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□イラク・レジスタンス・レポート 2005/09/12
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/63072
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 12 September 2005
By: Muhammad Abu Nasr on: 13.09.2005 [04:41 ] (638 reads)
・Fighting continues in Tall ‘Afar as US searches for four lost Marines. Three Americans reported killed Monday afternoon when booby-trapped house blows up over them.
・Iraqi Journalists’ Union: 17 journalists imprisoned in US camp for trying to cover Tall ‘Afar fighting without US permission. America enforces blackout of news. Only three writers operating in Tall ‘Afar, all covertly, due to US censorship.
・Resistance ambushes US patrol as it tries to enter ar-Rutbah near Jordanian border.
・Four US troops reported killed in car bomb attack on US column in at-Taji Monday morning.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.
Monday, 12 September 2005.
Ninwa Province.
Tall ‘Afar.
US forces search for four Marines who disappeared late Sunday night.
In a dispatch posted at 2:25pm Mecca time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that its correspondent inside the city of Tall ‘Afar, which has been the target of a major US offensive for several days, had said that at the time of reporting American troops were carrying out a search for four US Marines who went missing on Sunday night in the west of the city.
Witnesses told the correspondent in Tall ‘Afar that the US troops have gone through the neighborhoods of Sa‘d, al-Mu‘allimin, the Market, and other adjacent neighborhoods searching for the four Marines.
The witnesses said that Iraqi and Lebanese translators were working with the US troops, broadcasting an appeal to the people of Tall ‘Afar to help by giving any information they might have about the fate of the four Marines who disappeared from a checkpoint in the west of the city late on Sunday night.
The US forces fear that the Marines were captured by the Iraqi Resistance, which is still fiercely embattled with US troops in a number of districts of Tall ‘Afar.
In a dispatch posted at 8:20pm Mecca time Monday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces detonated a booby-trapped house in the al-Mu‘allimin neighborhood of Tall ‘Afar at 5pm local time Monday afternoon. A group of US and Iraqi puppet army soldiers were inside the house at the time.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in Tall ‘Afar reported a soldier in the Iraqi puppet army which is taking part in the American offensive against Tall ‘Afar that a group of US troops backed up by Iraqi puppet army forces were coming and searching houses in the al-Mu‘allimin neighborhood in the city. American and Iraqi puppet troops raided one house, looking for Resistance fighters only to have the house blow up in a violent explosion when they were inside.
The correspondent reported that the sudden blast totally destroyed the house, killing three American troops and two Iraqi puppet army soldiers who were inside at the time. Four other US troops were wounded in the blast.
At the time the correspondent filed his report, US occupation troops were still digging through the rubble of the building and recovering bodies of the dead and wounded.
US enforces blackout on news from Tall ‘Afar. Iraqi Journalists’ Union: 17 reporters imprisoned in US camp for trying to cover fighting without American permission. Only three journalists are reporting from Tall ‘Afar, all under cover due to US censorship.
In a dispatch posted at 3:30pm Mecca time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a spokesman for the Ninwa Province branch of the Iraqi Journalists’ Union, Mr. Ahmad Khalil al-Mawsili gave an exclusive statement to the Mosul correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in which he said that US and Iraqi puppet troops had been maltreating Iraqi journalists, preventing them from entering the city of Tall ‘Afar to cover the battle raging there.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent quoted al-Mawsili as saying on behalf of the Journalists’ Union that more than 17 journalists have been imprisoned inside an American camp because they tried to enter the city with their cameras and video equipment without the knowledge of the American occupation forces.
Al-Mawsili said that the American forces imprisoned the reported in order to cover up and black out what is taking place in Tall ‘Afar, including the heavy casualties that the Resistance is inflicting on the US and the crimes that the Americans are committing against the people of the city.
The spokesman for the Journalists’ Union said that at the present time there are only three journalists in the city, one of them the correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam, and that they operate covertly. He said, “if they are discovered, they will share the fate of the 17 journalists now being held prisoner, or possibly worse.”
Al-Mawsili emphasized that the occupation authorities are responsible for the well-being of the captive journalists inside their military camp.
