Muhammad Abu Nasr / Arab Free Voice – 2006-10-09 00:21:04
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/104718
• Ten US troops reported killed in Resistance car bombing in al-Haditha Thursday night.
• Heaviest fighting in a year rages in al-Hadithah Thursday afternoon. Many American casualties reported.
• Resistance launches offensive in ar-Ramadi. Organized simultaneous attack targets all US checkpoints in ar-Ramadi early Thursday afternoon as mortars blast US headquarters in Provincial government building, forcing Americans to evacuate.
• Resistance bomb leaves US soldier reported killed in Hit at noon Thursday.
• US troops open fire on civilians in al-Fallujah, killing a woman.
• Resistance bomb leaves three US troops dead in al-Fallujah Thursday morning.
• Four US troops reported killed in Resistance bomb explosion in al-Baghdadi at dawn Thursday.
• Resistance fighters battle Iraqi puppet forces in residential area of ‘Ayn al-Asad base in al-Baghdadi at dawn Thursday.
·Resistance blasts Saddam International Airport with barrage of powerful Grad rockets midday Thursday, greeting Condoleezza Rice to occupied Iraq.
• Four US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing in al-Ishaqi Wednesday.
• Pro-American sectarian militiamen driving puppet army vehicles raid, rob village near Khan Bani Sa‘d on pretext of “search
Iraqi Resistance Report for Thursday, 5 October 2006-
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Hadithah.
Ten US troops reported killed in Resistance car bombing in al-Haditha Thursday night.
In a dispatch posted at 9:02pm Makkah time Thursday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a few minutes earlier, an Iraqi Resistance fida’i fighter had driven an explosives-laden car into a US military column that consisted of a foot patrol preceded by two Humvees that was proceeding through the al-‘Askari neighborhood of central al-Hadithah.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that more than 10 US soldiers were killed in the explosion. t the time of reporting, US troops were surrounding the entire area. US helicopters were flying into the area and recovering bodies of dead and wounded American troops from the streets. The correspondent reported that the Consultative Council of the Mujahideen (Majlis Shura al-Mujahideen) was taking credit for the attack.
Heaviest fighting in a year rages in al-Hadithah Thursday afternoon. Many American casualties reported.
In a dispatch posted at 3:39pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the fiercest fighting in a year was raging at that moment between Resistance men and US occupation troops in the city of al-Hadithah, about 220km northwest of Baghdad.
The al-Hadithah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the combat was under way in the neighborhoods of ash-Shurtah, al-Haqlaniyah, as-Subhaniyah, ar-Rummanah, ‘Ulwat as-Samak, and the Old Market. Many US troops have fallen dead or wounded in the streets in a scene that Iraq has never before witnessed, the correspondent reported.
Wrecked American vehicles were strewn around the streets, which echoed with the Resistance fighters’ cries of “Allahu Akbar!” All sorts of weapons were being used in the battle. The correspondent noted that the fighting in the city was continuing to escalate.
US troops surround two villages near al-Hadithah midnight Wednesday-Thursday.
In a dispatch posted at 12:30am Makkah time Thursday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while earlier US occupation troops and their Iraqi puppet army allies surrounded the villages of Alus and al-Bu Hayyat in the vicinity of al-Hadithah, about 220km northwest of Baghdad.
The al-Hadithah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US forces fired flairs into the midnight sky and declared an openended curfew until further notice in the two villages. The correspondent reported that the American message threatedned arrest of anyone not cooperating with the US troops by telling them about Resistance fighters that the Americans claim entered the villages on Wednesday afternoon.
Ar-Ramadi.
Resistance launches offensive in ar-Ramadi. Organized simultaneous attack targets all US checkpoints in ar-Ramadi early Thursday afternoon as mortars blast US headquarters in Provincial government building, forcing Americans to evacuate.
In a dispatch posted at 2:45pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short time earlier, Iraqi Resistance forces launched an organized simultaneous attack on all the American checkpoints in the city of ar-Ramadi, about 110km west of Baghdad, at 1:30pm local time Thursday afternoon. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that in the course of the offensive four US checkpoints were totally burned down, killing the personnel manning them. The checkpoints attacked were located in al-Mal‘ab, on al-Ma‘arid Street, in the areas of as-Sufiyah and al-Mu ‘allimin, and on 20 Street.
