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Iraqi Resistance Report 1235
Iraqi
Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 29 April 2008. Translated
and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu
Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org Tuesday, 29 April 2008. · US air strike kills 24 in impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district Tuesday afternoon. · Mortar shells slam into “Green Zone” Tuesday. · US admits six American troops wounded in continued assaults on impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district in Baghdad. · US admits one soldier killed in rocket attack Monday afternoon. · US admits three more American troops killed Monday as US presses offensive against Jaysh al-Mahdi in eastern Baghdad. Baghdad. US air strike kills 24 in impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district Tuesday afternoon. In a dispatch posted at 7:55pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that as-Sadr Hospital in the impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district of Baghdad on Tuesday received 85 dead and wounded victims of American air bombardments. Yaqen reported for several weeks, American occupation troops have been waging an offensive against Madinat as-Sadr, a stronghold of support for anti-occupation Shi‘i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr, in an apparent preparation for an eventual US assault on Iran. A source in the as-Sadr Hospital (which was called al-Kindi Hospital before the US invasion) told Yaqen that the US air strikes on districts 10 and 11 of Madinat as-Sadr left 24 people dead and 61 wounded Tuesday afternoon. Mortar shells slam into “Green Zone” Tuesday. In a dispatch posted at 4:20pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that five mortar shells blasted into the top security “Green Zone” area of Baghdad where the American occupation regime has its headquarters. Yaqen reported a US spokesman as saying that one of the shells landed in the al-Qadisiyah area within the “Zone.” The spokesman claimed, however, that the barrage caused no casualties. US admits six American troops wounded in continued assaults on impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district in Baghdad. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:33pm Tuesday evening Beijing time (3:33pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that the US military announced that its troops had killed 28 anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen in the continued US offensive against the impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district of eastern Baghdad. Xinhua reported a US communiqué as claiming that Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen equipped with light arms attacked an American patrol that was making an incursion into Madinat as-Sadr. One American was wounded in that ambush. As the US troops were evacuating the soldier, the American statement said, two bombs went off and a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the retreating US troops who were also under small-arms fire. One of the US vehicles was destroyed in the attack and two American soldiers were wounded. Yet another American soldier was wounded in the various American assaults on Madinat as-Sadr and he was evacuated to hospital for treatment. The US statement said that one other American vehicle was destroyed in a third explosion that wounded two more US troops in the course of the fighting. The continuing American offensive against Baghdad’s Madinat as-Sadr district, a stronghold of the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, is believed to be in preparation for an eventual US attack on Iran. Official in Iraqi regime Ministry of Labor and Social affairs assassinated Tuesday morning. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 3:26pm Tuesday afternoon Beijing time (11:26am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb exploded in front of the house of an Iraqi government official killing him as he was on his way to work Tuesday morning. Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi police as saying that the bomb killed Diya’ al-Judi, General Director of the Department of Projects in the Labor and Social Affairs Ministry, when it went off in front of the official’s home in the northern Baghdad district of al-‘Atifiyah. The source added that two of al-Judi’s companions were wounded in the attack, which the regime immediately began to investigate. US admits one soldier killed in rocket attack Monday afternoon. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 2:46pm Tuesday afternoon Beijing time (10:46am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that the US military had announced that one more of its soldiers had been killed in a Katyusha rocket attack in western Baghdad. Xinhua reported the US communiqué as saying that the attack took place at 4:15pm local time Monday afternoon, but gave no further details. On Monday the “Green Zone” cam under mortar and rocket attack in the latest of the attacks US officials blame on fighters linked to the Shi‘i anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia. US admits three more American troops killed as US presses offensive against Jaysh al-Mahdi in eastern Baghdad. