イラク・レジスタンス・レポート　2007/04/24 white

イラク・レジスタンス・レポート　2007/04/24
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投稿者 white 日時 2007 年 4 月 25 日 18:05:05: QYBiAyr6jr5Ac

□イラク・レジスタンス・レポート　2007/04/24

・今日の主な記事の見出し
　▽火曜日の夜遅く，ハディッサでレジスタンスが橋に仕掛けた罠を使ってアメリカ軍の海兵隊員を捕らえようとした際，
　　激しい戦闘が発生する

　▽火曜日の朝，アブグレイブでアメリカ兵3名が戦死

　▽2日目に入ったal-Furat地区に対する残忍な砲撃
　　シーア派民兵と傀儡軍によって地区が封鎖される中，民間人に多数の死傷者が出る

　▽火曜日の朝，バグダッド南部のas-Sayyidiyah地区でレジスタンスの爆弾がアメリカ軍と傀儡軍の
　　合同パトロールを攻撃　

　▽火曜日、レジスタンスがバグダッドのアザミア地区に防護壁を建設中の労働者を攻撃する

　▽火曜日、2台の自動車爆弾がバグダッドのイラン大使館を標的にする

　▽火曜日の朝，ティクリートでレジスタンスがアメリカ軍のハンビーを破壊　乗員が戦死

　▽火曜日の朝，Yathribでレジスタンスの爆弾がアメリカ軍の地雷探知車両を破壊　乗員が戦死する

　▽シーア宗派主義の聖職者当局がナジャフ最古のスンニ派モスクのホテルへの建て替えを計画

　▽月曜日の夜，ナシリア近郊で爆弾攻撃によってアメリカ兵3名が負傷する

　▽スンニ派，シーア派のレジスタンス・グループが占領軍とイラン覇権主義への戦いのために統合
　　占領軍に対する攻撃が徐々に増加する

　▽イラクのレジスタンス運動のための『人民戦線』宣言

　http://www.freearabvoice.org/Iraq/Report/report864.htm

Iraqi Resistance Report 864

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 24 April 2007. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org

Tuesday, 24 April 2007.

・ Resistance fighters catch US Marines in trap on bridge in al-Hadithah late Tuesday night, sparking ferocious fight.

・ Three American troops reported killed in Abu Ghurayb Tuesday morning.

・ Savage bombardment of al-Furat neighborhood in second day. Dozens of civilians reported dead or wounded in area blockaded by puppet troops, Shi‘i sectarian gunmen.

・ Resistance bomb rips through joint US-puppet Iraqi army patrol in south Baghdad’s as-Sayyidiyah Tuesday morning.

・ Resistance attacks workers building wall around Sunni al-A‘zamiyah district of Baghdad Tuesday.

・ Two car bombs target Iranian Embassy in Baghdad Tuesday.

・ Resistance reports destroying US Humvee, killing crew in Tikrit Tuesday morning.

・ Resistance reports bomb destroys US minesweeper in Yathrib Tuesday morning, killing crew.

・ Shi‘i sectarian clerical authorities plan to turn oldest Sunni mosque in an-Najaf into a hotel.

・ Three Australians wounded in bomb attack near an-Nasiriyah Monday night.

・ Sunni, Shi‘i Resistance groups unite to fight occupation, Iranian hegemonism, escalating attacks on occupation troops.

・ Declaration of Popular Front for the Iraqi Resistance

Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Hadithah.

Resistance fighters catch US Marine force in trap on bridge in al-Hadithah late Tuesday night, sparking ferocious fight.

In a dispatch posted at 12:15am Makkah time just after midnight Wednesday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that fierce fighting had broken out between Iraqi Resistance men and US Marines on the Hajlan Bridge in the city of al-Hadithah, about 270km northwest of Baghdad.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in al-Hadithah and the nearby town of al-Haqlaniyah as saying that a battle in which all types of weapons were being used was raging. US Apache helicopter gun ships were taking part and the sounds of huge explosions were shaking the city.

One resident who lives near the Hajlan Bridge reported that the Resistance men had caught a force of Marines in an ambush, striking them from two sides. US helicopters, he said were still trying to free the Americans from the trap that the Resistance had sprung upon them, but the battle was still under way at the time of reporting.

