Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 8 April 2006.  Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. 

Saturday, 8 April 2006.

·       Resistance sharpshooter reportedly kills US soldier in central al-Fallujah.

·       US, Iraqi puppet forces put on state of maximum alert for anniversary of American occupation of Baghdad Sunday.

·       Midday mortar attack on Sunni mosque in Baghdad leaves six worshippers dead.

·       US-installed puppet “Prime Minister” bans Iraqi “Ministry of Health” from revealing figures on numbers of bodies found in Baghdad or other provinces.

·       Sunni refugee families driven out of southern Iraq in “sectarian cleansing” campaign arrive in Samarra’.

·       Resistance bomb blasts US patrol near Balad station, leaving one US soldier reported dead.

·       Mysterious car bomb kills five civilians near Shi‘i shrine in al-Musayyib.

Al-Anbar Province.

Ar-Ramadi.

Resistance bombards US al-Warrar base west of ar-Ramadi.

In a dispatch posted at 9:40pm Makkah (Mecca) time Saturday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces fired three 82mm mortar rounds into the headquarters of US occupation forces in the al-Warrar base west of ar-Ramadi, some 110km west of Baghdad.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in ar-Ramadi as saying that the barrage sent plumes of smoke rising into the sky over the base.

Resistance pounds US military headquarters in ar-Ramadi with mortars.

In a dispatch posted at 1:15pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while before Iraqi Resistance fighters had bombarded the provincial government building in central ar-Ramadi – a facility that US troops have taken over and turned into a local headquarters – with seven mortar rounds.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that the seven shells blasted directly into the building, a structure of about 2,000 square meters in area.  The witnesses could see fire burning on the top (third) floor of the facility but no information on the nature or extent of casualties was available.  US troops surrounded the area where the building is located, closing four of the city’s streets.  At the time of reporting, American helicopters could be seen hovering at low altitude in the area.

Al-Fallujah.

Resistance fighter ambushes puppet Iraqi troops in central al-Fallujah.

In a dispatch posted at 7:10pm Makkah time Saturday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance fighter attacked a patrol of Iraqi puppet troops in central al-Fallujah’s ar-Risalah neighborhood.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in ar-Risalah as saying that a Resistance fighter armed with a machine gun attacked a puppet army foot patrol in the neighborhood, killing one puppet soldier and wounding two more.  The Resistance fighter then left the area immediately.

Resistance sharpshooter reportedly kills US soldier in central al-Fallujah.

In a dispatch posted at 10:20am Makkah time Saturday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance marksman shot and killed a US soldier in al-Fallujah, about 60km west of Baghdad.

The al-Fallujah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported local eyewitnesses as saying that the soldier was taking part in a foot patrol in the al-Mu‘allimin neighborhood in the middle of the city when he took a direct hit from a Resistance sharpshooter’s bullet, killing him instantly.

Hit.

Resistance bomb wounds three US troops west of Hit.

In a dispatch posted at 10:20am Makkah time Saturday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol on the strategic road west of Hit, about 140km west of Baghdad.

The Hit correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported local eyewitnesses as saying that a bomb went of by a patrol of several Humvees, disabling one of them and wounding three US troops.

Baghdad.

Resistance bombards puppet “Shock Troop” headquarters in az-Za‘faraniyah.

In a dispatch posted at 9:30pm Makkah time Saturday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces fired two heavy 120mm mortar rounds into the headquarters of puppet “Iraqi Interior Ministry Shock Troops (Maghawir)” in the az-Za‘faraniyah section of southern Baghdad.

The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in az-Za‘faraniyah as saying that the barrage sent plumes of smoke rising into the sky over the facility.

US, Iraqi puppet forces put on state of maximum alert for anniversary of American occupation of Baghdad Sunday.

In a bulletin posted at 5:25pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US and Iraqi puppet military forces have declared a state of maximum alert for Saturday night and all day Sunday on the occasion of the anniversary of the American occupation of Baghdad on 9 April 2003.

The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the Iraqi puppet army as saying that the state of high alter had been declared.  The maximum alert status was the reason for the deployment of hundreds of US and Iraqi puppet forces troops at intersections and on major streets in Baghdad.  Reinforced checkpoints have been set up at the entrances and exits to the occupied Iraqi capital, particularly those on roads leading to the western province of al-Anbar.

Midday mortar attack on Sunni mosque in Baghdad leaves six worshippers dead.

Six Sunnis were killed and four more of them wounded when mortar shells rained down on a Sunni mosque in Baghdad early Saturday afternoon, Quds Press reported.

An Iraqi puppet security source told Quds Press that a number of mortar shells blasted into the Naji al-Khidri Mosqeu during midday prayers, killing six and wounding four worshippers.  The barrage also inflicted damage on the mosque building.

Resistance fighters assassinate Badr Brigade officer who concurrently was captain in puppet “Iraqi Interior Ministry” forces.

