{"article":{"id":97403,"heading":"Iraqi Resistance Report Dec. 11-13 2003","author":"Comrade Abu Nasr, Posted by the IRSN","created":"2003-12-16 04:44:53","modified":"2013-11-11 00:28:01","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:28:01","article":"

Iraqi Resistance Report for Thursday, 11 December 2003 through

Sunday, 14 December 2003. Translated and\/or compiled by Muhammad Abu

Nasr, member editorial board of the Free Arab Voice.

Thursday, 11 December 2003.

One American occupation soldier was killed and 14 others wounded when

three martyrdom attackers driving a furniture truck blew themselves

up at the gates of a US occupation army base in ar-Ramadi, 100km west

of Baghdad, on Thursday.

All day Thursday the US military refused to provide information on

casualties resulting from the attack and only late in the evening

produced the official tally of one dead and 14 injured.

The three martyrdom attackers were also killed.

A spokeswoman for the occupation forces said that the Resistance

attack occurred at the 82nd Airborne Division base at about 1:30pm

Three wounded soldiers were evacuated from the headquarters of the

82nd Airborne Division west of Baghdad to a combat hospital and the

other 11 wounded were treated and returned to duty, the US occupation

forces reported.

Thursday, the American military reported one US occupation soldier

drowned and another was missing after a patrol boat accident on the

Tigris River in Baghdad. \"The soldiers were conducting routine

patrols on the Tigris River when one of the soldiers fell overboard,

and the other soldier jumped in to save him,\" the US imperial Central

Command said in a statement. The incident occurred Wednesday, and

the drowned soldier from the Army's 1st Armored Division was found

Thursday morning, the statement said.

Agence France Presse reported that in Baghdad, two journalists from

the US weekly newsmagazine Time and two American soldiers were

wounded by a grenade explosion while on a military patrol in Baghdad,

a military spokesman revealed on Thursday. \"They were participating

in a patrol in the 1\/AD [i.e., 1st Armored Division] area in Baghdad

along with two other soldiers,\" he told a press briefing on

Thursday. \"An individual threw a grenade into the Humvee.\" One of

the journalists was seriously hurt and the other slightly in the

A'zamiya area of north Baghdad at about 10:00 pm (1900 GMT) on

Wednesday, according to the spokesman. Both men were to be

transferred to a hospital in Germany.

Time senior correspondent Michael Weisskopf and contributing

photographer James Nachtwey were traveling with a US occupation army

patrol in Baghdad on Wednesday night when the attack occurred, a

statement from Time managing editor Jim Kelly said.

A military spokesman said they were with a unit of the Army's 1st

Armored Division.

In response to the rising tide of Resistance struggle, US occupation

forces staged raids and searches in the cities of al-Fallujah and

Tikrit. The occupiers meted out harsh treatment to local civilians

arresting dozens who were taken off to interrogation sessions. Women

and children were terrorized as the Americans fired automatic weapons

into the doors of houses to break them down, and then ransacked the

homes as helicopter gunships hovered menacingly overhead and

warplanes broke the sound barrier and fired missiles around the area

being raided in an effort to spread panic. Residents of al-Fallujah

were quoted by the Jordanian daily al-Arab al-Yawm as saying that the

behavior of the occupation forces was unbearable and unacceptable,

noting that the atmosphere in the city was now tense in the extreme.

One said that the situation in al-Fallujah is now like the calm

before a storm.

In Tikrit, occupation forces claimed to have arrested three

commanders in the Saddam's Fedayeen Resistance organization and to

have confiscated large quantities of weapons and explosives during a

campaign of raids and searches in the city where again the population

was terrorized and various forms of intimidation were employed by the

aggressor occupation forces against unarmed civilians including women

and children.

In Baaqubah US occupation forces together with puppet police raided a

number of buildings and arrested 16 men. Twenty-eight AK-47

Kalashnikov assault rifles were seized as well as what was described

as \"bomb-making materials.\"

Shortly after these raids a hand grenade was thrown from one of the

houses wounding an American occupation soldier. After the attack the

aggressor troops returned and arrested two individuals.

Ghazi at-Talabani, director of the puppet Northern Field Protection

Force, which guards oil pipelines in northern Iraq on behalf of the

occupation forces, said an explosion set a pipeline ablaze, forcing

officials to halt the flow. He said the pipeline links the Bayji

refinery in northern Iraq with the ad-Dura refinery near Baghdad.

