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Editorial Column 1.Iraqi Resistance Report 2.Iraqi Resistance Data Report 3.ANSWER: Call for March 20th Demonstrations 4.Communist Martyrs Return to lebenon-Socialist Arab Coalition Webpage 5.Anti-Imperialist Camp: Mumbai Resistance paves way for anti-imperialist pole 6.An Islamic Reader Builds Solidarity With Iraqi Resistance Solidarity Network 7.***A Mourning of Communist Martyrs- Touching Poem by Ziad elJishi*** ***En Espanol*** 8.:: Diario de la resistencia iraqui:
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***Editorial Statements:
February 2nd,2004***
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EDITORIAL CORNER
A Call For Pro-Resistance Activies and Co-ordination
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iraqiresistancesolidarity@yahoo.com
March 20th, the 1st anniversary of the current formal aggression committed against the Iraqi People by Anglo-Zionist Invaders, is just around the corner. World-wide demonstrations, marked by towering rage and anti-US solidarity, will flood the streets as the Popular Masses condemn Imperialism and the Zionist Enemy for their crimes against Humanity, and in particular their aggression against beloved Palestine and Iraq.
We call for co-ordinating world-wide events throughout the entire Weekend from Friday evening March 19th- Sunday March 21st in solidarity with anti-Occupation ARMED Resistance. If you or your organization is planning a Pro-Resistance event, we request that you notify us immediately. Also, as the Iraqi Resistance Solidarity Network is attempting to co-ordinate Pro-Resistance, it would be a pleasure for us if you would send us pictures from Pro-Resistance Demonstrations and Activities, as well as copies of any speeches, documents, etc. Also, we request that our comrades in US, Arab Patriots, Islamic Partisans, Anti-US/Anti-Imperialists, Radical Anti-"globalization" Activists, African/Black, Chicano, Indigenous Liberation Activists, Anti-Zionists,Militant Unionists, etc, use their websites and event tabling to include Pro-Resistance Resources and information for the formation and co-ordination of a Pro-Resistance Front in the US!!!
We take this time to thank the Anti-Imperialist Camp in Italy for starting the 10 euros campaign to finace the formation and maintanace of a National Liberation Front in Iraq to root out the invaders, and reject the occupation's collaborators.
www.antiimperialist.org
camp@antiimpeiralista.org
1.Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 29 January 2004
through Saturday, 31 January 2004. Translated and/or compiled by
Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.
http://www.geocities.com/iraqiresistancesolidarity/IraqiResistanceReport.html
Thursday, 29 January 2004.
One person was killed and some 13 others wounded on Thursday in two
separate attacks on two patrols by the Iraqi puppet police in
vicinity of the cities of Kirkuk and Ba`qubah.
Puppet police Major General Anwar Ahmad Amin told the Agence France
Presse (AFP) that one puppet policeman was killed and another injured
Thursday morning when Iraqi Resistance fighters fired a rocket-
propelled grenade (RPG) at a puppet police checkpoint in the village
of al-Muradiayah, 83km south of Kirkuk
A roadside bomb exploded on Thursday in Ba`qubah, 65km north of
Baghdad, reportedly wounding 11 Iraqis, including at least eight
members of the puppet so-called civil defense forces set up and run
by the US occupation. The injuries of two persons were described as
serious. The explosion was apparently detonated by remote control
and was targeted at an Iraqi puppet police patrol that was passing at
the time. Captain Salar Husayn of the puppet so-called civil defense
forces said that eight members of the collaborationist organization
were wounded in the blast along with two persons who, he said, were
civilians. One of the injured, puppet civil defense force member
Yunus `Ali, said the bomb was placed in an abandoned cart. "When we
got closer to the cart, the explosion took place," he said.
In al-Basrah a spokesman for the British occupation forces who
control the city said that a bomb exploded by the side of a road as a
convoy of local puppet officials was passing by. Three people whom
the spokesman claimed were "passers by" were injured in the blast.
After the explosion in the village south of Kirkuk, puppet police
Major General Shayrgo Shakir announced that the puppet so-called
civil defense forces had raided several villages in the area and had
arrested five people whom he described as "suspects."
Sources:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040129/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=716
http://www.islamonline.net/Arabic/news/2004-01/29/article06.shtml
http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp?
type=topNews&locale=ar_ME&storyID=4238222
Friday, 30 January 2004.
Friday evening media sources in the Iraqi capital reported powerful
explosions shook various parts of the city. Initial reports brought
no details about the source of the blasts or the damage or casualties
they might have inflicted, according to television reports from al-
Jazeera satellite TV. A Reuters dispatch said that a roadside bomb
had gone off in the center of Baghdad and that US occupation forces
had cordoned off the area and later left. Reuters said that an
American spokesman had no further details and therefore Reuters
offered no further information either.
Shortly before those powerful explosions, at about 8:30pm local time
(17:30 GMT) Iraqi Resistance fighters fired two rocket-propelled
grenades at the Dutch Embassy in Iraq late on Friday, hitting the
roof with one and setting it on fire. The blaze was quickly
extinguished, and there were no injuries. Security guards and US
occupation soldiers said the projectile detonated on the roof after
the embassy had closed for the day. Another missed the building, and
two other launchers were found in the garden behind the embassy,
guards said.
Guards fired at the Resistance fighters' vehicle but they escaped,
according to embassy guard Karim az-Zubaydi. Dutch Foreign Ministry
spokeswoman Martine de Haan said there were no injuries.
The blast resounded through Baghdad, and a US quick reaction force
from the 1st Armored Division was sent to the scene, the US
occupation command said. Earlier reports said the projectile was a
rocket, but the military said later it was a rocket-propelled grenade.
"We saw the light of the fire on the roof, and the firefighters came
to the scene and put out the fire on the roof," said 18-year-old Fadi
Ghassan, who lives near the embassy. He said he heard two explosions.
The Netherlands has about 1,100 occupation troops in Iraq. The Dutch
Embassy staff were pulled out of Baghdad before the invasion of Iraq
in March, but they returned in August. In October the government
again withdrew most of the staff after an attack on the United
Nations' Baghdad headquarters and other bombings. The embassy is now
conducting most of its business out of Amman, Jordan. Only five
Dutch employees are manning the embassy. Four were in Baghdad Friday,
but none was in the building at the time of the attack, the Dutch
foreign ministry said.
Earlier on Friday, Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked a column of
four US occupation armored vehicles in the city of Mosul, northern
Iraq Friday morning. The Resistance fighters used rocket-propelled
grenades (RPGs) in their attack, which destroyed one of the
vehicles. It is unknown whether there were any casualties among the
American troops. Eye witnesses reported that they saw a Volkswagen
car speeding away from the site of the attack at the time the US
column was passing by.
Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked a checkpoint of the puppet so-
called civil defense forces near Kirkuk on Friday. Puppet "civil
defense" Major General Anwar Hama Amin, the commander of the American
appointed organization, told the Agence France Presse (AFP) that one
of the Resistance fighters was martyred in the attack and another
wounded in the assault. Amin said "six individuals on a pickup truck
attacked a civil defense checkpoint in Sulayman Bak. The members of
the force returned fire hitting one and wounding another. The other
attackers were able to escape."
This was the second attack at a check point in the Kirkuk area in two
days, the day before having witnessed an attack on a check point 90km
south of Kirkuk.
Also in Kirkuk on Friday, US occupation forces defused an explosives-
laden car on the main road south of al-Huwayjah, 50km southwest of
Kirkuk, frequented by American military convoys and oil tank trucks.
The tank trucks make the run up the road taking oil from the Kirkuk
oil fields to the refinery in Bayji.
Iraqi Resistance fighters fired two rocket-propelled grenades at the
Dutch Embassy in Iraq on Friday, hitting the roof with one and
setting it on fire. The blaze was quickly extinguished, and there
were no injuries. Security guards and US occupation soldiers said the
projectile detonated on the roof after the embassy had closed for the
day. Another missed the building, and two other launchers were found
in the garden behind the embassy, guards said.
Guards fired at the Resistance fighters' vehicle but they escaped,
according to embassy guard Karim az-Zubaydi. Dutch Foreign Ministry
spokeswoman Martine de Haan said there were no injuries.
The blast resounded through Baghdad, and a US quick reaction force
from the 1st Armored Division was sent to the scene, the US
occupation command said. Earlier reports said the projectile was a
rocket, but the military said later it was a rocket-propelled grenade.
"We saw the light of the fire on the roof, and the firefighters came
to the scene and put out the fire on the roof," said 18-year-old Fadi
Ghassan, who lives near the embassy. He said he heard two explosions.
The Netherlands has about 1,100 occupation troops in Iraq. The Dutch
Embassy staff were pulled out of Baghdad before the invasion of Iraq
in March, but they returned in August. In October the government
again withdrew most of the staff after an attack on the United
Nations' Baghdad headquarters and other bombings. The embassy is now
conducting most of its business out of Amman, Jordan. Only five
Dutch employees are manning the embassy. Four were in Baghdad Friday,
but none was in the building at the time of the attack, the Dutch
foreign ministry said.
In al-Khalidiyah, 80km west of Baghdad, some 700 people rallied to
demand that the American occupation forces lift the curfew imposed on
their town and that the aggressor forces halt their house raids and
free the citizens whom they've taken prisoner. The AFP reported that
the demonstrators started their march through the streets of the town
after afternoon prayers in the Mosque of Khalid ibn al-Walid, and
rallied in front of the American military position in the area. No
clashes were reported.
`Abd ar-Rahman Ibrahim, Imam of the mosque said that the peaceful
march had been arranged because "the Americans have turned the town
into a field of operations. They fire guns at houses and have
arrested a number of women. There's a dusk-to-dawn curfew too.
Where are those who fall ill supposed to go?" The Imam said that the
Americans had imposed the curfew three days previous after three
occupation soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division were killed in a
roadside bombing.
An official in the Iraqi oil industry has reported that Resistance
fighters attacked an oil pipeline carrying crude oil from a Kirkuk
oilfield to the main refinery area in Bayji and ad-Durah on Friday
morning. The Dow Jones network quoted an official as saying that an
explosion occurred near al-Fatihah area, 240km north of Baghdad. The
source noted that the blast did not affect the refining industry,
since there is sufficient reserves, he claimed, to continue supplying
the refineries for a few days.
In ar-Ramadi, west of Baghdad, an number of shopkeepers have reported
receiving threats that said that if they did not stop working with
the Americans within 10 days they would be killed.
Meanwhile the US military commander of the so-called Central Command,
General John Abizaid, expressed the expectation that Iraqi Resistance
activities would increase as summer approaches. The American
commander linked the expected increase in Resistance to the American
plan for a show in mid-summer of a so-called "transfer of power" to
Iraqis.
US sources now admit that the US occupation of Iraq will continue at
least until 2006. But since the current regime in the occupied
country, in which US proconsul L. Paul Bremer oversees a puppet so-
called governing council, is obviously a US imperial imposition on
the country, the "transfer of power" charade is aimed at setting up
an alternative puppet government that other western powers will be
willing to recognize, thereby granting the US occupation the
legitimacy, cover, and help that it wants as it sets about remaking
the map of the Arab region. Such at any rate, is Washington's hope.
Washington's fear, as reflected in Abizaid's remarks, is that the
Iraqi Resistance will make a mockery out of US claims that any new
puppet regime "represents the will of the Iraqi people."
Special Report: (Based on an Associated Press dispatch by John J.
Lumpkin)
US occupation forces use electronic jamming techniques to deflect
bombs so they explode among Iraqis while protect their own men.
Next time you read that a roadside bomb exploded near a convoy or
patrol of the US occupation forces, but killed only Iraqi civilians
in the area, you should probably conclude that this was the effect of
technology being deliberately employed by the aggressor forces,
protecting their own men while killing off Iraqi civilians. It's a
method that the Associated Press says has been extensively used by
the Zionists.
In a story for the AP, John Lumpkin reported on 30 January 2004 that
US occupation soldiers riding in convoys in Iraq "are relying on
electronic `jammers' to help protect against the roadside bombs" but
that "sometimes" the jammers only delay the detonation of bombs, and
as a result the explosives go off after the US convoy has passed,
killing Iraqi bystanders.
The jammers work by preventing a remotely transmitted signal - say,
rigged from a cell phone - from detonating an explosive when the
bomber presses the button. Depending on the distance, power, and
design of the jammer, some might prevent the bomb from going off.
Others might instead set it off before or after the convoy passes, so
that the bomb explodes among Iraqi bystanders.
The extent to which the devices are used by the aggressor forces is
secret, but it was this technology that Lumpkin says saved Pakistan's
leader from a recent assassination attempt and it is
definitely "being used in Iraq."
General Peter J. Schoomaker, the US army's chief of staff
acknowledged their use in testimony this week before the House Armed
Services Committee, but he declined to discuss the bomb defenses in
detail. The military does not want to provide useful information to
the Iraqi Resistance. Congressman Gene Taylor, a Democrat from
Mississippi suggested that few are being used. Taylor told
Schoomaker. "The percentage of vehicles that have some form of
electronic jammer — it is minuscule, and I know it, you know it, and
the Iraq insurgents know it." But Schoomaker pointed out that
protection for the occupation troops doesn't depend on universal
use. "Every vehicle doesn't have to be equipped," he said. "You have
to have groups of vehicles that have that kind of capability, under
an umbrella."
