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Iraqi Resistanc7 Report 1208
Iraqi Resistance Report for
events of Wednesday, 2 April 2008. Translated and/or compiled by
Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.
http://www.freearabvoice.org
Wednesday, 2 April 2008.
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US-recruited tribal “Awakening” police
murder five men released from prison by by Americans in al-Hadithah area
Wednesday.
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US attacks on locked-down Madinat as-Sadr
district continue amid media blackout.
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Gunmen ambush peasants aboard bus near ad-Dulu‘iyah
early Wednesday, four peasants killed, four people abducted.
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Top Iraqi regime military officials survive
assassination attempt in al-Basrah Wednesday.
Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Qa’im.
US forces arrest 22
“Awakening” tribal policemen in al-Qa’im Wednesday.
In a dispatch posted at 4:15pm
Baghdad time Wednesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported
that US occupation forces in al-Qa’im had arrested 22 members of the
“Awakening” tribal police – which was originally recruited by the US to
help prop up the occupation regime.
Al-Hadithah.
“Awakening” police kill
four men released by Americans from prison camps in al-Haqlaniyah.
In a dispatch posted at 5:15pm
Baghdad time Wednesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported
that US-recruited “Awakening” tribal policemen in al-Haqlaniyah, a
suburb of al-Hadithah, 270km northwest of Baghdad, had killed four men
recently released from prison camps by US forces, just hours after they
arrived home.
Yaqen reported eyewitnesses
in al-Haqlaniyah as saying that the “Awakening” tribal police raided the
homes of the four released men in the ash-Shurtah neighborhood of
al-Haqlaniyah at dawn on Wednesday. The “Awakening” tribesmen executed
all four men in front of their family members.
Two of the victims were brothers
and two were cousins. A fifth prisoner who was supposed to be released
asked the Americans to let him stay in the prison camp because he had
heard of the murders being carried out by the Americans’ tribal allies
in his home area. After the murder and mutilation of a prisoner in
al-Hadithah on Wednesday (see story below) the total number of released
prisoners murdered by the “Awakening” police in the last eight weeks now
stood at 13.
US-recruited tribal
“Awakening” police kill another prisoner released by Americans in
al-Hadithah.
In a dispatch posted at 1:45pm
Baghdad time Wednesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported
that members of the US-recruited tribal “Awakening” police in the city
of al-Hadithah, 270km northwest of Baghdad kidnapped a man who had
recently been released by the US occupation forces in the military
district of the city. The “Awakening” tribal police killed the former
prisoner, mutilated his body and dumped it in the road.
Yaqen reported eyewitnesses
who live in al-Hadithah as saying the victim was named ‘Umar ‘Abd
al-Jarad al-Ju‘ani and that he was abducted by the “Awakening” when he
showed up at their police station, as was legally required, to register
his presence. The terms of his “parole” also prohibited al-Ju‘ani from
pursuing any work or from leaving al-Hadithah. He was told that if he
should violate either ban, all the members of his family and the
guarantor of his bond would all be arrested on charges of “terrorism.”
The witnesses said that the
Americans had released al-Ju‘ani from their prison just 10 days before
his murder. He had been a prisoner for one year.
Al-Ju‘ani’s murder was the ninth
killing in al-Hadithah by the tribal “Awakening” police of a prisoner
released by the Americans during the last eight weeks. Released
prisoners are required to register on a regular basis with the
“Awakening” police and therefore are required to expose themselves to
the risk of being abducted and murdered. Accordingly, relatives of
prisoners being held by the Americans have lately been appealing to the
US occupation authorities not to release their loved ones.
Residents of al-Hadithah report
that one of the officials in charge of the tribal “Awakening”
contingents in al-Anbar Province – ‘Ali al-Hatim ‘Ali as-Sulayman –
appeared on satellite television and publicly announced in no uncertain
terms that the “Awakening” police would kill anyone released from
captivity by the US forces and that they would furthermore confiscate
their money.
Baghdad.
Murder spree continues:
two more bodies found dumped in Baghdad streets Wednesday.
In a dispatch posted at 9:15pm
Baghdad time Wednesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that
two more unidentified bodies were found dumped on the streets of Baghdad
on Wednesday.
Gunmen kill three Iraqi
Christian women in drive-by shooting in Baghdad Wednesday.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 7:54pm Wednesday evening Beijing time (2:54pm in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that armed men in an unmarked car
opened fire on a car carrying three women in the ‘Arasat al-Hindiyah
area of Baghdad’s south-central al-Jadiriyah district.
