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Iraqi Resistance
Report 1318
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 21 July 2008. Translated
and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab
Voice.
http://www.freearabvoice.org
Monday, 21 July 2008.
· Bomb explodes by US vehicle in southern Baghdad suburb Monday morning.
· US forces capture anti-occupation Hizballah activist in southeastern
Baghdad Monday morning.
· Bomb kills deputy police administrator for Kirkuk district Monday
evening.
Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Fallujah.
Belt bomber killed, five policemen wounded in clash in al-Fallujah Monday.
In a dispatch posted at 1pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that gunmen blew up a house and a gunman wearing an
explosive belt blew himself up in the course of clashes between gunmen and a
police patrol in al-Fallujah, 60km west of Baghdad, on Monday,
Yaqen reported an officer in the al-Fallujah police as saying that a man
dressed in a police uniform but wearing a belt bomb blew himself up near the
home of an officer in the police. The police opened fire on the man,
setting off the explosive. The belt bomber was killed and five policemen
wounded in the incident.
Recent weeks have witnessed an upsurge in al-Qa ‘idah activity in al-Fallujah
and al-Anbar Province generally.
Baghdad.
Bomb explodes by US vehicle in southern Baghdad suburb Monday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 2:44pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the
Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a bomb exploded
by a US column in the southern Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah on Monday morning.
The AMSI reported witnesses as saying that the attack took place on al-Masafi
Road at about 7am local time. After the incident, US and Iraqi regime
troops cordoned off the area and closed the road to cars. Local people were
prevented from approaching the scene making it impossible to ascertain
whether there had been any casualties in the attack. Witnesses said they
saw US helicopters hovering over the area as rescue teams headed towards the
scene, suggesting that there might have been casualties, but no specific
information was available.
US forces capture anti-occupation Hizballah activist in southeastern Baghdad
Monday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 2:40pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that the US military arrested a member of the Hizballah
Brigades in Iraq during raids in the Baghdad al-Jadidah section of
southeastern Baghdad early on Monday.
Yaqen reported a US statement as saying that the Americans arrested the man
who worked in the public relations department of the Hizballah In Iraq
organization, an armed militia loyal to Iran and opposed to the US
occupation of Iraq. The American statement said that prisoners already in
US custody had told the Americans that this man had been responsible for
taking pictures and video tapes of attacks on Iraqi regime forces.
Resistance group claims attack on US Humvee in southern Baghdad.
In a dispatch posted at 12:17pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that the Iraqi resistance group known as the Army of
the Muslims (Jaysh al-Muslimin), a constituent organization of the Jihad and
Change Front, issued a communiqué on Monday.
Yaqen reported the communiqué as claiming that fighters for the Army of the
Muslims had attacked a US column to the south of Baghdad, detonating a bomb
by the Americans and destroying a Humvee. The communiqué claimed that all
the Americans aboard the vehicle had been killed. The communiqué gave no
indication as to when or precisely where the attack had allegedly taken
place.
Home of mother of pro-western Sunni politician blown up in western Baghdad.
In a dispatch posted at 11:50am Baghdad time Monday morning, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that gunmen blew up the home of the mother of Mithal al-Alusi,
a Sunni secularist member of the US-backed Iraqi parliament who favors an
alliance with the Zionist state of “Israel.”
Yaqen reported that armed men planted explosives around the empty home of
the mother of the head of the “Ummah Party” in the al-Jami ‘ah neighborhood
of western Baghdad. A source in the police reported that the explosion
brought down the home, which was vacant at the time. The blast also
inflicted damage on neighboring dwellings.
Diyala Province.
Ba‘qubah.
Gunmen kill tribal chief in Ba‘qubah Monday.
In a dispatch posted at 1:35pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that gunmen shot and killed a chief of the al-‘Ubayd tribe
in Ba‘qubah, 65km northeast of Baghdad on Monday.
Yaqen reported a source in the Diyala Province police as saying that gunmen
sprayed Shaykh ‘Abd al-Ghafur ‘Abdallah with a hail of bullets in the Abu
Sayda area of Ba‘qubah, killing him on the spot.
At-Ta’mim/Kirkuk Province.
Kirkuk.
Bomb kills deputy police administrator for Kirkuk district Monday evening.
In a dispatch posted at 10:20pm Baghdad time Monday night, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that a bomb exploded by the motorcade of the Deputy
Administrator of the police in the al-‘Urubah district of Kirkuk, 250km
north of Baghdad, on Monday evening.
Yaqen reported the Director of the police for outlying districts of Kirkuk,
Lieutenant Colonel Khabat Hammah Gharib, as saying that the explosion, on
al-Kurnish Street near the Gharnatah Bell in Kirkuk killed the deputy police
administrator on the spot. Four of the official’s guards were wounded in
the blast and taken to hospital for treatment.
Resistance group claims destruction of US minesweeper in Kirkuk area.
In a dispatch posted at 4:20pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that the Iraqi resistance group known as the Brigades of the
1920 Revolution, a constituent member organization in the Jihad and Change
Front, had issued a communiqué.
Yaqen reported the communiqué, dated Monday, as saying that the 1920
Brigades fighters had destroyed an American minesweeper vehicle somewhere in
the Kirkuk area, 250km north of Baghdad. The communiqué, which did not
specify when or exactly where the attack supposedly occurred, asserted that
all the Americans aboard the vehicle had been killed in the attack.
Ninwa Province.
Al-Mawsil.
Al-Qa‘idah gunmen kill two Iraqi regime soldiers in al-Mawsil.
In a dispatch posted at 6:35pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that the US military had issued a communiqué announcing that
two Iraqi regime soldiers had been killed when al-Qa‘idah gunmen equipped
with light arms attacked their patrol in al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of
Baghdad.
Two men shot to death in eastern al-Mawsil as police discover bodies of two
other shooting victims elsewhere in city Monday.
In a dispatch posted at 4:45pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that gunmen shot and killed two men to the east of al-Mawsil,
420km northwest of Baghdad on Monday.
Yaqen reported a source in the provincial police as saying that gunmen
opened fire on a car in which the two men were riding. Both men were killed
on the spot.
In another incident, Iraqi police recovered the unidentified bodies of two
shooting victims in the “17 Tammuz” area of western al-Mawsil. No other
information was available.
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.
Wasit Province.
Al-Kut.
Gunmen on motorcycle kill man in al-Kut Monday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 10:33am Baghdad time Monday morning, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that armed; men killed a man in front of his house in
western al-Kut, 180km southeast of Baghdad, on Monday.
Yaqen reported a source in the Wasit Province police as saying that men on a
motorcycle opened fire on a man who was standing in front of his home in the
al-‘Izzah district to the west of al-Kut Monday morning. The gunfire killed
the man on the spot. Police arrived on the scene and cordoned off the area
but the gunmen had already fled.
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http://www.yaqen.net/?p=9806
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=9805
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=9803
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=9799
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=9798
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=9797
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=9796
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=9795
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=9794
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=9791
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=9790
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=9788
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=9787
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=9786
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=9785
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=9784
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http://www.yaqen.net/?p=9782
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http://www.yaqen.net/?p=9780
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