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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 12 April 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org

Saturday, 12 April 2008.

· US admits death of American soldier in Baghdad Saturday.

· Sadr Movement official threatens end of truce if US offensive continues.

· Second official in Sadr Movement gunned down in less than 24 hours as US offensive continues.

· US-backed regime launches campaign against Sadr Movement in al-Basrah.

Baghdad.

US admits death of American soldier in Baghdad Saturday.

In a dispatch posted at 7:30pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the US military had admitted that a bomb had exploded in northwestern Baghdad on Saturday.

Sadr Movement official threatens end of truce if US offensive continues.

In a dispatch posted at 4:20pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Salman al-Furayji, Director of the Office of Muqtada as-Sadr in Madintat as-Sadr, threatened to cancel the cease fire imposed by Muqtada as-Sadr if the US-run offensive against the Sadr Movement continues.

Yaqen reported al-Furayji said that they obey orders of Muqtada as-Sadr, but that if military operations against them continues, the cease-fire will be cancelled for sure.

Responding to calls by the US and the regime to dissolve the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, al-Furayji said: “Everybody’s demanding that we dissolve the Jaysh al-Mahdi, but at the same time as we all know they have militias too. Therefore, the dissolution of those militias is the basic condition for the dissolution of the Jaysh al-Mahdi and without that nobody has the right to demand that of us.”

Al-Furayji said that the Iraqi regime’s Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Defense are in fact militias operating in military uniforms but taking their orders from political parties – a reference to the fact that the Badr Brigade militia and other such groups that took part in the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, have formed the backbone of the American-installed regime’s security forces.

Motorcycle bomb explodes by US patrol in Baghdad midday Saturday.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 6:14pm Saturday afternoon Beijing time (2:14pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a booby-trapped motorccle that was parked by the side of a road in the south Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah exploded by a US patrol at midday on Saturday.

Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi government police as saying that no information on casualties was available and that the US had made no announcement regarding the attack as of the time of reporting.

Bomb kills three in eastern Baghdad.

In a dispatch posted at 2:01pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded on the main road near the Ur neighborhood in eastern Baghdad

Jaysh al-Mahdi fighters carry out attacks in response to US offensive in Baghdad.

In a dispatch posted at 11:10am Baghdad time Saturday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Jaysh al-Mahdi had captured and killed three members of the Iraqi regime army in the Abu Dushayr area of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported eyewitnesses as saying that the bodies of the three soldiers were found shortly after they had been abducted. The witnesses said that the Jaysh al-Mahdi attacked the Shi‘i Husayniyah mosque of Qamar Bani Hashim belonging to Shi‘i Ayatallah ‘Ali as-Sistani, spraying it with a hail of gunfire.

A source in the police told Yaqen that anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi fighters in Abu Dushayr had seized government cars and were threatening to cut off Baghdad from Iraq’s southern provinces if the US offensive against the Sadr Movement continues.

Second official in Sadr Movement gunned down in less than 24 hours as US offensive continues.

In a dispatch posted at 10:45am Baghdad time Saturday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that unknown armed men assassinated Shaykh ‘Adnan al-Gharawi, the official in the Sadr Movement responsible for mosques and places of worship in the Baghdad district of Madinat as-Sadr.

Yaqen reported a source in the Sadr Movement as saying that gunmen in a late-model car opened fire on al-Gharawi, killing him in the middle of Madinat as-Sadr.

Madinat as-Sadr has been the scene of fighting between US occupation troops and the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in recent days. The poor district of Baghdad which is a stronghold of the Sadr Movement has been blockaded by US and Iraqi regime forces for several weeks as they launch offensives against the anti-occupation fighters.

The murder of al-Gharawi comes less than 24 hours after the assassination of Riyad an-Nuri, a top aide to Muqtada as-Sadr, in an-Najaf.

Sadr Movement accuses parties in Iraqi government of involvement in assassination of Riyad an-Nuri Friday.

In a dispatch posted at 10:10am Baghdad time Saturday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Salah al-‘Ubaydi, spokesman for the Muqtada as-Sadr Movement said Saturday that parties taking part in the government were responsible for the assassination of Riyad an-Nuri in an-Najaf on Friday. An-Nuri was a top aide to anti-occupation Shi‘i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr.

Yaqen reported that al-‘Ubaydi called for discipline and self-control in the aftermath of the assassination.

Salah ad-Din Province.

Bayji.

Car bomb kills two “Awakening” tribal policemen in Bayji.

In a dispatch posted at 9:50am Baghdad time Saturday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that man drove an explosives-packed car into a checkpoint manned by “Awakening” tribal police in the city of Bayji, 200km north of Baghdad.

Diyala Province.

Balad Ruz.

Gunmen attack family in Balad Ruz.

In a dispatch posted at 6:28pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that unknown gunmen attacked a family in Balad Ruz, 65km northeast of Baghdad on Saturday.

Buhriz.

Bomb kills “Awakening” policeman in Buhriz.

In a dispatch posted at 3:03pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded on the main street in the town of Buhriz, 60km northeast of Baghdad, as tribal “Awakening” police were trying to disarm it.

At-Ta’mim Province.

Kirkuk.

Tribal policeman, soldier wounded in Kirkuk bombing.

In a dispatch posted at 3:03pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a car being driven by a member of the tribal “Awakening” police and a soldier in the Iraqi regime army in Kirkuk.

Ninwa Province.

Al-Mawsil.

Truck bomb explodes in western al-Mawsil Saturday evening.

In a dispatch posted at 7:45pm Baghdad time Saturday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that an explosives-packed tank truck exploded near a checkpoint manned by Iraqi regime army troops in the al-Islah az-Zira‘i district of western al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad on Saturday evening.

Al-Basrah Province.

Al-Basrah.

US-backed regime launches campaign against Sadr Movement in al-Basrah.

In a dispatch posted at 3:45pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi regime forces sealed off various neighborhoods in the southern city of al-Basrah on Saturday and carried out house-to-house searches looking for weapons and “wanted men.”

Yaqen reported a source in the local police as saying that the regime closed off the districts of at-Tamimiyah and al-Qiblah and the neighborhoods of al-Asdiqa’ and al-Husayn – strongholds of the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia – have populations of over 600,000 inhabitants.

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