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Iraqi Resistance
Report 1329
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 1 August 2008. Translated
and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab
Voice.
http://www.freearabvoice.org
Friday, 1 August 2008.
· Iraqi regime forces capture six al-Qa‘idah commanders in operation near
al-‘Azim.
· US announces one American soldier killed, two more wounded in
“non-combat incident” in Ninwa Province Thursday.
Al-Anbar Province.
Ath-Tharthar.
TV reporter kidnapped.
In a dispatch posted at 5:50pm Baghdad time Friday afternoon, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that a correspondent for al-‘Iraqiyah TV was kidnapped in
the ath-Tharthar area near the border between the provinces of al-Anbar and
Salah ad-Din.
Yaqen reported a high-ranking source in the ath-Tharthar police who asked
not to be identified as saying that gunmen abducted Ahmad ‘Abd al-Hamid al-Hamdani,
also knows as Ahmad Abu Rayshiyah, of al-‘Iraqiyah TV on Friday afternoon
after he had made a trip to the ath-Tharthar dam to the south of Samarra’,
120km north of Baghdad. The gunmen set up a fake roadblock and then waited
for al-Hamdani’s car, a description of which they already had.
Al-Hamdani works for al-‘Iraqiyah TV, al-‘Arabiyah TV, and the al-Hurrah
Channel. He specializes in covering the “Awakening” tribal police and their
operations against resistance and armed organizations. The area in which he
was kidnapped is known to be a hideout for al-Qa‘idah fighters.
Al-Hadithah.
Bomb destroys Iraqi police vehicle in al-Hadithah.
In a dispatch posted at 11:15am Baghdad time Friday morning, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that a bomb exploded by government police car in the
ar-Rifaq neighborhood of al-Haqlaniyah, a suburb of al-Hadithah, 270km
northwest of Baghdad.
Yaqen reported eyewitnesses as saying that the car, a GMC, was totally
destroyed and all those aboard it were killed. The police refused to
mention that anyone had been killed in the blast, saying only that bodies
had been taken to the police headquarters in the city. The area where the
bomb exploded remained cordoned off for several hours as police searched in
vain for the attackers.
Baghdad.
Bomb kills motorist in southern Baghdad midday Friday.
In a dispatch posted at 3:50pm Baghdad time Friday afternoon, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that one person was killed and two more wounded when an
adhesive bomb exploded on a car in which the victims were riding through
southern Baghdad.
Yaqen reported a source in the Iraqi government police as saying that the
attack took place in the al-Qadisiyah area of Baghdad near the al-Jadiriyah
Bridge at midday Friday. The driver of the car was killed and two of his
passengers were wounded. The injured were taken to a nearby hospital for
treatment.
US announces one American soldier killed, two more wounded in “non-combat
incident” in Ninwa Province Thursday.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:48pm Friday afternoon
Beijing time (11:48am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that the
US military had announced that one of its soldiers had died and two more had
been injured in what it described as “a non-combat incident” somewhere in
Ninwa Province in northern Iraq.
Xinhua reported the American communiqué as saying that the “non-combat
incident” took place when the soldiers were taking part in security
operations in Ninwa Province on Thursday, 31 July.
Since 10 May, the US and its Iraqi regime allies have been waging an
offensive against the al-Qa‘idah organization, known for its suicide
attacks, in al-Mawsil and surrounding Ninwa Province.
Salah ad-Din Province.
Balad.
Resistance group claims to fire rocket.
In a dispatch posted at 12:32pm Baghdad time Friday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that the Iraqi resistance group that calls itself the
Brigades of the Glory For the Liberation of Iraq, an organization affiliated
with the Baathist “Supreme Command for the Jihad and Liberation” had issued
a communiqué
Yaqen reported the communiqué as saying that fighters for the group had
fired a rocket at an American base in Balad, 80km north of Baghdad. The
statement gave no indication as to when the attack had allegedly taken
place.
Diyala Province.
Al-‘Azim.
Iraqi regime forces capture six al-Qa‘idah commanders in operation near al-‘Azim.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:55pm Friday afternoon
Beijing time (11:55am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that the
Iraqi army announced that its units had arrested six commanders of the Sunni
fundamentalist al-Qa‘idah organization who had been wanted for the
commission of dozens of crimes against civilians and members of the security
forces in the area around al-‘Azim, 120km north of Baghdad. The Iraqi
military said that another four al-Qa‘idah personalities had been killed.
Xinhua reported a source in the security forces who asked to remain
anonymous as saying that the 4th Division of the Iraqi army carried out
security operations in the Amitbijah area and villages around al-‘Azim in
Diyala Province. The operation was in support of US and Iraqi regime
efforts against al-Qa‘idah in the area.