Roadside bombs have been primary killers of US occupation troops in
Iraq. Many go off under passing convoys, killing or injuring the
occupants of one of the vehicles. But in some cases, they have gone
off only after a convoy has passed.
That can be a sign that a jammer on one of the vehicles did its job,
said James Atkinson, head of the Granite Island Group, a Gloucester,
Mass.-based security and counterespionage firm.
Anti-bomb jammers have been in use since the early 1980s, Atkinson
said. Depending on their sophistication, jammers can cost from
hundreds to millions of dollars. Most can be powered by a car
engine. Some work by transmitting on frequencies that bombers are
known to use. Guerrillas frequently rig remote-controlled detonators
out of garage door openers, car alarm remotes or cellular phones,
Atkinson said. Others, called barrage jammers, put out signals on a
wide range of frequencies, he said. These will knock cellular phones
and CB radios off the air in a given area. Both kinds can cause a
premature or late detonation of a bomb, or prevent it from going off
entirely.
"When you see a car bomb that goes off several blocks away from its
intended target, it's usually a dead giveaway it was jammed,"
Atkinson said.
Jamming devices carried in the motorcade of Pakistan's President
Pervez Musharraf delayed the detonation of a huge bomb that exploded
moments after his limousine passed over a bridge near the capital 14
December 2003, Pakistani intelligence has said.
Since then, Pakistan has imported more jamming devices for security
of VIPs, a senior government official told The Associated Press on
the condition of anonymity Thursday. He refused to give further
details, including where the devices were imported from, citing
security reasons.
In occupied Palestine, a special unit in the Zionist "Ministry of
Defense" developed jamming technology in the early 1990s and used it
extensively in southern Lebanon in the mid- to late 1990s in an
effort to neutralize roadside charges placed by the Hezb Allah
Resistance. In the end, of course, that effort proved a failure and
the Zionist forces were routed from most of southern Lebanon in May
2000.
It is unclear what defenses exist against other kinds of bombs, such
as those that rely on timers or are hard-wired to a switch. Pakistani
officials claimed their jamming devices also interrupted a timer.
Sources: al-Arab al-Yawm daily newspaper, Amman, Jordan, Saturday, 31
January 2004.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?
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1480
http://www.aljazeera.net/news/arabic/2004/1/1-30-17.htm
http://us.moheet.com/asp/cunt_show.asp?lol=1183173
http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp?
type=topNews&locale=ar_ME&storyID=4252156
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IdNews=23906
Saturday, 31 January 2004.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb planted on a road exploded Saturday as a US
occupation army convoy passed by, killing three US occupation
soldiers, the US military occupation said. A military spokesman said
an improvised bomb blew up about 25 miles southwest of Kirkuk, near a
convoy of the 4th Infantry Division. The bomb was planted on the road
linking Kirkuk with Tikrit. The US military stated that they had
disarmed a second explosive device 300 meters from the main US
regional military base at the occupied Kirkuk airport.
In Mosul an Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded Saturday outside a
puppet police station, killing 13 people and wounding more than 40,
witnesses and hospital staff said. Four of the wounded were high
ranking officers in the puppet police force. Witnesses in Mosul saw
severed limbs and decapitated bodies on the street in front of the
police station. Windows of buildings were shattered and plumes of
smoke could be seen in the area. The façade of the puppet police
station was destroyed by the powerful blast. After the explosion,
occupation forces sealed off the area and streets leading to it. The
commander of the American 101st Airborne Division arrived on the
scene as his soldiers were closing off the area.
Some witnesses, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it appeared
that a car drove through a security barricade in front of the puppet
police station before exploding outside the building.
Eye witness Muhammad `Abd al-Karim, 39, who works in a shop opposite
the puppet police station, said that an Opal car came racing into the
area. He said that the driver was able to get it through a barricade
and then he detonated his car in the huge explosion.
A part of the façade of the building was destroyed and two lower
floors totally devastated. A large concrete block that had been put
in place to guard the police station from attack was blown on top of
the martyrdom car by the force of the blast. In all five cars,
including the martyrdom vehicle, were set ablaze. Al-Jazeera
television network said the pieces of the car apparently carrying the
bomb were found 300 yards away.
Saturday was a pay day and the puppet police station was crowded with
staff at the time of the midmorning attack, said puppet police
Lieutenant Muhammad Fadil
One puppet policeman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the
blast was so powerful that there were casualties not only on the
street but also inside the building. Among the wounded were two
puppet policemen with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, one, with the
rank of Major, and one Lieutenant, according to Dr. Najm `Abdallah
Shu`ayb, head of the Emergency Room at Mosul Hospital. Puppet police
Captain Salim Dawud confirmed Dr. Shu`ayb's information. Another
physician in the hospital, Dr. Haytham `Abdallah, said that four of
the wounded were in serious condition.
The attack occurred a day before the start of the four-day Eid al-
Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice.
A bomb in the al-Baladiyat area of Baghdad on Saturday killed at
least five people including three Palestinians and others were
wounded when the crowded and largely Palestinian neighborhood was
struck by what was apparently a mortar round. A spokesman for the
Palestinian community in the neighborhood told the World Today Radio
(Radiu al-`Alam al-an) that a mortar shell had been fired at an
apartment in a residential building, killing the three people. He
added that more than 1,300 Palestinian families live in al-Baladiyat
neighborhood. Witnesses said that at least seven wounded persons
were taken to hospital.
Late on Saturday evening Reuters said that eyewitnesses in Baghdad
were reporting a second explosion in a Baghdad neighborhood of
Baladiyat that left at least one Iraqi dead and many others injured.
It was the same area where the earlier bomb had gone off.
According to al-Jazeera TV, five Palestinians were killed in the
mortar attack and five others wounded when the first mortar shell
struck the largely Palestinian residential building. A second mortar
round landed between two buildings.
Al-Jazeera's correspondent noted the absence of any Iraqi puppet
police or US occupation troops, as well as the lack of ambulances in
the area of the blast. Al-Baladiyat neighborhood is home to many
Palestinian refugees of the 1948 occupation of Palestine. The al-
Jazeera correspondent said that bodies of those killed had been taken
to the al-Quds mosque and that they would be buried after Eid al-Adha.
The al-Jazeera correspondent said that the President of the
Palestinian National Committee in the area, Dr. Qusay Rif`at said "We
don't wan to accuse any party in particular of being behind this
attack, but we did read on the remnants of the two mortar shells the
sentence `Made in USA.'"
Also on Saturday, a bomb exploded under a senior puppet police
officer's car parked in front of his house in Baghdad. "We woke up
frightened when we heard a big explosion," said puppet police
Colonel `Adnan Radif al-`Ani, who heads a quick response field
collaborating with the occupation. He said the bomb was apparently
triggered by a timer.
"Maybe I was targeted because I am working with the Americans," he
told The Associated Press. The AP claimed that the bomb "slightly
injured" five children in the street.