Local residents reported that mosques in the area were broadcasting the al-Bayyat Mosque, the al-Hadithi Mosque, and the city’s Old Mosque had turned on the lights on their minarets and were broadcasting prayers and cries of Allahu akbar! (“God is greates!”) to encourage the Resistance fighters battling the Marine occupation troops.

Al-Fallujah.

Car bomb by popular restaurant in al-Fallujah wounds two midday Tuesday.

In a dispatch posted at 9:01pm Baghdad time Tuesday evening, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a car bomb exploded near a popular restaurant in the city of al-Fallujah, 60km west of Baghdad, wounding two civilians.

The AMSI reported a puppet police source as saying Tuesday that an explosives-packed car that had been parked near a popular restaurant in the middle of al-Fallujah blew up after noon on Tuesday, wounding two civilians and heavily damaging the restaurant.

The source said that the reason for the small number of casualties was that customers in the restaurant noticed the car and regarded it as suspicious and left the establishment before the explosion.

Resistance bomb kills five puppet policemen in al-Fallujah Tuesday afternoon.

In a dispatch posted at 8:00 GMT on Tuesday, Quds Press reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a puppet police patrol in al-Fallujah, 60km west of Baghad Tuesday afternoon.

Quds Press reported a puppet police source as saying that a bomb that had been planted by the side of the main road in the eastern part of the city went off by a puppet police patrol, destroying a patrol vehicle and killing five puppet policemen and wounding two more of them.

Ar-Ramadi.

Toll from double car bombing near restaurant in ar-Ramadi Monday rises to 20 killed; 38 wounded.

In a dispatch posted at 9:01pm Baghdad time Tuesday evening, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that the toll in the double car bombing near a restaurant at Kilometer 5 near ar-Ramadi, 110km west of Baghdad, on Monday had risen to 20 killed and 38 more wounded － many of those in grave condition.

In a dispatch posted at 9:48pm Makkah time Tuesday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the car bombs were targeted on a puppet police patrol that was in a market at the time of the blast.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported Lieutenant Colonel Sa‘di ad-Dulaymi of the puppet police as saying that a Resistance attacker driving an explosives-packed car slammed into the puppet police patrol that was passing through the middle of the popular market in the al-Bu Faraj area of eastern ar-Ramadi.

Lieutenant Colonel ad-Dulaymi said that the blast left 58 people dead or wounded, seven of those puppet policemen and the rest civilians, some of those women and children.

Sources in ar-Ramadi told Mafkarat al-Islam that the occupation imposed a curfew on the area and mosques used their loudspeaker systems to issue appeals for blood donations for the civilian victims.

Abu Ghurayb.

Three American troops reported killed in Abu Ghurayb Tuesday morning.

In a dispatch posted at 4:34pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US foot patrol near the az-Zaytun drinks establishment in the az-Zaytun neighborhood of Abu Ghurayb, about 30km west of Baghdad, at about 7am local time Tuesday morning.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported residents of az-Zaytun as saying that three American troops were killed in the explosion. They also described seeing two wounded Americans being carried on stretchers to an ambulance.

The Shaykh of the ad-Dallal Mosque in Abu Ghurayb declared that the Americans were on their way to arrest people coming from morning prayers in the area, but that the bomb attack forced them to return to their base in Abu Munaysir, outside the administrative boundaries of Abu Ghurayb.

Baghdad.

Savage bombardment of al-Furat neighborhood in second day. Dozens of civilians reported dead or wounded in area blockaded by puppet troops, Shi‘i sectarian gunmen.

In a dispatch posted at 11:57pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that dozens of people have been killed or wounded in a violent mortar and rocket bombardment that has been directed at the civilian population of the al-Furat neighborhood of southwestern Baghdad since Monday. As of the time of reporting, the bombardment was still under way.

The AMSI reported that the barrage had destroyed numerous houses and killed or wounded dozens of civilians.

AMSI noted that the neighborhood had been under blockade by puppet regime forces acting together with Shi‘i sectarian militias. The gunmen and puppet regime troops have prevented any of the food aid to be delivered to the residents of the area on the ground that they are all “terrorists.”

Resistance bomb rips through joint US-puppet Iraqi army patrol in south Baghdad’s as-Sayyidiyah Tuesday morning.

