Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 27 July 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. 

Sunday, 27 July 2008.

·        Tension expected between US, Iraqi regime over exercise of authority at new an-Najaf airport.

·        Two rockets land near British base in al-Basrah.

Al-Anbar Province.

Al-Fallujah.

Local chief of pro-American Sunni-sectarian party wounded in bomb blast.

In a dispatch posted at 4:25pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded in the house of Dr. Zaki ‘Ubayd, an official in the al-Fallujah branch of the Sunni sectarian Islamic Party of Iraq, who is concurrently a member of the al-Anbar Provincial Assembly.  The attack took place in al-Fallujah, 60km west of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported a statement by the Islamic Party, a pro-American Sunni sectarian party formed on the basis of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood in 2003, as saying that the blast wounded ‘Ubayd and his son and killed two of ‘Ubayd’s bodyguards.  The statement said that police reinforcements backed by US troops rushed to the scene, where they shut down traffic.

Baghdad.

Sunday afternoon gun battle between tribal “Awakening” and Iraqi regime police leaves civilian killed three more wounded.

In a dispatch posted at 7:45pm Baghdad time Sunday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that one civilian was killed and three more wounded when members of the “Awakening” tribal police fought a gun battle with regular Iraqi regime police in the Baghdad district of al-Fadl after noon on Sunday.

Yaqen reported a source in the police as saying that the firefight broke out on Sunday afternoon, and confirmed that all the dead and wounded in the melee were civilians.  The cause of the outbreak of gunfire between the two US-backed security services was not disclosed.

Iraqi police colonel badly wounded in Sunday afternoon attack.

In a dispatch posted at 6:45pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men shot and wounded a colonel in the Iraqi government police, a man in a commanding position in Operation Impose the Law in Baghdad, as he drove his car down Muhammad al-Qasim road in eastern Baghdad Sunday afternoon.

Yaqen reported a source in the government police as saying that the Colonel ‘Abd al-Hadi al-Jaza’iri was shot in the head and had been taken to hospital in extremely grave condition with three bullet wounds to the head following the shooting incident in eastern Baghdad.

Resistance group claims attack on US camp in north Baghdad suburb.

In a dispatch posted at 4:15pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Iraqi resistance group known as the Army of the Rashidin, a constituent organization in the Jihad and Change Front, had issued a communiqué.

Yaqen reported the communiqué as saying that fighters for the Rashidin Army had fired three 82mm mortar rounds at the US base in the northern Baghdad suburb of at-Taji.  The statement did not specify when the alleged attack had taken place.

Iraqi authorities arrest man with Iranian weapons in Baghdad.

In a dispatch posted at 12:45pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi regime security forces had arrested a man in Baghdad.

Yaqen reported a source in the Interior Ministry announced that the arrest took place during raids and searches in the ash-Shu‘lah district of Baghdad.  The man was found in possession of two Iranian-made bombs and hand grenades.  The source added that large caches of arms and materiel were sound in ash-Shu‘lah and al-Ghazaliyah.

Salah ad-Din Province.

Tuz Khurmatu.

Blast kills targets Iraqi army patrol near Tuz Khurmatu Sunday.

In a dispatch posted at 11:22am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by an Iraqi army patrol in the Tuz Khurmatu area, 185km north of Baghdad, on Sunday.

Yaqen reported a source in the Kirkuk police as saying that the explosion occurred on the road between Tuz Khurmatu and Sulayman Bak a few kilometers to the southeast.  The blast killed an Iraqi army captain and an Iraqi army soldier and damaged a patrol vehicle.

Diyala Province.

Al-Mada’in.

Report of attack on Shi‘i pilgrims denied.

Conflicting claims were made regarding an alleged attack on Shi‘i pilgrims heading to the Baghdad district of al-Kazimiyah on Sunday.

In a dispatch posted at 7:12pm Baghdad time Sunday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported a police source as saying that gunmen had opened fire on Shi‘i pilgrims on their way to visit the tomb of the Shi‘i Imam Musa al-Kazim in Baghdad’s al-Kazimiyah district.  According to a source in the government police, gunmen killed seven of the pilgrims.

Yaqen reported the source as saying that the pilgrims had been on foot, having evidently walked from the cities south of Baghdad to take part in religious visitation rites to the shrine of the Shi‘i Imam.

But in a dispatch posted at 10:09pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a spokesman for the Operations Command of Baghdad had denied the report of the killing.

The AMSI reported Qasim ‘Ata, press spokesman for the Operations Command as denying reports carried by the media that a procession of pilgrims had come under fire in the area of al-Mada’in, 35km southeast of Baghdad.

