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Iraqi Resistance
Report 1335
IIraqi Resistance Report for events of
Thursday, 7 August 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,
member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.
http://www.freearabvoice.org.
Thursday, 7 August 2008.
· Tribal “Awakening” police murder ex-prisoner in front of his mother,
wife, children in al-Hadithah.
· Son of resigned governor arrested in al-Anbar for theft, rape, murder,
espionage, as rival seeks revenge.
· Bombs explode by US vehicle east of al-Fallujah Thursday morning.
· US announces death of Americans soldier from injuries received in
traffic accident in Balad area.
· Chief of Salah ad-Din Province police badly wounded in bomb attack in
Tikrit Thursday morning.
· Pro-American Sunni-sectarian politician assassinated in al-Mawsil.
· Unexploded mortar shell detonates, killing eight members of Bedouin
family south of an-Nasiriyah.
Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Hadithah.
Tribal “Awakening” police murder ex-prisoner in front of his mother, wife,
children in al-Hadithah.
In a dispatch posted at 10:15pm Baghdad time Thursday night, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that tribal “Awakening” police stopped a car in al-Haqlaniyah,
a suburb of al-Hadithah, 270km northwest of Baghdad, on Thursday, and killed
the driver. It was the latest in the series of murders by the tribal
“Awakening” police of all local residents who have been released from
custody by US occupation forces.
Yaqen reported witnesses as saying that tribal “Awakening” police stopped
the car being driven by local resident ‘Abdallah Majid Funaytal al-Hayyani
as he was on his way home to the village of al-Bu Hayyat with his family.
The family had been to the local hospital where one of the members had been
undergoing medical tests and was on the highway near the Zaghdan Bridge when
the “Awakening” police stopped the car. The tribal police forced al-Hayyani
out of the vehicle and shot him in the middle of the road, in full view of
his mother, wife, and children.
The witnesses told Yaqen that the shock of the murder caused al-Hayyani’s
mother to go into cardiac arrest and she was rushed back to al-Hadithah
General Hospital. Al-Hayyani’s wife and children were struck with terror as
a result of the killing.
Witnesses told Yaqen that al-Hayyani had been released a fairly long time
ago from one of the American prison camps in the country.
The “Awakening” in al-Hadithah have for many months been systematically
killing all the former prisoners released by the Americans. In al-Hayyani’s
case, the “Awakening” maintain that al-Hayyani’s brothers are involved with
the Iraqi resistance and the tribal police have raided the family home on
numerous occasions.
Son of resigned governor arrested in al-Anbar for theft, rape, murder,
espionage, as rival police chief seeks revenge.
In a dispatch posted at 9:30pm Baghdad time Thursday night, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that Iraqi government police arrested Ayman ‘Abd al-Hakim
al-Jaghifi, reputedly the most dangerous criminal in the western part of
Iraq, on Thursday.
Yaqen reported that Ayman al-Jaghifi is the son of the former governor of
the city of al-Hadithah, ‘Abd al-Hakim Fahd al-Jaghifi, who resigned his
post a few days ago following a dispute with the director of the government
police, Faruq al-Jaghifi.
Witnesses said that the police director’s forces surrounded Ayman al-Jaghifi’s
home immediately after he returned from the US base where he works. There
the police arrested al-Jaghifi, accusing him of theft, rape, murder, and
spying.
Witnesses said that after arresting al-Jaghifi, the local police drove him
around the streets and lanes of the city showing off their prisoner.
Ayaman al-Jaghifi used to travel around the western parts of the province of
al-Anbar doing virtually anything he liked in the cities of al-Hadithah, al-Haqlaniyah,
al-Baghdadi, Hit, ‘Anah, Rawah, and al-Qa’im, taking advantage of people
with impunity, according to Yaqen. A friend of the US occupation forces and
son of the governor, he was able to get away with anything because of the
protection his associations afforded.
Once his father resigned his post, however, Yaqen noted, the police director
Faruq al-Jaghifi realized that his time to take revenge had arrived and he
moved in on Ayman al-Jaghifi after the latter threatened to turn the
Americans against the police director if the latter attempted to take action
against him.
Al-Fallujah.
Bombs explode by US vehicle east of al-Fallujah Thursday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 4:50pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that two bombs exploded by a column of several US
military vehicles in the area between Abu Ghurayb (30km west of Baghdad) and
al-Fallujah (60km west of Baghdad) at 11am local time Thursday morning.
Yaqen reported witnesses as saying that the explosions caused one amphibious
vehicle in the column to catch fire. Three soldiers were extracted from
that vehicle and sent to the US base near al-Fallujah for treatment, the
witnesses said.
