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Iraqi Resistance
Report 1327
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 30 July 2008. Translated
and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab
Voice.
http://www.freearabvoice.org
Wednesday, 30 July 2008.
· Dozens of prisoners released by US forces, being held by local al-Hadithah
police, “Awakening.”
· Iraqi police, army arrest 54 in second day of offensive against al-Qa‘idah
in Diyala Province Wednesday.
· Iraqi regime troops raid party offices in Sinjar, arrest Yazidi
official.
· Iraqi regime police find rocket launcher north of al-Basrah Wednesday.
Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Hadithah.
Dozens of prisoners released by US forces, being held by local al-Hadithah
police, “Awakening.”
In a dispatch posted at 5:33pm Baghdad time Wednesday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that the tribal “Awakening” police and the Iraqi
government police in al-Hadithah, 270km northwest of Baghdad, have
imprisoned dozens of individuals who have been released from prisons run by
the US occupation forces throughout Iraq. The police and “Awakening”
contingents refuse to hand over their unauthorized prisoners to their
relatives and intend, instead, to put them on trial in kangaroo “courts”
that they are rigging up without government involvement.
Yaqen reported that dozens of prisoners originally from al-Hadithah had been
released by US forces in the last two days. The Americans turned the
released captives over to the government police and “Awakening” contingents
without inquiry into the persistent reports that the “Awakening” has been
murdering individuals released from prison and kidnapping and killing local
citizens.
The dozens of individuals are currently languishing in prisons run by the
“Awakening” awaiting an obscure fate, following orders issued by Colonel
Faruq al-Jaghifi, the Director of the al-Hadithah police and “Awakening”
that they be imprisoned until their cases can be further perused.
Yaqen reported that the “Awakening” in al-Hadithah has murdered every
prisoner from the city whom the Americans have released, either directly
upon their leaving prison, or by kidnapping and killing them a few days
later. Their bodies are then dumped in remote desert areas. The murders
are said to be a major factor in the recent increase in attacks on US and
Iraqi regime forces in al-Anbar Province, a region of Iraq that has been
largely quiet for nearly two years.
Hit.
Family feud leaves one dead, 15 injured near Hit.
In a dispatch posted at 4:50pm Baghdad time Wednesday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that a feud had escalated into a gun battle two
families in the village of Tall al-Aswad near the Euphrates river in the
vicinity of Hit, 180km northwest of Baghdad.
Yaqen reported a source in the Hit police as saying that one person was
killed and another 15 wounded in the fight between the two mutually related
families. The source said that the fight erupted over a sum of money and
then escalated into a gun battle that raged until Iraqi regime security
forces intervened to put a stop to the feud, arresting seven individuals.
Baghdad.
Resistance group claims to shoot down unmanned US spy plane.
In a dispatch posted at 1:50pm Baghdad time Wednesday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that the Iraqi resistance group known as the Brigades
of the Army of ar-Rahman, a constituent organization in the Jihad and Change
Front, had posted a communiqué on Wednesday.
Yaqen reported the communiqué as saying that fighters for the group had shot
down an unmanned American reconnaissance drone plane somewhere to the south
of Baghdad. The statement did not specify when or where the alleged attack
took place.
Bomb kills Iraqi army soldier in eastern Baghdad Wednesday.
In a dispatch posted at 11:50am Baghdad time Wednesday morning, the Yaqen
News Agency reported thata bomb exploded by a joint Iraqi army and police
patrol in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday.
Yaqen reported a source in the government police as saying that the blast,
which occurred near the al-Muthanna police station in the Zuyunah district
of eastern Baghdad, killed one soldier and wounded 10 more people, a number
of them policemen and soldiers.
Salah ad-Din Province.
Ad-Dulu‘iyah.
Bomb blast claimed to kill two US troops in ad-Dulu‘iyah Wednesday.
In a dispatch posted at 11:16pm Baghdad time Wednesday night, the
Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a bomb had
exploded by a patrol that was halted near a checkpoint manned by the tribal
“Awakening” police in ad-Dulu‘iyah, 97km north of Baghdad on Wednesday.
The AMSI reported witnesses in the area as claiming that the blast destroyed
an American Humvee and killed two American soldiers.
Tikrit.
Resistance group claims attack on US base in Tikrit.
In a dispatch posted at 1:30pm Baghdad time Wednesday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that the Iraqi resistance group known as the Army of
the Muslims, a constituent member organization in the Jihad and Change
Front, published a communiqué on Wednesday.
Yaqen reported the communiqué as claiming that the Army of the Muslims had
fired two rockets at a military base of the “assailant, infidel enemy”
forces in Tikrit, 180km north of Baghdad. The statement said that the two
rockets scored direct hits on the base, but did not indicate when the
alleged attack had taken place.
Diyala Province.
Ba‘qubah.
Iraqi police, army arrest 54 in second day of offensive against al-Qa‘idah
in Diyala Province Wednesday.
