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Iraqi Resistance Report 1237
Iraqi
Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 1 May 2008. Translated and/or
compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,
member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org Thursday, 1 May 2008. · US announces first death of American soldier in May in Baghdad bomb attack. · Eleven killed, 72 wounded Thursday in continued US offensive against impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district of Baghdad. · US admits one of its soldiers killed in Ninwa Province where preparations for offensive against al-Qa‘idah are said underway. · US forces kill eight Iraqis, among them civilians, as American offensive against impoverished Baghdad district continues. · One American soldier reported killed, two more wounded in car bomb attack in southeastern Baghdad. Baghdad. US announces first death of American soldier in May in Baghdad bomb attack. In a dispatch posted at 7:30pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the US military had admitted that a car bomb explosion in central Baghdad had claimed the life of another US soldier, the first killed in the month of May this year. Yaqen reported an American communiqué as saying that the car bomb exploded by a US Humvee that was a part of an American patrol. Eleven killed, 72 wounded Thursday in continued US offensive against impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district of Baghdad. In a dispatch posted at 5:10pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that hospital sources in the impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district of eastern Baghdad reported that they had received 11 bodies of people killed in the US offensive against the district in the previous 24 hours. Another 72 wounded people were admitted to hospitals for treatment during that period as a result of the continuing American offensive. Yaqen reported a source in the al-Imam ‘Ali Hospital as saying that one dead body and 28 wounded people had come into that facility, while 10 dead and 44 wounded had been admitted to the as-Sadr Hospital. The US has been waging an offensive against the Jaysh al-Mahdi in Madinat as-Sadr for over a month in what is apparently preparation for an eventual US attack on Iran. Bomb targets Iraqi police patrol in eastern Baghdad. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:37pm Thursday evening Beijing time (3:37pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by an Iraqi police patrol under the al-Ghadir Bridge in eastern Baghad. Xinhua reported a source in the Baghdad security forces as saying that the blast wounded two policemen and three civilians and damaged one of the patrol vehicles. US admits one of its soldiers killed in Ninwa Province. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:48pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (12:48pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that the US had admitted that one of its troops had been killed in Ninwa Province. Xinhua reported an American communiqué as announcing that a bomb went off near a US patrol somewhere in Ninwa Province, killing one US soldier. In keeping with the American policy of concealing facts regarding US losses in Iraq, no further details were disclosed. Xinhua noted that on Wednesday, the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had declared a that final preparations were nearly complete for a massive military operation against the al-Qa‘idah organization in al-Mawsil, the capital of Ninwa Province. US forces kill eight Iraqis, among them civilians, as American offensive against impoverished Baghdad district continues. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:48pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time 12:48pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that the US military had announced that its troops had killed nine fighters in two attacks that the Americans launched on the impoverished Madinat as-Sadr neighborhood of eastern Baghdad. Xinhua reported a US communiqué as claiming that US troops spotted a group of fighters carrying rocket-propelled grenades in Madinat as-Sadr at 3pm Wednesday afternoon and opened fire on them, killing five. The US statement went on to say that 20 minutes later the fighters attempted to fire rockets at the Americans but was killed. Then at 5pm, the American statement said, a US aircraft fired a rocket into the area. At 6pm, the US statement went on, the Jaysh al-Mahdi fighters made another attack on the Americans, firing anti-tank weapons at them. The US troops responded, the American statement said, killing three fighters. In contrast to the US claims that all the casualties had been combatants, a source in the Iraqi government police, which is allied with the US, state that eight Iraqis, some of them civilians, had been killed in the combat in Madinat as-Sadr and in an American air bombardment on the neighborhood of Tariq in the district. The US has been waging an offensive against the Jaysh al-Mahdi in Madinat as-Sadr for over a month in what is apparently preparation for an eventual US attack on Iran. One American soldier reported killed, two more wounded in car bomb attack in southeastern Baghdad. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:42pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (12:42pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that an explosives-packed car that had been parked by the side of a road in the Camp Sarah area near the al-Amanah Car Park in southeastern Baghdad blew up by a passing American patrol. Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi regime security forces as saying that the blast killed nine people including one American soldier. Another 32 people were wounded, two of them US troops. Numerous civilian cars were also damaged, the source said. US troops arrested a “suspect” near the area of the blast, the source indicated. As of the time of reporting, no American statement on the attack had been issued. Diyala Province. Buhriz. Iraqi army soldier killed in bomb attack near Buhriz. In a dispatch posted at 12:15pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by an Iraqi army patrol near Buhriz, 60km northeast of Baghdad. Ninwa Province. Al-Mawsil. Bomb targets Iraqi army patrol in al-Mawsil. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:37pm Thursday evening Beijing time (3:37pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb had gone off by a patrol of Iraqi regime troops in al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad. 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