An official of the US occupation forces, speaking on condition of

anonymity, said a pipeline between Bayji and ad-Dura was sabotaged

late Tuesday or early Wednesday. It was unclear, the Associated Press

reported, whether the official was referring to the same incident.

Iraqi Resistance forces wounded two members of the Iraqi puppet so-

called Civil Defence Force Thursday in separate attacks in the

Baaqubah region, 60km northeast of Baghdad, an occupation security

source and one of the victims said.

Mohammed Shannan, 35, suffered bullet wounds in the stomach and leg

in a drive-by shooting at 8:00 am (0500 GMT) as he was leaving his

house, puppet police Lieutenant Shaker Mahmud said. The incident

occurred 20km west of Baaqubah, he added.

In Baaqubah itself, 'Uday Subhi told AFP he was wounded in the foot

when a grenade thrown by Resistance fighters exploded. The incident

followed search operations in which he took part in the Tahrir

residential quarter in the centre of town.

In Samarra', north of Baghdad, two members of the puppet so-called

Civil Defense Corps were shot and killed overnight while on patrol,

witnesses said Thursday.

The American newspaper The Washington Post reported on Thursday that

the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is working to set

up an Iraqi intelligence service to spy on groups and individuals

inside Iraq that are targeting US occupation troops and

collaborators. The paper quoted unidentified American officials as

saying that the CIA plans to set up the new service with help from

Jordan. Two members of an Iraqi exile group are at CIA headquarters

in Virginia this week to work out details of the new program, the

Post said.

The Washington Post story said that Iraqi puppet \"Interior Minister\"

Nouri Badran, whom it described as a secular Shiite Muslim, has been

selected to be the initial head of the service. Badran has

collaborated with the CIA over the past decade to incite coups

against the Iraqi government of President Saddam Hussein. Badran and

fellow Iraqi exile Ayad Alawi hope to recruit former officials of the

Saddam Hussein regime for the service, an approach opposed by some

Pentagon officials and Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National

Congress, the Post said.

As the Iraqi Resistance Report noted among the events of Wednesday,

10 December 2003, one US Apache helicopter was shot down by the Iraqi

Resistance near Mosul. The Associated Press on Thursday published

reports that shed light on how the occupation military seek to cover

up their loses in Iraq by labeling them as \"accidents\"

and \"malfunctions.\"

Although, as the Iraqi Resistance Report noted, an eyewitness told

the Jordanian paper al-Arab al-Yawm that the helicopter was brought

down by a missile, the AP reported that initially an

American \"military spokesman had insisted that the helicopter was

forced to crash land Wednesday because of mechanical failure and that

the uninjured crew reported no ground fire. But a commander later

said that he didn't know whether ground fire brought down the 101st

Airborne Division helicopter. The Apache came down near a highway

south of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city. Troops guarding the site

Thursday morning said the chopper had been hit by enemy fire. They

asked not to be identified.\" (See AP report:

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Sources: al-Arab al-Yawm daily newspaper, Amman, Jordan, Friday, 12

December 2003.

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Friday, 12 December 2003.

The Iraqi Resistance fired a salvo of mortar shells at the

headquarters of the occupation troops shortly after midnight on

Friday morning in the first attack against the US occupiers' seat of

power since the Americans mounted a massive counteroffensive against

the Resistance last month.

Loud explosions boomed through central Baghdad and sirens wailed in

the compound housing the headquarters of the US-led occupation

forces. Smoke rose inside the compound, known as the \"Green Zone.\" A

spokeswoman for the occupation forces, speaking on condition of

anonymity, said US officials were aware of explosions but did not

know the location.

A spokesman for the occupation forces said he heard three

explosions. \"I heard what appeared to be incoming mortar rounds,\"

Charles Krohn, a U.S. defense spokesman, said by telephone from his

room inside the Green Zone. \"I was shaken and I heard a couple of

thumps. I felt the vibrations.\" The Green Zone is surrounded by 2-

meter high concrete walls.