The witnesses reported that fire was burning at the checkpoints and thick smoke was billowing into the sky as the Resistance bombarded the US headquarters in the Provincial government office building with mortar rounds. In a dispatch posted at 7:20pm Makkah time Thursday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that at that moment US forces were evacuating the Provincial government building in ar-Ramadi and the adjacent buildings that have served as the local US headquarters after Iraqi Resistance forces launched major attacks on the Americans.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the Iraqi puppet army as saying that US Marines were clearing out the building, their main base in the center of the city, pulling out to their base west of the city, a facility known as al-Warrar. The Resistance has been mounting attacks on the Americans in the city in recent days and on Thursday attacked US checkpoints throughout ar-Ramadi and blasted the Provincial office building with nine rockets.
The correspondent reported that the Americans made use of the period immediately following sunset – when observant Muslims break their day-long fast during the month of Ramadan – to complete their evacuation from the downtown headquarters.
It was considered possible that the US would move the provincial administrative center and the departments attached to it to the city of al-Habbaniya, to the civilian neighborhood known as the CC. Al-Habbaniyah is also the site of a large US-occupied airbase, about 70km west of Baghdad, and the CC is the area where Iraqi Air Force personnel were quartered before the American invasion in spring 2003.
As to the extent of casualties on Thursday, the source in the Iraqi puppet army said that 11 US Marines and more than 23 Iraqi puppet army troops were killed or wounded in the day-long Resistance offensive. In related news, Mafkarat al-Islam learned that US occupation troops arrested the local correspondent of The New York Times, Wisam ad-Dulaymi, as he was covering developments in ar-Ramadi together with another foreign correspondent.
In a dispatch posted at 7:44pm Makkah time Thursday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US forces drove loudspeaker vehicles through the streets of ar-Ramadi Thursday evening announcing the nighttime curfew, as is now normal.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that many residents were shocked, however when they then heard the Americans broadcasting insults directed at the Prophet Muhammad and the Islamic religion. A local resident told Mafkarat al-Islam that one Marine was saying in Arabic “Muhammad is the prophet of terrorists, Muhammad is the messenger of blood,” and other insults. The Marine reportedly addressed the people saying “You miserable Muslim slaves, the Fourth Division will wipe the shame of you from the face of the earth.”
The witnesses said that the American vehicles drove through three neighborhoods in ar-Ramadi repeating the same sort of things and shooting up at residential buildings lining the street.
The correspondent reported that local people have experienced such hysterical American reactions every time the US forces suffer some major loses. The correspondent pointed out that among the American troops are some who joined the US forces from non-Muslim populations of various Arab countries. Many join the Marines as soldiers or sign on as translators for the pay or in order to get permanent residency in the United States, and some seek to fulfill missionary plans of various religious groups by means of the US military.
Ar-Rutbah.
In a dispatch posted at 10:07pm Makkah time Thursday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi puppet regime customs officials seized a truck loaded with spoiled medicines coming into al-Anbar Province from Jordan and labeled as “assistance to the people of al-Anbar.”
The ar-Rutbah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported Captain Ahmad ‘Abdallah ar-Raqi of the customs service as saying that they had seized the truck upon its entry into Iraqi territory with official Jordanian permission. The truck was loaded with medicines that had passed their expiration date more than a year ago. All were being sent to Iraq as “aid” to the people of al-Anbar Province. The official said that the truck and its Jordanian driver were being held in the local customs department.
Hit.
Resistance bomb leaves US soldier reported killed in Hit at noon Thursday.
In a dispatch posted at 2:23pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol in Hit, about 170km northwest of Baghdad. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that the bomb went off in the al-Jil area of western Hit at noon local time Thursday, destroying an American Humvee and killing one US soldier and wounding three more of them.
Al-Fallujah.
US troops open fire on civilians, killing one woman, in an effort to try to clear a path for themselves in al-Fallujah.