Xinhua reported a source in
the government police as saying that the three women were killed on the
spot and that the attackers fled the scene. The source said that the
three women victims were Iraqi Christians. The police took their bodies
to the Forensic Medicine morgue to be handed over to next of kin.
US attacks on locked-down
Madinat as-Sadr district continue amid media blackout.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 7:38pm Wednesday evening Beijing time (2:38pm in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that American bombardment set
fire to a residential apartment in the economically depressed Madinat
as-Sadr district of eastern Baghdad.
Xinhua reported a source in
the Iraqi government police as saying that the authorities still have
Madinat as-Sadr, a stronghold of the anti-occupation movement led by
young Shi‘i cleric Muqtada as-Sadr, under lockdown with a curfew in
force and no one allowed in or out. Accordingly no information was
available on the nature or extent of casualties as a result of the
on-going American attacks.
Mortar round wounds two in
southern Baghdad as regime sources refuse comment on reports of US
bombing in Madinat as-Sadr, in violation of cease fire.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 9:12am Wednesday morning Beijing time (4:12am in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that mortar shells of unknown
origin blasted into two houses in the az-Za‘faraniyah area of southern
Baghdad, wounding two people and damaging the two houses.
Xinhua reported the source
for that information as refusing to say anything regarding the situation
in the Madinat as-Sadr section of eastern Baghdad. Madinat as-Sadr is a
stronghold of support for anti-occupation Shi‘i religious leader Muqtada
as-Sadr and has remained under government lockdown even though the
curfew was lifted in most of the rest of the Iraqi capital. It was
widely reported that US warplanes had blasted various places in Madinat
as-Sadr, despite the cease-fire that ended the government offensive
against the Sadr Movement as of Sunday, 30 March.
Mortar round wounds two in
west Baghdad.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 7:38pm Wednesday evening Beijing time (2:38pm in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that a mortar round of unknown
origins landed near the railroad in the ad-Dawudi neighborhood of
western Baghdad, wounding one Iraqi regime soldier and one civilian.
Xinhua reported a source in
the Iraqi government police as saying that both men were taken to a
nearby hospital for treatment.
Three civilians injured in
bomb blast in northern Baghdad.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 7:38pm Wednesday evening Beijing time (2:38pm in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol
of the Iraqi government police in the al-Qahirah neighborhood of
northern Baghdad.
Xinhua reported a source in
the Iraqi government police as saying that the blast wounded three
civilians who happened to be in the area. One of the patrol vehicles
was also damaged.
Three civilians killed in
bomb attack in eastern Baghdad Wednesday.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 7:38pm Wednesday evening Beijing time (2:38pm in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a group
of civilians on Square 83 in the at-Talibiyah area of eastern Baghdad on
Wednesday.
In an update posted at 7:54pm
Beijing time (2:54 in Baghdad), Xinhua reported that the blast
had killed three people and wounded 14 more. One of the injured was a
correspondent for the privately-owned and independent ad-Diyar satellite
TV company, owned by the Iraqi media figure Faysal al-Yasiri, a former
media official in the government of President Saddam Hussein.
Murder spree continues:
two more torture, murder victims found dumped in Baghdad Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 9:12am Wednesday morning Beijing time (4:12am in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that Iraqi government police
recovered two unidentified bodies in two neighborhoods of Baghdad on
Tuesday.
Xinhua reported a source in
the government police as saying that police patrols discovered two
unidentified bodies, one in ar-Rusafah in eastern Baghdad, and the other
in southwestern Baghdad’s al-Karakh area. Both had been tortured and
shot.
Salah
ad-Din Province.
Tikrit.
US troops kill 11 gunmen
believed to belong to al-Qa‘idah west of Tikrit early Wednesday.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 8:24am Thursday morning Beijing time (3:24am in Baghdad), the
Xinhua News Agency reported that US forces had killed 11 armed
men, some of them non-Iraqi Arabs in a raid west of Tikrit.
Xinhua reported a colonel
in the Salah ad-Din Province police who asked not to be identified as
saying that a US force carried out a landing in the ‘Ayn al-Furs area,
50km west of Tikrit (which is 180km north of Baghdad) at dawn on Monday,
after receiving a tip that there were Arab fighters from outside Iraq
operating there.
The colonel said that the
Americans fought a limited engagement in the area with men believed to
belong to the al-Qa‘idah organization. Eleven of the gunmen were
killed, seven of them Arabs from outside Iraq. The bodies of the dead
were taken to the American Camp Speicher Forward Base, 15km north of
Tikrit. The source said that one US soldier was also wounded in the
clash.
