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Iraqi Resistance Report 1223
Iraqi
Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 17 April 2008. Translated
and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free
Arab Voice.
http://www.freearabvoice.org
Thursday, 17 April 2008. · US offensive against impoverished Baghdad neighborhood on Wednesday-Thursday night leaves 10 dead, 38 wounded. · Belt bomber blows himself up at funeral in Tuz Khurmatu Thursday morning. · US soldier reported killed in raid in as-Sa‘diyah area. Baghdad. US offensive against impoverished Baghdad neighborhood on Wednesday-Thursday night leaves 10 dead, 38 wounded. In a dispatch posted at 9:01pm Baghdad time Thursday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the fighting that raged between the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia on the one side and US and Iraqi regime troops on the other in the impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district of Baghdad during the night of Wednesday to Thursday left 10 people dead and 38 more wounded. Yaqen reported Dr. Wi’am Isma‘il, Director of the as-Sadr Hospital in Madinat as-Sadr, as saying that his institution received the bodies of five of the dead and admitted 23 people who had been injured in the American offensive. Dr. Qasim al-Mudallil of the Imam ‘Ali Hospital also in Madinat as-Sadr said that his hospital received five bodies and admitted 15 people who had been wounded in the fighting. The US and its Iraqi regime allies are waging offensives against the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in what appears to be an effort by Washington to clear the way to an American invasion of Iran. Bomb kills two policemen in southern Baghdad Thursday afternoon. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 8:27pm Thursday night Beijing time (4:27pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol of Iraqi government police in the Jisr Diyala area of southern Baghdad on Thursday afternoon. Bomb targets police in southern Baghdad Thursday morning. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:32pm Thursday morning Beijing time (12:32pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb planted by the side of a road in the al-Wahdah neighborhood of southern Baghdad blew up by a passing Iraqi police patrol on Thursday morning. Armed men shoot up storefronts in eastern Baghdad. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:32pm Thursday morning Beijing time (12:32pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that men armed with machine guns opened fire on shops on ar-Rabi‘i Street in the eastern Baghdad district of Zuyunah. Xinhua reported a source in the government police as saying that storefronts were damaged and three civilians wounded in that attack. The attacks took place as US forces and their Iraqi regime allies continued their offensive against the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, particularly in the Madinat as-Sadr section of Baghdad. Salah ad-Din Province. Tuz Khurmatu. Belt bomber blows himself up at funeral near Tuz Khurmatu Thursday morning. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:58pm Thursday evening Beijing time (3:58pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a man wearing an explosive belt blew himself up at a funeral in the village of al-Bu Muhammad, 110km north of Baghdad, on Thursday morning. Xinhua reported a source in the police as saying that the belt bomber entered the memorial service for two sons of Shaykh Kamal al-‘Azzawi, the man responsible for the tribal “Awakening” police in the village. Both of the sons had been murdered by al-Qa‘idah gunmen on Tuesday. The bomber detonated his explosive belt amidst the throngs of mourners at about 11am local time, killing more than 33 people and wounding another 30, according to the local police sources. A dispatch posted by the US Associated Press (AP) wire service reported the police in the city of Kirkuk as saying that the attack claimed the lives of at least 50 people and wounded another 50. Diyala Province. As-Sa‘diyah. US soldier reported killed in raid in as-Sa‘diyah area. In a dispatch posted at 8:33pm Baghdad time Thursday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men clashed with a force of US troops and their Iraqi regime allies in the as-Sa‘diyah area, 120km northeast of Baghdad. Yaqen reported eyewitnesses as saying that the US troops together with Iraqi regime National Guards and police launched raids on houses in the village of Rabi‘ah near as-Sa‘diyah. A battle erupted and, witnesses said, one American soldier was killed and three of the Iraqi army troops were wounded. The witnesses stated that a Lieutenant Colonel Farhad Mawlud who is known as Farhad Fadraliyah – the Director of the Iraqi regime Federal Office in nearby al-Jalawla’ was among those of the regime forces severely wounded in the clash. Al-Mawlud was taken to the US occupied Balad Air Base in neighboring Salah ad-Din Province for treatment. Ninwa Province. Al-Mawsil. Bomb goes off by police patrol in crowded area of al-Mawsil, wounding three. In a dispatch posted at 3:33pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a police patrol in al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad. Yaqen reported a source in the Ninwa Province police as saying that the bomb went off in the cultural complex in northern al-Mawsil and wounded three people. The source did not specify as to whether the injured were members of the patrol or civilian bystanders. The cultural complex in the northern part of al-Mawsil is one of the particularly crowded areas of the city. Al-Basrah Province. Al-Basrah. Drive-by shooting leaves two policemen dead in al-Basrah. In a dispatch posted at 10:45pm Baghdad time Thursday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men in a late-model car opened fire on two government policemen near the al-‘Abayiji Mosque in the al-Jaza’ir district of al-Basrah. Yaqen reported a source in the al-Basrah government police as saying that the attack left both policemen dead. The attackers then left the scene. Policeman wounded in al-Basrah. In a dispatch posted at 10:45pm Baghdad time Thursday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that unknown persons shot and wounded a policeman who was on guard atop the roof of a building in the al-Kurnish area of al-Basrah. 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