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Iraqi Resistance Report 1212
Iraqi Resistance Report for
events of Sunday, 6 April 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad
Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
Sunday, 6 April 2008.
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US admits three American troops killed in
bombardments of “Green Zone,” US base in Baghdad on Sunday.
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Fire rages through Iraq’s largest wholesale
vegetable market as US battles anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in
Madinat as-Sadr, Baghdad, Sunday.
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US troops invade Madinat as-Sadr district
sparking battle with Jaysh al-Mahdi Sunday.
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Bomb wounds US troops near ash-Sharuqat
Sunday evening.
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Three US troops reported killed in bomb
attack east of Ba‘qubah Sunday.
Baghdad.
US admits three American
troops killed in bombardments of “Green Zone,” US base in Baghdad
Sunday.
In a dispatch posted at 12:20pm
Makkah time Sunday afternoon (1:20pm in Baghdad), Mafkarat al-Islam
reported that the US military had admitted that three of its troops had
been killed and 31 wounded in two attacks with rockets and mortars in
Baghdad on Sunday.
Mafkarat al-Islam reported
a US official as saying that that one of the attacks targeted the
top-security “Green Zone” and left two American troops dead and 17 more
wounded.
The source said that the second
attack targeted a US base elsewhere in the Iraqi capital. One American
soldier died and 14 more were wounded in that attack.
Sunday witnessed an American
offensive against the Madinat as-Sadr district of Baghdad, a stronghold
of the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, the armed movement loyal to
anti-occupation Shi‘i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr, whose fighters
bombarded the “Green Zone” and other facilities extensively in late
March during the US-backed offensive against them.
Fire rages through Iraq’s
largest wholesale vegetable market as US battles anti-occupation Jaysh
al-Mahdi militia in Madinat as-Sadr, Baghdad, Sunday.
In a dispatch posted at 8:05pm
Baghdad time Sunday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that
a large fire broke out in the biggest market for food and vegetables in
Iraq, a facility located in the low-income Madinat as-Sadr district of
Baghdad that US forces had been attacking on Sunday.
Yaqen reported eyewitnesses
as saying that the eruption of the fire followed the sound of explosions
and gunfire. Clouds of smoke were seen rising from the area of the
wholesale market known as ‘Ulwah Jamilah. The fire began to spread from
one storage area to another in the market.
The market is located near “Square
55” in Madinat as-Sadr, where US troops launched an offensive against
the Jaysh al-Mahdi beginning late Saturday.
US troops invade Madinat
as-Sadr district sparking battle with Jaysh al-Mahdi Sunday.
In a dispatch posted at 12:56pm
Baghdad time midday Sunday, the Yaqen News Agency reported that
fighting erupted between anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen and
US and Iraqi regime forces in the Madinat as-Sadr area of Baghdad on
Sunday.
Yaqen reported an
eyewitness as saying that during Saturday-Sunday night, the US sent
troops, military, vehicles and equipment, along with Iraqi regime troops
into a number of neighborhoods of the low-income Madinat as-Sadr area of
Baghdad, a stronghold of support for the Muqtada as-Sadr Movement. The
penetration took place near the fuel station and “Square 55” in the
district and ignited battles between the attacking Americans and the
Jaysh al-Mahdi defenders. The witness reported that there had been
casualties.
Several main streets in Madinat
as-Sadr have been closed to traffic because of the fighting, preventing
residents from getting out and going to work.
US snipers have also perched
themselves atop buildings where they can shoot at anyone walking in the
streets.
The American Associated Press (AP)
reported officials at two local hospitals as saying that 20 people had
been killed and 52 wounded in the US-led assault on Madinat as-Sadr.
The hospital sources, who asked not to be identified did not specify
whether the casualties were civilians or fighters and US and Iraqi
regime sources produced no information about casualties at all.
An Iraqi regime police officer,
who asked not to be identified, was quoted by the AP as saying that one
American “Stryker” armored vehicle was damaged in the fighting, but the
US claimed to “have no knowledge” of any damage to any US vehicle.
The Iraqi policeman also said that
two armored Humvees and two trucks belonging to the US-backed Iraqi
regime army had been destroyed in the fighting.
In a dispatch posted at 2:31pm
Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported
that a US helicopter gun ship killed nine people in the impoverished
Baghdad district known as Madinat as-Sadr on Sunday.