Residents in the city reported hearing four explosions and saw at

least two columns of smoke rising from near the building of the

American command on the west bank of the Tigris River. News agencies

reported that four mortar rounds landed on the headquarters causing

damage to some of the buildings. Two American occupation troops were

wounded by shrapnel from the mortar shells according to a statement

by one US military spokesperson. A military spokeswoman maintained

however that the injuries were slight and none was life threatening.

Iraqi Resistance fighters detonated a bomb alongside a US military

occupation convoy west of Baghdad on Friday, killing one soldier and

wounding two others, the military said. The bomb attack occurred at

6:30 a.m. in ar-Ramadi, about 60 miles west of the Iraqi capital, the

US imperial Central Command said. One of the injured soldiers was

evacuated to a combat hospital and died of his wounds. His name, and

the names of the wounded, were withheld pending notification of next

of kin.

Separately, another soldier died in Baghdad from what was described

as a \"non-hostile\" gunshot wound.

Two Polish occupation troops were wounded on Friday in an explosion

on the road to al-Hillah, a few kilometers north of the city. The

vehicle in which they were traveling was destroyed. A second bomb

exploded a few hours later and a few kilometers away, but according

to an occupation spokesman, that blast which detonated between two

Polish military vehicles only inflicted damaged on the vehicles.

The bomb, reportedly made from a land mine, exploded on the outskirts

of the city of Mahawil as a 19-person Polish convoy drove by on

Friday. Warrant Officer Tomasz Kloc was seriously wounded in the

stomach and was evacuated to Baghdad. Sergeant Boguslaw Wasik

suffered less severe injuries and received treatment at the scene

according to Polish Major General Andrzej Tyszkiewicz who spoke to

Poland's TVN24.

One Iraqi puppet policeman was killed and another injured, as were

two civilians, when an explosive device detonated on the road to al-

Haswah, south of Baghdad. It appears that the blast was aimed at an

American military patrol, as there was a US convoy 200 meters from

the scene of the explosion. An Iraqi puppet policeman, Bashshar

Karim Khalaf told Agence France Presse (AFP) that the blast occurred

on a route regularly used by the US occupation forces.

In the village of Bayiji, near Kirkuk, an official in the puppet

police announced that the occupation forces on Friday disarmed four

bombs just one kilometer from an American military base in the area.

A witness reported to the AFP that one man was arrested on Friday

while trying to plant a bomb at al-Musawi Shiite mosque in a busy

section of central Baghdad. The mosque guard who asked not to be

identified said that two men who accompanied the man who tried to

plant the bomb managed to escape.

Meanwhile Sunni and Shiite religious leaders in their sermons on

Friday tried to head off sectarian violence that had become more

significant lately with a number of attacks on Sunni or Shiite

mosques in the country, following a more open US interest in the

prospect of partitioning the country along religious and ethnic

lines. The religious leaders called on their followers to use

restraint and accused the occupation forces of being behind the

exacerbation of violence among Muslims and of encouraging sectarian,

extremist, and hostile attitudes. Sunni and Shiite religious leaders

also held a meeting on Friday to discuss ways to halt the worsening

sectarian situation.

Sources: al-Arab al-Yawm daily newspaper, Amman, Jordan, Saturday 13

December 2003.

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Saturday, 13 December 2003.

Islam Memo reports that the information media carry a story that an

American armored vehicle was destroyed Saturday when an American

occupation patrol came under attack by the Iraqi Resistance who used

rocket-propelled grenades in the as-Sabhani area of the Iraqi city of

al-Hadithah.

The sources told the Saudi News Agency WAS that US occupation forces

evacuated their wounded from the attack, and that a number of Iraqi

citizens kept pieces of the destroyed armored vehicle as trophies.

Meanwhile, members of an Iraqi family suffered wounds and broken

bones when their car was smashed by an American occupation tank on

the main highway leading to the city of al-Hadithah.

US occupation forces claim to have shot and killed an Iraqi youth

late on Saturday night after he shot at the Americans from a speeding

car. A second individual, the driver of the car, said that neither

of them had shot at the Americans but were firing an AK-47

Kalashnikov assault rifle into the air as part of a celebration of a

wedding.

The occupation troops told journalists who arrived on the scene

before the Americans imposed a curfew in the area that the deceased

was a young man in his early twenties and that he was struck by four

bullets in the head.

