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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 8 March 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.
Saturday, 8 March 2008.
· Member of “Awakening” police in al-Hadithah abducts, kills man recently released from US prison camp.
· Villagers accuse US troops of theft, vandalism in raids, arrests in at-Tarimiyah Saturday morning.
· Iraqi policeman kills two US troops, wounds two more when Americans raid his home in Yathrib Saturday morning.
· US admits death of American soldier in Diyala Province on Friday.
· Bomb kills tribal “Awakening” policeman following regime offensive against Naqshbandi Resistance fighters in al-Huwayjah.
Al-Anbar Province. Al-Hadithah.
Member of “Awakening” police in al-Hadithah abducts, kills man recently released from US prison camp.
In a dispatch posted at 3:25pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that members of the US-recruited tribal “Awakening” police had kidnapped and murdered a man named Husayn Sayir shortly after he had been released from an American prison camp. His mutilated body was found dumped on a street in the city of al-Hadithah, 270km northwest of Baghdad.
Yaqen reported sources in the “Awakening” in al-Hadithah as saying that members of the tribal collaborationist organization kidnapped Sayir when he came in to their headquarters for his daily registration as required by the regime. The “Awakening” policemen took Sayir away to an unknown place where he was killed.
A member of the “Awakening” by the name of Salah Shahir al-Jughayfi has admitted the abduction and killing, according to sources in the “Awakening.”
The incident has aroused intense resentment on the part of local people, many of whom are required to register every morning with the “Awakening” police after having been released from frequently arbitrary roundups by US troops. Many cases of the re-arrest or killing of people recently released from prisons have been reported.
Baghdad.
Murder spree continues: four more bodies found dumped around Baghdad.
In a dispatch posted at 7:35pm Baghdad time Saturday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi police recovered the bodies of four more unidentified murder victims that had been dumped around Baghdad on Saturday.
US admits death of American soldier in Diyala Province on Friday.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:16pm Saturday afternoon Beijing time (12:16pm Baghdad time), the Xinhua News Agency reported that the US military had admitted that one more of its soldiers had been killed and another wounded when a bomb exploded by their patrol somewhere in Diyala Province northeast of Baghdad.
Xinhua reported a US communiqué as saying that the attack took place when the troops were engaged in combat in Diyala on Friday, 7 March. The statement said that the wounded soldier was taken to a hospital run by the American military for treatment but provided no further details.
Salah ad-Din Province. At-Tarimiyah.
Villagers accuse US troops of theft, vandalism in raids, arrests in at-Tarimiyah Saturday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 7:25pm Baghdad time Saturday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that US forces carried out an airborne landing in the village of ash-Shaykh Hamad near at-Tarimiyah, 30km north of Baghdad on Saturday morning.
Yaqen reported eyewitnesses as saying that the Americans arrested a large number of local villagers, including Ahmad Muhammad ‘Abd al-‘Aziz a relative of Shaykh Hamad. Also among those arrested was a boy by the name of Suhayb Ahmad.
Residents said that when the Americans were raiding the villagers’ houses, they smashed furniture and stole money. More than 20 million Iraqi Dinars were robbed from one house, the sources said, adding that the Americans also made off with gold jewelry taken from a number of the village women.
The residents said that one of the places ransacked by the Americans was a workshop owned by one of the people whom the US troops arrested during the raid.
Yathrib.
Tribal “Awakening” contingents with US air support claim capture nine al-Qa‘idah members early Saturday.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:20pm Saturday afternoon Beijing time (12:20pm Baghdad time), the Xinhua News Agency reported that US-recruited Iraqi tribal “Awakening” contingents had announced the capture of nine members of al-Qa‘idah in a joint operation with US forces in the Yathrib area, 70km north of Baghdad on Saturday.
Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi regime police as saying that the tribal force, operating with US air cover carried out raids in the village of al-Bu Jayli near Yathrib early on Saturday morning. The source said that the operation resulted in the arrest of nine members of al-Qa‘idah who had been wanted by the regime. The captives were handed over to the Iraqi regime army.
The villages around Yathrib are mainly agricultural and the area provides cover and hideouts for al-Qa‘idah fighters.
Iraqi policeman kills two US troops, wounds two more when Americans raid his home in Yathrib Saturday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 10:30am Baghdad time Saturday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi regime policeman Dawud Hayyawi killed two US soldiers and wounded two more of them when they raided his home in the Yathrib area, 70km north of Baghdad.
Yaqen reported a witness named Abu ‘Umar who lives next to the policeman as saying that a joint force of Iraqi regime National Guards, “Awakening” tribal contingents, and US troops raided Hayyawi’s home at dawn on Saturday. Hayyawi refused to give himself up and began shooting at the raiding forces with his personal Kalashnikov, killing two US soldiers and wounding two more of them. The witness said he saw the Americans evacuating their two dead and providing first aid to the two wounded US soldiers.
