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Iraqi Resistance Report 1245
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 9
May 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,
member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org Friday, 9 May 2008. · Two mortar shells slam into “Green Zone” in Baghdad, third shell strikes BBC office by mistake. · Nineteen Iraqis killed, 85 wounded as bloody US offensive against impoverished Baghdad district intensifies. Al-Anbar Province. Al-Hadithah. Fifteen Iraqi policemen reported killed in attacks near Rawah following reported arrest of al-Qa‘idah chief. In a dispatch posted at 7:20pm Baghdad time Friday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that more than 15 members of various Iraqi regime security forces were killed in an upsurge of attacks that followed the reported capture of the leader of al-Qa‘idah in Iraq. According to a bulletin posted at 1:09am Saturday morning, Yaqen reported that several vehicles belonging to Emergency Police led by Colonel Muhammad Husayn ash-Shafir – the founder of the “Awakening” police in the city of al-Hadithah – were destroyed as well when an ambush killed 14 of the Emergency police and tribal “Awakening” police on Thursday night. More than 22 more people were wounded, some of them severely. The attacks were apparently the most violent since the US recruited the “Awakening” police from among local members of Sunni Bedouin tribes for the purpose of fighting the al-Qa‘idah organization. Hit. US soldier claimed killed in sniper attack in Hit Thursday evening. In a dispatch posted at 11:30am Baghdad time Friday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a sniper reportedly shot and killed a US soldier in the city of Hit, 180km northwest of Baghdad on Thursday evening. Al-Baghdadi. American mercenary reported killed in car crash in al-Baghdadi Thursday night. In a dispatch posted at 10:10am Baghdad time Friday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that an American mercenary, three Kurds and a civilian driver were all killed in a traffic accident in the al-Baghdadi area, 200km northwest of Baghdad on Thursday night. Yaqen reported a local witness by the name of Abu Ahmad as saying that a car belonging to a US mercenary security company collided with a water tank truck in al-Baghdadi city. The car was completely wrecked and all inside it were killed. One of them was an American citizen and the others were three Kurds. The driver of the water tank truck was also killed in the collision. Abu Ahmad said that the reason for the wreck was excessive speed. He said that the column of which the mercenary car was a part had left the US military camp under construction near al-Baghdadi, a facility the construction of which is supervised by a foreign company. Baghdad. Two mortar shells slam into “Green Zone” in Baghdad, third shell strikes BBC office by mistake. In a dispatch posted at 5:30pm Baghdad time Friday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a mortar shell landed by mistake on the BBC station, located near the top-security “Green Zone” area in Baghdad. The blast left a 50cm hole in the roof of the building. Yaqen reported a journalist in the station as saying that US forces hurried to surround the area and investigate the source of the shell. The source said that thick dust enveloped the area after the shell landed in the building. Another two mortar shells landed inside the “Green Zone” the source added. Nineteen Iraqis killed, 85 wounded as bloody US offensive against impoverished Baghdad district intensifies. In a dispatch posted at 4:12pm Baghdad time Friday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that hospitals in the impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district in Baghdad received the bodies of 19 people killed in the continued US offensive against the district, a stronghold of the anti-occupation Sadr Movement. Another 85 wounded people were admitted as patients in the hospitals as a result of the American attacks. Yaqen reported a source in the Imam ‘Ali Hospital in Madinat as-Sadr as saying that 15 bodies had been received there and 70 wounded people admitted for treatment. The as-Sadr Hospital, for its part, took in four dead and 15 wounded. Among the casualties are women and children a medical source told Yaqen. The US has been pressing its offensive against the Sadr Movement and its armed wing the Jaysh al-Mahdi since late March in an apparent drive to try to crush resistance to the US occupation in preparation for an eventual American attack on Iran. Salah ad-Din Province. Bayji. Three tribal “Awakening” policemen killed in drive-by shooting near Bayji. In a dispatch posted at 3pm Baghdad time Friday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen killed three members of the tribal “Awakening” police near a checkpoint in the as-Siniyah area west of Bayji, 200km north of Baghdad. Yathrib. Three policemen wounded in armed attack on police in Yathrib Friday. In a dispatch posted at 2:25pm Baghdad time Friday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that an armed clash took place between gunmen and Iraqi government police in the Yathrib area, 70km north of Baghdad on Friday. Samarra’. Al-Qa‘idah commander reported killed near Samarra’. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:47pm Friday evening Beijing time (3:47pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that US troops had killed a prominent commander of the al-Qa‘idah organization in the area of Samarra’, 120km north of Baghdad. Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi government security services who asked not to be identified as saying that US forces had carried out a military operation west of Samarra’ on Thursday in which a prominent al-Qa‘idah commander who was known as Abu Qatadah, and was originally from some other Arab country, had been killed. Abu Qatadah oversaw attacks carried out by al-Qa‘idah gunmen against Iraqi government forces and civilians who refused to take oaths of allegiance to al-Qa‘idah. At-Ta’mim Province. Kirkuk. Bomb wounds four government troops near Kirkuk. In a dispatch posted at 8:10pm Baghdad time Friday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by an Iraqi army vehicle driving along the main road 20km southwest of Kirkuk (which is 250km north of Baghdad) on Friday. Al-Basrah Province. Al-Basrah. Fighting resumes in al-Basrah between Iraqi regime and anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 3:33pm Friday afternoon Beijing time (11:33am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that six people, including one Iraqi regime soldier, had been killed and 13 more wounded in fighting between Iraqi regime forces and the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi in the southern city of al-Basrah on Thursday. Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi government police as saying that one soldier had been killed and three more wounded when Jaysh al-Mahdi fighters attaqcked a Humvee in an Iraqi army patrol that was engaged in fighting around the al-‘Askari neighborhood of az-Zubayr, 35km west of al-Basrah in southern Iraq. Five civilians were killed and 10 more wounded in the course of the Iraqi regime offensive as well. One civilian pickup was also burned and two homes destroyed in the shelling that accompanied the government assault on the district. Earlier in a dispatch posted 2:40pm Friday afternoon Beijing time (10:40am in Baghdad), Xinhua eported that fighting had resumed between US-backed Iraqi regime troops and the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in the southern Iraqi city of al-Basrah on Thursday. Xinhua reported a military source in al-Basrah Province as saying that violent fighting was raging in the az-Zubayr area, 35km west of al-Basrah at noon Thursday. The fighting erupted after Iraqi regime troops launched raids in the al-‘Askari neighborhood of az-Zubayr. Those raids, in turn, followed the launch of several Katyusha rockets from the neighborhood. A bomb exploded by an Iraqi army Humvee, setting it ablaze. No information on casualties was available, but British aircraft flew air raids to back up the Iraqi regime forces in their raids, but did not fire on positions of the Jaysh al-Mahdi. Witnesses told Xinhua that Jaysh al-Mahdi fighters fired about 30 Katyusha rockets from the al-‘Askari neighborhood of az-Zubayr in various directions after noon on Thursday. After that, Iraqi regime troops surrounded the area and combat ensued. During the month of March, the US pressured Nuri al-Maliki and his American-backed regime to launch a military offensive against the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia. The offensive ground to a halt, however, with government troops actually losing ground to the militia. Since late March US forces have taken over direct control of operations against the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, focusing their efforts on districts of Baghdad where support for the Jaysh al-Mahdi runs high. The fighting in al-Basrah on Thursday appeared to mark a resumption of the battle in the southern part of Iraq. The US is believed intent upon crushing the anti-occupation Sadr movement and its Jaysh al-Mahdi militia throughout the country in preparation for an eventual American attack on Iran, the movement’s main backer. 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