The Shi‘i Imam Musa al-Kazim was reportedly poisoned on orders of the Sunni Caliph Harun ar-Rashid in the year 799 C.E.  Festivities in honor of the medieval Shi‘i cleric are to reach their climax on Tuesday, 29 July.

Buhriz.

Bomb kills two Oil Protection Policemen in Buhriz Sunday.

In a dispatch posted at 3pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a motorcycle on which two Oil Protection Policemen were riding on the main street in the al-‘Ibarah area to the south of Buhriz, 60km northeast of Baghdad, on Sunday.

Yaqen reported a source in the police as saying that the blast killed the two policemen on the spot.

Rocket kills child in Buhriz Saturday afternoon.

In a dispatch posted at 10:27am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a Katyusha rocket had killed a child in the Buhriz area, 60km northeast of Baghdad on Saturday afternoon.

Yaqen reported a source in the tribal “Awakening” police as saying that the child found the rocket in some trash and began playing with it.  The rocket exploded, killing the child on the spot, the source said.

An-Najaf Province.

An-Najaf.

Tension expected between US, Iraqi regime over exercise of authority at new an-Najaf airport.

In a dispatch posted at 5:30pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the airport in an-Najaf, recently opened by Iraq’s American-backed Shi‘i fundamentalist Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, has grown into a security problem and bone of contention between the Iraqi regime and the US occupation authorities that control the country.

Yaqen reported a source in the Iraqi regime as saying Sunday that the Americans want to put the airport in an-Najaf, 160km south of Baghdad, under tight supervision to prevent infiltration of agents of “neighboring countries” into US-occupied Iraq.  An-Najaf is a holy city and pilgrimage center for Shi‘i Muslim believers and the Shi‘i fundamentalist regime in Iran is suspected of using the Shi‘i pilgrimage as a cover for smuggling Iranian agents into Iraq.

The source told Yaqen that the Americans have told the Iraqi regime that Iraqi government army and police personnel still lack the expertise to handle security in an-Najaf.  In addition, the Americans feel, the Iraqi regime forces are subject to political and partisan pressures and are therefore unable to provide adequate security at the airport.

The US-installed Iraqi regime is headed by Nuri al-Maliki who is himself the leader of the Shi‘i sectarian Da‘wah Party and has close ties to the Iranian clerical establishment.  It is evident that US occupation officials are concerned that the Iraqi regime’s security personnel might cooperate with Iranian intelligence activities carried out via the airport at the Shi‘i pilgrimage center in an-Najaf.

The source told Yaqen that the US plans to install equipment for detecting any unauthorized aircraft in the air between Iran and an-Najaf.  Such equipment would facilitate monitoring of any secret landings of Iranian military aircraft in an-Najaf.  The source said that it was likely that the installation of that equipment and the issue of who would monitor it would prove to be a major bone of contention between the US occupation authorities and their Iraqi regime allies, whose ties to the Iranian clerical regime are well-known.

Ninwa Province.

Al-Qayyarah.

Gunmen battle Iraqi regime troops near al-Qayyarah Sunday evening.

In a dispatch posted at 8:45pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a gun battle took place between Iraqi army troops and gunmen on the road between al-Qayyarah, in southeastern Ninwa Province and Makhmur in neighboring Irbil province in northern Iraq on Sunday evening.

Yaqen reported a source in the government army as saying that three gunmen and four government troops were killed in the engagement, one of them an officer.  Another three were wounded.

The source said that the fighting took place near the village of Jadidah between the al-Qayyarah area and Makhmur, 68km southwest of Irbil city.

Al-Mawsil.

Mosque Imam assassinated in al-Mawsil Sunday.

In a dispatch posted at 3:33pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen shot and killed the Imam of a mosque in al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, on Sunday.

Yaqen reported  a source in the al-Mawsil police as saying that armed men sprayed Shaykh Salih ‘Abd al-‘Aziz with bullets in the al-Faruq area of al-Mawsil, as he was returning home.  The Shaykh died on the spot.

Al-Basrah Province.

Al-Basrah.

Two rockets land near British base in al-Basrah.

In a dispatch posted at 4:50pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the British occupation forces base at al-Basrah International Airport had been the target of rocket attacks.

Yaqen reported a British spokesman as saying that one rocket landed near the airport but caused no damage.  A second rocket landed near Karmat ‘Ali, a village in the al-Harithah area.  The spokesman said that the rocket launcher and two more rockets were discovered  and disabled by Iraqi regime troops.

Bomb wounds motorist in al-Basrah Sunday.

In a dispatch posted at 12:03pm Baghdad time midday Sunday, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded on at-Ta’mim Street in the al-Husayn neighborhood to the west of al-Basrah on Sunday.

Yaqen reported a source in the al-Basrah police as saying that the blast wounded the driver of the car.  Security forces surrounded the area and transported the victim to hospital for treatment.

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