Iraqi Resistance Report

Tuesday, 17 May 2005. from charlievictor


Al-Anbar Province, Saqlawiyah. An Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter blew up an explosives-laden white Daewoo car amidst a US foot patrol. The fighter driving the car pulled up close to the American patrol and suddenly stopped. He called to the Americans asking them to come over to help him with his car. He did not have the appearance of a militant nor was he armed, but when the American troops gathered around him he blew himself and his car up, killing 20 US troops. Seven of the dead Americans had gathered very close to his car and their bodies were completely charred by the blast.

Rutbah. Iraqi Resistance forces near the border with Jordan fired a rocket scoring a direct hit on the rear of a US Apache helicopter. American troops and Iraqi fire fighters headed to the wreckage of the aircraft burning on the ground in a farm field. No information on the fate of the helicopter crew, since US forces kept the area sealed off.

Al-Qa'im. An Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-packed car into a US checkpoint killing nine American troops and wounding five. The Americans called in two Apache helicopters to evacuate their dead and wounded. The American forces arrested an American Associated Press photographer who tried to take pictures of the bodies of the dead and wounded Americans strewn on the ground and smashed his camera.

Ramadi. An Iraqi Resistance Opel car bomb parked on a dirt road as an American patrol was passing, destroying one Humvee and killing four American soldiers. US troops deployed and sealed off the area, raided and searched houses and nearby farms, and arrested four civilians.

Baghdad. US troops attacked the home of the Iraqi lawyer representing President Saddam Hussein, stole his legal documents and Defense Committee papers relating to the case, in addition to money and valuables, in particular jewelry, telephones, and $40,000. The legal defense team for President Saddam Hussein, which the Iraqi President and his daughters selected, consists of 24 attorneys, including the former French Minister of Defense Roland Dumas, and the Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

The Iraqi Resistance bombarded the notorious American Abu Ghurayb prison camp yet again with seven mortar rounds. US helicopters in the air tried to pinpoint the source of the incoming fire, but failed. Later an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military patrol in a village east of Abu Ghurayb destroying one Humvee, killing three US soldiers and wounding two.

An Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded by a US military column as it passed the intersection on the highway from Baghdad to the west, destroying two Humvees and killing seven US troops and wounding two. US forces encircled the area closing the highway to traffic and preventing anyone from approaching. Other American troops hauled away the wrecked vehicles and the remains of the dead and wounded to their base.

Puppet forces are waging a massive sectarian campaign targeted at Sunni personalities in conformity with US "divide and rule" strategy of pitting Iraqis against each other. The so-called Wolf Brigade of the puppet "Iraqi National Guard" over the past two days carried out repressive raids, arrests, torture and murder targetting more than 100 persons in various parts of the country, but especially Baghdad.
The murder took place of Sunni Shaykh Dulaymi during a raid on his mosque and the arrest of Shaykh Nu'aymi, a member of the Consultative Council of the Board of Muslim 'Ulama', along with several worshippers in his mosque, some tortured and then murdered. Their bodies were found near the al-Firdaws Mosque on the outskirts of Baghdad. Relatives of the victims said they had been abducted by members of the Wolf Brigade of the Iraqi puppet regime's "national guard."
Two men were found barely alive among the corpses of the other victims: both were taken to the City Medical Hospital but members of the puppet "national guards" caught up with one of them and took him out of the hospital and no more is known of him. The puppet guards failed to find the other man.

The Board of Muslim 'Ulama' expressed concern over the fate of Shaykh Nu'aymi and Shaykh Razzaq who were arrested several days ago and demanded their immediate release, after prisoners released from the overcrowded occupation prison camps reported that the two religious leaders had been subjected to intensive torture likely to cause death.

"Two days after the arrest by the so-called Shock Forces of the puppet police of Shaykh Nu'aymi, Imam and preacher of the Shahid Yusuf Mosque in Baghdad, his body was identified among the corpses in the Medical City Hospital in Baghdad. The Shaykh had been killed by those forces after his arrest was announced on television by a satellite TV network."

Kazakh Defense Minister, General Altynbayev supports the withdrawal of the Kazakh contingent from Iraq. "It's time to think about stopping the work of our formation in Iraq,' he told reporters. Asked whether he would submit his proposal to the president, he said: "I have expressed my opinion. I think the head of state and parliament will hear about it on TV." Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, of which Kazakhstan was a constituent republic, the country has increasingly been drawn into the orbit of Washington. A 27-man-strong sapper platoon was sent to Iraq in August 2003 to serve the American occupation, clearing mines and working on water supplies. Since its deployment, the Kazakh contingent neutralized 3 million mines, unexploded bombs and shells. One Kazakh soldier has been killed and several wounded.

Diyala Province, Mundhiriyah. Iraqi Resistance forces killed seven Iranians, agents of Iranian intelligence, who infiltrated across the border into Iraq illegally. The Iranians were found in possession of weapons and explosives. Killed along with the seven Iranians was one Iraqi resident of the border area acting as their guide. They intended to commit acts of sabotage in the Land of the Two Rivers, and they "received their just punishment after confessing to their ugly intentions." Later, the Iraqi puppet police found the eight bodies.

At-Ta'mim Province, Kirkuk. A Resistance car bomber blasted a joint US-Iraqi puppet checkpoint, killing six Americans, and three Iraqi puppet troops. US forces evacuated Americans, leaving Iraqi casualties behind. Iraqi stooges showed resentment that the Americans evacuated their dead, but left the Iraqi stooges lying there in their pools of blood. Such behaviour contradicted what the Americans told the Iraqi puppet forces, that the Iraqi puppet army and the American army were united as one in confronting what they call "terrorism" - meaning the Iraqi Resistance.