In a dispatch posted at 9:11pm Makkah time Tuesday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol in the southern Baghdad district of as-Sayyidiyah on Tuesday morning.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses who were near the ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib Mosque as saying that a bomb that had been planted by the side of a nearby road went off by a passing joint patrol of American and puppet Iraqi troops. The blast killed or wounded at least nine US troops.

Eyewitnesses said that the patrol was arranged according to a newly adopted method whereby a column will be made up of Americans and Iraqi puppet troops mixed together with two Iraqis between each American soldier. The entire patrol was made up of between 15 and 20 troops, the one at the front and the one at the rear of the column being an Iraqi puppet soldier.

The witnesses said that the casualties from the bomb blast were, accordingly, both American soldiers and Iraqi puppet troops. The bomb was detonated by remote control just as the column was walking over the explosive device.

A source in the Iraqi puppet police reported that immediately after the blast, the Americans stormed into the sanctuary of a mosque and into several homes nearby. They put their wounded and dead American soldiers in one of those houses until vehicles could arrive to evacuate them from the area. The US troops left the wounded Iraqis lying in their blood on the ground for a full hour, the witnesses said, until an Iraqi puppet army patrol arrived to pick them up.

Shi‘i sectarian torture murder spree continues: 15 more victims’ bodies found in 24 hours.

In a dispatch posted at 8:54pm Baghdad time Tuesday evening, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that the Iraqi puppet police had found 15 bodies dumped in various parts of Baghdad during the previous 24 hours.

The AMSI reported a puppet police source as saying that most of the victims were bound and blindfolded and showed signs of having been tortured before being shot to death. Torture is a trademark of the Shi‘i sectarian militias and the US-backed puppet security and military services of the puppet regime.

The source said that the puppet police transported the bodies to the Forensic Medicine morgue for identification.

Local residents beat back armed attack by Shi‘i sectarian gunmen and puppet “Interior Ministry” troops in south Baghdad suburb late Tuesday morning.

In a dispatch posted at 3:36pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that about 10 people were killed － four of them children － when Shi ‘ sectarian militia backed by puppet “Iraqi Interior Ministry” forces launched an assault in the southern Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah late Tuesday morning.

The AMSI reported eyewitnesses in the area as saying that the joint force of sectarian militiamen and puppet “Interior Ministry troops attacked the neighborhoods of al-Wadi, at-Tu ‘mah, al-Mahdiyah, and others at about 11am local time Tuesday morning. Local residents rose to defend themselves and confront the attackers.

The local defenders destroyed eight of the vehicles of the Shi‘i sectarian attackers, killing or wounding the gunmen inside.

The assault by the puppet forces and sectarian militias was repulsed by the local defenders, who cautioned, however, that the situation was fluid and that the attack was likely to be repeated. It was also possible that the local residents would be the target of an American campaign of mass arrests in response to their having defended themselves against the sectarian gunmen and puppet regime forces.

Resistance attacks workers building wall around Sunni al-A‘zamiyah district of Baghdad Tuesday.

In a dispatch posted at 4:15pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that armed Iraqis attacked a US military vehicle that was engaged in building a wall to partition the predominantly Sunni district of al-A‘zamiyah from the rest of the country － a project ordered by the US occupation authorities as part of efforts to split Iraq on sectarian lines. Although it has been reported that the US authorities called off the project under objections from local people, the work on the wall is in fact still continuing.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the attack wounded four of the Asian workers employed by the US military and disabled a US crane used to erect cement barriers.

The source said that the attack came from the east － the area that separates the district of al-A‘zamiyah from as-Salikh. It was not known whether there were any American casualties in the attack.

Thousands of residents of al-A‘zamiyah took to the streets Monday to protest the American plans to wall them off from the rest of Baghdad and the country, prompting the US and puppet Iraqi regime to claim that the wall is only a “temporary security measure” to prevent Resistance attacks.

Bomb destroys US minesweeper in eastern Baghdad.

In a dispatch posted at 11:58 GMT on Tuesday, Quds Press reported that a bomb went off in eastern Baghdad, destroying an American mine-sweeping vehicle.

Quds Press reported a puppet police as saying that the bomb went off near the ar-Rusafah Game City when a US patrol was passing by. The blast destroyed a US vehicle that is supposed to detect bombs for disposal. The vehicle was seen ablaze and it was believed that some of the US personnel would also have at least been wounded in the attack.

