Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 25 July 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. 

Friday, 25 July 2008.

·        Gunmen kill woman in her home in al-Mawsil.

·        In continued preparations for American attack on Iran, Iraqi regime police arrest five anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen in raids, searches in al-Basrah.

Baghdad.

Four “Awakening” policemen shot in attack in Baghdad’s al-A‘zamiyah Thursday morning.

In a dispatch posted at 5:15pm Baghdad time Friday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Riyad Hadi Muhsin, an official with the tribal “Awakening” in the Sunni Baghdad district of al-A‘zamiyah announced that three members of the “Awakening” police had been shot to death and a fourth wounded in an attack there early Thursday morning.

Yaqen reported Muhsin as saying that armed men equipped with pistols fitted with silencers shot and killed two of the “Awakening” policemen in the al-Kamm area of al-A‘zamiyah at about 6am local time Thursday morning.  The attackers fled but other members of the “Awakening” opened fire on them and a gun battle ensued.  Two more of the “Awakening” policemen were killed in the exchange and another “Awakening” policeman wounded.

Ninwa Province.

Al-Mawsil.

Gunmen kill woman in her home in al-Mawsil.

In a dispatch posted at 3:06pm Baghdad time Friday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men burst into the home of a woman the al-Karamah neighborhood of eastern al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, and shot her dead on the spot.

Yaqen reported a source in the Ninwa Province security forces who asked not to be identified as saying that the 41-year-old woman had been the head of the household.  Her body was turned over to the Forensic Medicine Department.

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-Basrah Province.

Al-Basrah.

In continued preparations for American attack on Iran, Iraqi regime police arrest five anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen in raids, searches in al-Basrah.

In a dispatch posted at 6:10aghdad time Friday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Iraqi government police had carried out raids in various parts of al-Basrah in southern Iraq on Thursday and arrested five more members of the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia.

Yaqen reported a source in the al-Basrah Province police as saying that the Iraqi regime forces carried out raids in various parts of the province and in addition to arresting five Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen, the troops also confiscated fifty 120mm mortar shells in the Jasim River in the Shatt al-‘Arab area and one RPG-7 rocket propelled grenade in the Internal Security 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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