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Iraqi Resistance Report 1230
Iraqi
Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 24 April 2008. Translated
and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu
Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org Thursday, 24 April 2008. · Rocket blasts into Polish residence in Green Zone in Baghdad. · US forces reportedly kill four Iranian al-Quds Brigade members north of Baghdad. · US troops raid mental hospital in eastern Baghdad, detain patients, staff destroy wards. · Two US soldiers die in non-combat incident in Salah ad-Din Province Wednesday. · US admits death of American soldier Wednesday in continued battle against Jaysh al-Mahdi in Baghdad. · US troops kill two brothers in al-Mawsil Thursday morning. Baghdad. Rocket blasts into Polish residence in Green Zone in Baghdad. In a dispatch posted at 1:33am Baghdad time Friday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a rocket or possibly a mortar shell slammed into the building where employees of the Polish embassy live in Baghdad. US forces reportedly kill four Iranian al-Quds Brigade members north of Baghdad. In a dispatch posted at 3:50pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the US military killed four members of the Iranian al-Quds Brigade in the ar-Rashidiyah area. Yaqen reported eyewitnesses as saying that clashes erupted when US troops attacked an armed group it accused of having been armed and trained in Iran in order to carry out attacks in the ar-Rashidiyah area to the north of Baghdad. It was later learned, Yaqen reported, that the group consisted of members of the Iranian al-Quds Brigade itself. Four of the al-Quds Brigade members were killed and five more of them wounded, the witnesses said. Car bomb kills civilian in southeastern Baghdad. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:49pm Thursday evening Beijing time (3:49pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a car bomb exploded by a patrol of Iraqi government police near the al-Ghadir Bridge in southeastern Baghdad at midday Thursday. Three civilians killed when bomb explodes in west Baghdad neighborhood. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:28pm Thursday evening Beijing time (3:28pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb exploded in a market in the upscale west Baghdad district of al-Mansur at midday Thursday. US troops raid mental hospital in eastern Baghdad. In a dispatch posted at 2:40pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that US and Iraqi regime forces raided the ar-Rashad Hospital for Mental and Psychological Illness in eastern Baghdad and detained everyone inside. Yaqen reported Qasim ‘Abd al-Hadi, Information Director in Baghdad’s Health Department, as saying that a force of American troops and their Iraqi army allies raided the ar-Rashad Mental Hospital on Thursday morning, smashing down the doors and detaining all the staff. He said that the raiding party destroyed the ar-Razi Ward for Men in the hospital and also the Zaynab Ward for women. They sealed off the Ibn al-Haytham Ward and damaged the counseling department and administrative offices in the hospital. Staff and patients were locked up inside the hospital. The ar-Rashad Mental Hospital in the Madinat as-Sadr section of Baghdad has been under the control of the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia since the US occupied Iraq in 2003. Two US soldiers die in non-combat incident in Salah ad-Din Province Wednesday. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:58pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (1:58pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that the US military declared that two more of its soldiers had died in a non-combat accident in Salah ad-Din Province north of Baghdad. Xinhua reported an American communiqué as saying that the two soldiers were killed when their car overturned on their way to a military base in Salah ad-Din Province on Wednesday. The statement added that a third American soldier and a translator were injured in the incident and taken to an American military hospital fort treatment. Bomb explodes by Iraqi army patrol in western Baghdad. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:08pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (1:08pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb went off by a patrol of the Iraqi army on al-Liqa’ Square in western Baghdad before noon on Thursday. Bomb explodes by police patrol in Baghdad. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:08pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (1:08pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb went off by a patrol of the government police near the International ash-Sha‘b Stadium. US admits death of American soldier Wednesday in continued battle against Jaysh al-Mahdi in Baghdad. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 2:59pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (10:59am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported the US military as admitting that an American soldier had been killed during military operations in eastern Baghdad, where the US has been prosecuting an offensive against the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia for over three weeks. Xinhua reported a statement issued by the American army as saing that one of its troops had been killed by small arms fire in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday, 23 April. In keeping with the US policy of hiding information regarding its losses in Iraq, the American statement provided no further details. The US has been engaged in a drive to destroy the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in Baghdad in what is believed to be preparation for an eventual attack on Iran. Diyala Province. Al-‘Azim. Iraqi army soldier killed in bomb attack in al-‘Azim Thursday. In a dispatch posted at 10:15pm Baghdad time Thursday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol of the Iraqi regime army on the main street in al-‘Azim, 120km north of Baghdad, on Thursday. Ninwa Province. Al-Mawsil. US troops kill two brothers in al-Mawsil Thursday morning. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:37pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (12:37pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that US troops engaged in raids and searches in the al-Wahdah neighborhood of southern al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, shot and killed two Iraqi brothers on Thursday morning. Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi police as saying that the Americans entered a house in the neighborhood where they killed an officer in the former Iraqi army along with his brother. No explanation for the killings was provided, the source said, and as of the time of reporting, the US had offered no account of the incident. Bomb kills one in al-Mawsil. In a dispatch posted at 12:13pm Baghdad time midday Thursday, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a car in the al-‘Arabi neighborhood of northern al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad. Yaqen reported an official in the police as saying that the blast killed one person and wounded three more. The injured were taken to al-Mawsil General Hospital for treatment. Wasit Province. Al-Kut. Iraqi regime security forces raid Sadr Movement office in al-Kut at dawn Thursday. In a dispatch posted at 6:45pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that an Iraqi regime security force raided the office of the Sadr Movement in al-Kut, 150km southeast of Baghdad, at dawn on Thursday. Al-Basrah Province. Al-Basrah. Prominent official in Sadr Movement arrested by Iraqi regime in al-Basrah Wednesday night. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:57pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (1:57pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that Iraqi regime security forces had arrested a prominent commander in the anti-occupation Sadr Movement in al-Basrah on Wednesday night. Xinhua reported a source in the provincial police who asked to remain anonymous as saying that the regime forces arrested Shaykh ‘Abd as-Sattar al-Bahadili, and President of the al-Ghadir Institute for Islamic Culture, and a prominent leader of the Sadr Movement in al-Basrah. The US-backed regime’s security men also arrested the Shaykh’s brother, ‘Uqayl al-Bahadili. A statement released by the regime stated that al-Bahadili was arrested in the Hamdan Restaurant in al-Basrah at 10pm Wednesday night. Xinhua noted that Shaykh ‘Abd as-Sattar al-Bahadili had been Director of the as-Sadr Office in al-Basrah from 2003 to 2004, during which time he took part in numerous military operations against the British occupation forces. Later he headed the al-Ghadir Institute. ‘Uqayl al-Bahadili is an information official at the same Institute. US forces and their Iraqi regime allies have been engaged in an offensive against the anti-occupation Sadr Movement for several weeks in what is believed to be the preparation for an eventual attack on Iran. 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