After the attack, US forces quickly sealed off the area as American helicopters flew in to prowl the skies overhead.

Two car bombs target Iranian Embassy in Baghdad Tuesday.

In a dispatch posted at 11:57am Makkah time Tuesday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that two car bombs exploded at a bus stop in front of the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, just one day after two bombs went off in the same location.

Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Tuesday’s double car bombing wounded four people.

In a dispatch posted at 9:35 GMT on Tuesday, Quds Press reported that the toll from the first bomb near the Iranian embassy on Tuesday was two killed and four wounded. Quds Press reported that the second bomb produced still more casualties but the precise number was not available at the time of reporting.

In addition, Quds Press noted, the bombs inflicted damage on surrounding buildings, including the building housing the Iranian Embassy itself. No information on the extent of casualties in the embassy, if any, was available.

The Monday attack left one person dead and another six wounded. The Iraqi Resistance group Ansar as-Sunnah announced its responsibility for the Monday bombing in a communique´ published on an Internet site used by Resistance organizations.

Resistance blasts puppet “National Guard” checkpoint in southern Baghdad Monday.

In a communique´ posted on its website at 5:55pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Iraqi Resistance organization the Islamic Army announced that one of its units fired three 82mm mortar rounds into a checkpoint manned by puppet “Iraqi National Guards” in the al-‘Udwaniyah district to the south of Baghdad at 10 am local time Monday, 23 April 2007. The shells scored direct hits on the checkpoint.

Salah ad-Din Province.
Tikrit.

Resistance reports destroying US Humvee, killing crew in Tikrit Tuesday morning.

In a communique´ posted on its website at 5:22pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Iraqi Resistance organization the Islamic Army announced that one of its engineer units detonated a bomb under a US Humvee in Tikrit at 9am local time Tuesday morning, 24 April 2007. The communique´ reported that the blast totally destroyed the Humvee, killing its crew.

Yathrib.

Resistance reports bomb destroys US minesweeper in Yathrib Tuesday morning, killing crew.

In a communique´ posted on its website at 6pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Iraqi Resistance organization the Islamic Army announced that one of its engineer units detonated a bomb by a US minesweeper vehicle in Yathrib, about 70km north of Baghdad at 8:30am local time Tuesday, 24 April 2007. The vehicle was completely destroyed and its crew killed, the communique´ reported.

Balad.

Resistance blasts US headquarters in Balad with Katyusha rockets Monday afternoon.

In a communique´ posted on its website at 5:20pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Iraqi Resistance organization the Islamic Army announced that a detachment of its fighters fired two Katyusha rockets into the US headquarters in the Balad area, about 80km north of Baghdad at 5pm local time Monday 23 April 2007. The communique´ reported that the rockets scored direct hits on their target.

Diyala Province.
Ba‘qubah.

Gunmen wearing puppet Iraqi army uniforms storm neighborhood in Ba‘qubah, kill six civilians.

In a dispatch posted at 12:34am Baghdad time just after Wednesday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that armed men wearing puppet Iraqi army uniforms stormed into a neighborhood in Ba‘qubah, 65km northeast of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing six people and wounded 15 more.

The AMSI reported that the attack came one day after an Iraqi Resistance fida’i fighter blasted into US troops near Ba‘qubah with an explosives-laden car, killing 20 of them

US locks down Ba‘qubah following Monday Resistance attack that killed nine American troops.

In a dispatch posted at 4:34pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US occupation forces surrounded the city of Ba‘qubah, 65km northeast of Baghdad, at dawn Tuesday, following an Iraqi Resistance car bomb attack that killed nine American troops in the area on Monday.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported puppet police sources as saying that the Americans closed the roads to Ba‘qubah, sealing off the city from the outside world and permitting no one to leave. All telephone service － both land lines and cellular － have been shut down and a curfew has been imposed on the at-Tahrir neighborhood in the southern part of the city where the US base that was the target of the deadly Resistance attack, is located.

Al-‘Azim.

Resistance disables US minesweeper vehicle in al-‘Azim Monday.

In a communique´ posted on its website at 5:50pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Iraqi Resistance organization the Islamic Army announced that one of its engineer units detonated a bomb by a US minesweeper vehicle in al-‘Azim, 90km north of Baghdad at 1pm local time midday Monday, 23 April 2007. The blast disabled the vehicle, wounding the American troops aboard.