In a dispatch posted at 5:30pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters shot and killed an officer in the puppet “Iraqi Interior Ministry” who was concurrently a member of the pro-American Shi‘i sectarian Badr Brigade militia in the al-Ghazaliyah area of western Baghdad.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in al-Ghazaliyah as saying that Resistance fighters armed with light and medium weapons attacked Hadi ‘Abd al-Husayn, the Badr Brigade gunman who was also a captain in the puppet “Interior Ministry” military forces.  The Resistance fighters opened fire on ‘Abd al-Husayn’s car killing him.  The Resistace men withdrew from the area immediately after the attack.

Resistance fighters gun down three pro-American Badr Brigade gunmen who were attacking mosques and residents of Baghdad’s al-A‘zamiyah district.

In a dispatch posted at 2pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters shot and killed three members of the pro-American Shi‘i sectarian Badr Brigade militia in northern Baghdad’s al-A‘zamiyah district.

The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in al-A‘zamiyah as saying that Resistance fighters armed with machine guns attacked the Badr Brigade gunmen near the city market as they were involved in attacking Sunni mosques and local residents.  After killing the pro-American gunmen, the Resistance fighters withdrew from the area having suffered no casualties of their own.

Iraqi “Ministry of Health” not allowed to release figures on numbers of bodies found in Baghdad or other provinces by order of US-installed puppet “Prime Minister.”

In a dispatch posted at 5:25pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the declaration by Qasim Yahya, the official spokesman for the puppet “Iraqi Ministry of Health,” on Thursday that he would not be able to give out thedaily number of bodies taken in by Iraqi hospitals because he had been specifically ordered not to do so by the Iraqi puppet “Prime Minister” has aroused considerable concern over the American-installed regime’s desire to cover up the reality in the country.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that at a Thursday press conference, Qasim Yahya told reporters that “the prime minister’s office has prohibited us from revealing the true number of bodies that are found daily in the streets, lanes, squares, and garbage dumps of Baghdad and other provinces.”

Qasim Yahya added, “we carry out orders and don’t interfere in politics.”

Following that development, the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent went to the puppet “Ministry of Health” in Baghdad and there he met with an official in the Statistical Department.  The official, who insisted that his name not be used, told Mafkarat al-Islam: “An order was signed by the ‘Prime Minister’ Ibrahim al-Ja‘fari and issued on 27 December 2005 instructing the Council of the Minsitry of Health not to give out any statements that reveal the true number of bodies found on a daily and regular basis.”

He said, “Since that day we have sent the number of bodies that we receive daily to the prime minister’s office and then they decide the number that they will announce through their information office.”

The official added, “Most if not all the bodies that come to us belong to Sunni youths killed by the death squads or the Shi‘i militias or the Interior Ministry Maghawir Shock Troops.”

He went on to say that the number of bodies that are reported as being found is usually about half the real figure.  “If we get 10 bodies, they report that only five were found.  If there were 20 bodies, then they report only 10.  This is in contrast to the Shi‘ah dead whose numbers are always inflated.

The official told Mafkarat al-Islam, “I feel pain inside myself when I see the reports of news and figures being issued by the government sources because most of them are falsified and have no basis in fact.  The importation of freezers for bodies from Egypt and other countries has only been with the purpose of concealing the actual numbers of bodies of Sunnis that we receive,” the official said.

Salah ad-Din Province.

At-Tarimiyah.

Resistance bomb wounds US troops south of at-Tarimiyah.

In a dispatch posted at 9:50pm Makkah time Saturday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military column south of at-Tarimiyah on the road to al-Mushahadah.

The at-Tarimiyah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in the city as saying that the bomb went off by a passing column of US armored vehicles and Humvees. The blast disabled one American armored vehicle, wounding four US troops, two of them severely.

Samarra’.

Resistance mortars bombard joint US-Iraqi puppet “Shock Troop” base in Samarra’.

In a dispatch posted at 1:40pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces fired four 82mm mortar rounds into the joint headquarters of the US and puppet “Iraqi Interior Ministry Shock Troops (Maghawir)” in the middle of Samarra’, about 120km north of Baghdad.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in Samarra’ as sayig that the mortar shells scored direct hits on the base, sending plumes of smoke rising into the sky.

Sunni refugee families driven out of southern Iraq in “sectarian cleansing” campaign arrive in Samarra’.

About 150 Sunni Arab families have arrived in the city of Samarra’ after being driven out of their homes further south in Iraq by pro-American Shi‘i sectarian militias in a “sectarian cleansing” campaign.

A source in Samarra’ told Quds Press that the 150 families had been driven out of al-Basrah, al-Mada’in, an-Nahrawan, Baghdad al-Jadidah and other locations by pro-American Shi‘i sectarian militia and the state of sectarian terror they have unleashed.

The families arrive in Samarra’ carrying their few belongings.  Most are sleeping in open squares in the city, though a few have found refuge with relatives.  The puppet governor of the city, Muhammad Khalaf Rayhan an members of the puppet local council as well as members of the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq have given personal offerings of money and assistance to the refugee families.

