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Iraqi Resistance Report 1226
Iraqi
Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 20 April 2008. Translated and/or
compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,
member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org Sunday, 20 April 2008. · Fierce fighting erupts in Baghdad’s al-Amin district following Muqtada as-Sadr’s threat of open warfare if US-backed regime continues its offensive. · Muqtada as-Sadr threatens “open war until victory” if US-backed regime does not halt its military operations against the Jaysh al-Mahdi. Baghdad. Mortar shells kill two, wound 14 in Baghdad’s al-Kazimiyah district Sunday afternoon. In a dispatch posted at 8:25pm Baghdad time Sunday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that two mortar shells blasted into the Shi‘i al-Kazimiyah area of Baghdad on Sunday afternoon. One of the shells landed in a sports stadium during soccer training. US claims to have killed 20 Jaysh al-Mahdi fighters Saturday night. In a dispatch posted at 2:35pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a US military spokesman had announced that the American occupation troops had killed 20 anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen in its continuing offensive in the impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district of Baghdad during Saturday-Sunday night. The US is believed to be determined to wipe out the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in preparation for an eventual attack on Iran. Fierce fighting erupts in Baghdad’s al-Amin district following Muqtada as-Sadr’s threat of open warfare if US-backed regime continues its offensive. In a dispatch posted at 2:15pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a group of fighters for the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia set fire to checkpoints and observation towers in the al-Amin district of Baghdad in the militia’s first response to the threat issued by Muqtada as-Sadr that he will declare open warfare if the US-backed regime continues its offensive against the organization. Yaqen reported eyewitnesses as saying that fierce fighting was raging at the entrance to the al-Amin area between anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen and members of the US-backed regime’s security forces at the time of reporting. The witnesses said that the regime had rushed reinforcements to the area to battle the heavily armed Jaysh al-Mahdi fighters. The witnesses said that the Jaysh al-Mahdi fighters frequently have more advanced and sophisticated weapons than the light arms given by the Americans to the Iraqi regime security forces. Muqtada as-Sadr threatens “open war until victory” if US-backed regime does not halt its military operations against the Jaysh al-Mahdi. In a dispatch posted at 9:55am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that anti-occupation Shi ‘ religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr issued a “final warning” to the US-installed Iraqi regime that it must not continue its military operations against as-Sadr’s militia, the Jaysh al-Mahdi, or else he will declare “open war until liberation.” Yaqen reported a statement issued by Muqtada as-Sadr as saying: “I am sending a final warning and statement to the Iraqi government to take the path of peace and eschew violence against its people or else it will wind up like the destroyed government” – a reference to the regime of Saddam Hussein. Muqtada as-Sadr said, however, that if the government “does not restrain itself and the militias that have crept into it, we will declare an open war until liberation. Whosoever is forced into something without desiring it and without being the aggressor is without blame.” As-Sadr addressed the regime with the questions: “have you forgotten the first intifadah in an-Najaf and the other provinces from which and because of which your government was formed? Or the second intifadah that was a reason for the start of the elections? Or do you want there to be a third intifadah?” Diyala Province. Ba‘qubah. University students abducted. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:26pm Sunday evening Beijing time (3:26pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that unknown armed men set up a checkpoint and abducted five Ba‘qubah University students near that city, 65km northeast of Baghdad. The kidnappers left three women students who had been in the car with the males alone at the scene of the attack. Xinhua reported a source in the Ba‘qubah police as saying that the abduction took place on the main road in the as-Sisbaniyah area, 15km south of Ba‘qubah, Sunday morning. The armed men stopped a minibus that was carrying eight college students and abducted the five men and the bus driver, taking them away towards the nearby overgrown areas. At-Ta’mim Province. Kirkuk. Tribal “Awakening” commander killed southwest of Kirkuk Sunday. In a dispatch posted at 8:01pm Baghdad time Sunday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men armed men in two cars attacked the car being driven by the commander of the tribal “Awakening” police in the ar-Rashad area southwest of Kirkuk on Sunday. Al-Qadisiyah Province. Ad-Diwaniyah. Bomb kills two on road north of ad-Diwaniyah midday Sunday. In a dispatch posted at 4:10pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by car on a road in the as-Sunniyah area 15km north of ad-Diwaniyah, (which is 180km south of Baghdad), at midday Sunday. 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