Abu Ghurayb near Baghdad, site of a US-run concentration camp and
military base, came under mortar attack on Saturday. US forces
returned fire at what they said was the source of the incoming mortar
shells. Houses near the American camp were reportedly damaged.
There was no information on casualties, if any. The US forces keep
no account of Iraqi civilian casualties.
Earlier, Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked US vehicles in the Abu
Ghurayb area. As is standard practice for the American aggressors,
they responded to the attack by randomly opening fire in every
direction. Four Iraqi cars were totally destroyed in the US attack.
Meanwhile in Tazah, an area in the southern part of the city of
Kirkuk, Mahdi Muhammad, deputy chairman of the Turkoman party the
Turkoman Front in Tazah was assassinated and the chairman, Husayn
Mali, seriously injured by unknown gunmen who opened fire on their
car, according to Kirkuk's puppet police commander Major General
Turhan Yusuf. Mali was taken to hospital. The Turkoman Front, like
the Arab ethnic groups in the city, opposes the plans of powerful
Kurdish chauvinist parties (whose leaders sit on the US puppet so-
called Governing Council), to partition Iraq into a "federal state"
and to annex Kirkuk to the Kurdish statelet.
On the day of that assassination, the Iraqi puppet police had been
placed on high alert in anticipation of Resistance attacks Turhan
Yusuf also stated. He told the media that more than 5,000 of his
puppet policemen in 15 police stations in the city had been put a
condition of heightened readiness as the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha
approached.
In Ba`qubah, the Iraqi puppet police reported that a 38-year old
Iraqi named `Abd al-Qadir Salah who was a specialist in the assembly
of electronic appliances, had been killed in a bomb explosion in his
home in the city on Friday evening. They speculate that he had been
trying to assemble a bomb at the time.
In the Haague, the Netherlands, the Dutch newspaper the NRC
Handelsblad reported that more than an hour prior to Friday's rocket
attack on the Dutch embassy in Baghdad, embassy staff were alerted
that an attack that their building was imminent. Three rocket-
propelled grenades struck the embassy on Friday evening. Having
received prior warning, however, the Dutch diplomats were able to
leave the building before the attack occurred. The unnamed Dutch
diplomat in Baghdad who was cited as the source of the story did not
state who it was that alerted the embassy staff. The Dutch Foreign
Ministry had no comment on the report.
On Saturday, the eve of the Islamic festival Eid al-Adha, US
occupation forces released a token number of 120 prisoners from the
Abu Ghurayb concentration camp near Baghdad. In all, the occupation
reportedly has some 28,000 prisoners in its vast network of prison
camps across the country.
Islamic groups in the city of al-Fallujah circulated a declaration on
Saturday outlining their plan for taking over control of Iraqi cities
after the withdrawal of US occupation forces from them. The
declaration said that the US is preparing to retreat in defeat from
the country having been vanquished by the Mujahideen.
The declaration said that the Mujahideen would take control over the
entrances and exits from liberated cities and impose a curfew for a
period of three days. Houses of stooges will be surrounded, and they
will be arrested. "Therefore we advise them to leave Iraq." It said
that "people who are true in the police, security services, and
traffic control will be allowed to continue at their jobs." It said
that "incompetents and former Baathists who had returned to their
jobs in return for becoming lackeys of the occupation will be thrown
out." The declaration threatened to reply harshly to any person who
opens fire on the Mujahideen as they deploy.
The declaration said that there would be formed a "council of the
country made up of all the scholars of Islamic law, medicine,
engineering, and civil law who have not offered their hands to the
occupation."
"This declaration is being observed and anyone who tears it up will
be found out and subjected to a harsh reckoning, however long it
takes," the document warned.
Men with their faces covered distributed the declaration which was
signed by 12 fundamentalist organizations and groups including: The
Iraqi Islamic Patriotic Resistance [al-Muqawamah al-Wataniyah al-
Islamiyah al-`Iraqiyah], the Salafi Movement for Propagation and
Jihad [al-Harakah as-Salafiyah li-d-Da`wah wa-l-Jihad], the al-
Qari`ah Organization [Tanzim al-Qari`ah], the Army of Partisans of
the Sunnah [Jaysh Ansar as-Sunnah], and the Army of Muhammad [Jaysh
Muhammad].
Sources: al-Arab al-Yawm daily newspaper, Amman, Jordan, Sunday, 1
February 2004.
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=23919
http://www.aljazeera.net/news/arabic/2004/2/2-1-1.htm
2.Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 29 January 2004
through Saturday, 31 January 2004. Translated and/or compiled by
Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.
Thursday, 29 January 2004.
One person was killed and some 13 others wounded on Thursday in two
separate attacks on two patrols by the Iraqi puppet police in
vicinity of the cities of Kirkuk and Ba`qubah.
Puppet police Major General Anwar Ahmad Amin told the Agence France
Presse (AFP) that one puppet policeman was killed and another injured
Thursday morning when Iraqi Resistance fighters fired a rocket-
propelled grenade (RPG) at a puppet police checkpoint in the village
of al-Muradiayah, 83km south of Kirkuk
A roadside bomb exploded on Thursday in Ba`qubah, 65km north of
Baghdad, reportedly wounding 11 Iraqis, including at least eight
members of the puppet so-called civil defense forces set up and run
by the US occupation. The injuries of two persons were described as
serious. The explosion was apparently detonated by remote control
and was targeted at an Iraqi puppet police patrol that was passing at
the time. Captain Salar Husayn of the puppet so-called civil defense
forces said that eight members of the collaborationist organization
were wounded in the blast along with two persons who, he said, were
civilians. One of the injured, puppet civil defense force member
Yunus `Ali, said the bomb was placed in an abandoned cart. "When we
got closer to the cart, the explosion took place," he said.
In al-Basrah a spokesman for the British occupation forces who
control the city said that a bomb exploded by the side of a road as a
convoy of local puppet officials was passing by. Three people whom
the spokesman claimed were "passers by" were injured in the blast.
After the explosion in the village south of Kirkuk, puppet police
Major General Shayrgo Shakir announced that the puppet so-called
civil defense forces had raided several villages in the area and had
arrested five people whom he described as "suspects."
Sources:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?
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Friday, 30 January 2004.
Friday evening media sources in the Iraqi capital reported powerful
explosions shook various parts of the city. Initial reports brought
no details about the source of the blasts or the damage or casualties
they might have inflicted, according to television reports from al-
Jazeera satellite TV. A Reuters dispatch said that a roadside bomb
had gone off in the center of Baghdad and that US occupation forces
had cordoned off the area and later left. Reuters said that an
American spokesman had no further details and therefore Reuters
offered no further information either.