In closing, the spokesman told the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent that “Iraqi journalists are seeking to take the certificate of journalistic honor away from those reporters who accompany the occupation troops and slant their news reports in their favor in return for a handful of dollars.”
Mosul.
US casualties reported as Resistance fires rocket barrage into American al-Ghazlani base in Mosul midday Monday.
Iraqi Resistance forces fired four medium-range Grad rockets into the US al-Ghazlani base in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul at 12:30pm local time Monday.
A source in the Iraqi puppet police told the Mosul correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam that three of the rockets blasted directly into a building inside the base, destroying parts of it and killing or wounding about nine US troops.
Resistance shoots down US Black Hawk helicopter Monday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 9:30am Mecca time Monday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short time before, Iraqi Resistance forces had shot down a Black Hawk helicopter in the al-Wahdah neighborhood area south of Mosul.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported residents of al-Wahdah as saying that an Iraqi Resistance fighter shot a shoulder-launched rocket towards the US aircraft that was providing air cover for some US patrols in the area. The rocket struck the Black Hawk and brought it down immediately, 4km from the area where the burning wreckage could be seen.
Some witnesses reported that the two-man crew of the helicopter were killed. US troops at the time of writing had encircled the crash site.
Al-Anbar Province.
Rawah.
Two US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing near Rawah Monday afternoon.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military column on the road linking the western Iraqi city city of Rawah with ‘Anah a little to the south.
The Rawah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported witnesses as saying that a bomb that had been planted by the side of the road to ‘Anah blew up as a column of four US armored vehicles and three American Humvees was passing by at 4pm local time Monday afternoon.
Witnesses said that the explosion set one of the armored vehicles ablaze, killing two US troops and wounding two more American soldiers.
Ar-Rutbah.
Resistance ambushes US patrol as it tries to enter ar-Rutbah near Jordanian border.
In a dispatch posted at 11:15am Mecca time Monday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters had ambushed a US column that was at the eastern entrance to the town of ar-Rutbah near the Jordanian border in western Iraq.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in ar-Rutbah reported residents of the town as saying that Resistance fighters armed with light and medium weapons, including PKS machine guns and pipe rockets, attacked the US patrol, detonating two bombs that they had planted by the side of the side road along which the US troops were advancing toward the town. The American forces were on a mission to pursue Iraqi Resistance fighters in the area.
The explosion destroyed one Humve and disabled a second. About six American soldiers were killed or wounded in the attack, which lasted about 10 minutes and ended when the Americans withdrew to another side road.
Hit.
Resistance bombards US-Iraqi puppet army joint headquarters in Hit Monday afternoon.
Iraqi Resistance forces fired four 82mm mortar rounds into the joint US-Iraqi puppet army headquarters that has been set up in the former Teacher Training Institute in the middle of Hit at 3:30pm local time Monday afternoon.
The Hit correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported witnesses as saying that the four mortar rounds all blasted directly into the headquarters sending columns of smoke rising into the sky.
Al-Fallujah.
Resistance bomb targets joint US-Iraqi patrol Monday morning.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a joint patrol of US and Iraqi puppet army forces in the al-‘Askari neighborhood in the east of al-Fallujah at 10:30am local time Monday morning.
Residents of al-‘Askari told the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent that a bomb that had been planted by the side of al-‘Amal ash-Sha‘bi Street blew up as the patrol was passing by, setting one pickup belonging to the Iraqi puppet army on fire and killing two Iraqi puppet army soldiers and wounding two more.
Abu Ghurayb.
Two US troops reported killed in bombing of joint military patrol in Abu Ghurayb Monday morning.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a joint US-Iraqi puppet army column in the an-Nasr wa-as-Salam area west of Abu Ghurayb at about 10am local time Monday morning.
Shopkeepers on the main road in the an-Nasr wa-as-Salam area who witnessed the attack told Mafkarat al-Islam that a bomb that was planted by the side of the road under the sidewalk in the median between the two lanes of traffic exploded as the joint patrol of three US Humvees and a pickup and two troop transports belonging to the Iraqi puppet forces passed by.
The explosion disabled one American Humvee and damaged an Iraqi puppet-regime troop carrier. Two American troops were killed and one US soldier and two Iraqi puppet army troops were wounded in the blast.