Babil Province.
Al-Mahmudiyah.

Resistance sharpshooter kills two puppet “Iraqi National Guards” Saturday afternoon.

In a communique´ posted on its website at 5:54pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Iraqi Resistance organization the Islamic Army announced that one of its sharpshooters shot and killed two puppet “Iraqi National Guardsmen” who were standing at a checkpoint in al-Mahmudiyah at 3pm local time Saturday afternoon, 21 April 2007.

Resistance marksman shoots puppet “National Guardsman” in al-Mahmudiyah Saturday.

In a communique´ posted on its website at 5:27pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Iraqi Resistance organization the Islamic Army announced that one of its sharpshooters shot a puppet “Iraqi National Guardsman” as he stood inside a checkpoint in the town of al-Mahmudiyah, 25km south of Baghdad, at 12 noon Saturday, 21 April 2007.

Resistance sharpshooter guns down puppet “National Guardsman” Friday.

In a communique´ posted on its website at 5:21pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, 24 April 2007, the Iraqi Resistance organization the Islamic Army announced that one of their sharpshooters shot a puppet “Iraqi National Guard” soldier as he stood manning a checkpoint in al-Mahmudiyah, 25km south of Baghdad at 11am local time Friday, 20 April 2007.

Al-Latifiyah.

Resistance bomb destroys puppet “Guard” Humvee Tuesday afternoon.

In a communique´ posted on its website at 5:59pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Iraqi Resistance organization the Islamic Army announced that one of its engineer units set off a bomb by a puppet “Iraqi National Guard” Humvee on the highway in al-Latifiyah, 40km south of Baghdad at 6pm local time Sunday afternoon, 22 April 2007. The blast completely destroyed the vehicle, killing all the puppet troops aboard, the communique´ reported.

Resistance bomb destroys puppet vehicle in al-Latifiyah Sunday.

In a communique´ posted on its website at 5:51pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Iraqi Resistance organization the Islamic Army announced that one of its engineering units set off a bomb by a pickup belonging to the puppet “Order Protection Forces” on the highway in al-Latifiyah, 40km south of Baghdad, at 12 noon local time Sunday, 22 April 2007. The explosion totally destroyed the vehicle, killing all the puppet troops aboard.

Resistance marksman kills puppet “Shock Troop” soldier Sunday morning.

In a communique´ posted on its website at 5:56pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Iraqi Resistance organization the Islamic Army announced that one of its sharpshooters killed a member of the puppet “Iraqi Interior Ministry Shock Troops (Maghawir)” as he stood on a pickup truck on the highway in al-Latifiyah, 40km south of Baghdad at 10am local time Sunday morning, 22 April 2007.

Resistance bomb disables US Humvee Friday.

In a communique´ posted on its website at 5:27pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Iraqi Resistance organization the Islamic Army announced that one of its engineer units detonated a bomb under a US Humvee on the highway in the area of al-Latifiyah, about 40km south of Baghdad at 9pm local time Friday, 20 April 2007. The communique´ reported that the bomb disabled the vehicle, wounding the crew.

Ninwa Province.
Sinjar.

Armed men kill two relatives of Yazidi girl stoned to death by her family for embracing Islam.

In a dispatch posted at 4:40pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a puppet police spokesman in the northern city of al-Mawsil announced that armed men on Tuesday had killed the brother and cousin of the Yazidi girl who had embraced Islam, only to be murdered by her family near the town of Sinjar, about 110km west of al-Mawsil.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported Captain Ahmad Husayn as announcing that Sarmad Khalil, the brother of the girl and her cousin Hani Mardan were killed on Tuesday when armed men dragged them from their cars and shot them to death. Local sources confirmed that the two men were among those who took part in stoning the girl to death.

Last week numerous Iraqi Resistance organizations issued declarations pledging to avenge the death of the girl who embraced Islam, but US and pro-American Kurdish separatist forces continue to surround the girl’s home village, providing high-security protection to the killers.

Al-Mawsil.

Resistance mortars batter US base at al-Mawsil Airport Monday evening.

