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Iraqi Resistance Report 1227
Iraqi
Resistance Report for events of Monday, 21 April 2008. Translated and/or
compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,
member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org Monday, 21 April 2008. · Fourteen killed in continued US offensive in impoverished Baghdad district. · Woman belt bomber for al-Qa‘idah attacks “Awakening” police in Ba‘qubah, killing three, wounding three civilians. · Bomb explodes by British patrol north of al-Basrah midday Monday. Al-Anbar Province. Abu Ghurayb. Three men arrested in Abu Ghurayb Monday morning. In a dispatch posted at 11:24am Baghdad time Monday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi police arrested three residents of the town of Abu Ghurayb, 30km west of Baghdad on Monday. Baghdad. Fourteen killed in continued US offensive in impoverished Baghdad district. In a dispatch posted at 4:45pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that 14 people had been killed and another 55 wounded in the continued US offensive against the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in the east Baghdad district of Madinat as-Sadr during the previous 24 hours. Yaqen reported a source in the police as saying that the casualty toll from the fighting between Sunday and Monday mornings was based on information from the Imam ‘Ali and as-Sadr Hospitals, both in Madinat as-Sadr. The source said that there was no breakdown as to how many of the casualties had been combatants and how many were civilians. For the last two days, the Madinat as-Sadr area has been an arena of fierce fighting between US and Jaysh al-Mahdi fighters. The Americans and their Iraqi regime allies have had the district, a stronghold for the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, blockaded for three weeks. Two wounded in bomb blast in southeastern Baghdad. In a dispatch posted at 4:16pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded in the Baghdad al-Jadidah area in the southeastern part of the Iraqi capital. Bombs explode by three employees of Iraqi regime Council of Ministers in Baghdad. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:20pm Monday afternoon Beijing time (12:20pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that three employees of the Iraqi regime Council of Ministers were the targets of bomb attacks in various parts of Baghdad. Xinhua reported a source in the police as saying that one bomb that had been planted in the car of Lieutenant Colonel Mansur al-Lami, a security official in the Council of Ministers, went off as he passed through the ad-Durah suburb south of Baghdad on his way to work. Al-Lami was severely injured in the attack. A second bomb went off by the car of Zuhayr Tariq ‘Abd ar-Razzaq, another employee of the Council of Ministers, as his car passed near the Iraqi Red Crescent headquarters in the upscale al-Mansur district of western Baghdad. ‘Abd ar-Razzaq was wounded in that attack. A third bomb went off by another Council of Ministers employee whose name was not disclosed. Three injured people were hospitalized after that explosion the police source told Xinhua. Salah ad-Din Province. Ad-Dujayl. Police colonel wounded in drive-by shooting in ad-Dujayl Sunday evening. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 6:43pm Monday afternoon Beijing time (2:43pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that armed men in two speeding cars shot and wounded Colonel Rabbah Hasan at-Tamimi, the Director of the Civil Defence forces in ad-Dujayl, 60km north of Baghdad, on Sunday evening. Sulayman Bayk. Police captain gunned down late Sunday night. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 6:43pm Monday afternoon Beijing time (2:43pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that unknown armed men opened fire on Captain Muhammad Sa‘id of the Salah ad-Din Province police near his home in the Sulayman Bayk area, 180km north of Baghdad, late on Sunday night. Ash-Sharuqat. US forces arrest 11, including four Iraqi regime security men, in raids near ash-Sharuqat Sunday night. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 6:43pm Monday afternoon Beijing time (2:43pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that US troops carried out raids and searches in the village of ‘Uwayjilah in the area of ash-Sharuqat, 185km north of Baghdad, beginning on Sunday night. Diyala Province. Ba‘qubah. Woman belt bomber for al-Qa‘idah attacks “Awakening” police in Ba‘qubah, killing three, wounding three civilians. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:47pm Monday evening Beijing time (3:47pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a woman wearing an explosive belt blew herself up amidst a group of US-recruited “Awakening” tribal police in western Ba‘qubah, 65km northeast of Baghdad. Babil Province. Al-Iskandariyah. Unmanned US spy plane crashes near al-Iskandariyah Monday afternoon. In a dispatch posted at 11:11pm Baghdad time Monday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that an unmanned US reconnaissance plane crashed near al-Iskandariyah, 40km south of Baghdad at 6pm local time Monday afternoon. At-Ta’mim Province. Kirkuk. US, Iraqi regime troops arrest 10 west of Kirkuk Monday. In a dispatch posted at 5pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a force of US and Iraqi regime troops raided and searched the Nahrawan area between Sarkaran and ar-Rashad to the west of Kirkuk on Monday. Yaqen reported a source in the provincial police as saying that two cars were confiscated and 10 people arrested in the raids. Kurdish separatist official wounded in bomb attack Monday. In a dispatch posted at 10:50am Baghdad time Monday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by the car in which an official with the National Union of Kurdistan Party was riding in the city of Kirkuk, 250km north of Baghdad, on Monday. Yaqen reported a source in the Kirkuk police as saying that Jabbar al-Hajj Jalal, an official with the Relations Bureau of the Kurdish separatist party in the city, was the target of a bombing. The blast took place as Jalal was driving to his office in the at-Tayran Square neighborhood of the city and left him and four of his companions wounded. The explosion also damaged his car. All the men were taken to Kirkuk General Hospital for treatment. Al-Basrah Province. Al-Basrah. Bomb explodes by British patrol north of al-Basrah midday Monday. In a dispatch posted at 9:03pm Baghdad time Monday night, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a bomb exploded by a British patrol to the north of al-Basrah on Monday. 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