Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 22 June 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. 

Sunday, 22 June 2008.

·        Three Baghdad municipal services workers gunned down as they do their jobs Sunday.

·        Woman belt bomber blows up, killing 15 people in Ba‘qubah midday Sunday.

Baghdad.

Three Baghdad municipal services workers gunned down as they do their jobs Sunday.

In a dispatch posted at 4:25pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that three Baghdad city service workers in were killed on Sunday and a fourth city worker wounded in two separate attacks carried out by gunmen in the areas of al-Ghadir and Baghdad al-Jadidah in southeastern Baghdad Sunday.

Yaqen reported a source in the Baghdad city services department as saying that gunmen attacked three municipal sanitation workers in al-Ghadir as they were doing their jobs, spraying them with a hail of bullets.  Two of the city workers were killed on the spot and a third was severely wounded and taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

In a second attack, gunmen shot and killed a Baghdad municipal sanitation worker as he was doing his job in the Baghdad al-Jadidah area of the city.

Resistance group claims credit for bomb attack on US Humvee somewhere in al-Anbar province.

In a dispatch posted at 3:10pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Jaysh al-Mulsimeen resistance group had claimed responsibility for an attack that destroyed a US Humvee in al-Anbar Province.

Yaqen reported a communiqué dated Sunday as saying that fighters belonging to the Jaysh al-Muslimeen, a constituent member of the Front for Jihad and Change, had detonated a bomb by a US Humvee somewhere in al-Anbar Province.  The communiqué, which failed to specify when or where the attack took place or to provide any other details, said only that the vehicle was “destroyed” and claimed that the US troops aboard it had been killed.

Salah ad-Din Province.

Samarra’.

Resistance group claims to fire pipe rocket at US base in Samarra’.

In a dispatch posted at 5:50pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Iraqi resistance group known as the Jaysh ar-Rashideen, a member of the Front for Jihad and Change, had issued a communiqué in which it claimed to have fired one S5K rocket at an unnamed US base in Samarra’, which is located 120km north of Baghdad.  The communiqué did not specify a time or date of the attack.

Diyala Province.

Al-‘Azim.

Ten tribal “Awakening” policemen killed in mortar barrage near al-‘Azim Sunday evening.

In a dispatch posted at 12:07am Baghdad time just after midnight Monday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that 10 members of the tribal “Awakening” police were killed and 24 more of them wounded when mortar shells landed at their checkpoint in the area of al-‘Azim, 120km north of Baghdad, on Sunday evening.

Ba‘qubah.

Woman belt bomber blows up, killing 20 people in Ba‘qubah midday Sunday.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:24pm Sunday afternoon Beijing time (3:24pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a woman wearing an explosive belt blew herself up in a complex of government buildings in Ba‘qubah, 65km northeast of Baghdad, at midday Sunday.

In a dispatch posted at 8pm Baghdad time Sunday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the casualty toll in the belt bombing attack stood at 20 people killed and more than 40 more wounded.

Babil Province.

Al-Mahawil.

US forces arrest anti-occupation Sadr official in Babil Province.

In a dispatch posted at 10:35am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that US occupation troops arrested the Executive Director of the anti-occupation Sadr Office in Babil Province, Haydar al-Mayyali along with his brother.

Yaqen reported a source in the government police as saying that the Americans raided al-Mayyali’s home in the al-Bida‘ area near al-Mahawil, 65km south of Baghdad on Saturday night.

Since March, the US-backed Iraqi regime has been actively engaged in an offensive against the anti-occupation Sadr Movement and its armed wing, the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, in Iraq, in what is believed to be preparation for an American attack on Iran.

At-Ta’mim Province/Kirkuk.

Kirkuk.

Bomb kills three civilians southwest of Kirkuk Sunday.

In a dispatch posted at 3:30pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that three people, two of them women,  were killed and two more people wounded when a bomb exploded by their car southwest of  Kirkuk, 250km north of Baghdad, on Sunday.  It was the second bombing in the province on Sunday.

The AMSI reported Brigadier General Sarhad Qadir as saying that the bomb went off by a civilian car near ad-Dakmat village in the ar-Rashad area, 30km southwest of Kirkuk, killing a man and two women and wounding two other people.

Earlier, Qadir had announced that a bomb had gone off near the Department of Invalids and the Red Crescent offices  to the southwest of Kirkuk.  That blast caused nor damage or casualties, however.

Ninwa Province.

Al-Mawsil.

Car bomber wounds 14 people in Sunday afternoon attack in al-Mawsil.

In a dispatch posted at 8:39pm Baghdad time Sunday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a car bomber attacked a checkpoint manned by Iraqi government police to the southeast of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, on Sunday afternoon.

Yaqen reported a source in the local police as saying that a car bomber blew himself up by a checkpoint in the al-Wahdah area of eastern al-Mawsil, wounding 14 people, four of them policemen.  All the wounded were taken to nearby as-Salam Hospital for treatment.

Since 10 May, the US and its Iraqi regime allies have been engaged in an offensive against the al-Qa‘idah organization in the city of al-Mawsil.

Al-Basrah Province.

Al-Basrah.

In a dispatch posted at 11:05am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi government forces arrested five more members of the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in the southern province of al-Basrah in the last 24 hours.

Yaqen reported a source in the al-Basrah Province police as saying that raids and searches in various parts of the province resulted in the arrest of five Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen.  In addition, the source said, the Iraqi regime’s Interior Ministry seized 37 Iranian-made rockets in the Nahran ‘Umar area, 40km north of al-Basrah, and 15 mortar shells in addition to finding two electronic discs for firing Katyusha rockets in the az-Zubayr area.

Since March, the US-backed Iraqi regime has been actively engaged in an offensive against the anti-occupation Sadr Movement and its armed wing, the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, in Iraq, in what is believed to be preparation for an American attack on Iran.

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