The source said that a police
detachment went to the scene of the attack later on Wednesday and found
blood stains, two destroyed houses, mortar shells, bombs, explosive
belts, medium and light weapons, ammunition and military gear in
addition to four burned cars and two cars that were still able to run.
The police detachment returned to its base in Tikrit at 9pm Wednesday.
Ad-Dulu‘iyah.
Gunmen ambush peasants
aboard bus near ad-Dulu‘iyah early Wednesday, kill four, kidnap four.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 6:05pm Wednesday afternoon Beijing time (1:05pm in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that gunmen belonging to
al-Qa‘idah attacked a minibus in which a group of peasants were riding
east of the city of ad-Dulu‘iyah, 97km north of Baghdad, on Wednesday
morning.
Xinhua reported Major ‘Ala’
al-Jabburi of the government police in the provincial capital of Tikrit
as saying that gunmen belonging to al-Qa‘idah ambushed the bus coming
from the village of Kubaybah, 10km east of ad-Dulu‘iyah, with eight
peasants aboard. The gunmen attacked it from a farm field by the side
of the main road in the area. After the bus stopped, the gunmen made
the peasants get out of the vehicle at gunpoint and then and shot four
of them, killing them on the spot and leaving their bodies by the road.
Al-Jabburi said that the gunmen
then took the remaining four people who had been aboard the bus and the
vehicle itself and drove off to the north in the direction of the border
between the provinces of Salah ad-Din and at-Ta’mim.
Al-Jabburi said that following the
murder/kidnapping, government police and local villagers launched raids
that netted 20 “suspects.” Security forces imposed a security cordon
around the area and began a search for the attackers as ambulances took
the bodies of the victims to the Forensic Medicine morgue.
Two days earlier gunmen from
al-Qa‘idah killed two government policemen in the nearby village of
al-Mashru‘, also east of ad-Dulu‘iyah.
In a dispatch posted at 12:25pm
Baghdad time midday Wednesday, the Yaqen News Agency reported a
source in the ad-Dulu‘iyah police as saying that among those kidnapped
from the bus were the Shaykh of the al-Jannabiyin tribe and his son.
Diyala
Province.
Al-Mandali.
Bomb kills three regime
security men near Iranian border.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 7:03pm Wednesday evening Beijing time (2:03am in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a joint
patrol of Iraqi regime troops and police in the Mandali area, a
predominantly Kurdish and Shi‘i area near the Iranian border, 100km
northeast of Baghdad.
Xinhua reported a source in
the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior as saying that the blast killed three
of the members of the patrol and wounded eight more of them, in addition
to destroying two patrol vehicles.
Al-Miqdadiyah.
Bomb kills two Iraqi
government policemen near al-Miqdadiyah.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 7:03pm Wednesday evening Beijing time (2:03am in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol
of government police in the al-Wajihiyah area, near al-Miqdadiyah –
which is 85km northeast of Baghdad.
Xinhua reported a source in
the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior as saying that the blast destroyed a
patrol vehicle and killed two of the men in the patrol and wounded three
more of them.
Ba‘qubah.
Bombs targeted on houses
leave woman dead, man wounded.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 7:03pm Wednesday evening Beijing time (2:03am in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that three bombs exploded, one
after the other, by three houses in the area of as-Sa‘diyah, 20km west
of Ba‘qubah (which is 65km northeast of Baghdad).
Xinhua reported a source in
the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior as saying that the explosions damaged
three houses and left one woman dead and one man wounded.
Ninwa
Province.
Al-Mawsil.
Armed men attack
checkpoint east of al-Mawsil Tuesday afternoon.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 11:05am Wednesday morning Beijing time (6:05am in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that armed men attacked a
checkpoint manned by Iraqi government police in the an-Nabi Yunus area
east of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, on Tuesday afternoon.
Xinhua reported Brigadier
General Khalid ‘Abd as-Sattar, spokesman for the Operations Command in
Ninwa Province as saying that two of the armed attackers were killed and
two of the policemen at the checkpoint were wounded in the gun battle.
General ‘Abd as-Sattar said that the rest of the gunmen fled when they
were met by intense gunfire from the police at the checkpoint.
Kidnapped brother of government
official freed in al-Mawsil Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 11:05am Wednesday morning Beijing time (6:05am in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that Iraqi regime security forces
freed the brother of Zuhayr al-Chelebi, the former Human Rights Minister
in the American-backed Iraqi regime and current adviser to Prime
Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
Xinhua reported Operations
Commander for Ninwa Province, Brigadier General Khalid ‘Abd as-Sattar,
as saying that the security police learned that Tariq al-Chelebi was
being held in a house in the Badush area to the west of al-Mawsil, 420km
northwest of Baghdad. Al-Chelebi had been abducted by unknown armed men
in the west al-Mawsil neighborhood of “17 Tammuz” two days earlier.
