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Iraqi Resistanc7 Report 1207
Iraqi Resistance Report for
events of Tuesday, 1 April 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad
Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
Tuesday, 1 April 2008.
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Mortar shells target “Green Zone” Tuesday
evening.
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US admits death of American soldier from
wounds received in Iraq.
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Faced
with defeat at the hands of as-Sadr, Nuri al-Maliki begged Tehran for
face-saving deal to end fighting.
Baghdad.
Mortar shells target “Green
Zone” Tuesday evening.
In a dispatch posted at 1:55am
Baghdad time before dawn Wednesday morning, the Association of Muslim
Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that several mortar rounds were fired
at the top-security US-occupation headquarters known to Americans as
“the Green Zone” in Baghdad on Tuesday evening.
US admits death of
American soldier from wounds received in Iraq.
In a dispatch posted at 7:35pm
Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported
that the US military announced that one of its soldiers who had been
wounded in Iraq had died in a medical center in Germany.
Iraqi regime forces arrest
54 in Baghdad Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 5:06pm
Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported
that Iraqi regime forces arrested 54 people, most of them members of the
Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in Baghdad, according to a source in the regime’s
Interior Ministry.
Thousands of government
policemen dismissed for refusing to fight against Jaysh al-Mahdi.
In a dispatch posted at 3:50pm
Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported
that Jawad al-Bulani, the Iraqi regime’s Minister of the Interior has
dismissed thousands of officers and men of the Iraqi government police
for refusing to fight against the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia.
Yaqen reported a source
close to al-Bulani as saying that the latter had issued an order
dismissing thousands of policemen in the Baghdad areas of Madinat
as-Sadr, ash-Shu‘lah, al-Kazimiyah; and in the cities of al-Basrah,
al-‘Amarah, al-Hashimiyah, al-Hamzah, and al-Ghammas for their refusal
to fight the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia. Some of the policemen even joined
the Jaysh al-Mahdi to fight against government forces during the recent,
US-backed regime offensive against the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi
militia. Two units of the security forces in Baghdad’s al-‘Amil area
turned over their weapons to the Jaysh al-Mahdi during the fighting.
Meanwhile, Brigadier General Rasul
Khayun, the Deputy Chief of Regimental Affairs in the Dhi Qar Province
police announced that he had expelled 60 members of the force there for
dereliction of duty during the offensive against the Jaysh al-Mahdi.
Khayun said that the dismissal was carried out under orders of the Iraqi
Prime Minister.
US, Iraqi regime troops
clash with Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen in eastern Baghdad.
In a dispatch posted at 3:15pm
Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported
that a patrol of US troops and Iraqi regime forces clashed with members
of the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in the Baghdad al-Jadidah
section of the Iraqi capital.
Iraqi deaths increase in
March, thanks to US-backed regime offensive against Jaysh al-Mahdi.
In a dispatch posted at 12:31pm
Baghdad time midday Tuesday, the Yaqen News Agency reported that
thanks to the US-backed Iraqi regime’s abortive offensive against the
Jaysh al-Mahdi in the last week of March, the official death toll in
Iraq had soared over that of the previous month.
Yaqen reported official
statistics from the Ministries of Interior, Defense, and Health as
saying that 923 people had died in violence in March, an increase of 31
percent over February. The number was still far lower than the 1,861
who died in the same month in 2007
Faced with defeat at the
hands of as-Sadr, Nuri al-Maliki begged Tehran for face-saving deal to
end fighting.
In a dispatch posted at 11:17am
Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that
Usamah an-Nujayfi had said that the Iranian government had taken part in
arranging the cease-fire designed to allow Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri
al-Maliki and his government to save face after the “war to the death”
that al-Maliki had declared against the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia failed
miserably to achieve any headway.
Yaqen reported that Usamah
an-Nujayfi, a member of Parliament, said that intense negotiations had
been conducted by members of the Iraqi parliament who traveled to Tehran
to make use of Iran’s mediation efforts.
An-Nujayfi, who took part in the
negotiations, said that representatives of al-Maliki’s Da‘wah Party and
the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) the pro-American Shi‘i
sectarian party whose armed wing joint the American forces in the
invasion of Iraq in 2003, traveled to Iran along with representatives of
the Shi‘i Fadilah party to work out a deal with Muqtada as-Sadr, the
young Shi‘i leader of the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia that was the target of
the offensive. The actual go-between in the talks was the Commander of
the Iranian al-Quds Brigade.
An-Nujayfi said that the Sadr
forces controlled more in al-Basrah after the government offensive than
they had before it. He said that the regime understood that things were
going against it and therefore the Parliamentary deputies Hadi al-‘Amiri
and ‘Ali al-Adib got the Iranian authorities to persuade Muqtada as-Sadr
to accept an agreement that would save face for al-Maliki and the
regime, using a cut off of weapons supplies as the a means to pressure
the young Shi‘i cleric.
Under the deal, the Jaysh al-Mahdi
militia remained intact and armed but off the streets and out of sight.
Attacks on Iraqi regime
officials, parties following end of curfew in Baghdad.
In a dispatch posted at 10:53am
Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that
an RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the home of a member of
the Iraqi parliament for the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) – a
Shi‘i sectarian pro-US political grouping, whose armed wing, the Badr
Brigades, invaded Iraq alongside American forces in March 2003.
