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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 16 April 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org

Wednesday, 16 April 2008.

· Sadr Movement official: Jaysh al-Mahdi resolved to fight, never lay down arms, so long as occupation remains.

· US admits death of two Marines in al-Anbar Province.

· Man, daughter die in US house raid following attack on American patrol in al-Mawsil.

· Anglo-American air raid in al-Basrah kills six.

· US-backed regime arrests Sadr movement official in charge of relations with tribes in al-Basrah.

Baghdad.

Sadr Movement official: Jaysh al-Mahdi resolved to fight, never lay down arms so long as occupation remains.

In a dispatch posted at 9:18pm Baghdad time Wednesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Rasim al-Marwani, the Supreme Cultural Counselor for the Sadr Movement Office, declared on Wednesday that the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, which is loyal to Shi‘i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr, is determined to continue the armed struggle against the foreign occupiers and will never allow any power in Iraq to disarm it.

Yaqen reported al-Marwani as saying that it was not right to demand that the Jaysh al-Mahdi dissolve and disarm and that no power in the world has the right to compel or to demand that those engaged in the “sacred resistance to the foreign occupation” lay down their arms, not even in the name of international law.

Al-Marwani said: “the politicians threaten to deny the Sadr Movement the right to participate in the political process in the country if they do not dissolve the Jaysh al-Mahdi or disarm, but there is no big difference between those two conditions and in any case this is impossible under the condition where there is an occupation present in the country.

Al-Marwani affirmed that Muqtada as-Sadr would never dissolve his army so long as the present government does not fulfill his conditions, such as the withdrawal of the foreign forces from the country, the establishment of a just state in Iraq, and the formation of a technocratic government, and he said that Muqtada as-Sadr cannot dissolve his militia unless directed to do so by religious authorities.

Mortar shells of unknown origin kill two in eastern Baghdad Wednesday afternoon.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:06pm Wednesday evening Beijing time (3:06pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that two mortar shells of unknown origin landed in eastern Baghdad at about 1pm Wednesday.

US admits death of two Marines in al-Anbar Province.

In a dispatch posted at 1:25pm Baghdad time Wednesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the American military announced that a bomb had exploded by a US Marine vehicle somewhere in al-Anbar Province.

Yaqen reported the US communiqué as admitting that two Marines were killed in the attack, but provided no further details.

Resistance group claims credit for two attacks in Baghdad area.

In a dispatch posted at 12:25pm Baghdad time midday Wednesday, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Iraqi Resistance organization known as the Brigades of the 1920 Revolution had announced that its fighters had fired one rocket at an unspecified US base somewhere in northern Baghdad and had set off a bomb that they said destroyed a US Humvee in the Abu Ghurayb area. The announcements gave no indication as to when or precisely where those attacks had taken place.

Salah ad-Din Province.

Tikrit.

Electricity Administrator for Tikrit wounded in armed attack.

In a dispatch posted at 2pm Baghdad time Wednesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Sabhan al-Jayid, the Electricity Administrator for the city of Tikrit, 180km north of Baghdad, had been wounded in an armed attack in that city.

Diyala Province.

Al-Miqdadiyah.

Gunmen attack passenger bus, killing two.

In a dispatch posted at 8:02pm Baghdad time Wednesday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men attacked a passenger bus on the main road to al-Miqdadiyah, 85km northeast of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding five more.

Khan Bani Sa‘d.

Policeman killed near Khan Bani Sa‘d Wednesday.

In a dispatch posted at 8:02pm Baghdad time Wednesday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a member of the government security forces was killed in an armed attack in the Khan Bani Sa ‘d area, 40km northeast of Baghdad, on Wednesday.

At-Ta’mim Province.

Kirkuk.

Bomb explodes by agriculture official in Kirkuk.

In a dispatch posted at 11:33am Baghdad time Wednesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by the private car of the General Administrator of Agriculture of Kirkuk, 250km north of Baghdad.

Bomb wounds two in Kirkuk.

In a dispatch posted at 10am Baghdad time Wednesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded in the middle of Kirkuk, 250km north of Baghdad.

Ninwa Province.

Al-Mawsil.

Bomb in al-Mawsil wounds civilian.

In a dispatch posted at 7:34pm Baghdad time Wednesday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a car bomb exploded by a government police patrol in eastern al-Mawsil.

Man, daughter die in US house raid following attack on American patrol in al-Mawsil.

In a dispatch posted at 1:11pm Baghdad time Wednesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a US patrol came under attack in the city of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported eyewitnesses as saying that men armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked the patrol on the main street in the al-Maliyah neighborhood of eastern al-Mawsil. Following the attack, the Americans raided a house in the area. A man and his daughter were killed when the US troops blew open the door of the house.

Karbala’ Province.

Karbala’.

Bomb explodes by motorcade of Karbala’ Governor on Wednesday.

In a dispatch posted at 10:54pm Baghdad time Wednesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by the motorcade of the Governor of Karbala’ on a road in the al-Haydariyah section in the southern part of the city.

Al-Basrah Province.

Al-Basrah.

Anglo-American air raid in al-Basrah kills six.

In a dispatch posted at 5:25pm Baghdad time Wednesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the British occupation forces announced that US aircraft carried out an air raid in which four anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi fighters were killed in the city of al-Basrah on Wednesday.

Yaqen reported a spokesman for the British occupation as saying that the aircraft fired a rocket at five armed Jaysh al-Militia members who were carrying rockets. Four of the fighters were killed in the attack and the fifth was wounded, the British spokesman asserted. A second rocket was fired at their vehicle, destroying it, he added.

The British spokesman refused to say whether the aircraft that carried out the attack had been British or American.

For their part, the Iraqi regime police in al-Basrah reported that six people had been killed and three more wounded in the Anglo-American attack.

US-backed regime arrests Sadr movement official in charge of relations with tribes in al-Basrah.

In a dispatch posted at 3:10pm Baghdad time Wednesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that US-backed Iraqi regime troops arrested the man responsible for relations with Arab tribes at the office of the anti-occupation Sadr Movement in the city of al-Basrah.

Yaqen reported a source in the regime army as claiming that their US-backed forces carried out raids, searches, and arrests in the al-Janinah area of northern al-Basrah on Wednesday and arrested a number of “wanted” persons, including Mu’ayyid al-‘Abadi, the man responsible for relations with Arab tribes in the local Sadr Movement office. The regime officials also claimed to have found 51 explosive devices of Iranian manufacture in the al-‘Abadi’s house.

For his part, Harith al-‘Adhari, the man in charge of the Sadr Movement Office in al-Basrah, denied that al-‘Abadi had anything to do with the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia – the armed wing of the Sadr Movement. Al-‘Adhari told the press: “Mu’ayyid al-‘Abadi Abu Shakir is not a member of the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia. He’s just the man who handles issues related to the tribes.”

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