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 8:36am Tuesday morning Beijing time (4:36am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that the US military had admitted that three of its soldiers had died in mortar and Katyusha attacks in eastern Baghdad on Monday. Xinhua reported the American communiqué as saying that the attack took place at 1:05pm Monday in eastern Baghdad. The US has been pressing its offensive against the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in eastern Baghdad for several weeks in what is believed to be the preparation for an eventual US attack on Iran. Resident of Abu Dushayr claims US troops killed two Monday evening. In a dispatch posted at 4:33pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that US troops killed two residents of the Abu Dushayr area of Baghdad on Monday evening. Yaqen reported a local witness who refused to identify himself as saying that two people were gunned down by US troops but gave no indication as to why the Americans allegedly killed the men. Salah ad-Din Province. At-Tarimiyah. Commander of tribal “Awakening” police in at-Tarimiyah killed following argument. In a dispatch posted at 9:25pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that unknown armed mena assassinated the commander of the tribal “Awakening” police in the al-Khadra’ neighborhood of at-Tarimiyah, 30km north of Baghdad, Diyala Province. Balad Ruz. Bomb targets Iraqi army patrol near Balad Ruz Tuesday. In a dispatch posted at 3:50pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by an Iraqi army patrol in the Balad Ruz area, 65km northeast of Baghdad, on Tuesday. Jalawla’. Three shot to death. In a dispatch posted at 3:50pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that unknown armed men opened fire on three people in the Jalawla’ area, 120km northeast of Baghdad. Abu Sayda. Woman belt bomber from al-Qa‘idah kills two “Awakening” tribal policemen in Abu Sayda Tuesday morning. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 3:24pm Tuesday afternoon Beijing time (11:24am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a woman wearing an explosive belt blew herself up at a check point manned by tribal “Awakening” police in the Abu Sayda area, 90km northeast of Baghdad on Tuesday morning. Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi security forces as saying that the blast killed two “Awakening” tribal policemen and wounded 10 more of them, some of those severely. Ambulances raced to the scene to transport the casualties to hospital for treatment. Xinhua noted that the al-Qa‘idah organization has increasingly been using women to carry out its revenge attacks targeting the “Awakening” police, a tribal contingent set up specifically to combat al-Qa‘idah. At-Ta’mim Province. Kirkuk. Bomb targets police patrol in Kirkuk. In a dispatch posted at 12:35pm Baghdad time midday Tuesday, the Yaqen News Agency reported that bomb had exploded by a group of policemen in Kirkuk, 250km north of Baghdad. Bomb wounds police, civilians in Kirkuk. In a dispatch posted at 10:50am Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by an Iraqi army patrol in western Kirkuk, 250km north of Baghdad. Ninwa Province. Al-Mawsil. Al-Qa‘idah car bomb attacker kills Iraqi army soldier in Tuesday afternoon attack in al-Mawsil. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:19pm Tuesday evening Beijing time (3:19pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a man driving an explosives-laden car blasted into an Iraqi army patrol in the al-Yarmuk district of western al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad on Tuesday afternoon. Xinhua reported a source in the city police as saying that the car bomb attack killed one soldier and wounded five more of them. The injured men were taken to hospital for treatment after the attack. Two of the cars in the patrol were damaged in the blast as well. Xinhua noted that it was the second suicide attack carried out in the city where tension is high because of increased al-Qa‘idah activity. Iraqi regime troops foil attempted truck bombing by al-Qa‘idah in al-Mawsil. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 3:33pm Tuesday afternoon Beijing time (11:33am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that Brigadier General Khalid ‘Abd as-Sattar, the spokesman for the Operations Command of Ninwa Province had claimed that Iraqi regime troops had foiled an attempt by a suicide bomber to blow up an explosives-laden truck near the Iraqi army headquarters in al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad. Xinhua reported ‘Abd as-Sattar as announcing that a bomber driving a booby-trapped tank truck stormed into an army post in the at-Tanak neighborhood of western al-Mawsil on Tuesday morning. He said that the troops at the post were suspicious of the vehicle and began firing rocket-propelled grenades at it when it was still 300 meters from the building. The truck blew up and was destroyed in a ball of flame at 7am local time. The enormous explosion was heard throughout the city and had been caused by the mass of explosives packed in the tanker. One soldier was wounded by flying shrapnel and some material damage was done to nearby buildings. The atmosphere in the city of al-Mawsil is particularly tense due to increased activity by the al-Qa‘idah organization there. 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