After the incident, the witnesses reported, US forces arrested five local
residents who had been in the area at the time of the bomb explosions.
Baghdad.
Three “Awakening” tribal policemen killed in drive-by assault on checkpoint
in Baghdad.
In a dispatch posted at 3:55pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that gunmen in a car had opened fire on tribal
“Awakening” police at a checkpoint they were manning in the Baghdad
neighborhood of as-Salikh.
Yaqen reported a source in the government police, who asked not to be
identified, as saying that the attackers in their private car sprayed the
checkpoint with machinegun fire, killing three of the “Awakening” tribal
police and severely wounding two more of them. The injured men were taken
to hospital for treatment.
Yaqen noted that there has been an upsurge in attacks on the “Awakening”
tribal police in recent weeks. The Sunni-sectarian al-Qa‘idah organization
is known for targeting the “Awakening.”
Salah ad-Din Province.
Balad.
US announces death of Americans soldier from injuries received in traffic
accident in Balad area.
In a dispatch posted at 3:11pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that the US Department of Defense had announced that
one of its soldiers had died in a traffic accident in the city of Balad,
80km north of Baghdad.
Yaqen reported that a communiqué issued by the Pentagon on Wednesday said
that the accident had taken place in the Ashraf area on Sunday, 3 August and
that the soldier had been taken to hospital for treatment. The soldier
later died as a result of injuries sustained in the crash. With this death,
the total official death toll of American troops in Iraq rose to five killed
in the first seven days of August.
Tikrit.
Chief of Salah ad-Din Province police badly wounded in bomb attack in Tikrit
Thursday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 12:31pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that a homemade bomb exploded by the motorcade of Major
General Hamad Namis al-Jabburi, the Chief of the Salah ad-Din Province
Police, in Tikrit, 180km north of Baghdad on Thursday morning.
Yaqen reported Colonel Yunus Muhmmad of the Tikrit police as saying that the
bomb exploded on the main road between 40 Street and al-Ihtifalat Square.
The blast severely wounded al-Jabburi and injured seven other people in his
motorcade. Severe damage was also inflicted on al-Jabburi’s
four-wheel-drive vehicle.
Colonel Muhammad said that all the casualties were taken to the American
military hospital at nearby US Camp Speicher for treatment.
Yaqen commented that residents of Salah ad-Din Province and members of the
police force there have had complaints about the methods of the police
command in the province, saying that it interacts badly with citizens and
staff on the police force. Policemen have complained that the provincial
police chief resorts to punishing policemen and members of the public with
solitary confinement.
Yaqen reported that incidents of human rights violations in Salah ad-Din
Province prisons had “risen above the normal level” and that prisoners and
detainees were subjected to brutality. Yaqen reported that an unnamed
human rights organization working in Salah ad-Din Province had sought
permission to inspect the province’s prisons and investigate the charges of
violations, but had been refused by order of the chief of the provincial
police and his assistants. Several journalists also had requested
permission to visit prisons in the province to assess the situation there,
but the provincial police chief had refused them access as well. Yaqen
reported the correspondent for The New York Times in Tikrit as saying that
he had sent the police command many such requests but had always been met
with refusal.
Diyala Province.
Ba‘qubah.
Security forces arrest 22 more in continued anti-al-Qa‘idah operation in
Diyala Province Thursday.
In a dispatch posted at 9:50pm Baghdad time Thursday night, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that Iraqi security forces arrested 22 more “suspects” in
their continuing offensive against the Sunni-sectarian al-Qa‘idah
organization in Diyala Province on Thursday.
Yaqen reported the spokesman for the Interior Ministry as announcing the
daily arrest toll, which brought the total number of people rounded up in
the course of the offensive, begun on Tuesday, 29 July, to 279 persons.
Jalawla’.
US-backed offensive continues with arrests of local police officials in
Jalawla’.
In a dispatch posted at 11:05am Baghdad time Thursday morning, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that the Emergency Forces regiment in the city of
Jalawla’, 120km north east of Baghdad, arrested the local chief of the
federal police and the Director of the Jalawla’ Police Station in the course
of the offensive that US and Iraqi regime forces are currently waging
against al-Qa‘idah in Diyala Province.
Yaqen reported a local witness as saying that the Emergency Forces arrested
Captin Farhad of the Federal Police and Major Khalifah Ahmad Qassab, head of
the Jalawla’ Police Station, in the course of raids backed by US forces in
the province. At dawn on Wednesday, the Emergency Forces carried out
indiscriminate mass arrests under cover of a curfew imposed on the Jalawla’
district.
Ninwa Province.
Al-Mawsil.