In a dispatch posted at 2:18pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US occupation troops shot and killed a woman and wounded a man in al-Fallujah.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the al-Fallujah puppet police as saying that a US patrol opened fire indiscriminately on local civilian residents near the al-Hadrah al-Muhammadiyah Mosque in the middle of al-Fallujah. They were trying to clear the way in front of themselves. The source said that the American gunfire seriously wounded one woman who was pronounced dead after her arrival in the hospital. A man who was also wounded in the attack was taken to the hospital as well and was reported to be recovering.
Resistance bomb leaves three US troops dead in al-Fallujah Thursday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 1:50pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military column near the city of al-Fallujah, about 60km west of Baghdad, at 9am local time Thursday morning.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the al-Fallujah puppet police as saying that the bomb went off in the Ibrahim ibn ‘Ali district of northwestern al-Fallujah, destroying an American Humvee and killing three US troops and wounding a fourth. Lieutenant Ahmad Husayn az-Zawbi‘i of the puppet police confirmed the report that three US troops had been killed and said that a fourth had been “severely” injured.
Al-Baghdadi.
Puppet police chief of al-Baghdadi and eight other officers die in Resistance rocket attack.
In a dispatch posted at 9:07pm Makkah time Thursday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the puppet police chief of al-Baghdadi, about 200km northwest of Baghdad, had died in ar-Ramadi Hospital of wounds he received when the Iraqi Resistance unleashed a rocket attack on the puppet police station in central al-Baghdadi while he was holding an emergency meeting with American and Iraqi puppet army officers on the situation in the city.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that ar-Ramadi General Hospital had issued an announcement saying that the puppet police chief of al-Baghdadi, Brigadier General Sha‘ban al-‘Ani, had died of wounds he received in the attack. Hospital sources said that eight other officers also were killed in the same Resistance attack, in addition to al-‘Ani.
Four US troops reported killed in Resistance bomb explosion in al-Baghdadi at dawn Thursday.
In a dispatch posted at 2:49pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military column in al-Baghdadi, about 200km west of Baghdad. The al-Baghdadi correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses who were praying in the al-Qadisiyah neighborhood mosque as saying that a US armored vehicle was totally destroyed in the explosion of a bomb that had been planted by the side of the road. The armored vehicle was part of a column moving through the area at dawn Thursday. Witnesses said that the explosion killed four US troops immediately.
Resistance fighters battle Iraqi puppet forces in residential area of ‘Ayn al-Asad base in al-Baghdadi at dawn Thursday.
In a dispatch posted at 1:20pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance men fought a fierce battle with Iraqi puppet “National Guards” and puppet police in the area of al-Baghdadi, about 200km northwest of Baghdad beginning at dawn on Thursday.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the fighting erupted around the ‘Ayn al-Asad base that is jointly occupied by US and Iraqi puppet forces. Witnesses said that the Resistance fighters attacked the gate leading to the residential area of the base with pipe rockets, missiles, light and medium weapons, and hand grenades. The Resistance men got into the base and killed more than 10 puppet troops and puppet “National Guards.”
Dozens more of the puppet soldiers were wounded. The witnesses confirmed that the battle lased for more than two hours and that the Americans did not intervene. The Resistance forces killed one high ranking puppet police officer in the residential area, but it was unclear as to whether he was the chief of the puppet police in the neighborhood or the deputy.
Baghdad.
Resistance blasts Saddam International Airport with powerful Grad rockets midday Thursday in “honor” of Condoleezza Rice’s arrival.
In a bulletin posted at 1:46pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that at that moment the Iraqi Resistance was bombarding Saddam International Airport with powerful Grad rockets. The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that Grad rockets were raining down on Saddam Airport just outside of Baghdad, a facility that US troops have occupied and turned into one of their biggest bases in occupied Iraq. Saddam International Airport is the main airport at which foreign dignitaries enter and depart occupied Iraq.