Campaigns of “sectarian cleansing” aimed at driving Sunnis out of predominantly Shi‘i areas began on an expanded scale after the bombing of the Shi‘i shrine of Imam al-Hadi in Samarra’ on 22 February.

Responsibility for that mysterious bombing has never been established, though it is widely believed that the occupation forces, in particular the British, were involved as a part of their plan to spark sectarian civil war and partition Iraq.  Demonstrations against Britain took place in Tehran, in predominantly Shi‘i Iran, following the 22 February attack, as protestors denounced what they saw as London’s role in the bombing.

Balad.

Resistance bomb blasts US patrol near Balad station, leaving one US soldier reported dead.

In a dispatch posted at 1:15pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol near the Balad station, in the south of the city.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the bomb went off by a US patrol in the south of the city, disabling a Humvee and killing one American soldier and wounding a second.

Diyala Province.

Ba‘qubah.

Resistance bomb blasts puppet police in Ba‘qubah.

In a dispatch posted at 5:50pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb that had been planed by the side of al-Mal‘ab Road in the middle of Ba‘qubah, about 65km northeast of Baghdad, blew up by a passing puppet police patrol.

The Ba‘qubah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported local eyewitnesses as saying that the blast disabled one puppet police vehicle and wounded three puppet policemen.

Al-Mada’in.

Three puppet “Shock Troops” killed in Resistance bombing in al-Mada’in.

In a dispatch posted at 10:40am Makkah time Saturday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a patrol of puppet “Iraqi Interior Ministry Shock Troops (Maghawir) on the main road in the northern part of al-Mada’in, southeast of Baghdad.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in al-Mada’in as saying that the bomb destroyed one of the patrol vehicles, killing three puppet “Shock Troops” and wounding a fourth.

Babil Province.

Al-Latifiyah.

Resistnace mortars blast joint US-Iraqi puppet camp in al-Latifiyah.

In a dispatch posted at 10:10pm Makkah time Saturday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces had fired five mortar rounds into the joint headquarters of US and Iraqi puppet forces in al-Latifiyah, about 30km south of Baghdad.

The al-Latifiyah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported local eyewitnesses as saying that the attack set off explosions in the headquarters and sent plumes of smoke rising into the sky.

Al-Musayyib.

Mysterious car bomb kills five civilians near Shi‘i shrine in al-Musayyib.

In a dispatch posted at 5:40pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a mysterious car bomb exploded in al-Musayyib, 70km south of Baghdad.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in al-Musayyib as saying that the explosives-laden car had been parked by the side of the road near the Awlad Muslim crossing.  The explosion killed five civilians and wounded 15 more, some of them severely.

Quds Press reported six people killed and about 15 wounded, some of them severely, when a car bomb exploded near the Shi‘i shrine of Awlad Muslim in al-Musayyib.

A source in the puppet security sources told Quds Press that the blast occurred after noon on Saturday.  The source said that there was no truth to claims that the car had been driven by a suicide driver, but that it had been parked and abandoned.

After the blast, US and Iraqi puppet forces surrounded the area as Iraqi fire trucks rushed to the scene to try to extinguish the fire ignited by the bomb.

In contrast to Iraqi Resistance attacks, which have clear and defined targets – occupation troops or armed forces, officials, or collaborators with the US-installed puppet regime – the bomb in al-Musayyib appeared targeted exclusively on civilians.  Massive explosions similarly rocked the Shi‘i mosque of Buratha in Baghdad on Friday, and another went off by a Shi‘i shrine in an-Najaf on Thursday.  Meanwhile the American-installed security forces have been capturing, torturing, and killing Sunni residents of Baghdad and other Iraqi cities.

Such attacks are widely viewed as a part of an Anglo-American effort to rescue their failing fortunes in Iraq by sparking a sectarian civil war in the country enabling them to fulfill their plans of partitioning the country along ethnic and religious lines.  That was the assessment given to recent attacks by Shi‘i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr and by the supreme Sunni religious authority in Iraq, the Association of Muslim Scholars.

At-Ta’mim Province.

Kirkuk.

Resistance bomb blasts puppet police in ar-Riyad, southwest of Kirkuk.

In a dispatch posted at 5:50pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a patrol of Iraqi puppet police in the ar-Riyad area, about 25km southwest of Kirkuk.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in Kirkuk as saying that the blastdisabled one puppet police vehicle, killing two puppet policemen and wounding four more of them.

Resistance bomb wounds three puppet policemen in vicinity of Kirkuk.

In a dispatch posted at 10:40am Makkah time Saturday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a puppet police patrol on the road near the village of al-Mulla ‘Abdallah in the vicinity of Kirkuk in northern Iraq.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in Kirkuk as saying that the blast disabled one patrol vehicle, wounding three puppet policemen.

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