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Iraqi Resistance Report 1209
Iraqi Resistance Report for
events of Thursday, 3 April 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad
Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
Thursday, 3 April 2008.
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US troops in civilian dress spark
“friendlyfire” battle with Iraqi regime police in al-Hillah, leaving six
dead, 15 wounded, many of them civilians.
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Three people killed, one of them a woman,
when US helicopter blasts family home of member of Sadr Movement in al-Basrah.
Baghdad.
Three killed in car
bombing in Baghdad’s al-Harithiyah district late Thursday morning.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 5:02pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (1:02pm in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that an explosives-laden car that
had been parked by the side of a road in the west Baghdad district of
al-Harithiyah exploded by a passing police patrol at 11:10am, Baghdad
time Thursday morning.
Xinhua reported in a
dispatch posted at 6:13pm Beijing time (2:13pm in Baghdad) that the
casualty count from the car bombing on al-Kindi Street in al-Harithiyah
stood at three people dead, one of them a woman, and 10 more injured.
Three of the wounded are policemen and on of them was a child.
Bomb on Qahtan Square
kills Iraqi regime army soldier early Thursday.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 3:16pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (11:16am in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol
of Iraqi army troops on Qahtan Square in the al-Yarmuk area of western
Baghdad in the early hours of Thursday.
Xinhua reported a source in
the Iraqi regime’s Ministry of the Interior as saying that one military
vehicle was destroyed, one soldier was killed and three others were
wounded.
Bomb wounds medical
students in Baghdad’s Qahtan Square Thursday morning.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 3:16pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (11:16am in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a
civilian car on Qahtan Square in Baghdad at 7am local time Thursday
morning.
Bomb wounds traffic
policeman in Baghdad’s al-Mansur district.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 3:16pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (11:16am in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb went off in a booth
used by traffic police in west Baghdad’s upscale al-Mansur district.
Two sanitation workers
wounded in bomb blast near Technology University.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 3:16pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (11:16am in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb exploded on
as-Sina‘ah Street near the Technology University in southeastern
Baghdad.
Xinhua reported a source in
the Iraqi regime’s Ministry of the Interior as saying that the blast
damaged nearby shops and stores and injured two sanitation workers who
happened to be in the area.
Motor vehicle ban in
al-Kazimiyah lifted Thursday morning.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 3:16pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (11:16am in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that a ban on motor traffic that
had been imposed on the Shi‘i district of al-Kazimiyah in northern
Baghdad had been lifted.
Babil
Province.
Al-Hillah.
US troops in civilian
dress spark “friendlyfire” battle with Iraqi regime police in al-Hillah,
leaving six dead, 15 wounded, many of them civilians.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 3:39pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (11:39am in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that US troops attacked Iraqi
regime security men by mistake in the city of al-Hillah, 100km south of
Baghdad.
Xinhua reported a source in
the al-Hillah government police as saying that a US patrol showed up in
the al-Jam‘iyah neighborhood of central al-Hillah where the government
administration building is located at 3am local time Thursday morning.
One of the building guards noticed them and pointed his weapon at them
because he took them for gunmen trying to carry out an attack. One of
the Americans then opened fire, killing the guard on the spot.
The source said that policemen
inside the headquarters nearby rushed out after hearing the gunfire and
pointed their guns at the American troops who then opened fire on the
police, sparking a firefight. Four of the policemen were killed and
nine others wounded in that clash.
In a dispatch posted at 12:52pm
Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that
US forces called in helicopter gun ships to provide them air support
against the Iraqi policemen with whom they were clashing in al-Hillah on
Thursday.
Mafkarat al-Islam reported
sources in the Iraqi regime police as saying that the American troops
appeared in the al-Jam‘iyah area of al-Hillah dressed in civilian
clothing, presumably on some sort of under cover operation.
A spokesman for al-Hillah’s main
hospital declared that his facility had received the bodies of six
people killed in the clash, four of them policemen. He said that about
15 people had been wounded, half of those civilians.
Mafkarat al-Islam quoted
the US military as saying that its forces entered al-Hillah with the
intent of capturing a member of the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi
militia.
Xinhua reported its source
as saying that US forces bombarded the police station in the course of
the clash, sending shrapnel flying around the area and wounding two
women in their nearby homes. A number of private cars were also
destroyed in the US strike on the police headquarters.
The source said that he believed
the battle had been unintentional, the mistaken belief by both sides
that the other was hostile.
Ninwa
Province.
Al-Mawsil.
Truck bomber kills seven
civilians in attack on checkpoint west of al-Mawsil Wednesday evening.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 3:13pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (11:13am in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that seven Iraqi civilians were
killed and 12 more wounded when a man drove a truck packed with
explosives into a checkpoint manned by Iraqi government army troops to
the west of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad on Wednesday evening.
Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.
Three people killed, one
of them a woman, when US helicopter blasts family home of member of Sadr
Movement in al-Basrah.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic
website at 6:02pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (2:02pm in Baghdad),
the Xinhua News Agency reported that helicopter gun ships
belonging to the American occupation forces attacked a house in western
Baghdad, killing three people and wounding six others.
Xinhua reported a source in
the security forces of al-Basrah Province as saying that the air raid
during Wednesday-Thursday night targeted a house in the al-Qiblah area
of western al-Basrah. Three residents in the house, one of them a
woman, were killed and six others wounded. All the victims were members
of one family the source said.
A Source in the office of the as-Sadr
Movement in the city said that the home belonged to a member of the
organization.
The US command issued a statement
saying that its aircraft had attacked a house being used by “gunmen,”
killing one member of “a militia” but denying reports by its allies in
the Iraqi government police that any civilians had perished.
For his part, Major General ‘Abd
al-Karim Khalaf, the Director of the National Defense Center in the
Ministry of the Interior and the official spokesman for the recent
offensive in al-Basrah, denied having any knowledge of the attack. The
British command in al-Basrah announced that they had word of the attack
and would investigate it.
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