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Iraqi Resistance
Report 1317
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 20 July 2008. Translated
and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab
Voice.
http://www.freearabvoice.org
Sunday, 20 July 2008.
· US troops kill son of provincial governor in Bayji raid Sunday morning.
· Car bomber blasts into shipment of construction materials on its way to
US forces in al-Mawsil.
Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Fallujah.
US troops arrest 15 people for interrogation in al-Fallujah Saturday.
In a dispatch posted at 12:15pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that US troops had carried out raids and arrests to the
east of al-Fallujah, a city located 60km west of Baghdad, on Saturday.
Yaqen reported Colonel Faysal Isma‘il Husayn of the Emergency forces in al-Anbar
Province as saying that the arrests took place in the Industrial Zone and
ash-Shuhada’ districts of eastern al-Fallujah and that 15 people were
arrested in the raids. All the captives were being detained pending
interrogation.
The colonel said that in all the al-Fallujah Police Administration is
holding 400 prisoners in accordance with an order issued by the al-Fallujah
court for the purpose of investigation. The police released 225 prisoners
during April under provisions of a general amnesty declared by the
parliament in February this year.
Al-Habbaniyah.
Group claims to fire rocket at US-occupied al-Habbaniyah airbase.
In a dispatch posted at 11:56am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that the Army of the Muslims resistance group, a constituent
member of the Jihad and Change Front, had issued a communiqué on Sunday.
Yaqen reported the group as saying in the communiqué that its fighters had
fired a rocket at the US base in al-Habbaniyah, 70km west of Baghdad. The
announcement said that after firing the rocket, the group’s fighters left
the scene. The communiqué did not say when the attack was supposed to have
taken place.
Al-Khalidiyah.
Group claims destruction of US Marine vehicle near al-Khalidiyah.
In a dispatch posted at 11:56am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that the Brigades of the Da‘wah wa-ar-Ribat, a constituent
member of the Jihad and Change Front, had issued a communiqué on Sunday.
Yaqen reported the communiqué as claiming that its fighters had ambushed a
US Marine patrol in al-Khalidiyah, 80km west of Baghdad, setting off a bomb
by a US amphibious vehicle. The group claimed that the explosion disabled
the vehicle killing all the American troops aboard it. The statement did
not specify when the alleged attack had taken place.
Baghdad.
Car bomb kills one, injures seven in Baghdad Sunday evening.
In a dispatch posted at 10:15pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that a car bomb exploded by the side of a road in the al-‘Allawi
area of central Baghdad on Sunday evening.
Yaqen reported a source in the government police as saying that the
explosion of the car, which had been parked at the Damascus Intersection in
the al-‘Allawi area, killed one person and wounded seven more. Some of the
injured are policemen. The blast also inflicted damage on two cars that
were on the scene at the time.
Bomb wounds police colonel in Baghdad’s al-Waziriyah Sunday.
In a dispatch posted at 2:03pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that a bomb had exploded by a patrol of the Iraqi government
police in the al-Waziriyah area of Baghdad, near the al-Maghrib Street
Intersection in the northern part of the city.
Yaqen reported a source in the police who asked not to be identified as
saying that the blast wounded a police colonel and two other policemen. It
was the third bomb reported to have gone off in the Iraqi capital on Sunday
following one each in the al-Karradah and al-A‘zamiyah areas (see reports
below).
Resistance group takes credit for clash with US troops south of Baghdad.
In a dispatch posted at 1:45pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that the Army of the Rashidin resistance group, a
constituent member of the Jihad and Change Front, had issued a communiqué on
Sunday.
Yaqen reported the communiqué as announcing that on orders of the commander
of the Army of the Rashidin, the group had clashed with US troops using
light and medium weapons somewhere to the south of Baghdad. The statement
did not specify where or when exactly the attack was supposed to have taken
place.
Group claims bomb attack on American column in western Baghdad.
In a dispatch posted at 11:56am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that the resistance group, the Army of the Jihad, a new
member of the Jihad and Change Front, had issued a communiqué on Sunday
announcing that its fighters had detonated a bomb by a US column in the al-Ghazzaliyah
area of western Baghdad.
Yaqen reported the communiqué as claiming that the blast totally destroyed a
Humvee, killing all aboard.
One civilian killed three others wounded in bomb explosion in Baghdad’s al-Karradah
district Sunday.
In a dispatch posted at 10:42am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that a bomb exploded in the al-Karradah district of central
Baghdad on Sunday.
Yaqen reported a source in the Ministry of the Interior as saying that the
bomb, planted at the entrance to al-Karradah, killed one civilian and
wounded three more.
Bomb kills civilian, wounds two in Baghdad’s al-A‘zamiyah district Saturday
evening.
In a dispatch posted at 10:42am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that a bomb exploded near the Shaykh Jalal Mosque in the
Raghibah Khatun Sunni district of al-A‘zamiyah in northern Baghdad Saturday
evening.
Yaqen reported a source in the Interior Ministry as saying that the blast
killed one person and wounded two more in addition to severely damaging two
cars that had been parked in the area.
Resistance group joins Jihad and Change Front.
In a dispatch posted at 10am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that Iraqi resistance coalition known as the Jihad and
Change Front issued a communiqué announcing that an Iraqi resistance
organization calling itself the Army of the Jihad had joined the coalition.
Yaqen reported the statement issued by the Front on Sunday, as saying that
the Army of the Jihad had formerly been a part of the Jihad and Resistance
Front
Salah ad-Din Province.