Shortly before those powerful explosions, at about 8:30pm local time
(17:30 GMT) Iraqi Resistance fighters fired two rocket-propelled
grenades at the Dutch Embassy in Iraq late on Friday, hitting the
roof with one and setting it on fire. The blaze was quickly
extinguished, and there were no injuries. Security guards and US
occupation soldiers said the projectile detonated on the roof after
the embassy had closed for the day. Another missed the building, and
two other launchers were found in the garden behind the embassy,
guards said.
Guards fired at the Resistance fighters' vehicle but they escaped,
according to embassy guard Karim az-Zubaydi. Dutch Foreign Ministry
spokeswoman Martine de Haan said there were no injuries.
The blast resounded through Baghdad, and a US quick reaction force
from the 1st Armored Division was sent to the scene, the US
occupation command said. Earlier reports said the projectile was a
rocket, but the military said later it was a rocket-propelled grenade.
"We saw the light of the fire on the roof, and the firefighters came
to the scene and put out the fire on the roof," said 18-year-old Fadi
Ghassan, who lives near the embassy. He said he heard two explosions.
The Netherlands has about 1,100 occupation troops in Iraq. The Dutch
Embassy staff were pulled out of Baghdad before the invasion of Iraq
in March, but they returned in August. In October the government
again withdrew most of the staff after an attack on the United
Nations' Baghdad headquarters and other bombings. The embassy is now
conducting most of its business out of Amman, Jordan. Only five
Dutch employees are manning the embassy. Four were in Baghdad Friday,
but none was in the building at the time of the attack, the Dutch
foreign ministry said.
Earlier on Friday, Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked a column of
four US occupation armored vehicles in the city of Mosul, northern
Iraq Friday morning. The Resistance fighters used rocket-propelled
grenades (RPGs) in their attack, which destroyed one of the
vehicles. It is unknown whether there were any casualties among the
American troops. Eye witnesses reported that they saw a Volkswagen
car speeding away from the site of the attack at the time the US
column was passing by.
Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked a checkpoint of the puppet so-
called civil defense forces near Kirkuk on Friday. Puppet "civil
defense" Major General Anwar Hama Amin, the commander of the American
appointed organization, told the Agence France Presse (AFP) that one
of the Resistance fighters was martyred in the attack and another
wounded in the assault. Amin said "six individuals on a pickup truck
attacked a civil defense checkpoint in Sulayman Bak. The members of
the force returned fire hitting one and wounding another. The other
attackers were able to escape."
This was the second attack at a check point in the Kirkuk area in two
days, the day before having witnessed an attack on a check point 90km
south of Kirkuk.
Also in Kirkuk on Friday, US occupation forces defused an explosives-
laden car on the main road south of al-Huwayjah, 50km southwest of
Kirkuk, frequented by American military convoys and oil tank trucks.
The tank trucks make the run up the road taking oil from the Kirkuk
oil fields to the refinery in Bayji.
Iraqi Resistance fighters fired two rocket-propelled grenades at the
Dutch Embassy in Iraq on Friday, hitting the roof with one and
setting it on fire. The blaze was quickly extinguished, and there
were no injuries. Security guards and US occupation soldiers said the
projectile detonated on the roof after the embassy had closed for the
day. Another missed the building, and two other launchers were found
in the garden behind the embassy, guards said.
Guards fired at the Resistance fighters' vehicle but they escaped,
according to embassy guard Karim az-Zubaydi. Dutch Foreign Ministry
spokeswoman Martine de Haan said there were no injuries.
The blast resounded through Baghdad, and a US quick reaction force
from the 1st Armored Division was sent to the scene, the US
occupation command said. Earlier reports said the projectile was a
rocket, but the military said later it was a rocket-propelled grenade.
"We saw the light of the fire on the roof, and the firefighters came
to the scene and put out the fire on the roof," said 18-year-old Fadi
Ghassan, who lives near the embassy. He said he heard two explosions.
The Netherlands has about 1,100 occupation troops in Iraq. The Dutch
Embassy staff were pulled out of Baghdad before the invasion of Iraq
in March, but they returned in August. In October the government
again withdrew most of the staff after an attack on the United
Nations' Baghdad headquarters and other bombings. The embassy is now
conducting most of its business out of Amman, Jordan. Only five
Dutch employees are manning the embassy. Four were in Baghdad Friday,
but none was in the building at the time of the attack, the Dutch
foreign ministry said.
In al-Khalidiyah, 80km west of Baghdad, some 700 people rallied to
demand that the American occupation forces lift the curfew imposed on
their town and that the aggressor forces halt their house raids and
free the citizens whom they've taken prisoner. The AFP reported that
the demonstrators started their march through the streets of the town
after afternoon prayers in the Mosque of Khalid ibn al-Walid, and
rallied in front of the American military position in the area. No
clashes were reported.
`Abd ar-Rahman Ibrahim, Imam of the mosque said that the peaceful
march had been arranged because "the Americans have turned the town
into a field of operations. They fire guns at houses and have
arrested a number of women. There's a dusk-to-dawn curfew too.
Where are those who fall ill supposed to go?" The Imam said that the
Americans had imposed the curfew three days previous after three
occupation soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division were killed in a
roadside bombing.
An official in the Iraqi oil industry has reported that Resistance
fighters attacked an oil pipeline carrying crude oil from a Kirkuk
oilfield to the main refinery area in Bayji and ad-Durah on Friday
morning. The Dow Jones network quoted an official as saying that an
explosion occurred near al-Fatihah area, 240km north of Baghdad. The
source noted that the blast did not affect the refining industry,
since there is sufficient reserves, he claimed, to continue supplying
the refineries for a few days.
In ar-Ramadi, west of Baghdad, an number of shopkeepers have reported
receiving threats that said that if they did not stop working with
the Americans within 10 days they would be killed.
Meanwhile the US military commander of the so-called Central Command,
General John Abizaid, expressed the expectation that Iraqi Resistance
activities would increase as summer approaches. The American
commander linked the expected increase in Resistance to the American
plan for a show in mid-summer of a so-called "transfer of power" to
Iraqis.
US sources now admit that the US occupation of Iraq will continue at
least until 2006. But since the current regime in the occupied
country, in which US proconsul L. Paul Bremer oversees a puppet so-
called governing council, is obviously a US imperial imposition on
the country, the "transfer of power" charade is aimed at setting up
an alternative puppet government that other western powers will be
willing to recognize, thereby granting the US occupation the
legitimacy, cover, and help that it wants as it sets about remaking
the map of the Arab region. Such at any rate, is Washington's hope.
Washington's fear, as reflected in Abizaid's remarks, is that the
Iraqi Resistance will make a mockery out of US claims that any new
puppet regime "represents the will of the Iraqi people."
Special Report: (Based on an Associated Press dispatch by John J.
Lumpkin)
US occupation forces use electronic jamming techniques to deflect
bombs so they explode among Iraqis while protect their own men.
