Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 29 July 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.

Tuesday, 29 July 2008.

·        US, Iraqi regime forces arrest 20 people in first hours of offensive against al-Qa‘idah in Diyala Province Tuesday.

·        Iraqi government troops deploy in Kirkuk, one day after deadly al-Qa‘idah suicide attack.

·        Female chief of management committee for consumer cooperatives gunned down in al-Mawsil Monday.

Diyala Province.

Ba‘qubah.

US, Iraqi regime forces arrest 20 people in first hours of offensive against al-Qa‘idah in Diyala Province Tuesday.

In a dispatch posted at 8:40pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi government forces in Diyala Province arrested 20 people in various parts of Diyala province in the first hours of their offensive against the Sunni sectarian fundamentalist organization al-Qa‘idah there.

Yaqen reported a source in the Iraqi Defense Ministry as saying that army and police forces together with US occupation forces carried out raids and searches, arresting 20 people on Tuesday.

At-Ta’mim/Kirkuk Province.

Kirkuk.

Iraqi government troops deploy in Kirkuk, one day after deadly al-Qa‘idah suicide attack.

In a dispatch posted at 1:25pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi army troops deployed in the city of Kirkuk, 250km north of Baghdad.  The move was apparently designed to forestall attempts by Kurdish separatists to take advantage of an al-Qa‘idah suicide attack on Monday that targeted a Kurdish demonstration in the city. Oil-rich Kirkuk is at the center of a dispute between Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq seeking to annex the city to the northern Iraqi Kurdish enclave and the Iraqi government and the majority population of the city that is made up of Arabs and Turkomans and is opposed to annexation by the Kurds.

Yaqen reported the troops deployed in ‘Arafah in the central part of the city “in order to prevent acts of violence.”

On Monday, a woman believed to be a member of the Sunni-sectarian al-Qa‘idah Organization blew herself up in the midst of a Kurdish separatist demonstration in Kirkuk.  The blast killed 22 people and wounded another 150.

Ninwa Province.

Al-Mawsil.

Bomb wounds three soldiers, one civilian in western al-Mawsil Tuesday.

In a dispatch posted at 10:10pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol of Iraqi army troops in western al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, on Tuesday.

Yaqen reported a source in the city police as saying that a captain and two Iraqi army troops were wounded in the blast, which took place on BaDush street in western al-Mawsil.  A civilian who happened to be on the scene was also wounded in the explosion and later taken to hospital for treatment.

Three civilians wounded in bomb blast in al-Mawsil Tuesday.

In a dispatch posted at 5:35pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by an Iraqi police patrol in al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad on Tuesday.

Yaqen reported a source in the police as saying that the blast took place in the at-Ta’mim Neighborhood in eastern al-Mawsil and that three people who happened to be in the area were wounded.

Female chief of management committee for consumer cooperatives gunned down in al-Mawsil Monday.

In a dispatch posted at 11:08am Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that gunmen assassinated the Chairwoman of the Management Committee of the Federation of Cooperatives in eastern al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, on Monday.

The AMSI reported a high-ranking source in the province as saying that gunmen in a late-model car opened fire on Taghrid Ahmad al-Ma‘adidi in the al-Qadisiyah ath-Thaniyah district of eastern al-Mawsil.  She had just left her home on her way to work at the time of the shooting.  She died on the spot.

The Management Committee of the Federation of Cooperatives is a government-backed cooperative association for the distribution of consumer goods.

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