The Resistance was launching the rockets from a district inside Baghdad. Since the US base in the airport is a high-security area no information on the damage or casualties being inflicted by the rockets was available, but plumes of smoke could be seen rising from inside the airport. In a dispatch posted at 5:50pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that officials in the Iraqi puppet “government” had announced that the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had paid an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Thursday.
The American Associated Press (AP) reported American State Department spokesman Sean McCormack as telling reporters that the US military transport plane carrying Rice and her party into occupied Baghdad had to postpone its arrival by 35 minutes because what the Americans called “indirect fire” from mortars or rockets was blasting the area of Saddam International Airport. Reuters, as monitored by Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Rice met with puppet officials in the American-controlled “Iraqi government,” including puppet “Prime Minister” Nuri al-Maliki.
In recent days, the American Secretary of State has been on a visit in the region that took her to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and Zionist-occupied Palestine.
US air raid kills 15 Iraqi civilians near Baghdad at dawn Thursday.
In a dispatch posted at 12:46pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that more than 15 Iraqi civilians were killed and at least 50 more wounded, most of them women and children, when US troops and their Iraqi puppet army allies carried out a combined air-ground assault on the Sab‘ al-Bur area of northern Baghdad at dawn Thursday.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that US F-16 warplanes targeted numerous neighborhoods inside the Sab‘ al-Bur area at the same time that Iraqi puppet “National Guards” penetrated into the district, which they claimed was a “stronghold” of al-Qa‘idah. The correspondent reported that at the time of reporting, the puppet “Guards” were still conducting raids and searches, indiscriminately arresting local residents.
Resistance bomb blasts puppet army column in southern Baghdad.
In a dispatch posted at 1pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded by an Iraqi puppet army column south of Baghdad. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that an explosives-laden car that had been parked by the side of a road in the ar-Rashid area near the southern Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah blew up when an Iraqi puppet army column was driving past. The explosion destroyed three of the vehicles in the column, killing or wounding 11 Iraqi puppet soldiers, three of them severely.
Rockets blast Sunni neighborhood around sunset Wednesday.
In a dispatch posted at 11:50am Makkah time Thursday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that two Katyusha rockets fell in the densely populated and predominantly Sunni al-Hurriyah neighborhood of northern Baghdad on Wednesday afternoon and evening.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the first rocket blasted into two houses in the al-Hurriyah ath-Thaniyah district late Wednesday afternoon, about 15 minutes before sunset. That rocket killed four local residents and severely wounded six more. The second rocket landed in the district of al-Hurriyah al-Ula about 15 minutes after sunset Wednesday. Details about that explosion were unknown because the puppet police closed off al-Hurriyah al-Ula Street, the main thoroughfare in the area claiming that they suspected that a car bomb might be there.
Salah ad-Din Province.
Al-Ishaqi.
Four US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing in al-Ishaqi Wednesday.
In a dispatch posted at 12:50pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military patrol in the al-Ishaqi area, about 85km north of Baghdad, on Wednesday. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that the bomb, which had been planted by the side of a road, blew up by a US armored vehicle, completely destroying it. The crew of at least four US troops were killed in the blast, witnesses said, adding that after the attack, American forces called in helicopters to extricate and evacuate the bodies of the dead soldiers.
Diyala Province.
Khan Bani Sa‘d.
Pro-American sectarian militiamen driving puppet army vehicles raid, rob village on pretext of “search.”
In a dispatch posted at 12 noon Makkah time Thursday, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that more than 60 pro-American Shi‘i sectarian militiamen driving Iraqi puppet army vehicles attacked the village of ash-Shaykh in the Khan Bani Sa‘d area about 40km northeast of Baghdad. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that the commander of the militias told villagers to leave their houses and go to the outskirts of the village “just so that a search could be conducted” in an official manner.
But as soon as the villagers had left their homes, the militiamen attacked them, stealing money, gold jewelry, electrical appliances and other items from the houses that they were “searching.” Not satisfied with massive robbery, the pro-American gunmen then planted explosives in ten selected houses and blew them up, totally consuming everything in them in flames. The villagers believe that the only reason for blowing up the houses was a clumsy attempt to cover up the theft and plundering that the militiamen had carried out.
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