Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 21 July 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. 

Monday, 21 July 2008.

·        Bomb explodes by US vehicle in southern Baghdad suburb Monday morning.

·        US forces capture anti-occupation Hizballah activist in southeastern Baghdad Monday morning.

·        Bomb kills deputy police administrator for Kirkuk district Monday evening.

Al-Anbar Province.

Al-Fallujah.

Belt bomber killed, five policemen wounded in clash in al-Fallujah Monday.

In a dispatch posted at 1pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen blew up a house and a gunman wearing an explosive belt blew himself up in the course of clashes between gunmen and a police patrol in al-Fallujah, 60km west of Baghdad, on Monday,

Yaqen reported an officer in the al-Fallujah police as saying that a man dressed in a police uniform but wearing a belt bomb blew himself up near the home of an officer in the police.  The police opened fire on the man, setting off the explosive.  The belt bomber was killed and five policemen wounded in the incident.

Recent weeks have witnessed an upsurge in al-Qa ‘idah activity in al-Fallujah and al-Anbar Province generally.

Baghdad.

Bomb explodes by US vehicle in southern Baghdad suburb Monday morning.

In a dispatch posted at 2:44pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a bomb exploded by a US column in the southern Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah on Monday morning.

The AMSI reported witnesses as saying that the attack took place on al-Masafi Road at about 7am local time.  After the incident, US and Iraqi regime troops cordoned off the area and closed the road to cars.  Local people were prevented from approaching the scene making it impossible to ascertain whether there had been any casualties in the attack.  Witnesses said they saw US helicopters hovering over the area as rescue teams headed towards the scene, suggesting that there might have been casualties, but no specific information was available.

US forces capture anti-occupation Hizballah activist in southeastern Baghdad Monday morning.

In a dispatch posted at 2:40pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the US military arrested a member of the Hizballah Brigades in Iraq during raids in the Baghdad al-Jadidah section of southeastern Baghdad early on Monday.

Yaqen reported a US statement as saying that the Americans arrested the man who worked in the public relations department of the Hizballah In Iraq organization, an armed militia loyal to Iran and opposed to the US occupation of Iraq.  The American statement said that prisoners already in US custody had told the Americans that this man had been responsible for taking pictures and video tapes of attacks on Iraqi regime forces.

Resistance group claims attack on US Humvee in southern Baghdad.

In a dispatch posted at 12:17pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Iraqi resistance group known as the Army of the Muslims (Jaysh al-Muslimin), a constituent organization of the Jihad and Change Front, issued a communiqué on Monday.

Yaqen reported the communiqué as claiming that fighters for the Army of the Muslims had attacked a US column to the south of Baghdad, detonating a bomb by the Americans and destroying a Humvee.  The communiqué claimed that all the Americans aboard the vehicle had been killed.  The communiqué gave no indication as to when or precisely where the attack had allegedly taken place.

Home of mother of pro-western Sunni politician blown up in western Baghdad.

In a dispatch posted at 11:50am Baghdad time Monday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen blew up the home of the mother of Mithal al-Alusi, a Sunni secularist member of the US-backed Iraqi parliament who favors an alliance with the Zionist state of “Israel.”

Yaqen reported that armed men planted explosives around the empty home of the mother of the head of the “Ummah Party” in the al-Jami ‘ah neighborhood of western Baghdad.  A source in the police reported that the explosion brought down the home, which was vacant at the time.  The blast also inflicted damage on neighboring dwellings.

Diyala Province.

Ba‘qubah.

Gunmen kill tribal chief in Ba‘qubah Monday.

In a dispatch posted at 1:35pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen shot and killed a chief of the al-‘Ubayd tribe in Ba‘qubah, 65km northeast of Baghdad on Monday.

Yaqen reported a source in the Diyala Province police as saying that gunmen sprayed Shaykh ‘Abd al-Ghafur ‘Abdallah with a hail of bullets in the Abu Sayda area of Ba‘qubah, killing him on the spot.

At-Ta’mim/Kirkuk Province.

Kirkuk.

Bomb kills deputy police administrator for Kirkuk district Monday evening.

In a dispatch posted at 10:20pm Baghdad time Monday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by the motorcade of the Deputy Administrator of the police in the al-‘Urubah district of Kirkuk, 250km north of Baghdad, on Monday evening.

Yaqen reported the Director of the police for outlying districts of Kirkuk, Lieutenant Colonel Khabat Hammah Gharib, as saying that the explosion, on al-Kurnish Street near the Gharnatah Bell in Kirkuk killed the deputy police administrator on the spot.  Four of the official’s guards were wounded in the blast and taken to hospital for treatment.

Resistance group claims destruction of US minesweeper in Kirkuk area.

In a dispatch posted at 4:20pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Iraqi resistance group known as the Brigades of the 1920 Revolution, a constituent member organization in the Jihad and Change Front, had issued a communiqué.

Yaqen reported the communiqué, dated Monday, as saying that the 1920 Brigades fighters had destroyed an American minesweeper vehicle somewhere in the Kirkuk area, 250km north of Baghdad.  The communiqué, which did not specify when or exactly where the attack supposedly occurred, asserted that all the Americans aboard the vehicle had been killed in the attack.

Ninwa Province.

Al-Mawsil.

Al-Qa‘idah gunmen kill two Iraqi regime soldiers in al-Mawsil.

In a dispatch posted at 6:35pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the US military had issued a communiqué announcing that two Iraqi regime soldiers had been killed when al-Qa‘idah gunmen equipped with light arms attacked their patrol in al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad.

Two men shot to death in eastern al-Mawsil as police discover bodies of two other shooting victims elsewhere in city Monday.

In a dispatch posted at 4:45pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen shot and killed two men to the east of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad on Monday.

Yaqen reported a source in the provincial police as saying that gunmen opened fire on a car in which the two men were riding.  Both men were killed on the spot.

In another incident, Iraqi police recovered the unidentified bodies of two shooting victims in the “17 Tammuz” area of western al-Mawsil.  No other information was available.

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.

Wasit Province.

Al-Kut.

Gunmen on motorcycle kill man in al-Kut Monday morning.

In a dispatch posted at 10:33am Baghdad time Monday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed; men killed a man in front of his house in western al-Kut, 180km southeast of Baghdad, on Monday.

Yaqen reported a source in the Wasit Province police as saying that men on a motorcycle opened fire on a man who was standing in front of his home in the al-‘Izzah district to the west of al-Kut Monday morning.  The gunfire killed the man on the spot.  Police arrived on the scene and cordoned off the area but the gunmen had already fled.

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