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Iraqi Resistance Report 1233
Iraqi
Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 27 April 2008. Translated and/or
compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,
member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org Sunday, 27 April 2008. · US attacks Madinat as-Sadr during rally by Iraqi parliamentarians trying to stop the nearly month-long US assault on the impoverished district. · US “Green Zone” hit by at least 10 mortar shells Sunday afternoon during dust storm. · US offensive against impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district of Baghdad continues: eight more Iraqis killed from Saturday night to dawn Sunday, one of the dead being a woman. · One killed, 16 wounded in fighting between Jaysh al-Mahdi, Iraqi regime troops in Baghdad Sunday. · Joint US-Iraqi government base in at-Tarimiyah bombarded. Baghdad. US attacks Madinat as-Sadr during rally by Iraqi parliamentarians trying to stop the nearly month-long US assault on the impoverished district. In a dispatch posted at 7:55pm Baghdad time Sunday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that US forces pounded the impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district of Baghdad on Sunday while Sadrist members of the Iraqi parliament rallied there to protest the American offensive. Yaqen reported that US aircraft and tanks continued pounding the Madinat as-Sadr district – a stronghold of support for anti-occupation Shi ‘ religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr and his Jaysh al-Mahdi militia – on Sunday. The attacks took place after members of the Iraqi parliament from the Sadr movement began a rally in the area to protest the American-led offensive that has been going on most of the month of April. Maha ‘Adil, a female member of parliament for the Sadr Movement said on Sunday that the parliamentarians, subjected to the US attack, saw the savagery of the American campaign against Madinat as-Sadr. She added that the representatives witnessed the death of one person before their very eyes, when an American sniper gunned him down. Maha ‘Adil said that the MPs would take their experiences to the parliament where they would endeavor to hold another demonstration. The US offensive against the anti-occupation Sadr Movement and its Jaysh al-Mahdi militia is believed to be in preparation for an eventual US attack on Iran. US “Green Zone” hit by at least 10 mortar shells Sunday afternoon during dust storm. In a dispatch posted at 6:44pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that at least 10 mortar shells were fired into the top-security US compound dubbed the “Green Zone”during a dust storm that swept through the Iraqi capital Sunday afternoon. Yaqen reported a source in the government police as saying that the storm grounded US aircraft, facilitating the barrage. US offensive against impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district of Baghdad continues: eight more Iraqis killed from Saturday night to dawn Sunday, one of the dead being a woman. In a dispatch posted at 2:20pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that US forces continued their several-week-old offensive against the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in the Madinat as-Sadr section of Baghdad on Saturday and until dawn on Sunday. Yaqen reported sources in hospitals in Madinat as-Sadr as well as Iraqi government sources as saying that hospitals had received the bodies of eight dead and admitted 44 wounded people as patients in the previous few hours. One of those killed was a woman, the sources said. Yaqen noted that on Sunday, spokesman Salah al-‘Ubaydi of the Sadr Movement rejected conditions laid down by US-backed Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for an end to the American-led offensive. Car bomb in eastern Baghdad kills Iraqi policeman. In a dispatch posted at 1:15pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a car bomb that had been parked by the side of a road near the ash-Sha‘b Stadium in eastern Baghdad exploded by a patrol of the Iraqi regime police. Bomb kills policeman in al-Mansur. In a dispatch posted at 12:05pm Baghdad time midday Sunday, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol of the Iraqi government police in the upscale west Baghdad neighborhood of al-Mansur. One killed, 16 wounded in fighting between Jaysh al-Mahdi, Iraqi regime troops in Baghdad Sunday. In a dispatch posted at 11:40am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi regime forces battled the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in the al-Bayya‘ neighborhood of western Baghdad in a battle that erupted on Sunday morning. Yaqen reported a source in the regime who refused to be identified as saying that the fighting had left one person dead and 16 more wounded, according to preliminary reports. The source provided no further details. US troops and their Iraqi regime allies have been battling the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi for several weeks in an offensive that is believed to be in preparation for an eventual US attack on Iran. Salah ad-DinProvince. At-Tarimiyah. Joint US-Iraqi government base in at-Tarimiyah bombarded. In a dispatch posted at 11pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a base jointly occupied by US troops and Iraqi Regime National Guards in at-Tarimiyah, 30km north of Baghdad, was bombarded. Samarra’. Car bomb attack kills woman in Samarra’. In a dispatch posted at 6:15pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a car bomb that had been parked in a residential neighborhood in eastern Samarra’, 120km north of Baghdad, blew up. Yaqen reported a source in the Salah ad-Din Province police as saying that the car bomb was detonated by remote control in the al-Qadisiyah neighborhood, killing a woman and wounding four more people. Tuz Khurmatu. Soldier killed in drive-by shooting Saturday night. In a dispatch posted at 10:35am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men in a car with no license plates opened fire on an Iraqi army soldier near Tuz Khurmatu, 185km north of Baghdad late on Saturday night. Ninwa Province. Al-Mawsil. Four wounded in two bombings in al-Mawsil. In a dispatch posted at 3:40pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a police patrol in the az-Zuhur neighborhood to the east of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad. Yaqen reported Brigadier General Khalid ‘Abd as-Sattar, the official spokesman of the Operations Command for Ninwa Province, as saying that another bomb went off by an Iraqi regime patrol in the “17 Tammuz” area of western al-Mawsil. Four people were wounded in the two bombings, ‘Abd as-Sattar said, without providing any further details. Wasit Province. Al-Kut. Iraqi regime claims capture of 122 members of Jaysh al-Mahdi in al-Kut. In a dispatch posted at 10:45pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi regime forces claimed to have captured 122 anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen in the city of al-Kut, 150km southeast of Baghdad, in the last 24 hours. Yaqen reported a source in the Iraqi regime army as saying that a joint force of government police and army soldiers launched a campaign at dawn on Saturday aimed at capturing unlicensed weapons in the al-Jihad neighborhood in the city. The regime forces confiscated 317 weapons and arrested 122 people, all of them alleged members of the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia. The government source claimed that among the confiscated weapons were 17 anti-tank mines, thirty-nine 82mm mortar shells, an Austrian-made rocket, a mortar and 312 light arms of various types. The source asserted that most of the weapons were modern and had been manufactured in Iran. Al-Qadisiyah Province. Ad-Diwaniyah. Policeman killed in attack in ad-Diwaniyah. In a dispatch posted at 10pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men shot and killed a policeman in the city of ad-Diwaniyah, 180km south of Baghdad. Yaqen reported a source in the ad-Diwaniyah police as saying that the attack took place in the al-Jumhuriyah neighborhood of ad-Diwaniyah and that the attackers were able to get away. The al-Jumhuriyah neighborhood has been the scene of heavy fighting between Iraqi regime forces and the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in recent months. 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