Yaqen reported a source in
the Iraqi regime as saying that a bomb also went off by a US patrol
guarding the area in Baghdad’s ash-Shu‘lah district, where the SIIC
official lives. The source noted that the attacks took place after the
lifting of the curfew which had been imposed on the Iraqi capital during
the American-backed regime offensive against the Jaysh al-Mahdi last
week.
Yaqen reported that there
had been several attacks on party headquarters and houses of the SIIC
and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s Da‘wah Party in the first hours
after the lifting of the curfew.
Bomb wounds four in
downtown Baghdad.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 3:44pm Tuesday afternoon Beijing time (10:44am in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by an Iraqi
regime police patrol near the National Theater in Baghdad on Tuesday
morning.
Xinhua reported a source in
the government police as saying that a patrol car was damaged and two
policemen and two civilians were wounded in the blast. All the injured
people were taken to hospital for treatment.
Baghdad was, however, in general
more peaceful than during the days of the regime’s offensive against the
Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, which lasted from 25 to 30 March and ended
unsuccessfully for the regime.
Salah
ad-Din Province.
Ash-Sharuqat.
Five members of Iraqi
regime security forces killed when captured explosives blow up in
transport.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 6:38pm Tuesday afternoon Beijing time (1:38pm in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that a large explosion ripped
through a force of Iraqi regime police and “Awakening” tribal
contingents near ash-Sharuqat, 280km north of Baghdad, before noon on
Tuesday.
Xinhua reported that a
joint force of Iraqi government police and “Awakening” tribal police
from ash-Sharuqat set out to the area on the left bank of the Tigris
River when they received word of a large cache of explosives in the
area. When the forces arrived on the scene, they did find the large
stash of explosives, detached the detonators, and loaded the explosives
aboard police vehicles. During transport, however, the materiel
exploded, killing five of the security men. Among the dead was Colonel
‘Ammash ‘Ajil, the commander of the “Awakening” tribal contingent in the
left bank area of ash-Sharuqat. Three more members of the security
forces were wounded in the explosion, one of those a major in the
government police force. Several police and “Awakening” vehicles were
destroyed in the explosions and material damage was also inflicted on
nearby residences.
Car bomber kills tribal
policeman in ash-Sharuqat at dawn Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 2:35pm
Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported
that a car bomber attacked a checkpoint manned by tribal “Awakening”
police in the village of Sudayrah near ash-Sharuqat, 280km north of
Baghdad at dawn on Tuesday.
Tikrit.
Six “Awakening” tribal
policemen killed in attack near ath-Tharthar Lake.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 3:15pm Tuesday afternoon Beijing time (10:15am in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that unknown armed men attacked a
group of US-recruited “Awakening” tribal police near Tikrit, 180km north
of Baghdad on Monday evening.
Xinhua reported Colonel
Hasan Ahmad of the Salah ad-Din Province Police Command as saying that
armed men in several cars made it appear hat they were a wedding
procession and then opened fire on a checkpoint manned by “Awakening”
tribal police near ath-Tharthar Lake, 30km west of Tikrit. All six of
the “Awakening” policemen at the checkpoint were killed. The attackers
then dispersed into the nearby areas.
The police had begun searching for
the attackers and the bodies of the slain tribal policemen were taken to
the morgue in Tikrit General Hospital.
Xinhua noted that members
of the al-Qa‘idah organization were still operating in the area along
the border between Salah ad-Din and al-Anbar Provinces, despite efforts
by the Iraqi regime with support from the US military to stamp them out.
Babil
Province.
Al-Mahmudiyah.
Regime arrests reporter
for Iraqi TV station in al-Mahmudiayh Sunday evening.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 7:50pm Tuesday evening Beijing time (2:50pm in Baghdad), the
Xinhua News Agency reported that a correspondent of the
as-Sumariyah satellite TV station had been arrested by Iraqi regime
forces as he was working in the area of al-Mahmudiyah, 30km south of
Baghdad.
Xinhua reported the
“Journalistic Freedom Observatory” (JFO) in Iraq, a non-governmental
organization, as saying that the management of as-Sumariyah had
announced in Baghdad that the Iraqi government army’s Sixth Division had
arrested its reporter, Ahmad Mahmud Husayn, had been arrested in al-Mahmudiyah
on Sunday evening.
The statement said that Husayn had
been covering events for the station at the time and that the army had
not disclosed the reasons for the arrest.
The JFO estimates that at least
215 journalists and journalistic staff – Iraqi and foreign – have been
killed in the five years since the US invasion in March 2003. Of those,
112 were killed because of their journalistic activity, as were 41
technicians and assistants.
The JFO reports that 59
journalists and journalistic assistants have been kidnapped. Most were
killed and 14 of them remain among the missing. Another 28 journalists
have been put on trial, while still others have been attacked and
restricted as they attempted to do their jobs.
Al-Qadisiyah Province.
Ash-Shawmali.
Six civilians wounded in
explosion south of Baghdad.
In a dispatch posted at 1:14pm
Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported
that a bomb exploded by a private car on the main road linking
an-Nu‘maniyah in Wasit Province with ash-Shawmali in al-Qadisiyah
Province, south of Baghdad.
Yaqen reported a source in
the ash-Shawmali district police as saying that the blast wounded six
people, including two children. All were taken to al-Hillah General
Hospital, 100km south of Baghdad.
At-Ta’mim Province.
Kirkuk.
Two bombs wound four
government policemen in Kirkuk Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 9:40pm
Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that
four Iraqi government policemen were wounded when two bombs exploded in
two separate attacks in Kirkuk, 250km north of Baghdad on Tuesday
evening.
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