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Iraqi Resistance
Report 1330
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 2 August 2008. Translated
and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab
Voice.
http://www.freearabvoice.org
Saturday, 2 August 2008.
· US holds 21,000 Iraqi prisoners in two main camps in Iraq.
· US helicopter attack kills six members of family in attack on home in
western Salah ad-Din Province early Saturday.
Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Fallujah.
US forces arrest 15 in two nights of raids near al-Fallujah.
In a dispatch posted at 2:33pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that US forces had arrested 15 civilians in the al-Karmah
area near al-Fallujah, 60km west of Baghdad, in the last two days.
Yaqen reported witnesses as saying that the arrests were made in the course
of raids that US forces have been carrying out in the area. As is usual
with American raids the US forces storm into houses after midnight.
When Yaqen asked a captain in the al-Karmah police about the reasons for the
American raids in the villages of al-Jamilat, al-Halabisah, and al-Lahib,
and near a branch of the Tigris River, said that the raids were just the
result of the replacement by one new American unit of the former American
unit stationed in the area.
Baghdad.
US holds 21,000 Iraqi prisoners in two main camps in Iraq.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 6:17pm Saturday afternoon
Beijing time (1:17pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that the
US announced Saturday that it is holding about 21,000 Iraqi prisons in the
two main prison camps that the Americans operate in the country. This
despite the release of more than 10,000 prisoners in the course of the
current year.
Xinhua reported a US military communiqué as stating that there are about
17,000 Iraqi prisoners in Camp Bucca near al-Basrah in southern Iraq and
another 3,000 prisoners locked up in Camp Cropper in the Baghdad area.
The American statement said that the US also detains 10 women, more than 300
juveniles, and about 200 prisoners of other nationalities, in addition to
200 prisoners aged 60 or more.
Salah ad-Din Province.
Tikrit.
Tribal police said driven out of az-Zilayah village by local tribe.
In a dispatch posted at 9:45pm Baghdad time Saturday night, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that armed men attacked checkpoints and observation towers
set up by the tribal “Awakening” police in the village of az-Zilayah in
Salah ad-Din Province.
Yaqen reported witnesses as claiming that the attack left observation towers
destroyed and drove the “Awakening” police out of the village.
Yaqen explained that American forces had tried to compel the Shaykh of the
al-Bu ‘Azim tribe to join the US-backed “Awakening” movement and commit his
tribe to participation in the pro-occupation police. When the shaykh
refused to join, however, the US brought in “Awakening” police from outside
the village and had them set up observation towers and checkpoints at the
entrance to az-Zilayah.
Yaqen reported that the US frequently pressures tribes to join the
“Awakening” by threatening to put other tribes in charge of their villages,
paying other tribes to deploy and take control of the villages.
It appeared that in az-Zilayah the forces of an outside tribe, brought in by
the US, had been driven off by raiders from the local tribe.
US helicopter attack kills six members of family in attack on home in
western Salah ad-Din Province early Saturday.
In a dispatch posted at 8:12pm Baghdad time Saturday evening, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that US aircraft blasted a home belonging to Jasim Haddad in
the remote al-Jazirah area of Salah ad-Din Province, an area where the
Sunni-sectarian al-Qa‘idah organization is reportedly active.
Yaqen reported that US forces surrounded the house in the early dawn hours
of Saturday and then helicopter gun ships flew in for an attack.
Yaqen reported a witness in the area as saying that the American air raid
killed six members of the Haddad family, the only survivor being an infant
girl who was herself severely wounded. After attacking the house, US forces
recovered the infant from under the rubble and evacuated her to a US
military hospital for treatment.
At-Tarimiyah.
US announces arrest of al-Qa‘idah commanders in at-Tarimiyah.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 9:06am Saturday morning
Beijing time (4:06am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that the
US Army had announced that Iraqi army forces had captured two members of al-Qa‘idah
who, it said, were implicated in the killing of four US troops last June in
addition to a number of local tribal leaders in an attack in the al-Karmah
area near al-Fallujah.
Xinhua reported a US communiqué as saying that the Iraqi forces had captured
the al-Qa‘idah operatives in at-Tarimiyah, 30km north of Baghdad, on 18
July.
Diyala Province.
Al-Miqdadiyah.
Bomb kills four tribal “Awakening” policemen near al-Miqdadiyah Saturday.
In a dispatch posted at 10:20pm Baghdad time Saturday night, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol of tribal “Awakening”
police in the village of Saynjah in the al-Miqdadiyah area, 85km northeast
of Baghdad on Saturday.
Yaqen reported a source in the Diyala provincial government as saying that
the blast killed four members of the “Awakening” and wounded another four of
them.
Ba‘qubah.
Bomb kills five tribal policemen in Diyala.
In a dispatch posted at 4:20pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that five members of the tribal “Awakening” police were
killed and three more wounded when a bomb that they were trying to disarm
exploded in Diyala Province Saturday.
Yaqen reported a US communiqué as announcing the incident without specifying
where in Diyala Province the explosion occurred.
Twenty-five more arrested in fifth day of anti-al-Qa‘idah operation in
Diyala Province.
In a dispatch posted at 1:04pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that Iraqi regime forces arrested 25 people in the
continuing offensive against the al-Qa‘idah Sunni-sectarian organization in
Diyala Province on Saturday.
Yaqen reported Staff Major General Muhammad al-‘Askari, official spokesman
for the Iraqi Defense Ministry, as providing the information. The
announcement followed a statement by Major General ‘Abd al-Karim Khalaf, the
official spokesman for the Interior Ministry, who declared that a total of
200 people had been arrested since the start of the operation in the
province on Tuesday, 29 July.
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http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10145
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10144
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10143
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10142
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10141
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10139
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10137
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10135
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10132
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10130
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10129
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10128
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10127
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10126
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10125
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10122
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10121
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10120
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10119
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10118
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10117
http://www.yaqen.net/?p=10116
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