Next time you read that a roadside bomb exploded near a convoy or
patrol of the US occupation forces, but killed only Iraqi civilians
in the area, you should probably conclude that this was the effect of
technology being deliberately employed by the aggressor forces,
protecting their own men while killing off Iraqi civilians. It's a
method that the Associated Press says has been extensively used by
the Zionists.
In a story for the AP, John Lumpkin reported on 30 January 2004 that
US occupation soldiers riding in convoys in Iraq "are relying on
electronic `jammers' to help protect against the roadside bombs" but
that "sometimes" the jammers only delay the detonation of bombs, and
as a result the explosives go off after the US convoy has passed,
killing Iraqi bystanders.
The jammers work by preventing a remotely transmitted signal - say,
rigged from a cell phone - from detonating an explosive when the
bomber presses the button. Depending on the distance, power, and
design of the jammer, some might prevent the bomb from going off.
Others might instead set it off before or after the convoy passes, so
that the bomb explodes among Iraqi bystanders.
The extent to which the devices are used by the aggressor forces is
secret, but it was this technology that Lumpkin says saved Pakistan's
leader from a recent assassination attempt and it is
definitely "being used in Iraq."
General Peter J. Schoomaker, the US army's chief of staff
acknowledged their use in testimony this week before the House Armed
Services Committee, but he declined to discuss the bomb defenses in
detail. The military does not want to provide useful information to
the Iraqi Resistance. Congressman Gene Taylor, a Democrat from
Mississippi suggested that few are being used. Taylor told
Schoomaker. "The percentage of vehicles that have some form of
electronic jammer — it is minuscule, and I know it, you know it, and
the Iraq insurgents know it." But Schoomaker pointed out that
protection for the occupation troops doesn't depend on universal
use. "Every vehicle doesn't have to be equipped," he said. "You have
to have groups of vehicles that have that kind of capability, under
an umbrella."
Roadside bombs have been primary killers of US occupation troops in
Iraq. Many go off under passing convoys, killing or injuring the
occupants of one of the vehicles. But in some cases, they have gone
off only after a convoy has passed.
That can be a sign that a jammer on one of the vehicles did its job,
said James Atkinson, head of the Granite Island Group, a Gloucester,
Mass.-based security and counterespionage firm.
Anti-bomb jammers have been in use since the early 1980s, Atkinson
said. Depending on their sophistication, jammers can cost from
hundreds to millions of dollars. Most can be powered by a car
engine. Some work by transmitting on frequencies that bombers are
known to use. Guerrillas frequently rig remote-controlled detonators
out of garage door openers, car alarm remotes or cellular phones,
Atkinson said. Others, called barrage jammers, put out signals on a
wide range of frequencies, he said. These will knock cellular phones
and CB radios off the air in a given area. Both kinds can cause a
premature or late detonation of a bomb, or prevent it from going off
entirely.
"When you see a car bomb that goes off several blocks away from its
intended target, it's usually a dead giveaway it was jammed,"
Atkinson said.
Jamming devices carried in the motorcade of Pakistan's President
Pervez Musharraf delayed the detonation of a huge bomb that exploded
moments after his limousine passed over a bridge near the capital 14
December 2003, Pakistani intelligence has said.
Since then, Pakistan has imported more jamming devices for security
of VIPs, a senior government official told The Associated Press on
the condition of anonymity Thursday. He refused to give further
details, including where the devices were imported from, citing
security reasons.
In occupied Palestine, a special unit in the Zionist "Ministry of
Defense" developed jamming technology in the early 1990s and used it
extensively in southern Lebanon in the mid- to late 1990s in an
effort to neutralize roadside charges placed by the Hezb Allah
Resistance. In the end, of course, that effort proved a failure and
the Zionist forces were routed from most of southern Lebanon in May
2000.
It is unclear what defenses exist against other kinds of bombs, such
as those that rely on timers or are hard-wired to a switch. Pakistani
officials claimed their jamming devices also interrupted a timer.
Sources: al-Arab al-Yawm daily newspaper, Amman, Jordan, Saturday, 31
January 2004.
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Saturday, 31 January 2004.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb planted on a road exploded Saturday as a US
occupation army convoy passed by, killing three US occupation
soldiers, the US military occupation said. A military spokesman said
an improvised bomb blew up about 25 miles southwest of Kirkuk, near a
convoy of the 4th Infantry Division. The bomb was planted on the road
linking Kirkuk with Tikrit. The US military stated that they had
disarmed a second explosive device 300 meters from the main US
regional military base at the occupied Kirkuk airport.
In Mosul an Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded Saturday outside a
puppet police station, killing 13 people and wounding more than 40,
witnesses and hospital staff said. Four of the wounded were high
ranking officers in the puppet police force. Witnesses in Mosul saw
severed limbs and decapitated bodies on the street in front of the
police station. Windows of buildings were shattered and plumes of
smoke could be seen in the area. The façade of the puppet police
station was destroyed by the powerful blast. After the explosion,
occupation forces sealed off the area and streets leading to it. The
commander of the American 101st Airborne Division arrived on the
scene as his soldiers were closing off the area.
Some witnesses, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it appeared
that a car drove through a security barricade in front of the puppet
police station before exploding outside the building.
Eye witness Muhammad `Abd al-Karim, 39, who works in a shop opposite
the puppet police station, said that an Opal car came racing into the
area. He said that the driver was able to get it through a barricade
and then he detonated his car in the huge explosion.
A part of the façade of the building was destroyed and two lower
floors totally devastated. A large concrete block that had been put
in place to guard the police station from attack was blown on top of
the martyrdom car by the force of the blast. In all five cars,
including the martyrdom vehicle, were set ablaze. Al-Jazeera
television network said the pieces of the car apparently carrying the
bomb were found 300 yards away.
Saturday was a pay day and the puppet police station was crowded with
staff at the time of the midmorning attack, said puppet police
Lieutenant Muhammad Fadil
One puppet policeman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the
blast was so powerful that there were casualties not only on the
street but also inside the building. Among the wounded were two
puppet policemen with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, one, with the
rank of Major, and one Lieutenant, according to Dr. Najm `Abdallah
Shu`ayb, head of the Emergency Room at Mosul Hospital. Puppet police
Captain Salim Dawud confirmed Dr. Shu`ayb's information. Another
physician in the hospital, Dr. Haytham `Abdallah, said that four of
the wounded were in serious condition.
The attack occurred a day before the start of the four-day Eid al-
Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice.
A bomb in the al-Baladiyat area of Baghdad on Saturday killed at
least five people including three Palestinians and others were
wounded when the crowded and largely Palestinian neighborhood was
struck by what was apparently a mortar round. A spokesman for the
Palestinian community in the neighborhood told the World Today Radio
(Radiu al-`Alam al-an) that a mortar shell had been fired at an
apartment in a residential building, killing the three people. He
added that more than 1,300 Palestinian families live in al-Baladiyat
neighborhood. Witnesses said that at least seven wounded persons
were taken to hospital.