Baghdad.
Resistance bombards US troops in Jurf as-Sakhr.
In a dispatch posted at 7pm Mecca time Monday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces fired three medium-range Katyusha rockets into US forces in the Jurf as-Sakhr area south of Baghdad.
Residents of Jurf as-Sakhr told the Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam that following the barrage they could see flames and smoke rising over the US position.
American helicopters then flew in over the scene of the attack and surrounding areas searching for the Resistance attackers.
US and Iraqi puppet army forces launched a wave of arrests among the Sunni population of Jurf as-Sakhr, the correspondent reported.
Four US troops reported killed in car bomb attack on US column in at-Taji Monday morning.
An Iraqi Resistance car bomber attacked a US military column in the northern Baghdad suburb of at-Taji at 9:30am local time Monday morning.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported residents of at-Taji as saying that a resistance martyrdom fighter surprised column of nine US armored vehicles on the road to the northern provinces, blowing himself up near one of their vehicles.
The blast totally destroyed one American armored vehicle, killing at least four US troops and wounding three more American soldiers.
Resistance car bomb blows up next to joint US-Iraqi puppet police patrol in al-Gahzaliyah.
An Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded by a joint US-Iraqi puppet police patrol in the al-Ghazaliyah area of western Baghdad at 1pm local time Monday.
The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a source in the Iraqi puppet police said that an explosives-laden car that had been parked by the side of a side road in the al-Ghazaliyah neighborhood blew up as a joint patrol passed by, setting one Iraqi puppet police vehicle on fire and killing or wounding four Iraqi puppet policemen.
Salah ad-Din Province.
Tikrit.
US soldier reported killed in Resistance ambush in Tikrit Monday afternoon.
In a dispatch posted at 6:40pm Mecca time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters had attacked a joint US-Iraqi puppet army patrol in the al-‘Awjah area of Tikrit, north of Baghdad.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in Tikrit reported a source in the Iraqi puppet police as saying that Iraqi Resistance fighters armed with light and medium weapons, including PKS machine guns and shoulder-fired pipe rockets, ambushed the patrol as it was entering the an-Nawasir neighborhood of the town.
The source said that one vehicle belonging to the Iraqi puppet army was set on fire and one American soldier killed and another wounded in the assault. Three Iraqi puppet army troops were also killed and two more of them wounded. The source said that one of the Resistance fighters also died in the engagement.
At-Ta’mim Province.
Kirkuk.
Two US troops reported killed north of Kirkuk midday Monday.
An Iraqi Resistance land mine exploded by a US patrol in the ad-Dibs area northwest of Kirkuk at 1pm local time Monday.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported eye witnesses as saying that a landmine that had been planted in the middle of an unpaved dirt road north of ad-Dibs blew up under a US patrol of four armored vehicles and three Humvees. The explosion set one of the armored vehicles on fire, killing two US troops and wounding four more American soldiers.
Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.
Sunni professor at al-Basrah University abducted by gunmen Monday morning.
Unknown gunmen kidnapped Dr. Haytham ‘Awdah, Vice Chiarman of the Chemical Engineering Department in al-Basrah University when he wet out to work on Monday morning.
Witnesses told the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in al-Basrah that an unknown car stopper Professor ‘Awdah when he was on his way to work. Three gunmen got out and force him into their car and then drove off to an uknown destination.
The correspondent wrote that Sunni professors in the city have been a target for assassination and kidnapping by armed groups loyal to parties that came in with the US invasion in spring 2003. University faculty are understandably extremely concerned as another school year under occupation gets under way.
Sunni religious leader shot and wounded in al-Basrah Monday.
Unknown armed men opened fire on Shaykh Iba’ ‘Abd al-Mun‘im the Imam of the al-Fayha’ Mosque in the al-Amn ad-Dakhili district in western al-Basrah.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that Shaykh Iba’ ‘Abd al-Mun‘im was attacked as he was driving his car on one of the city streets. He was seriously wounded in the attack and was taken to a hospital where he underwent surgery. Afterwards his condition was listed as stable.
It was the second attack on a Sunni personality in the city within 24 hours, the first being the abduction of Professor Haytham ‘Awdah of al-Basrah University.
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