Abu ‘Umar said that after Hayyawi opened fire, non of the raiding party dared enter the house, so they began to bombard the home with hand grenades, killing Hayyawi and inflicting severe damage on the house.
Local residents, outraged over the killing of Hayyawi, took to the streets in large numbers to join his funeral procession at 9:30 Saturday morning. The mourners shouted slogans denouncing the tribal collaborationist “Awakening” organization and the US troops and hailed the courage of Policeman Dawud.
A similar incident was reported on 2 January 2008 when a soldier in the Iraqi regime National Guards, Qaysar Sa‘di shot and killed three American troops, one of them a captain, near the city of al-Mawsil in northwestern Iraq.
Diyala Province. Ba‘qubah.
Diyala Province to dismiss 4,000 policemen for sectarianism.
In a dispatch posted at 6:45pm Baghdad time Saturday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that about 4,000 members of the Diyala Province police were going to be dismissed for sectarianism.
Al-Miqdadiyah.
Leader of US-backed “Popular Committees” abducted in al-Miqdadiyah following tension between Sunni, Shi‘i collaborationist security forces.
In a dispatch posted at 7:45pm Baghdad time Saturday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a leader of the US-backed tribal collaborationist “Popular Committees” in Diyala Province had been kidnapped in al-Miqdadiyah, 85km northeast of Baghdad, on Saturday afternoon.
Yaqen reported an official in the US-backed regime as saying that a group of armed men abducted Yasin al-Jasim, a leader in the “Popular Committees.” Yaqen noted that the abduction came after most districts in the area had seen peaceful demonstrations by members in the tribal collaborationist “Popular Committees” demanding the resignation of the chief of the Diyala Province government police. The Committees, mostly recruited by the American occupation forces from Sunnis tribesmen, complain that Ghanim al-Qurayshi, the Chief of the Diyala Police is a Shi‘i sectarian responsible for killing and expelling Sunnis from districts in the area.
Bomb kills two residents of al-Khimar village near al-Miqdadiyah Saturday.
In a dispatch posted at 2:50pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded in the village of al-Khimar near al-Miqdadiyah, 85km northeast of Baghdad, on Saturday.
Bomb kills three members of family in al-Miqdadiyah area.
In a dispatch posted at 11:27am Baghdad time Saturday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded on the main road in the village of as-Sunayjah near al-Wajihiyah in the area of al-Miqdadiyah, 85km northeast of Baghdad.
At-Ta’mim Province. Al-Huwayjah.
Provincial police arrest seven in village raids Saturday.
In a dispatch posted at 3:45pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that at-Ta’mim Provincial police carried out a campaign of raids and arrests in two villages in the al-Huwayjah area Saturday.
Bomb kills tribal “Awakening” policeman following regime offensive against Naqshbandi Resistance fighters in al-Huwayjah.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:25pm Saturday afternoon Beijing time (2:25pm Baghdad time), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol of US-recruited tribal “Awakening” police in the city of al-Huwayjah, 200km north of Baghdad.
Xinhua reported Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad ‘Ali Hasan of the al-Huwayjah police as saying that the bomb killed one member of the “Awakening” patrol and wounded four others, two of them severely. The blast destroyed their patrol car and shattered window glass in houses nearby.
Hasan noted that a joint force of al-Huwayjah police and “Awakening” police carried out raids and searches in the village of Mahfuz near al-Huwayjah, arresting 11 fighters from the an-Naqshbandiyah Sufi Resistance organization – a group responsible for numerous attacks on US occupation forces particularly in the northern parts of Iraq around Kirkuk and Bayji.
Ninwa Province. Al-Mawsil.
Mysterious mortar barrage wounds seven civilians in al-Mawsil’s az-Zanjili neighborhood Saturday evening.
In a dispatch posted at 9:50pm Baghdad time Saturday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that seven civilians were wounded when mortar shells of unknown origin blasted into the western al-Mawsil neighborhood of az-Zanjili.
Yaqen reported a source in the Iraqi regime police in the city as saying that three mortar rounds blasted into az-Zanjili on Saturday evening, wounding seven civilians. No further details were available.
On 23 January 2008, a bomb blew up a building in the az-Zanjili neighborhood, killing 40 people and wounding 200 more. Within days, numerous Iraqi organizations, including the Resistance organization known as the General Command of the Iraqi Armed Forces, blamed the United States and its Kurdish separatist Peshmergah allies for carrying out that particular attack. The organizations indicated that the motivation behind the attack on az-Zanjili was to help consolidate Kurdish separatist control in al-Mawsil, by driving the Arab population out.
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