In a dispatch posted at 10:14pm Baghdad time Wednesday night, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that Iraqi government forces together with the police had
arrested a total of 54 persons in the course of the second day of their
two-day old campaign against al-Qa‘idah in Diyala Province.
Yaqen reported Major General Muhammad al-‘Asakri, spokesman for the Iraqi
Defense Ministry, a saying that the offensive had begun with the imposition
of a curfew in the province, beginning at 5am Tuesday morning and lasting
until further notice.
At-Ta’mim/Kirkuk Province.
Kirkuk.
Three arrested in Kirkuk.
In a dispatch posted at 9:25pm Baghdad time Wednesday night, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that the police in the Dumiz area to the south of Kirkuk,
250km north of Baghdad, had arrested three persons on Wednesday.
Yaqen reported Colonel Anwar Qadir, the Chief of Police in Dumiz, as saying
that the three had been arrested without disclosing the reason or
circumstances of the arrests.
Ninwa Province.
Al-Mawsil.
Official of pro-American Sunni-sectarian party assassinated in al-Mawsil.
In a dispatch posted at 6:19pm Baghdad time Wednesday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that gunmen assassinated a leader of the pro-American
Sunni-sectarian Islamic Party in an attack to the west of al-Mawsil, 420km
northwest of Baghdad, on Wednesday.
Yaqen reported Muhammad Shakir al-Ghannam, an official with the
Sunni-sectarian party, as saying that gunmen attacked the home of one of
their leaders in the as-Sumud neighborhood of western al-Mawsil, shooting
and killing the party official and then fleeing the scene. The deceased was
a high ranking official in the pro-American party and also a former Colonel
in the army under Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
The Islamic Party was formed by the Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood fundamentalist
organization following the US invasion of the country in 2003. It agreed to
take part in the governing council run by L. Paul Bremer, the US proconsul
of Iraq in the first months of the American occupation. It has been the
target of attacks by the rival Sunni-sectarian al-Qa‘idah organization.
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.
Gunmen injure judge in Wednesday morning attack.
In a dispatch posted at 11:13am Baghdad time Wednesday morning, the
Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that gunmen wounded a
judge and one of his bodyguards in an attack on the car in which they were
driving through al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, on Wednesday.
The AMSI reported a source in the security services who asked not to be
identified as saying that gunmen opened fire on the car carrying Judge
Muhammad Khalf as-Sabil as he drove away from his home in the as-Sadiq
neighborhood of northern al-Mawsil on his way downtown to the court building
where he worked. The judge and one of his bodyguards were wounded in the
attack.
Following the incident, the gunmen fled the scene and the judge was taken to
the al-Jumhuriyah Emergency Hospital for treatment.
Sinjar.
Iraqi regime troops raid party offices in Sinjar, arrest Yazidi official.
In a dispatch posted at 8pm Baghdad time Wednesday evening, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that Athil an-Nujayfi, the Chairman of the al-Hadba’ [al-Mawsil]
United National Coalition political party, said that Iraqi regime forces had
raided an office of the party in the city of Sinjar, 110km west of al-Mawsil,
on Wednesday.
Yaqen reported an-Nujayfi as saying that Iraqi government troops arrested
Murad Kashtu ‘Asi, an official in the al-Hadba’ Coalition in that city. An-Nujayfi
noted that ‘Asi is a member of the Yazidi religious minority.
The government troops also closed the offices of the political coalition at
the conclusion of their raid.
The al-Hadba’ [al-Mawsil] United National Coalition political party is a
coalition of 13 political parties representing various political and ethnic
groups. It plans to take part in elections in October on a platform of
defending the Arab and Islamic character of Ninwa Province against on-going
efforts by Kurdish separatists annex the area.
Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.
Iraqi regime police find rocket launcher north of al-Basrah Wednesday.
In a dispatch posted at 9:27pm Baghdad time Wednesday night, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that Iraqi police forces had found four Grad rockets and
nine launchers in the al-Ma‘qal area to the north of al-Basrah on Wednesday.
Yaqen reported a police spokesman as saying that the weapons were discovered
on as-Sa‘ah Square, 8km north of al-Basrah. They were found aboard a 2-ton
truck that was covered with sheets of iron.
Since March, the US-backed Iraqi regime has been actively engaged in an
offensive against the pro-Iranian Sadr Movement and its armed wing, the
Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, in Iraq, in what is believed to be preparation for
an American attack on Iran.
Iraqi regime announces arrest of two “death squad” members in searches near
Shatt al-‘Arab waterway.
In a dispatch posted at 3:45pm Baghdad time Wednesday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that the Iraqi regime police command announced that its
men had arrested two members of unnamed death squads in the Shatt al-‘Arab
area to the east of the city of al-Basrah in southern Iraq.
Yaqen reported that the arrests came in the course of raids and searches in
the area and that the same forces also located twenty-five 120mm mortar
rounds there.
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