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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 5 April 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org

Saturday, 5 April 2008.

· Iraqi regime Brigadier General shot dead in eastern Baghdad Saturday.

· US forces hold town under lockdown for more than one week, searching, burning, blowing up local residents’ homes.

· Katyusha rockets pound US base near ad-Diwaniyah midday Saturday.

Baghdad.

Iraqi regime Brigadier General shot dead in eastern Baghdad Saturday.

In a dispatch posted at 6:03pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that armed men shot and killed a Brigadier General in eastern Baghdad on Saturday.

The AMSI reported a source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry who refused to be identified as saying that armed men unleashed a hail of gunfire on Brigadier General Sa‘di Razuqi as he drove is private car down Muhammad al-Qasim Highway in the eastern Baghdad district of az-Zuyunnah. After killing the general, the attackers left the scene.

Christian priest gunned down in central Baghdad.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 6:22pm Saturday afternoon Beijing time (2:22pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that armed men shot and killed a Christian priest of the Syrian Orthodox sect in the middle of Baghdad at midday Saturday.

Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi police as saying that gunmen sprayed Father Yusuf ‘Adil, pastor of the Mar Butrus (St. Peter) Church in front of his home in Baghdad’s al-Karradah district, killing him on the spot. The gunmen then fled the scene. Security agencies were searching for the killers.

Mortar shells wound civilians in southern Baghdad.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 6:22pm Saturday afternoon Beijing time (2:22pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that two mortar shells landed in a residential area of the ar-Rustamiyah area of southern Baghdad.

Xinhua reported source in the Iraqi police as saying that two civilians were wounded in the attack, the origins of which were unknown. Several homes were also damaged in the explosions.

Bomb aboard passenger bus kills three civilians in eastern Baghdad.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:37pm Saturday afternoon Beijing time (12:37pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb that had been left in a plastic bag aboard a passenger bus exploded on eastern Baghdad’s Beirut Square.

Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi police as saying that the blast totally destroyed the bus and killed three civilians and wounded 16 others, three of those severely. Damage was inflicted on nearby shops and cars.

The source said that Iraqi police units and ambulances raced to the scene of the attack to evacuate the victims to a nearby hospital.

Salah ad-Din Province.

Bayji.

US forces hold town under lockdown for more than one week, searching, burning, blowing up local residents’ homes.

In a dispatch posted at 10:03pm Baghdad time Saturday night, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that US forces together with their Iraqi regime allies have been blockading and raiding the small refinery town of as-Siniyah, 15km west of Bayji (which is 200km north of Baghdad) for about a week.

The AMSI reported eyewitnesses as saying that the US troops and their Iraqi regime allies have blockaded as-Siniyah for more than a week and continue to raid and search houses. They have even burned down a number of local dwellings on the pretext that anti-occupation fighters have been resident there.

The Americans search houses that they claim belong to people “wanted” by the US-installed regime. They then set fire to the homes and then blow up the burned building. The witnesses report that no information on the nature or extent of casualties is known because the town has been under lockdown and no information is allowed out.

Residents in contact with the AMSI appealed to the outside world to intervene to break the blockade on their town, and once again allow supplies in to the beleaguered people.

Al-Qadisiyah Province.

Ad-Diwaniyah.

Katyusha rockets pound US base near ad-Diwaniyah midday Saturday.

In a dispatch posted at pm Baghdad time Saturday night, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that the US Camp Echo located near ad-Diwaniyah, 180km south of Baghdad came under Katyusha rocket attack on Saturday.

The AMSI reported a source in the Iraqi military who asked to remain anonymous as saying that three Katyusha rockets landed in the area of the American Camp Echo, 2km west of ad-Diwaniyah at midday Saturday. The source said that no casualties were known to have resulted from the bombardment.

The source said that the rockets were fired in the as-Sanniyah area, 15km north of ad-Diwaniyah, an area from which barrages of medium-range rockets are frequently fired at the American base.

Camp Echo houses US and Polish occupation troops and is nominally under Polish Command. Poland, a NATO satellite state of the United States, maintains a contingent of 900 troops serving the US occupiers in Iraq.

Eyewitnesses in the area of the camp said that aircraft were seen prowling the skies above the area after the attack.

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