Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 7 July 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. 

Monday, 7 July 2008.

·        Al-Qa‘idah “Finance Minister” reported captured in Abu Ghurayb Monday.

·        US launches offensive against anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi in Diyala Province Monday.

·        Woman belt bomber suspected of membership in al-Qa‘idah kills nine in popular market in Ba‘qubah.

Al-Anbar Province.

Abu Ghurayb.

Al-Qa‘idah “Finance Minister” reported captured in Abu Ghurayb Monday.

In a dispatch posted at 6:33pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi army forces arrested the “Finance Minister” of the so-called “Islamic State of Iraq” the front group of the al-Qa‘idah fundamentalist organization.

Yaqen reported a source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry, who asked not to be identified, as saying that the arrest of Wafir Hasan ‘Alwan al-Hadithi, an al-Qa‘idah activist, took place during raids in the an-Nasr wa-as-Salam area of Abu Ghruayb, 30km west of Baghdad after noon on Monday.

The “Islamic State of Iraq” was declared in October 2006 by about seven Islamist organizations operating in Iraq, the leader of which is al-Qa‘idah in the Land of the Two Rivers.  The head of the so-called “Islamic State” is the al-Qa ‘idah leader in Iraq known as Abu ‘Umar al-Baghdadi.

Salah ad-Din Province.

Samarra’.

Car bomber blasts into checkpoint, killing four tribal policemen.

In a dispatch posted at 4:30pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a car bomber blasted into a checkpoint manned by tribal “Awakening” police in the al-Jazirah area 10km south of Samarra’ (which is 120km north of Baghdad).

Diyala Province.

Ba‘qubah.

US launches offensive against anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi in Diyala Province Monday.

In a dispatch posted at 7:29pm Baghdad time Monday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that large numbers of US troops accompanied by Iraqi army and police units launched a massive offensive in villages located south of Bani Sa‘d (40km northeast of Baghdad) targeted on the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia.  In its first day it reportedly succeeded in capturing weapons that had been held by the anti-occupation forces in the area, some of them of Iranian manufacture.  A number of individuals were also arrested in the raids.

Yaqen reported witnesses as saying Monday that massive forces advanced on villages around Khan Bani Sa‘d, including the villages of al-Karamah, as-Sa‘adah, ash-Shayma’.  The Americans and their Iraqi regime allies immediately cut off the villages from the outside world and then began searching all vehicles and checking the identities of local civilians residents.

A source in the Diyala Province regime who refused to be identified told Yaqen that a number of commanders of special units with ties to Iran had been arrested on this, the first day of the offensive.

The US and its Iraqi regime allies launched this latest offensive against the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi in Diyala Province, at a time when the incidents of attacks apparently carried out by al-Qa ‘idah – a deadly enemy of the Jaysh al-Mahdi – were on the rise.  On Monday a woman believed to belong to al-Qa‘idah, who was wearing an explosive belt, blew herself up in Ba‘qubah, the capital of Diyala Province, 65km northeast of Baghdad.

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 what is believed to be preparation for an American attack on Iran.

Woman belt bomber suspected of membership in al-Qa‘idah kills nine in popular market in Ba‘qubah.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 6:05pm Monday afternoon Beijing time (1:05pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a woman wearing an explosive belt had blown herself up in a popular market in western Ba‘qubah, 65km northeast of Baghdad.

Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi police as saying that the attack had killed nine people and wounded 14more by initial count.  The woman struck before noon, when the market was especially crowded, and the casualty toll was likely to rise, the source said.

The al-Qa‘idah organization has been employing numerous women belt-bombers in its attacks in recent months.

Babil Province.

Al-Hillah.

Tribal “Awakening” commander killed.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:26pm Monday afternoon Beijing time (2:26pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb had exploded in the car being driven by a commander of the tribal “Awakening” police in the al-Muwaylihah area near al-Hillah, 100km south of Baghdad.

Xinhua reported a source in the al-Hillah police as saying that the bomb went off near the Usamah ibn Zayd Mosque as ‘Adnan ‘Abd al-Badrani was driving home from a meeting with US forces and Iraqi tribal chiefs.  Al-Badrani, commander of the “Awakening” tribal police in the al-Muwaylihah area, was killed in the blast and one of his companions wounded.

Al-Musayyib.

Two policemen wounded in car bomb attack on checkpoint in al-Musayyib.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:26pm Monday afternoon Beijing time (2:26pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a car bomb had exploded near a checkpoint manned by Iraqi government police in the al-Musayyib area, 70km south of Baghdad, after noon on Monday.

Xinhua reported a source in the al-Hillah police as saying that the explosion moderately wounded two of the policemen on duty at the checkpoint.

Ninwa Province.

Al-Mawsil.

Bomb wounds three policemen in al-Mawsil.

In a dispatch posted at 8:12pm Baghdad time Monday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a police patrol to the west of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, on Monday afternoon.

Since 10 May, the US and its Iraqi regime allies have been waging an offensive against al-Qa‘idah in al-Mawsil and surrounding Ninwa Province.

Provincial government building bombarded in al-Mawsil.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:39pm Monday afternoon Beijing time (2:39pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that the provincial government building in al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad came under mortar bombardment at midday Monday.

Xinhua reported a source in the Ninwa Province security services as saying that five mortar shells landed in the area of the building, wounding six people, two of them government employees.  The barrage also inflicted damage on the building and on facades of other buildings in the area.

Since 10 May, the US and its Iraqi regime allies have been waging an offensive against al-Qa‘idah in al-Mawsil and surrounding Ninwa Province.

Tall ‘Afar.

Pro-American Islamic Party official shot dead near Tall ‘Afar Monday.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:39pm Monday afternoon Beijing time (2:39pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that armed men shot and killed ‘Abd al-Bari Ibrahim, leader of the Iraqi Islamic Party in the city of Tall ‘Afar west of al-Mawsil in northwestern Iraq.  Men armed with machineguns opened fire and killed Ibrahim as he was passing through the village of al-‘Uluw, near Tall ‘Afar, on Monday.

Xinhua noted that another local leader of the Islamic party had been wounded in a car bomb assassination attempt in al-Fallujah on Saturday, 5 July.

The Iraqi Islamic Party was founded by the Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood fundamentalist organization after the US occupation of the country in 2003.  It took part in the “Governing Council” chaired by US proconsul L. Paul Bremer in that same year and has been working with the US occupation authorities ever since.  The Party has been a target of attacks by the al-Qa‘idah Organization, the activity of which has been the target of a US offensive in Ninwa Province since 10 May this year.

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