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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 8 April 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org

Tuesday, 8 April 2008.

· Iraqi National Guard foil attempted murder of another prisoner released by US occupation authorities in Iraq.

· Muqtada as-Sadr hints at possible end of truce if US offensive continues.

· US admits four more deaths of American troops in Iraq.

· Four mortar shells slam into “Green Zone” as US wages offensive against Jaysh al-Mahdi.

· Gunmen kill tribal leader of “Awakening” collaborator police, an in-law of ‘Izzat Ibrahim ad-Duri in al-Khalis.

Al-Anbar Province.

Al-Hadithah.

Iraqi National Guard foil attempted murder of another prisoner released by US occupation authorities in Iraq.

In a dispatch posted at 6:30pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that continuing a series of murders of individuals released by US occupation authorities from prison camps, the “Awakening” tribal police near al-Hadithah kidnapped one more recently release prisoner, but regular Iraqi regime police were able to rescue the victim before he too could be killed.

Yaqen reported members of the Iraqi National Guard as saying that the US-recruited tribal “Awakening” police stopped a car carrying Ayyub Mahdi ‘Abd ar-Rahim az-Zawi and several women near the az-Zawiyah cemetery. Az-Zawi had recently been released by US occupation authorities from one of their prison camps in the country. The “Awakening” policemen took az-Zawi off at gunpoint, leaving the three women who had been with him stranded in the desert.

Alerted by the women, the Iraqi National Guardsmen stopped the “Awakening” policemen’s car at the government checkpoint on the outskirts of al-Hadithah. The women helped them identify the “Awakening” police kidnappers and to rescue the man whom they had abducted. It was learned that all the people in the car with the victim were members of the al-Jaghayifah Tribe – the tribe to which all members of the “Awakening” police in the al-Hadithah area belong.

The sources said that an investigation was still underway as the authorities hope to learn where the tribesmen have been hiding the other released prisoners whom they have abducted in recent weeks. A leader of the tribe had publicly announced that his men would kill any prisoner released by the Americans and about a dozen have in fact been murdered in the al-Hadithah area in recent weeks.

Baghdad.

Muqtada as-Sadr hints at possible end of truce if US offensive continues.

In a dispatch posted at 4:30pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Shi‘i cleric Muqtada as-Sadr, a leader of the opposition to the US occupation , issued a statement on Tuesday in which he cancelled plans for a demonstration that his Sadr Movement had called. The cancellation was attributed to fear for the lives of the demonstrators in the context of the American armed offensive against the Sadr Movement currently underway, and the efforts of the US-backed regime to arrest and repress Sadr supporters.

Yaqen reported that Muqtada as-Sadr also hinted that the freeze on the activity of his Jaysh al-Mahdi militia – which he had proclaimed last year and extended for six months at the end of February – might be also be cancelled if the American offensive against his movement continues.

Muqtada as-Sadr called on “those Iraqi people who wish to demonstrate against the occupation to postpone their action for the sake of their own safety.” He also warned that he might have to resort to ending the freeze on the Jaysh al-Mahdi’s activity if the drive against his movement continues.

Six Iraqi regime sappers wounded trying to disarm bomb in eastern Baghdad.

In a dispatch posted at 1:08pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded as sappers belonging to the Iraqi regime military were trying to disarm it in eastern Baghdad – an area where US forces have been engaged in an offensive against the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia.

US admits four more deaths of American troops in Iraq.

In a dispatch posted at 11:48am Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the US military had admitted Tuesday that the US admitted that four more American troops had been killed in Iraq since Monday evening.

Four mortar shells slam into “Green Zone” as US wages offensive against Jaysh al-Mahdi.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 3:39pm Tuesday afternoon Beijing time (11:39am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that four mortar rounds were fired at the top-security “Green Zone” in Baghdad on Tuesday morning.

Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry as saying that no information on the nature or extent of US casualties was available. The “Green Zone” was targeted as American forces continued their offensive against the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in the eastern Baghdad district of Madinat as-Sadr.

Salah ad-Din Province.

Tuz Khurmatu.

Bomb wounds 16 in popular market in Tuz Khurmatu.

In a dispatch posted at 12:48pm Baghdad time midday Tuesday, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded in a popular market in Tuz Khurmatu, 250km north of Baghdad on Tuesday.

Yaqen reported a source in the police as saying that 16 people had been injured in the explosion, some of them critically.

Diyala Province.

Balad Ruz.

Bomb aboard minibus kills six women and children near Balad Ruz.

In a dispatch posted at 12:04pm Baghdad time midday Tuesday, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded on a minibus near Balad Ruz, 95km northeast of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported a source in the police as saying that the bomb exploded as the bus was traveling down the main road in the village of ad-Dahalidah near Balad Ruz. The blast killed six people – four children and two women – and wounded five other people – one woman and four children.

Al-Khalis.

Gunmen kill tribal leader of “Awakening” collaborator police, an in-law of ‘Izzat Ibrahim ad-Duri in al-Khalis.

In a dispatch posted at 9:57am Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that four leaders of the al-‘Ubayd tribe were killed in an armed attack in al-Khalis, 57km north of Baghdad on Monday evening.

Yaqen reported a source in the Iraqi regime security forces as saying that armed men attacked the home of ‘Aziz Muhammad Faraj in the village of at-Tahwil, killing him and three of his sons in addition to wounding four other members of the family.

The source pointed out that Shaykh ‘Aziz Muhammad Faraj was an in-law of Iraqi President ‘Izzat Ibrahim ad-Duri. He was also the Chairman of the American-recruited collaborationist “Awakening” tribal police in at-Tahwilah.

Ninwa Province.

Al-Hadar.

Wife of governor of al-Hadar killed in attack Monday evening.

In a dispatch posted at 2:35pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that unknown armed men attacked the home of the governor of the al-Hadar area, 90km southwest of al-Mawsil.

Rabi‘ah.

Bomb kills one in Rabi‘ah.

In a dispatch posted at 2:17pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded inside a shop in the Industrial Zone of Rabi‘ah, a town near the Syrian border in northwestern Iraq, on Tuesday.

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