An Iraqi puppet policeman, charged with enforcing the rationing of

gasoline as decreed by the puppet Iraqi oil ministry, opened fire

Saturday on a taxi cab driver in Baaqubah, hitting him in the head

according to the victim, Salman Najras. The incident occurred in

front of a gasoline station when the driver was arguing with one of

the gasoline sellers about the black-market price of a can of

gasoline. At that point the puppet policeman approached and found

the argument to be \"suspicious.\" Seeing the puppet policeman

approaching, Salman Najras immediately took off in his taxi, at which

point the puppet policeman fired at him, wounding him in the head.

Najras said that he would undergo surgery on Monday for the removal

of the bullet.

Puppet police lieutenant Haydar Ahmad told journalists that he had

not received any instructions about opening fire on those who disobey.

Iraqi puppet authorities decided on Wednesday to begin a campaign

against the sale of gasoline on the black market in order to try to

reduce the shortfall in supply of petroleum products.

In Tblisi, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, the

American ambassador, Richard Miles announced that the new government

of Georgia would be sending 500 additional soldiers to Iraq at the

beginning of summer to join the special unit of forces that now

numbers 70 members and includes medical doctors and mine removal

specialists.

The American ambassador told a group of Georgian military personnel

who had just completed a course of training with American military

advisers that 200 Georgian soldiers would soon be going to Iraq while

the remainder would head there at the beginning of summer.

At present the Tblisi government pays between US$400 and US$600 as a

monthly salary to the soldiers currently stationed in occupied Iraq,

while the United States picks up the tab for the cost of uniforms,

supplies and expenses of the Georgian soldiers.

Presumably it is this financial arrangement – together with the

dependent state of the Georgian regime – that led to the surreal

situation in which Georgian military men were informed of their

intended deployments abroad, not by their Georgian commanders nor by

representatives of their Georgian government, but by the American

ambassador, who evidently has more information and outranks the local

military and civilian officials.

Sources: al-Arab al-Yawm daily newspaper, Amman, Jordan, Sunday, 14

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Sunday, 14 December 2003.

Al-Jazeera TV has reported that Baghdad was shaken by three

explosions on Sunday. A puppet police source said that one of the

blasts was not the result of explosives, but of a truck loaded with

barrels of fuel that came under gunfire.

Al-Jazeera's correspondent reports that the explosions occurred when

a fuel truck was fired upon in the al-Karradah neighborhood near the

al-'Alwiyah exchange. Witnesses said that an explosives-laden car

exploded Sunday evening in front of the Palestine Hotel in the center

of the occupied Iraqi capital. The US occupation forces released no

information regarding casualties in the attacks.

Also following the announcement of the capture of Iraqi President

Saddam Hussein, anti-imperialist Resistance fighters in US-occupied

Kuwait ambushed two American military convoys, leaving several of the

aggressor troops wounded.

An occupation spokesman said that one American occupation soldier was

killed when an explosive device went off as he was trying to disarm

it. This occurred just hours after Washington confirmed claims that

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had been taken prisoner.

An Iraqi Resistance martyrdom bomber apparently detonated explosives

in a car outside a puppet police station Sunday morning in al-

Khalidiyah, 80km west of Baghdad, killing at least 17 people and

wounding 33 more, the US occupation forces said.

Al-Jazeera reported that witnesses said that ambulances rushed to the

scene to evacuate vicims to ar-Ramadi Hospital, 100km west of Baghdad.

Although no American occupation forces were reportedly hurt in the

attack, US aggressor forces rushed to the scene and imposed a

military cordon around the area. Occupation helicopters were seen

hovering overhead in the air.

A statement by al-Jama'ah al-Islamiyah (the Islamic Group) in Iraq

reports that 45 of the supporters of the Kurdish Islamist group were

arrested by occupation authorities in Baghdad on Tuesday evening.

Four of those arrested were members of the Group's leading Council

(Shura) who were in Baghdad intending to meet the current head of the

puppet so-called Interim Governing Council 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Hakim.

The statement also said that among those arrested were male and

female students using the headquarters as a temporary residence while

they looked for regular housing to rent.

