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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 9 April 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org

Wednesday, 9 April 2008.

· Two US soldiers die in Baghdad Tuesday, Wednesday, US announces.

· Mortar shells kill seven civilians, wound 36 more in Madinat as-Sadr as US continues its offensive.

· US admits soldier killed in northeastern Baghdad explosion Tuesday.

Al-Anbar Province.

Al-Hadithah.

Bomb destroys US Humvee near al-Hadithah Wednesday.

In a dispatch posted at 10:05pm Baghdad time Wednesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a US column on the strategic oil road near the storage area 30km south of al-Hadithah (which is 270km northwest of Baghdad) on Wednesday.

Yaqen reported eyewitnesses as saying that the explosion totally destroyed a Humvee in the American column, killing or wounding all the US troops aboard.

A statement that appeared in markets and other public places in western Iraq several hours later announced that three groups had been responsible for the attack: the Ansar al-Islam, al-Jaysh al-Islami, and a newly formed organization known as Harakat Nusrat al-Muqawamah (“the Movement in Support of the Resistance”). Ansar al-Islam is a Kurdish Islamist organization said to be affiliated with al-Qa‘idah. Al-Jaysh al-Islami has opposed al-Qa‘idah in the past. US helicopters were seen evacuating casualties from the area after the attack.

Yaqen noted that in the days before the Americans succeeded in recruiting Bedouin tribes to the “Awakening” tribal police, US convoys on the strategic oil road were attacked nearly every day. Since the rise of the “Awakening,” however, attacks on Americans in western Iraq have become very rare.

Baghdad.

Two US soldiers die in Baghdad Tuesday, Wednesday, US announces.

In a dispatch posted at 8:35pm Baghdad time Wednesday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by US troops in the course of their offensive against the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday.

Yaqen reported a communiqué issued by the US government as saying that the blast killed one American, the third US soldier to die in Iraq in 24 hours, according to official American statistics, after it was announced that another soldier died of injuries in a “non-combat incident” at dawn Wednesday.

Mortar shells kill seven civilians, wound 36 more in Madinat as-Sadr as US continues its offensive.

In a dispatch posted at pm Baghdad time Wednesday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that mortar shells blasted into houses in the Madinat as-Sadr area of Baghdad where the US is waging an offensive against the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia.

The AMSI reported sources in the regime security forces and in hospitals as saying that the shelling left seven people dead, two of them children. Another 36 people were wounded in the attack, believed to have been carried out by the US forces.

A source in the security forces who refused to be identified said that one of the shells landed on a house in the Area 36 of Madinat as-Sadr, killing a father, two of his children, and their neighbor.

The source said that two other shells landed just a few meters from a funeral tent. The explosions of those shells killed three people and wounded 36 more, among them women and children.

US admits soldier killed in northeastern Baghdad explosion Tuesday.

In a dispatch posted at 11:04am Baghdad time Wednesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the US military had admitted that a bomb exploded by an American military vehicle in northeastern Baghdad on Tuesday.

Yaqen reported a US communiqué as announcing that the blast killed one American soldier.

The US has been carrying out an offensive against the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in northeastern Baghdad for several days.

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