for roads leading from the city of Sinjar north
to the Kurdish region.
Al-Mawsil.
Bombs
target puppet army, police forces in al-Mawsil Monday
morning.
In a
dispatch posted at 1:53pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon,
the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI)
reported that two Iraqi Resistance bombs targeted puppet
forces in the city of al-Mawsil, about 420km northwest
of Baghdad, on Monday.
The AMSI
reported a source in the puppet security forces as
telling the media that one bomb went off by a puppet
police patrol at the al-Jalil Junction in the
ad-Dawwasah area of al-Mawsil on Monday morning. One
puppet policeman was wounded in the explosion.
The
second bomb went off by a puppet army patrol in the Bab
al-Jadid district of central al-Mawsil. No casualties
were reported from that attack.
Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.
Militiamen kill puppet official in al-Basrah, set body
on fire.
In a
dispatch posted at 2:51pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon,
the Aswat al-‘Iraq news agency, which was set up
by Reuters and the U.N. Development Agency, reported
that unknown armed men shot and killed the puppet
Director of Financial Oversight in the southern Iraqi
city of al-Basrah on Sunday night. They then set his
body on fire.
Aswat
al-‘Iraq reported an
official source in the al-Basrah puppet police who asked
not to be identified as saying that armed men killed
Jum‘ah Ja‘far Ibrahim, the Director of Financial
Oversight in al-Basrah Province. “After that, the
gunmen shut his body inside his car and set it alight.”
The official said that the puppet police came upon the
charred remains of Ibrahim when they found his car.
The
puppet police also found three unexploded 60mm mortar
shells aand handed them over to a unit that disposes of
such ordnance.
The
southern regions of Iraq have lately been the scene of a
bitter turf war between various Shi‘i sectarian militias
all battling for control of the region when the British
pull out. The Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in particular has
been engaged in battles throughout southern Iraq
targeting rival Shi‘i sectarian parties and militias,
such as the Badr Brigade and the Fadilah Party which
latter has long dominated the puppet administration in
al-Basrah.
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Ali al-Majid: another
Ba'ath official murdered
while the world watched |
One-by-one, the legitimate
government of Iraq is being murdered
by the quisling Iraqi war crimes
court and the U.S. Many
organizations that delve into legal
matters, as well as the United
Nations, have called the court a
travesty of justice.
Soon, Ali al-Majid will hang.
(He may already have been killed
by the time you read this.)
I can not recall any time in
modern history where such a
program was allowed to exist
while the world watched.
Where is Amnesty International?
Where is Human Rights Watch?
Where is the United Nations?
Where are the myriad "peace" and
"anti-war" groups? Where are the
anti-death penalty activists who
assemble at U.S. prisons on the
eve of an execution? Where are
the mainstream media? Where are
the left and "progressive"
media? Where are the members of
the U.S. government who oppose
the death penalty?
All the above are laying low. It
is not in good form or
politically correct for anyone
in the West to defend someone
from the Ba’ath regime. Al-Majid
does not count.
In realty, all these groups and
individuals are hypocrites of
the highest order. If one is
against the death penalty,
he/she does not get to choose
who is defendable and who is
not.
In addition to being hypocrites,
these groups and individuals are
also complicit in first degree
murder for not speaking up.
My conscience is clear.
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Cover of "The Mother
of All Battles." To be
released spring 2007
In the name of God the
Most Beneficent the Most
Merciful
The Arab Baath Socialist
Party
One Arab Nation, with an
eternal mission
Unity, Freedom,
Socialism
Expelling Kirkuk's
Arabs is a prelude to
divide Iraq!
The conspiracy to divide
Iraq enters a grave
phase with the
Occupation puppet
government officially
encouraging through
financial incentives, to
expel Kirkuk's Arabs
and facilitate
their transfer to other
regions of Iraq..
following a bloodthirsty
campaign which engulfed
a huge numbers of
Kirkuk's
Arabs forcing them to
leave their homes.
Our Party draws the
attention on this very
grave step which is a
part of a systematic
process to divide Iraq
and goes beyond
amputating Kirkuk and
annexing it to the
separatist rebellion
region in the North:
1- The occupation years,
and every event, have
ascertained
that dividing Iraq is
the Occupiers' most
important objective.
Encouraging every chaos,
mass murder, ethnic
cleansing, horrific and
hideous tortures means
and ways were nothing
but the symptoms of the
US plan, backed by the
Zionist Entity and Iran,
to divide Iraq. Dividing
Iraq, however, is
impossible without
annexing Kirkuk to the
separatists in the
north, for the Kurdish
region, lacks resources,
and is not viable as an
independent state
with resources of its
own.. This is exactly
what proofed the
separatist experience
since 1991. Therefore,
the Kurdish rebels' war
lords know pretty well,
that their separatist
future, is unsure
without annexing
Kirkuk and use its oil
for a viable state.
Expelling systematically Kirkuk's
Arabs, either through
assassination,
terrorism, or financial
incentives, reminds us
strikingly with the
Zionist entity' behavior
when it expelled
the Palestinians from
their homeland, and
expropriated Palestine,
and is nothing but a
prelude to declare the
separation relying on
Kirkuk's oil.