Late on Saturday evening Reuters said that eyewitnesses in Baghdad
were reporting a second explosion in a Baghdad neighborhood of
Baladiyat that left at least one Iraqi dead and many others injured.
It was the same area where the earlier bomb had gone off.
According to al-Jazeera TV, five Palestinians were killed in the
mortar attack and five others wounded when the first mortar shell
struck the largely Palestinian residential building. A second mortar
round landed between two buildings.
Al-Jazeera's correspondent noted the absence of any Iraqi puppet
police or US occupation troops, as well as the lack of ambulances in
the area of the blast. Al-Baladiyat neighborhood is home to many
Palestinian refugees of the 1948 occupation of Palestine. The al-
Jazeera correspondent said that bodies of those killed had been taken
to the al-Quds mosque and that they would be buried after Eid al-Adha.
The al-Jazeera correspondent said that the President of the
Palestinian National Committee in the area, Dr. Qusay Rif`at said "We
don't wan to accuse any party in particular of being behind this
attack, but we did read on the remnants of the two mortar shells the
sentence `Made in USA.'"
Also on Saturday, a bomb exploded under a senior puppet police
officer's car parked in front of his house in Baghdad. "We woke up
frightened when we heard a big explosion," said puppet police
Colonel `Adnan Radif al-`Ani, who heads a quick response field
collaborating with the occupation. He said the bomb was apparently
triggered by a timer.
"Maybe I was targeted because I am working with the Americans," he
told The Associated Press. The AP claimed that the bomb "slightly
injured" five children in the street.
Abu Ghurayb near Baghdad, site of a US-run concentration camp and
military base, came under mortar attack on Saturday. US forces
returned fire at what they said was the source of the incoming mortar
shells. Houses near the American camp were reportedly damaged.
There was no information on casualties, if any. The US forces keep
no account of Iraqi civilian casualties.
Earlier, Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked US vehicles in the Abu
Ghurayb area. As is standard practice for the American aggressors,
they responded to the attack by randomly opening fire in every
direction. Four Iraqi cars were totally destroyed in the US attack.
Meanwhile in Tazah, an area in the southern part of the city of
Kirkuk, Mahdi Muhammad, deputy chairman of the Turkoman party the
Turkoman Front in Tazah was assassinated and the chairman, Husayn
Mali, seriously injured by unknown gunmen who opened fire on their
car, according to Kirkuk's puppet police commander Major General
Turhan Yusuf. Mali was taken to hospital. The Turkoman Front, like
the Arab ethnic groups in the city, opposes the plans of powerful
Kurdish chauvinist parties (whose leaders sit on the US puppet so-
called Governing Council), to partition Iraq into a "federal state"
and to annex Kirkuk to the Kurdish statelet.
On the day of that assassination, the Iraqi puppet police had been
placed on high alert in anticipation of Resistance attacks Turhan
Yusuf also stated. He told the media that more than 5,000 of his
puppet policemen in 15 police stations in the city had been put a
condition of heightened readiness as the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha
approached.
In Ba`qubah, the Iraqi puppet police reported that a 38-year old
Iraqi named `Abd al-Qadir Salah who was a specialist in the assembly
of electronic appliances, had been killed in a bomb explosion in his
home in the city on Friday evening. They speculate that he had been
trying to assemble a bomb at the time.
In the Haague, the Netherlands, the Dutch newspaper the NRC
Handelsblad reported that more than an hour prior to Friday's rocket
attack on the Dutch embassy in Baghdad, embassy staff were alerted
that an attack that their building was imminent. Three rocket-
propelled grenades struck the embassy on Friday evening. Having
received prior warning, however, the Dutch diplomats were able to
leave the building before the attack occurred. The unnamed Dutch
diplomat in Baghdad who was cited as the source of the story did not
state who it was that alerted the embassy staff. The Dutch Foreign
Ministry had no comment on the report.
On Saturday, the eve of the Islamic festival Eid al-Adha, US
occupation forces released a token number of 120 prisoners from the
Abu Ghurayb concentration camp near Baghdad. In all, the occupation
reportedly has some 28,000 prisoners in its vast network of prison
camps across the country.
Islamic groups in the city of al-Fallujah circulated a declaration on
Saturday outlining their plan for taking over control of Iraqi cities
after the withdrawal of US occupation forces from them. The
declaration said that the US is preparing to retreat in defeat from
the country having been vanquished by the Mujahideen.
The declaration said that the Mujahideen would take control over the
entrances and exits from liberated cities and impose a curfew for a
period of three days. Houses of stooges will be surrounded, and they
will be arrested. "Therefore we advise them to leave Iraq." It said
that "people who are true in the police, security services, and
traffic control will be allowed to continue at their jobs." It said
that "incompetents and former Baathists who had returned to their
jobs in return for becoming lackeys of the occupation will be thrown
out." The declaration threatened to reply harshly to any person who
opens fire on the Mujahideen as they deploy.
The declaration said that there would be formed a "council of the
country made up of all the scholars of Islamic law, medicine,
engineering, and civil law who have not offered their hands to the
occupation."
"This declaration is being observed and anyone who tears it up will
be found out and subjected to a harsh reckoning, however long it
takes," the document warned.
Men with their faces covered distributed the declaration which was
signed by 12 fundamentalist organizations and groups including: The
Iraqi Islamic Patriotic Resistance [al-Muqawamah al-Wataniyah al-
Islamiyah al-`Iraqiyah], the Salafi Movement for Propagation and
Jihad [al-Harakah as-Salafiyah li-d-Da`wah wa-l-Jihad], the al-
Qari`ah Organization [Tanzim al-Qari`ah], the Army of Partisans of
the Sunnah [Jaysh Ansar as-Sunnah], and the Army of Muhammad [Jaysh
Muhammad].
Sources: al-Arab al-Yawm daily newspaper, Amman, Jordan, Sunday, 1
February 2004.
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Iraqi Resistance Data Report for Sunday, 18 January 2004 through
Saturday, 24 January 2004.
http://www.geocities.com/iraqiresistancesolidarity/data.html
The following report brings together data from two opposite sources.
The first is the Hasad al-Muqawamah al-Iraqiyah (Harvest of the Iraqi
Resistance) issued by the Iraqi Resistance. The second is the Iraqi
Resistance Log, compiled by the Free Palestine Information Agency,
which uses media sources as well as the Summary of Security
Incidents, an internal security document issued by the American
occupation authorities.