Yaqen reported a source in
the US military as asserting that an American helicopter blasted areas
of Madinat as-Sadr, killing nine people described as “criminals” – one
of the terms used by the US military for the anti-occupation Jaysh
al-Mahdi militia.
Salah
ad-Din Province.
Ash-Sharuqat.
Bomb wounds US troops near
ash-Sharuqat Sunday evening.
In a dispatch posted at 7:30pm
Baghdad time Sunday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that
a bomb exploded by a US Humvee in the area south of ash-Sharuqat, 250km
north of Baghdad on Sunday evening.
Yaqen reported a source in
the government police as saying that the explosion of a homemade bomb in
the area of the chemical fertilizer plant on the road from ash-Sharuqat
to Bayji destroyed a US Humvee and wounded several American troops.
The source said that US forces
surrounded the area and opened fire indiscriminately on passing cars,
severely wounding one civilian who was taken to Bayji General Hospital
for treatment. As of the time of reporting, the Americans had made no
statement on the incident.
Balad.
Electrical workers
abducted Saturday evening.
In a dispatch posted at 2pm
Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported
that seven employees of the Electricity Bureau in Balad, 80km north of
Baghdad, had been kidnapped by gunmen while at work in the eastern part
of the district on Saturday evening.
Yaqen reported a source in
the Balad police as saying that the abduction took place in the area of
the village of Tall adh-Dhahab in the Yathrib area. The electricity
workers were repairing electric power lines damaged by bad weather.
Yaqen reported a spokesman
for the Balad Electric Department as saying that some of the electric
workers had been released on Sunday morning, but that the fate of the
others remains unclear. The source provided no information as to the
party responsible for the abduction.
Diyala
Province.
Kan‘an.
Three US troops reported
killed in bomb attack east of Ba‘qubah Sunday.
In a dispatch posted at 9:05pm
Baghdad time Sunday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a
bomb exploded by a US patrol on a main road in the Kan‘an area, 35km
east of Ba‘qubah (which is 65km northeast of Baghdad), on Sunday.
Yaqen reported a source in
the US-installed regime in Diyala Province as saying that that three US
soldiers were killed in the blast.
For its part, a public relations
officer of the US occupation forces announced that one soldier only had
been killed in the bombing, but he refused to provide any further
details.
An American statement on Friday
had admitted the first American death in Iraq in April according to
official figures.
Buhriz.
Bomb kills civilian in
Buhriz Sunday.
In a dispatch posted at 6:08pm
Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported
that a bomb exploded by a private car on a street in the Abu Khamis area
of Buhriz, 60km northeast of Baghdad on Sunday.
Yaqen reported a source in
the Iraqi regime security forces as saying that the blast killed one
person in the car and wounded four more. The source offered no further
details on the incident, other than to say that the victims had been
taken to Ba‘qubah General Hospital for treatment.
Babil
Province.
Al-Hillah.
Pro-American gunmen burn
down cultural center run by Sadr Movement in al-Hillah Sunday.
In a dispatch posted at 1:18pm
Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported
that unknown gunmen burned down a cultural center runby the movement of
anti-occupation Shi‘i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr in the city of
al-Hillah, 100km south of Baghdad, on Sunday.
Yaqen reported a source in
the US-backed regime’s security services as saying that gunmen set fire
to the Sadr Movement cultural center in the Muhayzim area of al-Hillah,
causing the collapse of large parts of the building. The source said
that there were no casualties in the arson, since the building was empty
at the time of the assault.
The attack followed a wave of
attacks on the offices of US-backed government political parties in the
city.
Ninwa
Province.
Al-Mawsil.
Busload of college
students released after abduction south of al-Mawsil Sunday.
In a dispatch posted at 3:36pm
Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported
that a group of college students abducted earlier had been released.
Yaqen reported a source in
the US-backed regime in Ninwa Province as saying that the students were
set free on Sunday, but did not say whether they had been released by
their abductors or as a result of some kind of military or police
action.
Earlier, in a dispatch posted at
1:16pm Baghdad time Sunday, Yaqen had reported that gunmen had
kidnapped 42 students from al-Mawsil University at a roadblock on
Sunday.
Yaqen reported a source in
the al-Mawsil police as saying that armed men set up a checkpoint at
Mafraq al-Jurn and stopped a bus carrying university students on the
road linking Baghdad with al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of the Iraqi
capital. The source said that the gunmen forced the students out of the
bus at gunpoint and took them off in the direction of the village of al-Jaradhi
near Hammam al-‘Alil, about 20km southeast of al-Mawsil.
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