2- The Kurdish region
oil has no significance,
and is limited in
quantity, that is why
the Kurdish rebellion
war lords, insist by all
means to occupy Kirkuk.
3- Grabbing Kirkuk
doesn't achieve for the
separatist rebels, a
Kurdish state in the
north of Iraq only. This
will be a base to back
and support the
Turkey's and Iran's
Kurds to separate later
on to establish the
great Kurdish state,
intending to expand in
every direction; and
mainly to the south,
reaching.. the south of
Baghdad!!. This is
confirmed by the maps
adopted by the Kurdish
rebellion war lords in
the north of Iraq. This
expansion will not be
able to divide Iraq
only, but it will also
kurdicise the Arabs and
the non Arabs in the
colonized regions as is
the case right now in
the north of Iraq.
4- What we mentioned
above is nothing but the
complete and literal
execution of the old and
well known Zionist
entity plan to dismember
Iraq into dwarf warring
statelets, losing slowly
their Arab identity and
turning into entities
unable to survive
without external help.
This plan is absolutely
ascertained with clear
cut proofs, including
sowing and encouraging
chaos and dispersion in
Iraq after the invasion,
where the US and Iran
share the same strategic
interest into dividing
Iraq.. Remember the
three US -Iranian
meetings held in Baghdad
for the first time since
1979, where both agreed
upon dividing Iraq and
sharing Iraq loot.
Consequently, while the
puppet government
supports ceding Kirkuk
to the Kurdish
separatists, these
latter recognize the
separation of the south
under the grip of the
Iranian collaborators..
in the meanwhile, Iran
agrees to collaborate
and supports US plans
in post divided Iraq,
and in the region.
Our Party, while drawing
the attention of the
gravity of what is going
on in Kirkuk, reminds
again, that Kirkuk's
Arabs have the right to
remain in the city
despite having or not
previously lived in any
other parts of Iraq..
For Iraq is a one state,
and the Iraqi citizen,
be Kurdish, Arab,
Turkomen or else has the
right to live wherever
he wants or she wants in
all Iraq.
This unalterable
principle written and
established in Iraq 's
Constitution before the
Occupation, is the basis
for the existence of
tens of thousands of
Kurds in all Iraq, in
Basra, Baghdad and even
in the west of Iraq.. So
why an Iraqi Kurd has
the right to have the
freedom of possessing
properties and electing
residence in all Iraq
while the non Kurd is
not allowed the same?
Expelling Kirkuk's Arabs
by force, is nothing but
a racist and fascist
measure, which violates
one of the most
important human right,
i.e. to elect residence
freely.. and re confirms
the US, the West and the
United Nations' double
standards.. Indeed!
These parties never
opposed Kirkuk's ethnic
cleansing against the
Arabs, rather they
encouraged it, while
using the same, as
lies and pretexts to
besiege Iraq and
pave the way to invade
Iraq, as they did when
exploiting the project
of drying Iraq marshes
in the so called (the
marsh Arabs'
persecution).
Furthermore, the
constraining and
terrorist methods used
to expel Kirkuk's Arabs,
is designed to rise the
problems of the
existence of Kurds in
Iraqi non Kurdish
regions, and in great
numbers.. to facilitate
their displacement
too.. or to expel them
by force from the Arab
regions, in an erroneous
reaction against
expelling Kirkuk's
Arabs, in order to
assemble all Iraq's
Kurds in one, large and
demographically
important area,
surrounded from the
outside by hatred, and
living in a permanent
fear from the outside...
Exactly as Zionists did
when creating their
Zionist entity
after invading
Palestine! So we
must be extremely aware
from getting dragged
into this US, Zionist
and Iranian plan to
redraw Iraq
demographically to
divide it and to enflame
wars in amongst its
demographic components.
Kirkuk's Arabs should
refuse abandoning their
homes against any
compensation, for the
future belongs to the
one Arab identity Iraq,
which respects all the
minorities and
recognizes their
specific identity..
as Iraq was prior to the
invasion... first and
second.. the Occupation
is being defeated now
and is on its last
throes, and with it
will all the
collaborators will
escape, be the
separatists in the north
or the Iranian agents in
the south..
The gravity of this
state of affairs
requests from the Iraqi
patriotic forces, in
particular, to stay
united
against annexing Kirkuk
to the Kurdish region
and safeguard its
particularity as a
district representing
all Iraq's components..
For Kirkuk doesn't
belong to only one
component.
Long live Iraq, united
and independent!
Shame and dishonor to
the traitors, the
Zionism', the US' and
Iran' agents.. the
enemies of Iraq unity
and the enemies of
the liberation of Iraq!
Iraq Leadership
Iraq Culture
and Information Bureau
The Arab Baath Socialist
Party,
10th September 2007
Baghdad, Martyr Saddam
Hussein's Capital City
Loathed bloodthirsty US
thugs, you will pay
dearly for your crimes..
Iraqis and Arabs will
never stop combating you
and for generations to
come!
*Translated
by Abu Assur..
al-moharer
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