Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 11 July 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. 

Friday, 11 July 2008.

·        Bomb rips through US Humvee in al-Hadithah midday Friday.

·        US admits death of two soldiers captured in combat in May 2007.

·        Bomb damages US Humvee in Tikrit Thursday night.

·        Iraqi regime troops storm into anti-occupation Sadr Movement mosque in ad-Diwaniyah, arrest Imam, 25 worshippers during Friday prayers, charging them with “insulting the reputation of the government.”

·        US troops attack home in an-Nasiriyah, leave 65-year old Iraqi man dead.

Al-Anbar Province.

Al-Hadithah.

Bomb rips through US Humvee in al-Hadithah midday Friday.

In a dispatch posted at 5:55pm Baghdad time Friday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a US patrol on the outskirts of al-Hadithah, 270km northwest of Baghdad, at midday Friday.

Yaqen reported an officer in the al-Hadithah government police who refused to be identified as claiming that armed men set off a bomb by a US patrol, destroying a Humvee and killing or wounding at least three soldiers aboard the vehicle.  The source could not specify how many, if any, of the US soldiers had been killed, but said that he observed three casualties being pulled from the vehicle within 15 minutes of the attack.

As usual, the source said, the American patrol cordoned off the area after the attack, letting no one approach, making it impossible for witnesses to say whether anyone had been killed.  The Humvee continued to burn for a “long time,” the source said.

Baghdad.

US admits death of two soldiers captured in combat in May 2007.

In a dispatch posted at 8:17pm Baghdad time Friday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the US Department of Defense admitted on Friday that two American soldiers who had been listed as missing since May 2007 had now been shifted to the roster of US dead following the discovery of their bodies.

Yaqen reported the American statement as saying that medical examinations of two bodies on Thursday had established that the two soldiers remains had been found.  The two had been captured in an attack south of Baghdad that left a third American dead on the scene on 12 May 2007.

Bomb in eastern Baghdad kills one, wounds four others Friday.

In a dispatch posted at 2:20pm Baghdad time Friday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded on a main road in the Palestine Street area of eastern Baghdad on Friday.

Yaqen reported a source in the government police as saying that the blast killed one person and wounded four others, one of them a cameraman for the al-Hayat bureau by the name of Mu‘tazz Nasir.

Salah ad-Din Province.

Samarra’.

Bombs target motorcade of Sunni Waqf administrator in Samarra’ Friday.

In a dispatch posted at 10:50am Baghdad time Friday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that two bombs exploded by the motorcade of the Chairman of the Board of the Sunni Waqf (Pious Endowment Fund) in Samrra’, 120km north of Baghdad on Friday.

Yaqen reported a source in the Samarra’ police as saying that the blasts, which targeted the motorcade of ‘Abd al-Ghafur as-Samarra’i, Chairman of the Board of the Sunni Waqf (Pious Endowment Fund) in Samrra’, killed two people and severely wounded seven more.  The injured were evacuated to the US military base Speicher for treatment at the hospital there.

A source close to as-Samarra’i said that the Chairman had survived the attack and had been taken secretly to Baghdad.  A source in the US military who asked not to be identified said that two of the companions of as-Samarra’i had died of their wounds.

Tikrit.

Bomb damages US Humvee in Tikrit Thursday night.

In a dispatch posted at 10:05am Baghdad time Friday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a homemade bomb exploded by a US patrol on al-Ihtifalat Street in Tiktik, 180km north of Baghdad, late on Thursday night.

Yaqen reported a source in the provincial police as saying that the blast damaged an American Humvee and inflicted several casualties among the American troops, who called in a helicopter to evacuate them to the as-Samural base in the area of as-Siniyah (220km north of Baghdad).  As of the time of reporting, the US had made no announcement regarding the attack.

Diyala Province.

Ba‘qubah.

Reinforcements arrive in Diyala Province for offensive against Jaysh al-Mahdi, in continued preparations for US attack on Iran.

In a dispatch posted at 6:42pm Baghdad time Friday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that military reinforcements had arrived in Diyala Province from Baghdad to strengthen the US-backed offensive against the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi there, in continued preparation for an American attack on Iran.

Yaqen reported a source in Diyala Province as saying that dozens of military vehicles loaded with troops from various Iraqi regime detachments and accompanied by armored vehicles arrived in the al-Muradiyah area near Ba‘qubah Friday.  The arrival of the troops indicated that the offensive, already announced last Monday, 7 July, was soon to begin in earnest.

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.

Ninwa Province.

Al-Mawsil.

Bomb in al-Mawsil market wounds six civilians.

In a dispatch posted at 7:55pm Baghdad time Friday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded in the Karaj area of northeastern al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad on Friday.

Yaqen reported Brigadier General Khalid ‘Abd as-Sattar, the spokesman for the Ninwa Province Operations Command, as saying that the bomb, which had been planted in a vegetable vending cart at the al-Hammam junction in Karaj, exploded in the midst of a crowd of civilians.  The blast wounded six people who were taken to the Emergency Room in al-Jumhuri Hospital in the city.

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

Al-Qadisiyah Province.

Ad-Diwaniyah.

Iraqi regime troops storm into anti-occupation Sadr Movement mosque in ad-Diwaniyah, arrest Imam, 25 worshippers during Friday prayers on charges of “insulting the reputation of the government.”

In a dispatch posted at 3:35pm Baghdad time Friday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi regime forces raided a mosque run by followers of anti-occupation religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr in the city of ad-Diwaniyah, 180km southeast of Baghdad on Friday and arrested the Imam and 25 worshippers attending weekly Friday prayer services.

Yaqen reported Sayyid ‘Ali al-Ghurabi, Director of the Sadr Office in ad-Diwaniyah as saying that the regime troops stormed into the Imam ‘Ali Mosque in the northwest of ad-Diwaniyah and arrested Shaykh Husayn al-Karbala’i, the Imam of the place of worship, as he was in the midst of delivering his Friday sermon to the congregation.  The troops also arrested 25 of the worshippers.  Al-Ghurabi said that the troops attacked the worshippers, striking and insulting them, and then arresting a number of them.

A source in the local government in ad-Diwaniyah said that the reason for the raid was that worshippers in the mosque had been “guilty” of “denouncing, insulting, and belittling the reputation of the government in the course of sermons and religious functions held at the Imam ‘Ali Mosque.”  The government representative said that current legislation in US occupied Iraq empowers the authorities to prosecute anyone who insults the government or assails its reputation.

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.

Dhi Qar Province.

An-Nasiriyah.

US troops attack home in an-Nasiriyah, leave 65-year old Iraqi man dead.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:15pm Friday afternoon Beijing time (2:15pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that US forces carried out an airborne landing in the ath-Thawrah area of an-Nasiriyah, 370km southeast of Baghdad on Friday, attacking a private home before dawn Friday.

Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi police as saying that an American force from Baghdad arrived at 2:30am Friday morning and landed on the home of Muhammad Hammud Haraz, 65.  After the Americans left, the man was found dead, the source said, adding that the US troops had prevented Iraqi government police and security forces from entering the area where they were carrying out their operation.  No word on the nature of the US operation or the reason for it was available.

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