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Iraqi Resistance Report 1293
Iraqi Resistance
Report for events of Thursday, 26 June 2008. Translated and/or compiled
by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.
http://www.freearabvoice.org
Thursday, 26 June 2008. · Belt bomber kills 15 including administrator, tribal chief at meeting in al-Karmah late Thursday morning. · US announces death of American soldier in bomb explosion in eastern Baghdad Wednesday. · Bombs kill 17 in attack targeted on Ninwa Province governor’s motorcade. Al-Anbar Province. Al-Fallujah. Belt bomber kills 15 including administrator, tribal chief at meeting in al-Karmah late Thursday morning. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 6:10pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (2:10pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a man wearing an explosive belt blew himself up at a meeting of the al-Karmah administrative chief with local tribal representatives. Al-Karmah is a small town located about 53km west of Baghdad; 7km east of al-Fallujah. Xinhua reported a source in the ar-Ramadi police as saying that the bomber detonated his explosive belt at 11:05am local time Thursday, during a meeting of the top local administrative official with tribal leaders. The subject of the meeting was security and public services in the area. At least 15 people were killed, including Kamal ‘Abd as-Salam, the local administrator. Also killed in the attack was Shaykh Muzhir Shawwah al-Jumayli, the chief of the local tribes. Seventeen people were also wounded in the attack, some of them severely. Among the injured were some policemen and tribal chiefs. The attack appeared to bear the marks of the al-Qa‘idah organization. Baghdad. US announces death of American soldier in bomb explosion in eastern Baghdad Wednesday. In a dispatch posted at 5:18pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the US military announced that an armor-piercing bomb planted by the side of a road exploded by a group of US troops to the east of Baghdad on Wednesday. Mafkarat al-Islam reported a US statement as saying that one American soldier was killed in the explosion. Ninwa Province. Al-Mawsil. Bombs kill 17 in attack targeted on Ninwa Province governor’s motorcade. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:16pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (3:16pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that two powerful explosions shook the area near the Ninwa Province government building in al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad after noon on Thursday. Xinhua reported a source in the city police as saying that the first explosion came from a bomb, the second from a car bomb. The blasts occurred at nearly the same time, with the first going off in the popular Bab at-Tub market near the government building as the motorcade of the local governor, Durayd Kashmulah was passing by. Moments later, a car bomb that had been parked by the side of the road nearby went off, also apparently targeted on the governor. In a dispatch posted 8:32pm Thursday evening Beijing time (4:32pm in Baghdad), Xinhua reported a source in the city police as saying that 17 people were killed, two of them body guards of the governor. Another 62 people were wounded in the two explosions, five of them bodyguards of the governor. The governor himself was unharmed. Chaos followed the explosions as security men rushed to close off the area and transport the casualties to hospitals for treatment. Since 10 May US and Iraqi government forces have been carrying out a campaign against the al-Qa‘idah organization in al-Mawsil and Ninwa Province. Sources: http://www.iraq-amsi.org/news.php?action=view&id=25877&e8939d1fb364622cefb9d308b653e2bb http://www.iraq-amsi.org/news.php?action=view&id=25874&3e4811531eca6d61809a7e694360fd01 http://www.iraq-amsi.org/news.php?action=view&id=25873&b7cf9deaf9540169343b11c911aa45c6 http://www.iraq-amsi.org/news.php?action=view&id=25870&9e243722cb7532e9856e145865797f0b http://www.iraq-amsi.org/news.php?action=view&id=25869&903b67bf3fde17c79e0e80b3d6d4b815 http://www.iraq-amsi.org/news.php?action=view&id=25861&0e04410b9e98af40bf2b1f872e538465 http://www.iraq-amsi.org/news.php?action=view&id=25860&670c76bd998f81fdde3b0c8a33deec01 http://www.arabic.xinhuanet.com/arabic/2008-06/26/content_659066.htm http://www.arabic.xinhuanet.com/arabic/2008-06/26/content_659035.htm http://www.arabic.xinhuanet.com/arabic/2008-06/26/content_658887.htm http://www.arabic.xinhuanet.com/arabic/2008-06/26/content_658824.htm http://www.arabic.xinhuanet.com/arabic/2008-06/26/content_658605.htm http://www.islammemo.cc/akhbar/arab/2008/06/26/66007.html http://www.islammemo.cc/akhbar/arab/2008/06/26/66005.html http://www.islammemo.cc/akhbar/arab/2008/06/26/66002.html http://www.islammemo.cc/akhbar/American/2008/06/26/65997.html |