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Iraqi Resistance Report 1244
Iraqi
Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 8 May 2008. Translated and/or
compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,
member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org Thursday, 8 May 2008. · Car bomb kills seven in west Baghdad. · Eight killed, 18 wounded as US continues offensive against impoverished Baghdad district. · Iraqi regime announces capture of al-Qa‘idah chief in operation with US forces in al-Mawsil. Al-Anbar Province. Ar-Ramadi. Al-Qa‘idah gunmen kill four Iraqi government troops in ambush near ar-Ramadi Thursday evening. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 9:59am Friday morning Beijing time (5:59am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that gunmen believed to belong to the al-Qa‘idah organization attacked a patrol of Iraqi army troops in the al-Bu Bali village to the east of ar-Ramadi, 110km west of Baghdad on Thursday evening. Baghdad. Car bomb kills seven in west Baghdad. In a dispatch posted at 10:35pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a car bomb exploded in the up-scale west Baghdad district of al-Mansur on Thursday. Yaqen reported a source in the Iraqi government police as saying that the car bomb went off near the Samad Restaurant in al-Mansur. The apparent target of the car bombing was a police patrol. Seven people, three of them policemen, were killed. Two policemen were wounded, as were 13 civilians, including two women and a child. Bomb on minibus kills two, wounds five. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 8:21pm Thursday evening Beijing time (4:21pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb left in a minibus exploded as the vehicle passed through a neighborhood in the Zuyunah district of eastern Baghdad on Thursday afternoon. Three wounded in bomb blast near National Theater in Baghdad. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 8:21pm Thursday evening Beijing time (4:21pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that three people were wounded when a bomb exploded near the National Theater building in the al-‘Alawiyah area of central Baghdad. Rockets kill two civilians near cinema in Baghdad. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:38pm Thursday evening Beijing time (3:38pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that two rockets landed near the Dar ‘Arad cinema on as-Sa‘dun Street in Baghdad on Thursday. Bomb rips through Iraqi government army patrol near ash-Sha‘b Stadium in Baghdad. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:38pm Thursday evening Beijing time (3:38pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol of Iraqi regime troops near the ash-Sha‘b International Stadium in northern Baghdad. Eight killed, 18 wounded as US continues offensive against impoverished Baghdad district. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:40pm Thursday morning Beijing time (1:40pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that at least eight people were killed and more than 18 others wounded in Thursday’s continued US offensive against the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in eastern Baghdad. Xinhua reported a source in the regime’s security forces as saying that fierce fighting raged during the night and until early Thursday morning between the Jaysh al-Mahdi and the attacking Americans and Iraqi regime forces. Local eyewitnesses reported that the Iraqi government troops used loudspeakers to tell residents of the impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district to leave their homes and head to tent camps set up for them by the regime. The US and Iraqi government forces hope to use maximum firepower against the anti-occupation forces and wish to isolate the militiamen from their popular constituency. The regime set up the refugee camps near the ash-Sha‘b International Stadium and the Industrial Club Sports Stadium. On Tuesday a source in the Iraqi regime police reported that dozens of residents of Madinat as-Sadr had begun fleeing from the American offensive to the camps. Since late March the US has been waging an offensive against the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in apparent preparation for an eventual American attack on Iran. Iraqi Regime closes down Sadr Movement radio station in Baghdad. In a dispatch posted at 11:45am Baghdad time Thursday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Iraqi government’s Interior Ministry announced on Thursday that it had shut down the al-‘Ahd radio station run by the anti-occupation Sadr Movement. The order to close down the station came from US-installed Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Yaqen reported a source who refused to be identified as saying that at that moment Iraqi regime troops were surrounding the radio station in the al-Habibiyah district of eastern Baghdad and were preventing employees from entering the building, keeping the station from going on the air. The move parallels the continuing US offensive against the Sadr Movement, an armed offensive that is believed to be in preparation for an eventual American attack on Iran. Tribal policeman gunned down in northern Baghdad suburb. In a dispatch posted at 10:30am Baghdad time Thursday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that unknown armed men had shot and killed a commander in the “Awakening” tribal police in the northern Baghdad suburb of at-Taji. Salah ad-Din Province. Ad-Dulu‘iyah. Al-Qa‘idah bomber slightly wounds commander of “Awakening” forces in ad-Dulu‘iyah. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 6:12pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (2:12pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that al-Mulla Nazim al-Jabburi, the commander of the tribal pro-American “Awakening” forces in ad-Dulu‘iyah, 90km north of Baghdad, survived an assassination attempt in that city. Xinhua reported a source in the ad-Dulu‘iyah police as saying that al-Jabburi was attending a security meeting together with Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Khalid, the commander of the city police and Marwan Mut‘ab, the local administrative chief. The purpose of the meeting was to study the state of security and services in ad-Dulu‘iyah. After the meeting concluded and the attendees dispersed, a person wearing an explosive belt attacked the column in which al-Mulla Nazim al-Jabburi, the Commander of the “Awakening” forces in the city. The explosion slightly wounded al-Jabburi, who was taken to hospital. Later, al-Jabburi said that the attack bore the fingerprints of the al-Qa‘idah organization. He promised that the regime would drive al-Qa‘idah out of its hiding places. Xinhua noted that al-Jabburi had been one of the most prominent al-Qa‘idah commanders in Iraq until he quit the organization last year and formed a unit of the “Awakening” tribal forces in ad-Dulu‘iyah, with the aim of combating the fundamentalist organization, which has killed dozens of local residents. Ninwa Province. Al-Mawsil. Iraqi regime announces capture of al-Qa‘idah chief in operation with US forces in al-Mawsil. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 10:13am Friday morning Beijing time (6:13am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that Iraqi government television had announced that the regime’s security forces had arrested Abu Hamzah al-Muhajiri, the leader of the al-Qa‘idah organization in Iraq. Xinhua reported government TV reported Major General Muhammad al-‘Askari, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry, as saying Thursday that US and Iraqi regimet roops had captured al-Muhajiri in a security operation in the Wadi Hajar area of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad. As of the time of reporting the US military had neither confirmed or denied the claim. Abu Hamzah al-Muhajiri, also known as Abu Ayyub al-Misri holds Egyptian citizenship and took over command of the al-Qa‘idah gunmen in Iraq following the death of Abu Mus‘ab az-Zarqawi in a US air raid on the house in which he was hiding in Ba‘qubah, 65km northeast of Baghdad on 7 June 2006. Policeman wounded in bomb attack in al-Mawsil. In a dispatch posted at 1:10pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded in front of the home of an Iraqi government policeman in the al-Khadra’ neighborhood of eastern al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghadad. Beheaded body found in al-Mawsil Wednesday night. In a dispatch posted at 1:10pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a beheaded body was found in the ath-Thawrah neighborhood of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad on Wednesday night. Yaqen reported the body was taken to the Forensic Medicine Department in the city for identification. Beheading is a common practice of the al-Qa‘idah organization. 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