The source said that the troops captured six commanders in the Sunni
fundamentalist al-Qa‘idah organization: ‘Ali al-Balwaz al-Khazraji, Mahmud
Muhammad Husayn al-Jabburi, ‘Ammar al-Aswad (who was an Captain in the
police during the time of the Saddam Hussein regime), Nazim as-Sayyad and
his son Qusay, and ‘Adnan al-‘Ubaydi. All of them were on lists of “wanted”
men, accused of killing dozens of residents of ad-Dulu‘iyah across the
border in Salah ad-Din Province and also accused of killing members of the
Iraqi government security forces.
The source said that four al-Qa‘idah gunmen were killed during the fighting,
two of them found wearing the explosive belts of suicide bombers.
In the course of the operation, three of the government troops were
moderately wounded when one of the al-Qa‘idah gunmen pretended that he
wanted to surrender but then blew himself up when the government troops
approached.
The area where the battle took place is regarded as a stronghold of the
Sunni-sectarian al-Qa‘idah organization. The terrain there is favorable to
the gunmen as it is wooded and hilly and remote from populated areas.
At-Ta’mim/Kirkuk Province.
Kirkuk.
Bomb explodes by motorcade of staff of Kirkuk police chief Friday evening.
In a dispatch posted at 10pm Baghdad time Friday night, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that a bomb exploded by the motorcade of the chief of police
of Kirkuk Province in Kirkuk city, 250km northwest of Baghdad, on Friday
evening.
Yaqen reported a source in the Kirkuk police as saying that a homemade bomb
that had been planted by the side of the road near the Baghdad car park in
southwestern Kirkuk went off when the motorcade of Major General Jamal Tahir,
the chief of police, passed by.
The source reported that General Tahir was not actually in the procession at
the time and that the explosion only inflicted material damage on five
vehicles, three of those in the motorcade, and one of them the general’s
personal car.
Three Iraqi soldiers killed in bomb blast southwest of Kirkuk.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:36pm Friday afternoon
Beijing time (2:36pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a
bomb exploded by a patrol of Iraqi army troops in the ar-Rashad area, 30km
southwest of Kirkuk (which is 250km north of Baghdad).
Xinhua reported a source in the city police as saying that the blast totally
destroyed a Humvee and killed three Iraqi army troops. A fourth Iraqi
soldier was severely wounded in the explosion and was taken to hospital for
treatment.
The situation around Kiruk has grown tense as Kurdish separatists struggle
against the Arab and Turkoman majority to take control of oil-rich Kirkuk
and annex it to the Kurdish separatist enclave set up under US auspices in
northern Iraq.
Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.
Iraqi regime forces arrest eight in al-Basrah.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:36pm Friday afternoon
Beijing time (2:36pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that Iraqi
security men arrested eight individuals wanted for “terrorism and crime” and
disarmed an anti-personnel cluster bomb in the course of raids and searches
in various parts of the southern province of al-Basrah in the last 24 hours.
Xinhua reported a source in the police in al-Basrah who asked not to be
identified as saying that Interior Ministry forces carried out raids and
searches in various parts of al-Basrah, arresting eight “wanted” men.
Elsewhere, on the old highway near sand dunes 50km west of al-Basrah, the
security men found and disarmed a cluster bomb.
Sources:
http://www.iraq-amsi.org/news.php?action=view&id=26807&bbc70e844376c298dc6004956587a34e
http://www.iraq-amsi.org/news.php?action=view&id=26806&e4622b9cef8da6c6c512fe2e3cf2c478
http://www.iraq-amsi.org/news.php?action=view&id=26801&df75510ac0e7bd2e3bc4d5090058adca
http://www.iraq-amsi.org/news.php?action=view&id=26800&bd0021446c6b3a9a4c1cdb41637bced7
http://www.iraq-amsi.org/news.php?action=view&id=26799&e576c608092571d57ac7f951d103b119
http://www.iraq-amsi.org/news.php?action=view&id=26794&c41a3f497a9bf7d363a7de7574246096
http://www.iraq-amsi.org/news.php?action=view&id=26793&6e9ed41071cae0cb25f5fe241d6605f1
http://www.arabic.xinhuanet.com/arabic/2008-08/01/content_682787.htm
http://www.arabic.xinhuanet.com/arabic/2008-08/01/content_682786.htm
http://www.arabic.xinhuanet.com/arabic/2008-08/01/content_682692.htm
http://www.arabic.xinhuanet.com/arabic/2008-08/01/content_682675.htm
http://www.islammemo.cc/akhbar/arab/2008/08/01/67486.html
http://www.islammemo.cc/akhbar/arab/2008/08/01/67483.html
http://www.islammemo.cc/akhbar/arab/2008/08/01/67478.html
http://www.islammemo.cc/akhbar/arab/2008/08/01/67471.html
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10115
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10114
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10113
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10112
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10111
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10110
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10109
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10108
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10107
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10106
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10101
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10100
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10098
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10096
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10094
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10090
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10088
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