Desperate for some \"good news\" in their floundering war against the

Iraqi people and the rising tide of Iraqi Resistance, the US

occupation forces announced on Sunday that they had captured Iraqi

President Saddam Hussein. Reports by the occupation forces in the

past about capturing and killing Iraqi leaders have been unreliable,

but even assuming this report to be accurate, it changes nothing as

regards the objective situation of imperialist-Zionist occupation of

Iraq and the Iraqi people's resistance to it. So long as the

occupation continues, the resistance will grow.

Al-Arab al-Yawm daily newspaper in Amman reported that media reports

indicated that one of the Iraqis captured a few days ago by US

aggressor forces in al-Huwayjah gave out, in the course of

interrogation, information that helped the occupation troops capture

the Iraqi President. Other reports said that it was one of Saddam

Hussein's relatives who, while undergoing interrogation, gave

information to the occupation forces on the Iraqi President's

whereabouts. According to this report, the aggressor troops

bargained with the relative, promising that he could stay alive and

that he would be transported out of Iraq in return for enabling the

Americans to get to where the Iraqi President was.

A select American aggressor force of 600 troops encircled an isolated

farm in the town of ad-Duwar near Tikrit and after a search of the

area the occupation troops found the Iraqi President in an

underground hiding place. US imperialist sources indicated that the

so-called Task Force 121, which has recently reportedly received

training from the Zionist occupation regime in Palestine, was a part

of the elite force that captured the Iraqi President. One of the

planners of the operations in which Task Force 121 has been involved

is American Lieutenant General William \"Jerry\" Boykin, an individual

who gained some notoriety for identifying Muslims with Satan in

public meetings with American church groups. (For information on

Task Force 121, see the British Guardian newspaper for 9 December

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News reports also say that Kurdish chauvinist Peshmergah militiamen

aided the American aggressors in carrying out the operation to trap

the Iraqi President. It was therefore Jalal at-Talibani, head of the

Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the leading Kurdish chauvinist

collaborationist organizations, who rushed to announce the capture of

Saddam Hussein, and it was the Iranian news agency that first carried

the story.

Press reports also said that when four members of the US-appointed

puppet so-called \"Interim Governing Council\" were led in to identify

the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein told them that he had been \"a

just but firm ruler at the same time,\" and that he was not sorry

about what he had done.

The American monopoly CBS News reported that its correspondent in

Tikrit had learned from US military sources that the Iraqi President

was no longer in Iraq. US occupation commander General Ricardo

Sanchez announced that Saddam Hussein had been taken to a \"secure

place.\"

A source in the American-appointed puppet police forece in Kirkuk

reported that four Iraqis were killed and more than 60 wounded, 10 of

them severely, when traitors in that northern city fired weapons into

the air in celebration of the fact that invading aggressor troops had

captured the Iraqi President. The puppet police spokesman said that

the injured victims are receiving treatment in Kirkuk hospitals.

The puppet police spokesman said that fights also broke out in the

city when \"a group attacked a number of Kurds who were celebrating

the arrest in their own special way, demanding that they stop their

celebration immediately.\" The puppet police spokesman said that the

number of dead and injured from such \"celebration\" was likely to

increase because in addition to small arms, the

traitorous \"celebrants\" were also firing off rocket-propelled

grenades and heavy weapons.

Demonstrators in Kirkuk took to the streets to demand the release of

the head of a tribe who was arrested by occupation forces in mid-

November on suspicion that he had provided a refuge for the Iraqi

Vice President 'Izzat Ibrahim.

The dean of the al-Huwayjah Province Technical Institute said that US

occupation forces arrested 11 individuals on the campus early Sunday

morning. Dean Mahjub YaSin Muhammad told Agence France Presse (AFP)

that an American force of more than 30 soldiers \"raided our Technical

Institute and arrested 11 persons about whom they had suspicions.

Among those arrested are nine guards and two of the Institute's

students.\" Dean Muhammad said \"this operation is a dangerous

precedent. How can you arrest students on a university campus?\"

Meanwhile, the Polish Defense Minister, whose forces are serving the

American occupation troops in occupied Iraq as a part of the so-

called multinational forces reported that those multinational forces –

which are under Polish command – raised the level of alert for their

troops in anticipation of an escalation in Resistance attacks after

the capture of the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The Polish

minister said that there are fears of \"reactions based on hate\" that

might target the occupation forces.



Sources: al-Arab al-Yawm daily newspaper, Amman, Jordan, Monday 15

December 2003.

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