Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 4 May 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.  http://www.freearabvoice.org

 

Sunday, 4 May 2008.

 

·       US helicopter gunship kills three children rummaging for empty bottles in impoverished district of Baghdad.  Four dead, 41 wounded in 24 hours as savage US offensive against Sadr Movement continues to reap civilian casualties.

 

·       US admits four Marines killed in bomb attack in al-Anbar Province Friday.

 

·       Three bomb attacks target US forces in Baghdad Saturday.

 

·       Two US troops reported killed, two wounded in bomb attack near Bayji Sunday afternoon.

 

·       Bombs explode by US, Iraqi military patrols in al-Mawsil.

 

Baghdad.

 

US helicopter gunship kills three children rummaging for empty bottles in impoverished district of Baghdad.  Four dead, 41 wounded in 24 hours as savage US offensive against Sadr Movement continues to reap civilian casualties.

 

In a dispatch posted at 1:45pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Dr. Jawwad al-Musawi, the chief physician at the Imam ‘Ali Hospital in Baghdad’s Madinat as-Sadr district, had announced that his hospital had received the bodies of four dead and 21 wounded in the previous 24 hours – the latest victims of America’s on-going offensive against the anti-occupation Sadr Movement.

 

Yaqen reported Dr. al-Musawi as saying that the as-Sadr Hospital, also in the Madinat as-Sadr district, admitted another 20 wounded people in the same 24-hour period.

 

Meanwhile, an eyewitness told Yaqen that three children had been killed in an American air strike.  The children, residents of the impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district, were rummaging through a garbage dump in search of items they could sell when the American helicopter gunship attacked and killed them.

 

Ahmad Yahya, who was wounded in the same US air strike, said that the children were gathering empty soft drink bottles to sell.  Another boy who survived the strike said that his brother had been killed in the attack.

 

Dr. al-Musawi at al-Imam ‘Ali Hospital said that three of the four bodies received by his hospital were the children killed in the American air raid on the garbage dump.  The fourth child who had been wounded in that strike was admitted as a patient for treatment.  Dr. al-Musawi said that the four dead, including the three children, and the 41 injured people admitted on Saturday and Sunday were all victims of US air strikes on Madinat as-Sadr.

 

Meanwhile, the US ground offensive against the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia continued Sunday.  Yaqen reported an ambulance driver as saying that the effort to recover the dead and wounded from all the American air strikes took three hours because of all the ground fighting that was raging in the area.

 

In a 6:20pm dispatch, Yaqen reported that the US had announced triumphantly that its helicopter gun ships had killed nine Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen in air strikes around eastern Baghdad during Saturday-Sunday night.  The Americans also claimed to have destroyed a Jaysh al-Mahdi headquarters.

 

Yaqen reported that sources in the Iraqi police said that 11 people had been killed and 27 others wounded in the fighting between US and Jaysh al-Mahdi forces in Madinat as-Sadr from Saturday evening to Sunday morning.

 

The impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district, a stronghold of support for anti-occupation Shi‘i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr, has been the target of an American offensive since late March.  It is believed that the US is attempting to crush the power of the Shi‘i Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in preparation for an eventual US attack on Iran.

 

Wife of US-installed Iraqi President survives bomb incident in Baghdad Sunday morning.

 

In a dispatch posted at 2:45pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded near the motorcade of Hiru Ibrahim Ahmad, the wife of US-installed Iraqi President Jalal Talibani, as it passed near the National Theater in Baghdad Sunday morning.

 

Yaqen reported a statement issued by Talibani’s office as saying that four guards accompanying the motorcade were slightly wounded in the explosion.  The US-installed Iraqi First Lady was on her way to attend the Sixth al-Mada Cultural Festival – a program sponsored by the pro-American Iraqi media mogul Fakhri Karim, former head of the Iraqi Communist Party.

 

Bomb kills two Iraqi army troops in Baghdad Sunday.

 

In a dispatch posted at 12:25pm Baghdad time midday Sunday, the Yaqen News Agency  reported that a bomb had exploded by a patrol of the Iraqi army near the National Theater in Baghdad on Sunday.

 

US admits four Marines killed in bomb attack in al-Anbar Province Friday.

 

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 3:40pm Sunday afternoon Beijing time (11:40am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a US Marine military vehicle somewhere in al-Anbar Province Friday, 2 May 2008.

 

Xinhua reported a US communiqué issued Sunday as saying that the blast killed four American Marines.  In keeping with the US policy of hiding information regarding US losses in Iraq, no further details regarding the location or circumstances of the attack were released.

 

Double bombings wound police officers in western Baghdad.

 

In a dispatch posted at 11:10am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that two bombs exploded in the upscale al-Mansur district of western Baghdad on Sunday.

 

Three bomb attacks target US forces in Baghdad Saturday.

 

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 10:56am Sunday morning Beijing time (6:56am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that US occupation forces were the targets of three bomb attacks in Baghdad on Saturday afternoon.

 

Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi security forces as saying that the first bomb went off at the al-Malhaniyah Intersection in the al-‘Amil neighborhood of southern Baghdad.  The second and third bombings took place in the ash-Sha‘b neighborhood in northeastern Baghdad.  In keeping with the US policy of concealing information regarding American losses in Iraq, no information on the nature or extent of casualties was available.

 

Xinhua noted that all three attacks occurred in areas where the majority of residents support the anti-occupation Shi‘i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr, whose movement and Jaysh al-Mahdi militia have been the targets of a US offensive since late March in apparent preparation for an eventual US attack on Iran.

 

Salah ad-Din Province.

Bayji.

 

Two US troops reported killed, two wounded in bomb attack near Bayji Sunday afternoon.

 

In a dispatch posted at 8:50pm Baghdad time Sunday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a homemade bomb exploded by a US patrol in the area of Bayji, 200km north of Baghdad on Sunday afternoon.

 

Balad.

 

Gunmen blow up policeman’s house in Balad killing two women.

 

In a dispatch posted at 2:25pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that unknown armed men blew up the home of a member of the Iraqi government police in the town of Balad, 80km north of Baghdad.

 

Ninwa Province.

Al-Mawsil.

 

Bombs explode by US, Iraqi military patrols in al-Mawsil.

 

In a dispatch posted at 4:30pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that two bombs exploded in the city of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad.

 

Yaqen reported a source in the government police as saying that one bomb exploded by a US patrol in the Hawi al-Kanisah area of western al-Mawsil.

 

The source said that another bomb went off in the al-Bu Sayf area of the city, killing one person and wounding a second.

 

Woman reporter gunned down in al-Mawsil Sunday.

 

In a dispatch posted at 1pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen shot and killed an Iraqi woman journalist on her way to work in the city of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, on Sunday.

 

Yaqen reported a source in the al-Mawsil police as saying that the attackers opened fire on Sarwah ‘Abd al-Wahhab, a writer for the Murasilun News Agency as she headed to work in the al-Bakr neighborhood of eastern al-Mawsil Sunday.

 

Ibrahim as-Sarraji, President of the Iraqi Association for the Defense of Journalistic Rights, said that Sarwah ‘Abd al-Wahhab had been a member of the al-Mawsil Branch of the Association.

 

Xinhua reported on 1 May that the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had declared the day before 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.

 

Al-Basrah Province.

Al-Basrah.

 

Iraqi authorities blow up Shi‘i mosque in al-Basrah after reportedly finding weapons inside.

 

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:57pm Sunday afternoon Beijing time (12:57pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that Iraqi regime police blew up a Shi‘i mosque in the city of al-Basrah, 560km southeast of Baghdad, on Sunday after finding weapons and explosives there.

 

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