In a communique´ posted on its website at 6:04pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Iraqi Resistance organization the Islamic Army announced that a detachment of its fighters fired three 82mm mortar rounds into the US headquarters set up at al-Mawsil Airport at 9pm local time Monday evening, 23 April 2007. The shells scored direct hits on their targets, the communique´ reported.

Wasit Province.
As-Suwayrah.

US, puppet forces kill 35 in as-Suwayrah Tuesday morning.

In a dispatch posted at 8:54pm Baghdad time Tuesday evening, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that US troops together with their puppet Iraqi army allies shot 35 people in the course of raids north of the town of as-Suwayrah, 50km southeast of Baghdad on Tuesday morning.

The AMSI reported a puppet security service source in al-Kut as saying that the Americans and their puppet regime allies carried out raids in the area of al-Kass north of as-Suwayra Tuesday morning, killing 35 people. The Americans claimed that the dead were all Resistance fighters.

The source added that in the course of their attack, the American-led force seized large quantities of arms and ammunition.

Al-Qadisiyah Province.
Ad-Diwaniyah.

Bomb blasts US patrol in ad-Diwaniyah Monday night.

In a dispatch posted at 10:36am Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a bomb went off by a US patrol in ad-Diwaniyah on Monday.

The AMSI reported eyewitnesses as saying that the bomb exploded by the US patrol in the as-Sadr district of the city, inflicting material damage on the patrol at 10pm Monday night.

The witnesses said that the Americans responded by firing indiscriminately around the area as helicopters flew in at low altitude and searched for the attackers. No information on the nature or extent of US casualties was available.

Dhi Qar Province.
An-Nasiriyah.

Three Australians wounded in Resistance bomb attack near an-Nasiriyah Monday night.

In a dispatch posted at 2:49pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by an Australian military column north of an-Nasiriyah on Monday night.

The AMSI reported a puppet police source as saying that a bomb that had been planted at the Sayyid Dakhil junction 20km north of an-Nasiriyah in southern Iraq damaged an Australian armored vehicle and wounded three Australian occupation troops.

A British military spokesperson admitted that an attack had occurred and asserted that there were no deaths but did not release further information on the number or nature of injured troops.

Eyewitnesses said on Monday that a Resistance bomb went off by a column of occupation troops on the road from an-Nasiriyah to Shatrah, 20km to the north. One witness said that the blast heavily damaged a tank and said that based on the extent of damage it was likely that the crewmen aboard had been killed or wounded. Another witness described how the occupation forces closed off the area as helicopters flew in and evacuated the casualties to an unknown destination. Another witness said that the occupation troops also took away two apparent Iraqi translators who were also wounded in the attack. The witnesses were unsure as to the nationality of the column but thought it might be Australian.

Australia maintains a force of about 1,500 troops, most of them in southern Iraq, serving the American occupation of the country.

An-Najaf Province.
An-Najaf.

Shi‘i sectarian clerical authorities plan to turn oldest Sunni mosque in an-Najaf into a hotel.

In a dispatch posted at 4:25pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a source in the Religious Information and Rulings Board (Hay’at ad-Da‘wah wa-al-Ifta’) in Baghdad had revealed that the Shi‘i sectarian clerical authorities, collectively known as al-Hawzah, had agreed to demolish the oldest Sunni mosque in the city of an-Najaf and put up a large hotel in its place.

The historic Sunni place of worship is to be destroyed to provide accommodations for Iranian and other Shi‘i pilgrims coming to the Shi‘i holy city on visitations.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported the source as saying that the Mosque of ‘Amr ibn al-‘As is one of the largest Sunni mosques in an-Najaf. It was abandoned three years ago when Shi‘i sectarian militias so terrorized Sunni families living in the old city that they fled.

Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.

Resistance attacks on US, British, other occupation forces on the increase in southern Iraq as Sunni, Shi‘i Resistance groups form unified front to fight the occupation, Iranian hegemonism.

In a dispatch posted at 7:44GMT on Tuesday, Quds Press reported that observers of the situation in southern Iraq have noticed an increase in the armed attacks targeting the foreign occupation forces operating in that part of the country. Eleven British soldiers have been killed since the start of April and many others have been wounded. There have also been more attacks on the other occupation forces, such as Australians and Poles, who also serve the US in Iraq.