Although these accounts are not mutually consistent, we hope, by
publicizing them, to help overcome the information blackout imposed
by the American occupation and the imperialist-Zionist media at their
disposal. We also hope to show that regardless of what sources are
used for information on the Iraqi Resistance, that Resistance is
clearly continuing unabated and forging ahead as it inflicts mounting
casualties on the invaders.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial
board of the Free Arab Voice. Iraqi Resistance Log compiled by Free
Palestine Information Agency.
Hasad al-Muqawamah al-Iraqiyah.
Sunday, 18 January 2004.
1) An attack on an American military patrol outside the city of ad-
Diwaniyah south of Baghdad left one American soldier dead and three
others wounded. A Humvee was damaged.
2) An attack on an American military patrol drawn into a pre-arranged
ambush with explosives north of the city of Tikrit left two American
soldiers dead and four others wounded. Three various vehicles were
destroyed.
3) A Mercedes car was detonated by remote control as an American
military patrol was passing by it in the middle of the city of
Tikrit. The blast left two American soldiers dead, three others
wounded, and destroyed a Humvee.
4) An explosives-laden car was detonated by remote control as a
British patrol was passing by in the city of al-Basrah, leaving one
British soldier dead and two others seriously wounded. A Landrover
was destroyed.
5) An attack on a joint inspection roadblock near the city of al-
Huwayjah, 60km west of Kirkuk left two dead, including one American.
Six others, including two Americans, were injured. One tank and one
Humvee were set ablaze.
6) A qualitative martyrdom attack with a Helix vehicle carrying half
a ton of explosives on the headquarters of the American forces
command in the Presidential Palace that includes offices and
residences of the American civil governor L. Paul Bremer and the
command of the American forces left 25 persons dead, including 15
American officers and men. More than 130 others were wounded, among
them 120 American officers and men. In addition, two tanks and four
various military vehicles were destroyed and the gate of the palace
was damaged. A communiqué issued by the Resistance Forces Command
announced: "The Resistance is challenging the occupation forces in
broad daylight and in its best-defended position. Our Iraqi people
will see many of these jihadist epics in coming days."
Source: http://www.albasrah.net/moqawama/maqalat/hasad_24012004.htm
Iraqi Resistance Log
Sunday, 18 January 2004.
Occupation forces reported suffering 3 killed and 17 wounded in Iraq
today. 1 US soldier and 2 puppet Police were killed in Iraq. 3 US
soldiers, 3 US "civilians", 2 puppet police, 2 puppet so-called civil
defense force troops, 2 British troops were all wounded in Iraq. In
addition, 3 US soldiers were wounded in Afghanistan. The US
imperialist Central Command (Centcom) reported 3 US soldiers were
wounded in Iraq today and the media reported the same. 2 Kellog,
Brown & Root (KBR) company contractor convoys were attacked. There
were 40 security incidents in Iraq today. The media only reported 7
of these incidents!
A massive vehicle martyrdom attack struck the very gates of US
headquarters, sending Baghdad reeling in chaos. In starting new
developments, Iraqi puppet policemen who were actually Resistance
fighters reportedly set up a Resistance fighter checkpoint in Bayji,
along with other Resistance fighters. This is a hopeful sign because
Resistance fighter checkpoints usually mean an entrenched
insurgency. In another positive development, after repeated failed
attempts, a small group of Resistance fighters on foot reportedly
managed to penetrate a US occupation base perimeter! They remained
inside the perimeter for some time, vanishing and reappearing on 3
separate occasions. Foot penetration of a US military base is a sign
of a highly skilled force.
1:30 AM: Several Resistance fighters were arrested in the ash-Sha`b
District of Baghdad. Their vehicle was tested for explosives. Testing
revealed that the vehicle had been used recently to transport bombs.
7:45 AM: Mortar attack on the Abu Ghurayb Prison.
8 AM: At least 31 killed and 180 wounded when a vehicle martyrdom
operation caused a massive blast outside the Assassin's Gate entrance
to the US occupation headquarters which they call the "Green Zone" in
Baghdad. According to US reports, all of the 31 killed were Iraqis -
29 Iraqi "civilians" and 2 Iraqi puppet police. 174 Iraqis were
wounded including 1 member of the puppet so-called civil defense
forces. 6 Americans were reported wounded, 3 US contractors and 3 US
soldiers. Most of the Iraqi victims were collaborators lining up to
go into the Green Zone to work.
Troops opened fire after the blast. 7 cars were set ablaze. A pickup
truck, the same model used by many US officials and their guests,
tried to cut to the front of the line at the gate. As a soldier
approached to search the truck, the 1000 lb. bomb inside exploded 100
yards from the checkpoint. Assassin's Gate is located next to a
former Presidential Palace in the very center of Baghdad. The
buildings inside the Green Zone suffered only superficial damage.
This is the first car bombing to occur inside the Green Zone itself.
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8 AM: Mortar attack on a US base near Miqdadiyah.
9 AM: Roadside bomb attack on a British convoy in al-Basrah wounded 2
British troops and 2 Iraqi puppet police. A bomb inside a small
package went off as the patrol approached a road crossing.
9 AM: Roadside bomb attack on a US patrol near Bayji.
12 PM: An armed Resistance fighter tried to run a Danish occupation
checkpoint 24 miles north of Al-Basrah near ar-Rumaylah. Danish
troops opened fire on the vehicle.
12:39 PM: Sniper attack on a US soldier on a base in Mosul. The
sniper singled out one soldier for attack.
1:45 PM: A Resistance fighter tossed a grenade with TNT strapped to
it into the back of a pickup truck in the az-Za`faraniyah District of
Baghdad. The device exploded after it landed in the back of the
truck. Puppet police arrested the Resistance fighter. It was unknown
why the truck was targeted.
2:30 PM: Assassination attempt on Salem Hajj `Isa, a Mosul puppet
City Council member. Resistance fighters in a vehicle pulled up next
to `Isa's vehicle and opened fire. `Isa was unharmed but 2 of his
bodyguards were seriously wounded.
2:30 PM: Small arms attack on a US patrol near Balad.
3 PM: US sources reported a small arms attack on civilians driving
several tractor-trailer rigs along Highway 1 near Balad by resistance
fighters in a vehicle. Circumstances of the alleged attack are
unclear.
4 PM: Small arms attack on a Kellog, Brown & Root (KBR) truck near ad-
Dujayl. Resistance fighters in 2 vehicles drove up on both sides of
the truck and opened fire. KBR is a subsidiary of the Halliburton
company associated with US vice president Dick Cheney.
4:30 PM: Drive-by shooting attack on civilians applying for jobs at
the local puppet so-called civil defense force headquarters in Tuz.
4:45 PM: Mortar attack on a US base in the Mazra`ah District of
Baghdad.
5 PM: Small arms attack on a puppet so-called civil defense force
checkpoint on the western outskirts of Balad along Highway 1. 2
puppet force soldiers were killed and 1 more was wounded.
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