Car bomber blasts into police station in al-Mawsil, wounding eight
policemen.
In a dispatch posted at 7:20pm Baghdad time Thursday evening, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that a car bomber blasted his explosives-laden car into a
headquarters of the Emergency Police in southeastern al-Mawsil, 420km
northwest of Baghdad on Thursday.
Yaqen reported a source in the police as saying that eight policemen were
wounded in the attack, which took place in the city’s al-Wahdah
neighborhood. The source said that the attacker got past the concrete
barriers and slammed into the regular gate of the facility.
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.
Three policemen killed when explosives-laden cart explodes in al-Mawsil.
In a dispatch posted at 4:15pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that an explosives-packed wooden cart had exploded in
western al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad.
Yaqen reported a source in the Ninwa Province police as saying that the
blast, which occurred in the al-Bursah neighborhood, killed three policemen.
The source said that the police received a telephone call telling them that
an unidentified body was lying on a particular street in al-Bursah. When
the police responded to the tip and found the body, the nearby wooden cart
parked by the side of the road blew up. One of the three policemen killed
in the explosion was a first lieutenant.
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.
Sunni-sectarian pro-American politician assassinated in al-Mawsil.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 6:36pm Thursday afternoon
Beijing time (1:36pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that
gunmen assassinated a leader of the pro-American Sunni-sectarian Iraqi
Islamic Party along with one of his companions in an attack in al-Mawsil,
420km northwest of Baghdad, on Thursday.
Xinhua reported a source in the city police as saying that armed men opened
fire on Shaykh Mahmud Yunus, a leader of the Islamic Party and Director of
the Islamic Schools under the Sunni Waqf (Pious Endowment) Board in al-Mawsil.
The attack took place near Yunus’s home in the al-Mushahadah district of
western al-Mawsil and left Yunus and one of his companions dead on the
spot. The attackers then fled the scene.
The Islamic Party, a constituent member in the Sunni parliamentary Iraqi
Accord Front, is led by Tariz al-Hashimi, one of Iraq’s vice presidents
under the US-installed constitutional system. The Party was first formed on
the basis of the Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood fundamentalist organization
following the US occupation of the country in 2003 and immediately began
cooperating with the American forces. Its representatives had positions in
the first post-occupation government under US proconsul L. Paul Bremer.
The Islamic Party has frequently been the target of attacks by the extremist
Sunni-sectarian al-Qa‘idah organization, which is itself the target of an
on-going offensive by US forces and the Iraqi regime in Ninwa Province.
Al-Ba‘aj.
Car bomb explodes in police impound, wounding three policemen.
In a dispatch posted at 5:25pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the Yaqen
News Agency reported that a car bomb exploded in a car park at the al-Ba‘aj
District police station in al-Ba‘aj, located 126km west of al-Mawsil and
about 40km from the Syrian border.
Yaqen reported a source in the Ninwa Province police as saying that the car
bomb explosion wounded three policemen.
The source said that the police had found the car, which belonged to a
person who had recently been kidnapped, and towed it to the police station
parking lot. There, the car, which proved to have been booby-trapped,
exploded later in the day. The blast damaged seven cars in the lot and the
façade of the police station, in addition to wounding the three policemen.
Dhi Qar Province.
An-Nasiriyah.
Unexploded mortar shell detonates, killing eight members of Bedouin family
south of an-Nasiriyah.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:13pm Thursday afternoon
Beijing time (2:13pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a
mortar shell left over from previous wars blew up south of the city of an-Nasiriyah,
380km south of Baghdad.
Xinhua reported Colonel Sadiq al-Mushrifawi, Public Relations and
Information Director for the an-Nasiriyah police, as saying in a press
release that a Bedouin family was pitching its tent near the International
Highway in the vicinity of an-Nasiriyah when they evidently struck the
unexploded mortar shell, causing it to detonate, killing eight members of
the Bedouin family and wounding a ninth. All the victims were taken to an-Nasiriyah
Hospital.
Maysan Province.
Al-‘Amarah.
Four pro-Iranian militiamen arrested by Iraqi regime police in al-‘Amarah.
In a dispatch posted at 7pm Baghdad time Thursday evening, the Yaqen News
Agency reported that Iraqi government police arrested four members of the
pro-Iranian Shi‘i sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in the city of al-‘Amarah,
290km southeast of Baghdad, as they were trying to get out of the province
of Maysan.
Yaqen reported a source in the police as saying that in addition to
arresting the four, the police also discovered two caches of weapons and
ammunition of Iranian make, including 14 Katyusha rockets, in the al-Majidiyah
area. The source said that the four members of the Jaysh al-Mahdi were
charged with murder and kidnapping.
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