Quds Press reported that observers not that these Resistance attacks have nothing to do with the prominent Shi‘i sectarian political parties active in the southern Iraqi cities such as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) or Muqtada as-Sadr’s Jaysh al-Mahdi militia. These attacks are being carried out by the Iraqi Resistance, according to Shaykh Ibrahim al-Hassan, a member of the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq in the city of al-Basrah. Shaykh al-Hassan says that the members of the Resistance groups come from different backgrounds. Many are the patriots who have taken credit for some of the attacks. These are fighters who are not linked to any particular religious denomination.

The az-Zarkah incident in an-Najaf on 28 January 2007, when tribesmen battled puppet troops, is well known, Shaykh al-Hassan said, but the puppet regime has twisted up the account of that incident. “They pretend that there was a terrorist group there, but there were no terrorists; they were only members of Arab tribes who rose up against the occupation and against the policy of the puppet government,” Shaykh al-Hassan told Quds Press.

Armed Resistance groups are carrying out attacks virtually on a daily basis in southern Iraq: rocket attacks target British bases in al-Basrah, for example. Quds Press has learned that these are being carried out by Sunni Resistance groups, and for that reason the British occupation forces are carrying out numerous “security operations” against predominantly Sunni areas.

One of the largest Iraqi Resistance groups, the Army of the Mujahideen, which is very active in central and western Iraqi cities, issued a communique´ on the Internet a few days ago taking responsibility for an attack on a British patrol in al-Basrah that killed four British troops and their Iraqi translator.

Puppet police reports indicate that a bomb on Monday night went off by an Australian detachment near an-Nasiriyah, wounding a number of the Australians and several puppet Iraqi soldiers who were traveling with them.

The puppet police also has reported that a bomb went off near Karbala’ on Monday, killing two US troops and wounding several puppet Iraqi troops who were with them, Quds Press noted.

Southern Iraqi is witnessing a growing number of Resistance operations despite efforts by the puppet regime to portray the south as largely a quiet garden where no Resistance activity takes place.

On 21 April Internet websites carried a Declaration signed by 15 Iraqi Resistance organizations and announcing an alliance of Sunni and Shi‘i Jihadi Resistance organizations in southern Iraq. The aim of the alliance is to carry out operations against the foreign occupation. The declaration indicated that the organizations had resolved to unite their efforts under the umbrella of a large common front that they have called the Popular Front for the Iraqi Resistance. The declaration noted that the Front would remain open to other groups that share their aim of Resisting the occupation to join.

Abu ‘Abdallah ad-Dawsari, one of the field commanders of the “Brigades of the Freemen of the South” Resistance organization, said that the Popular Front alliance of Sunni and Shi‘i Resistance groups has several aims. “The first of our aims is to make the southern front the equal of the western, northwestern, and central fronts in Iraq in the fight against the foreign alliance. Our efforts are also dedicated to trying to stop the Iranian penetration into Iraq that is coming in under the cover of the occupation forces. We are also trying to arouse the zeal o the Arab tribes in southern Iraq, who are no less patriotic and Iraqi than the tribes in the rest of the country, even though the nature of the repression practiced by the religious parties on them obscures the extent to which they reject the occupation.”

Exclusive sources have told Quds Press that the Resistance in southern Iraq is being led by well known Arab tribes such as the as-Sawa‘id Tribe, Al Fatlah, Al Hajjam, al-Bu Muhammad, al-Khaza‘il, al-Hawatim, and other Arab tribes whose members are taking part in attacks after four years of US occupation of Iraq and of the control of Iraq’s cities by political parties that treat the Arab tribes as aliens in their own land.

Declaration of the Popular Front for the Iraqi Resistance.

The following declaration appeared on the aliraqnews.com website on Saturday, 21 April 2007.

The victories in the field that are piling up every day in our country will have far reching results on all levels: in the Arab world, the region, and the world, and on America specifically. Therefore we see it trying to cook up and market all kinds of plans aimed at enveloping the Resistance, robbing it of its accomplishments, and halting its triumphant march. This is the explanation for the feverish efforts by American diplomats and officials of the occupation and its tails.

Victory in Iraq, thanks be to God the Almighty, has become an accepted fact that the enemy is soon to recognize. The defeat of the Zionist-American project has become a matter of time and then the region and the world will hear the thunder of as it falls. Thus, militant patriotic unity is a safety valve and balm for the people against the threat of sectarianism.

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