Bayji.
US troops kill son of provincial governor in Bayji raid Sunday morning.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:17pm Sunday afternoon
Beijing time (12:17pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that US
troops shot and killed a son of the American-backed governor of Salah ad-Din
Province in an incident in Bayji, 200km north of Baghdad, on Sunday morning.
Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi government police as saying that as US
troops were carrying out raids and searches in Bayji, the Americans shot and
killed a man named Husam, the son of Hamad Hammud al-Qaysi, the governor of
the province. Husam al-Qaysi was killed on the spot along with one of his
relatives.
The source said that Husam was visiting the home of his fiancée’s family
when US troops raided the house and, in the process, killed him and one of
his fiancée’s brothers. The source offered no further details.
In a dispatch posted at 4pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that a spokesman for the US occupation forces in Iraq had
announced that the Americans had killed the son of the Salah ad-Din Province
governor in self defense, when they were pursuing a wanted member of the al-Qa‘idah
organization in the Bayji area.
Yaqen reported the American spokesman as saying that US forces were
following intelligence information when they raided a house in the Bayji
area searching for a man wanted for security matters. In the home, the
American spokesman said, the US troops found two gunmen, whom they killed in
self-defense. One of those killed was suspected of being a finance official
with al-Qa‘idah, the other a member in that organization.
Yaqen noted that ‘Abdallah Husayn Jabbarah, the Lieutenant Governor of Salah
ad-Din Province, had announced earlier Sunday that Husam Hamad Hammud, the
17-year-old son of the governor, had been killed with his cousin in a house
in the al-‘Asri neighborhood of Bayji.
Diyala Province.
Al-Miqdadiyah.
Three policemen killed in bomb attack in al-Miqdadiyah Sunday afternoon.
In a dispatch posted at 8:15pm Baghdad time Sunday evening, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a car carrying three members of the
Iraqi police in al-Miqdadiyah, 85km northeast of Baghdad on Sunday
afternoon.
Yaqen reported a source in the Diyala Province government as saying that the
blast targeted a civilian car in which the three policemen were driving
through the village of Bani Sa‘d, in the al-Wajihiyah area in the district
of al-Miqdadiyah. The blast killed the three policemen on the spot.
At-Ta’mim/Kirkuk Province.
Kirkuk.
Bomb wounds policeman in Kirkuk.
In a dispatch posted at 10:23am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a foot patrol of Emergency Police in
Kirkuk, 250km north of Baghdad.
Yaqen reported a source in the city police as saying that the blast wounded
one policeman and damaged a private car that had been parked near the scene.
Ninwa Province.
Al-Mawsil.
Three cousins gunned down in al-Mawsil Sunday evening.
In a dispatch posted at 9:35pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that gunmen in a car shot and killed three people outside
their home in al-Mawsil, 420km north of Baghdad, on Sunday evening.
Yaqen reported a source in the Ninwa Province police as saying that the
victims were cousins and were shot to death as they stood near their homes
in the neighborhood.
Yaqen reported a source in the Ninwa Province police as saying that the
gunmen killed a man in the home. The source offered no further details on
the case.
Man shot to death in armed home invasion in al-Mawsil Sunday.
In a dispatch posted at 9:10pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that gunmen attacked a home in the ‘Adan neighborhood of al-Mawsil,
420km northwest of Baghdad, on Sunday.
Yaqen reported a source in the Ninwa Province police as saying that the
gunmen killed a man in the home. The source offered no further details on
the case.
Sniper kills policeman in al-Mawsil Sunday.
In a dispatch posted at 9:10pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Yaqen News
Agency reported a source in the Ninwa province police as saying that that a
sniper had shot and killed an Iraqi policeman who was taking part in a
patrol at the al-Masarif Intersection in northern al-Mawsil, 420km northwest
of Baghdad, on Sunday.
Since 10 May, the US and its Iraqi regime allies have been waging an
offensive against the al-Qa‘idah organization in al-Mawsil and surrounding
Ninwa Province.
Car bomber blasts into shipment of construction materials on its way to US
forces in al-Mawsil.
In a dispatch posted at 5:30pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that a car bomber blasted into a column of commercial
vehicles catering to US forces in the Karaj ash-Shamal area to the east of
al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad.
Yaqen reported a source in the Ninwa Province police as saying that the car
bomb attacker slammed into a convoy of vehicles carrying construction
equipment to US forces. It had an escort of civilian guards. The source
said that the car bomb explosion killed two individuals who were involved
with the convoy of building materials.
Since 10 May, the US and its Iraqi regime allies have been waging an
offensive against the al-Qa‘idah organization in al-Mawsil and surrounding
Ninwa Province.
Iraqi army forces discover Katyusha rocket set to fire.
In a dispatch posted at 5:30pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that Iraqi regime forces discovered a Katyusha rocket that
had been rigged to fire at an Iraqi army unit to the north of al-Mawsil,
420km northwest of Baghdad on Sunday.
Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.
Young woman found shot to death in al-Basrah Sunday.
In a dispatch posted at 8:45pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that at dawn on Sunday, Iraqi police discovered the body of
a young woman who had been murdered in the southern city of al-Basrah.
Yaqen reported a source in the local police as saying that the body of the
24-year-old woman was found in the al-Jaza’ir district of al-Basrah. Four
gunshot wounds were found in the body. The source said that an
investigation into the circumstances of the murder of the young woman was
underway.
Yaqen noted that during 2007, more than 100 women were killed in the city of
al-Basrah, according to official statistics.
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