General ‘Abd as-Sattar said that
the security forces raided the house where al-Chelebi was being held and
set him free. The gunmen who had been holding him fled to an unknown
destination before the security forces arrived on the scene.
Zuhayr al-Chelebi, whose brother
was freed Tuesday, is the Director General of the Iraqi Council of
Ministers and an adviser to Prime Minister al-Maliki. He is also
charged with supervising the distribution of aid money paid out to
families of victims of the violence that occurred recently in al-Mawsil.
At-Ta’mim Province.
Kirkuk.
Officer in police force
shot dead in Kirkuk Wednesday evening.
In a dispatch posted at 9:35pm
Baghdad time Wednesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that
armed men shot and killed an Iraqi police officer in Kirkuk, 250km north
of Baghdad, on Wednesday evening.
Car bomb explodes in
Kirkuk, no casualties reported.
In a dispatch posted at 5:44pm
Baghdad time Wednesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported
that a car bomb exploded near the main market in Kirkuk on Wednesday
afternoon.
Al-Huwayjah.
Belt bomber kills man in
attack on “Awakening” police in al-Huwayjah.
In a dispatch posted at 11:25am
Baghdad time Wednesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported
that a man wearing an explosive belt blew himself up by a commander of
the US-recruited “Awakening” police in al-Huwayjah, 200km north of
Baghdad on Wednesday.
Ninwa
Province.
Al-Mawsil.
Car bomb explodes by Iraqi
police patrol in al-Mawsil.
In a dispatch posted at 3:01pm
Baghdad time Wednesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported
that a car bomb parked by the side of a road exploded when a patrol of
Iraqi government police passed by in the al-Quds neighborhood of eastern
al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad on Wednesday.
Al-Ba‘aj.
Two policemen killed in
armed attack in al-Ba‘aj.
In a dispatch posted at 7:50pm
Baghdad time Wednesday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported
that armed men shot and killed three people on the main street in the
town of al-Ba‘aj 130km west of al-Mawsil in northwestern Iraq Wednesday.
Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.
Top Iraqi regime military
officials survive assassination attempt in al-Basrah Wednesday.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 8:14pm Wednesday night Beijing time (3:14pm in Baghdad), the
Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by the motorcade
of Staff Lieutenant General Mawhan al-Furayji, the Commander of
Operations in al-Basrah; and Major General Muhammad al-‘Askari, the
official spokesman for the Iraqi Defense Ministry. Both officials were
carrying out inspections in the al-Qiblah area west of al-Basrah in
southern Iraq when the attack occurred.
Xinhua reported a source in
the Iraqi government police as saying that neither of the generals was
wounded in the attack.
Eyewitnesses said that Iraqi
regime army forces had cordoned off the al-Qiblah area at 6am local time
Wednesday morning and then stormed in, searching for “wanted men” whom
they intended to arrest. The raid sparked a clash with local Jaysh al-Mahdi
militiamen who resisted the assault on the area.
Xinhua noted that Iraqi Prime
Minister Nuri al-Maliki had left al-Basrah on Tuesday and returned to
Baghdad. Al-Maliki had flown in to the British base at al-Basrah
Airport on Monday last week to oversee his forces’ offensive against the
Jaysh al-Mahdi, which ended in government forces losing territory to the
militia and finally accepting a face-saving cease-fire accord brokered
by Iran that went into effect on Monday, 31 March.
Reporter for US-based
Arabic TV station wounded as clashes erupt near al-Basrah Wednesday.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 7:55pm Wednesday evening Beijing time (2:55pm in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that a sniper shot and wounded a
correspondent for the US-based Arabic-language satellite TV station
“al-Hurrah” in the province of al-Basrah on Wednesday.
Xinhua reported a source in
the media in al-Basrah as saying that the reporter received a bullet
wound but was not in serious condition. The source, who asked to remain
anonymous, said that Mazin at-Tayyar, the wounded journalist, had been
shot in the Kilometer 8 area west of the city of al-Basrah as he
accompanied the commander of operations of local government forces on an
inspection visit to Iraqi army units stationed in the area where clashes
broke out with the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi on Wednesday morning
and were continuing as of the time of reporting.
The area was the scene of fierce
fighting last week, prior to a cease-fire agreement brokered by Iran
that went into force on Monday, 31 March. Since then, however, tension
has remained high in the area.
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