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Iraqi Resistance Report 1296
Iraqi Resistance
Report for events of Sunday, 29 June 2008. Translated and/or compiled by
Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.
http://www.freearabvoice.org
Sunday, 29 June 2008. · Chief of Intelligence Operations in al-Basrah shot dead in Baghdad attack Saturday evening. · US takes responsibility for attack on car near Baghdad International Airport that reportedly left three Iraqi bank employees dead. · Bomb targets US patrol in al-Mawsil on Sunday. Baghdad. Chief of Intelligence Operations in al-Basrah shot dead in Baghdad attack Saturday evening. In a dispatch posted at 2:45pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men shot and killed the Director of Intelligence Operations for the southern city of al-Basrah as was off duty and on leave in Baghdad on Saturday evening. Yaqen reported a source in the al-Basrah provincial government as saying that armed men unleashed a hail of gunfire on the car carrying the al-Basrah Intelligence Operations Director, Brigadier General ‘Abd al-Jabbar Munshid, in the an-Nu‘ayriyah area of eastern Baghdad, where he was on vacation. Munshid died on the spot. US takes responsibility for attack on car near Baghdad International Airport that reportedly left three Iraqi bank employees dead. In a dispatch posted at 2:12pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the US military had taken responsibility for a shooting incident near Baghdad International Airport in which a civilian car carrying a man and two women, employees of the Iraqi state-owned ar-Rafidayn Bank, was shot up and its occupants killed. Earlier reports had placed responsibility for the shooting deaths on a British mercenary security company. Yaqen reported the US military as announcing that the published version of event as related by ‘Ali as-Saffar, the Director of the Control Unit at Baghdad Airport, had been “incorrect.” As-Saffar had reported that security men in armored vehicles opened fire on the car from a distance of approximately 200 meters and then watched as the vehicle burst into flame and burn itself out, reducing the bodies of the three bank employees to ashes. The US statement declared that people in an unmarked car that was parked by the side of Airport Road had opened fire on a patrol of US occupation troops. The troops returned fire, the American announcement claimed, killing the gunmen inside the vehicle. On Friday, ‘Ali as-Saffar, the Director of the Control Unit at Baghdad International Airport, had said that a car carrying Tariq Abu Ziyad and two women who worked with him in the Accounts section of the airport bank, had gone off the road to avoid a hole or obstacle. Their movement appeared to security men as erratic driving and they responded by pouring gunfire into the car from their position more than 200 meters away. As-Saffar said that the security guards were in no danger, since everyone coming into the facility would have to go through checkpoints with scanners and trained dogs. He said that the security guards then just sat and watched as the stricken car burst into flames as a result of their gunfire. They remained on the scene, watching until the fire in the stricken vehicle had burned itself out. Then they moved away. As-Saffar said, “we continued to observe the burning vehicle – a red Opel – from close up, but could do nothing. After the security company guards finally left, I headed over to the car along with other employees in order to extract the bodies, but they were completely charred.” The American statement issued on Sunday asserted that it was American troops rather than Global Security mercenary guards who had attacked the car. Diyala Province. Al-Wajihiyah. Woman belt bomber blows up near municipal building, severely wounding civilian. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:29pm Sunday afternoon Beijing time (1:29pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that Iraqi government police killed a woman wearing an explosive belt who tried to get through security barriers around the Municipal Council building in al-Wajihiyah, 80km northeast of Baghdad. Xinhua reported a source in the Diyala Province security forces as saying that policemen were suspicious of the actions of the woman when she refused to comply with their commands to halt and continued to approach the building. The police then opened fire directly at her, setting off the explosives she was wearing. The woman blew up near the security barrier, inflicting severe injuries on one civilian. None of the policemen was wounded. Police in Diyala Province have received reports of the presence of numerous women suicide bombers working for the al-Qa‘idah organization and that there have already been some 20 attacks by such women in Diyala. Last week, US-backed Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced plans to launch a massive security operation in Diyala Province, like those that the regime has implemented in Ninwa, with the intention of targeting al-Qa‘idah. Salah ad-Din Province. Ad-Dulu‘iyah. Seven policemen killed in suspected al-Qa‘idah car bomb blast near ad-Dulu‘iyah Sunday morning. In a dispatch posted at 2:44pm Sunday afternoon Beijing time (10:44am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a car bomb that had been parked by the side of a road in a village east of ad-Dulu‘iyah, 97km north of Baghdad, exploded by a police patrol at 7:30am, local time, Sunday morning. Xinhua reported a source in the city police as saying that the blast in the village of Mas‘ad, 15km east of ad-Dulu‘iyah, killed six policemen and wounded four others. Then one of the wounded men died upon arrival in hospital. The source said that two of the dead were officers in the force. Police and Iraqi army troops hurried to the scene immediately after the explosion and began searching the area. The source said that the police had just arrived on Saturday to search for gunmen in the Mas‘ad area, known as a stronghold of al-Qa‘idah which is on the banks of the Tigris River and is overgrown with thick groves of trees. At-Ta’mim/Kirkuk Province. Kirkuk. Bomb targets car belonging to chief of Rescue Police in Kirkuk. In a dispatch posted at 4:35pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by the car belonging to the Director of the Rescue Police in Kirkuk, 250km north of Baghdad on Sunday. Yaqen reported a source in the Rescue Police Directorate as saying that the bomb went off by the car of Colonel Ahmad Shumayrani near the old Police Academy building and the al-Asdiqa’ fuel station in the al-Wasiti neighborhood of southwestern Kikruk. Six people who happened to be near the scene were wounded in the attack. Sumayrani was not in his car at the time and was, therefore, not hurt, the source said. Sumayrani’s car was, however, damaged. Ninwa Province. Al-Mawsil. Bomb wounds three Iraqi army troops in al-Mawsil. In a dispatch posted at 10:25pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol of Iraqi army troops in al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, on Sunday. Bomb targets US patrol in al-Mawsil on Sunday. In a dispatch posted at 8:10pm Baghdad time Sunday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a US patrol in the al-Hudaba’ area of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad on Sunday. On 10 May the US and its Iraqi regime allies launched a security campaign against al-Qa‘idah in al-Mawsil and surrounding Ninwa Province. US forces conduct raids searches in an-Nabi Yunus Market area of al-Mawsil Saturday night. In a dispatch posted at 10:15am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that US occupation forces conducted raids and searches in the Suq an-Nabi Yunus area of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, late Saturday night. Yaqen reported a witness as saying that the Americans raided the area, searching the shops in them market area. The reason for the raid was unknown, though since 10 May, US and Iraqi regime forces have been engaged in an offensive against al-Qa‘idah in al-Mawsil. The witnesses said that the Americans conducted their searches in their usual, violent way, closing off the area with concrete barriers and using percussion grenades to blow down doors of shops. The an-Nabi Yunus Market area is relatively small, consisting of of a kilometer-long stretch of road on the sides of which are shops. Policeman on leave killed near his home in al-Mawsil. In a dispatch posted at 9:50am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen shot and killed an Iraqi government policeman near his home in the al-Faruq area of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, before dawn Sunday. Yaqen reported a source in the provincial government as saying that the policeman was on leave at the time of the attack, which killed him on the spot. Ambush wounds policeman, civilian. In a dispatch posted at 9:50am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen ambushed a police patrol in the Dawrat al-Hammam area of eastern al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, before dawn Sunday. 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