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Iraqi Resistance Report 1239
Iraqi
Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 3 May 2008. Translated and/or
compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,
member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org Saturday, 3 May 2008. · US announces death of Marine from wounds, three years after his injury. · US aircraft blasts hospital, wounding 20 patients and staff; 25 people killed, 60 more wounded in continuing American offensive against defiant, impoverished Baghdad district. · US admits one soldier killed in bomb explosion in eastern Baghdad Friday afternoon. · Two Georgian army troops killed in bomb attack Friday. · Resistance group claims attack on two US Humvees near Samarra’. · Iraqi security forces arrest 75 following savage al-Qa‘idah car bomb attacks in Balad Ruz Friday. Al-Anbar Province. Al-Qa’im. Twelve members of “Awakening” tribal police kidnapped, murdered in al-Qa’im in apparent sign of return of al-Qa‘idah. In a dispatch posted at 3:25pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men, suspected of membership in al-Qa‘idah, kidnapped 12 members of the tribal “Awakening” police in the town of al-Qa’im near the Syrian border in western Iraq and then butchered them and dumped their bodies on a street in al-Qa’im. Baghdad. US announces death of Marine from wounds, three years after his injury. In a dispatch posted at 2:13pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the US military announced Saturday that a Marine who had suffered severely disfiguring burns and underwent 100 surgical operations in the ensuing 17 months has finally died of his wounds. Yaqen reported that the Marine was severely wounded when his Humvee crashed on the way to the military camp in ar-Ramadi, 110km west of Baghdad, on 21 February 2005. The 22-year-old Marine was burned over 95 percent of his body and underwent long and extensive treatment in Texas in the US before finally dying on 11 April due to complications in one of the surgeries. US aircraft blasts hospital, wounding 20 patients and staff; 25 people killed, 60 more wounded in continuing American offensive against defiant, impoverished Baghdad district. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 6:40pm Saturday afternoon Beijing time (2:40pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that 25 people had been killed and more than 60 others injured in the continued US offensive against the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi in the impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district of Baghdad since Friday. Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi government police as saying that the fighting, which began Friday night, between US troops and Jaysh al-Mahdi fighters, grew in intensity when the Jaysh al-Mahdi fired six rockets from the area around as-Sadr Hospital in the center of Madinat as-Sadr at the US forces. US artillery and helicopters then fired their own rockets into the quarter. The source said that preliminary figures indicated that in addition to the 25 people killed and 60 more wounded in the American attack, numerous homes and shops had been destroyed. Qasim ‘Abd al-Hadi, the Information Director for the Department of Health in the Baghdad district of ar-Rusafah told the press that American aircraft “blasted the as-Sadr Hospital on Saturday, wounding 20 patients and hospital staff members.” ‘Abd al-Hadi added that nine ambulances and about 40 private cars were also damaged in the US raid. Since late March the US has been prosecuting an offensive against the impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district of Baghdad, a stronghold of support for the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, loyal to Shi‘i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr. The American drive is seen as part of the US preparations for an eventual American attack on Iran. Bomb targets traffic police, civilians in western Baghdad. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:04pm Saturday afternoon Beijing time (1:04pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb exploded near a traffic police checkpoint near the ash-Shurtah Tunnel in western Baghdad Saturday morning. US admits one soldier killed in bomb explosion in eastern Baghdad Friday afternoon. In a dispatch posted at 11:15am Baghdad time Saturday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the US military had announced that a bomb exploded by a US patrol in eastern Baghdad at 6:15pm Friday afternoon. Yaqen reported a US communiqué as admitting that the explosion killed one American soldier who was taking part in that combat patrol. Since the end of March, US forces have been leading an offensive against the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in eastern Baghdad in what is believed to be a preparation for an eventual American attack on Iran. Two Georgian army troops killed in bomb attack Friday. In a dispatch posted at 8:55pm Baghdad time Saturday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that two Georgian occupation army troops were killed and a third wounded when a bomb exploded by their unit somewhere in Diyala Province on Friday. Yaqen reported a communiqué issued by the Defense Ministry of the Caucasian republic of Georgia as saying that the wounded Georgian soldier was taken to Baghdad for treatment after the blast.. Salah ad-Din Province. Ash-Sharuqat. Mortar shell kills child in ash-Sharuqat midday Saturday. In a dispatch posted at 5:25pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a mortar shell of unknown origin blasted into a residential area of ash-Sharuqat, 250km north of Baghdad, at noon Saturday. Tikrit. Bomb kills two Iraqi army troops near Tikrit Saturday morning. In a dispatch posted at 12:35pm Baghdad time midday Saturday, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol of Iraqi army troops near Tikrit, 180km north of Baghdad on Saturday morning. Samarra’. Resistance group claims attack on two US Humvees near Samarra’. In a dispatch posted at 11:45am Baghdad time Saturday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Iraqi resistance “al-Bazi Group” announced that its fighters had set off two bombs by a US patrol at a junction on the highway near Samarra’, 120km north of Baghdad, Saturday morning. Yaqen reported “Abu Jihad,” a spokesman for the group as saying that the attack came one day after the arrest of a member of the resistance in the ar-Rakkah area. Witnesses told Yaqen that two American Humvees were destroyed in the attack and remains of soldiers could be seen in the area. Diyala Province. Balad Ruz. Iraqi security forces arrest 75 following savage al-Qa‘idah car bomb attacks in Balad Ruz Friday. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:47pm Saturday afternoon Beijing time (12:47pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that the Iraqi government police arrested 75 people in the town of Balad Ruz, 60km northeast of Baghdad, on Friday following a massive double car bombing that killed or wounded 94 people in a funeral procession in the city. Xinhua reported that the US had blamed the al-Qa‘idah organization, known for its suicide car bomb attacks, for the carnage. The American statement regarding the bomb attack said that the car bombers were a man and a pregnant woman. At-Ta’mim Province. Kirkuk. Bomb targets police patrol in Kirkuk Saturday. In a dispatch posted at 4:03pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb went off by a patrol of Iraqi government police in Kirkuk, 250km north of Baghdad, on Saturday. Ninwa Province. Al-Mawsil. Bomb wounds Emergency Police in al-Mawsil Saturday. In a dispatch posted at 4:25pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol of Iraqi Emergency Police in al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, on Saturday. Yaqen reported a source in the city police as saying that three policemen were wounded in the blast, which took place in the az-Zuhur neighborhood in the eastern part of the city. 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