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"The Passion Against the War" |
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05 Sep 2005 01:19:59 AM |
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What the controlled U.S. media fails to tell us |
Sunday, 4 September 2005.
Resistance takes full control of al-Qa’im following over-night battle.
US-appointed mayor flees city with American troops.
Five US troops reported killed by double bombing just east of Hit Sunday
morning.
Tortured bodies of Sunni religious leaders, arrested by puppet security
services, found in morgue Saturday morning.
Five US troops reported killed in Resistance ambush near al-Latifiyah
late Sunday morning.
Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Qa’im.
In a bulletin posted at 2:40pm Mecca time Sunday afternoon, the al-Qa’im
correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short time earlier
Iraqi Resistance forces in the city near the Syrian border had announced
that they now have al-Qa’im under their control.
The announcement followed combat with US and Iraqi puppet army forces
that raged from Saturday evening until midday Sunday and finally
compelled the Americans and their local followers to withdraw from the
city at 12 noon on Sunday.
Iraqi Resistance forces deployed in very large numbers throughout the
city, armed with light weapons and carrying Iraqi flags to proclaim
their victory.
The correspondent, in the heart of al-Qa’im, reported that mosque
loudspeakers were broadcasting readings from the Qur’an and chants of
“God is Greatest!” to celebrate the triumph.
Witnessses in the Hasibah district in the middle of the city reported
that US troops tried at noon and for two hours to get into the abandoned
train station located 2km inside the city. The US forces were unable to
get in, however, because of the mine fields that the Resistance had
planted around al-Qa’im and because the Resistance met the attacking
Americans with heavy gunfire.
Meanwhile, in a telephone conversation with the US-installed mayor of
al-Qa’im, who fled from the city with American forces at noon Sunday,
the puppet official said that the city had indeed fallen into the hands
of the “terrorists” as he called the Iraqi Resistance, saying that they
are now in control of al-Qa’im.
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that as of the time of reporting neither the
US military nor the US-installed puppet regime had made any statement on
the seizure of al-Qa’im by the Resistance.
Then in a dispatch posted at 8pm Mecca time Sunday night, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that in a first official response, a spokesman for the
Iraqi puppet army had acknowledged that the city of al-Qa’im had
completely fallen into the hands of the Iraqi Resistance
Brigadier General Rashid ‘Ali, the official spokesman for the Iraqi
puppet army’s department of operations in al-Anbar province, said “yes,
they the Resistance were able to get complete control of al-Qa’im and
Hasibah after noon today, Sunday.” This was the first official statement
from the US-installed regime concerning the situation in al-Qa’im.
The General went on to threaten that al-Qa’im was going to share the
fate of al-Fallujah if it continued to be a nest for what he called
“terrorists” – meaning Resistance fighters. “They in al-Qa’im should
take heed from what happened to al-Fallujah because they will be the
losers in the end,” the US-appointed general asserted.
Resistance fighter shoots down unmanned US spy plane with machine gun
Sunday morning.
Iraqi Resistance fighters in al-Qa’im on the Iraq-Syria border shot down
an unmanned US reconnaissance airplane over the city at 10am local time
Sunday morning.
The al-Qa’im correspondent for Mafakrat al-Islam reported witnesses as
saying that an Iraqi Resistance fighter opened fire with a PKS medium
machine gun, striking the spy plane and destroying it in the Hasibah
area in the middle of the city.
Hit.
Five US troops reported killed by double bombing just east of Hit Sunday
morning.
Two Iraqi Resistance bombs exploded by a US military column on the main
road linking Hit with al-Muhammadi at 9am local time Sunday morning.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported residents of Hit who
witnessed the attack as saying that two bombs that had been planted by
the side of the road to al-Muhammadi, located 4km from the eastern
entrance to Hit, blew up almost simultaneously by a column of two troop
carriers and four Humvees.
The correspondent reported that the two explosions destroyed one Humvee
and disabled a troop transport vehicle. Five American soldiers were
killed and three more wounded in the attack.
Al-Fallujah.
US soldier reported killed in roadside bombing at dawn in al-Fallujah.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a joint US-Iraqi puppet army patrol
in the al-‘Askari neighborhood in eastern al-Fallujah at 6am local time
Sunday morning.
The local correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported residents of
al-‘Askari as saying that a bomb that had been planted by the side of
ash-Sharikah Street, the main road in the neighborhood, blew up as the
US patrol passed by.
The blast set one Humvee on fire and killed one US soldier. Two other
American troops were wounded as were two Iraqi puppet army soldiers.
Abu Ghurayb.
Two US troops reported killed in Sunday afternoon roadside bombing.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US armored column in the
adh-Dhahab al-Abyad area of Abu Ghurayb on the main road that leads
towards Baghdad.
The Abu Ghurayb correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported people who
were driving by the area at the time the blast occurred as saying that a
bomb that was planted by the side of the main road blew up at 3pm local
time Sunday as a column of five US armored vehicles and four Humvees was
passing by.
The witnesses said that the blast destroyed one of the American armored
vehicles and killed two US troops and wounded three others.
Baghdad.
Resistance bombards joint US-Wolf Brigade headquarters in al-A‘zamiyah
early Sunday afternoon.
Iraqi Resistance forces fired twelve 82mm mortar rounds from three
directions into a joint headquarters of US troops and the Iraqi puppet
army’s “Wolf Brigade” in the al-A‘zamiyah district of Baghdad at about
2:30pm local time Sunday afternoon.
Residents of al-A‘zamiyah told the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in
Baghdad that the joint headquarters came under violent mortar attack,
setting off fierce explosions that shook the whole base and sent plumes
of smoke rising from all parts of the facility.
US Black Hawk helicopters flew in over the base and nearby areas at low
altitude. Two US helicopters landed inside the base, apparently to pick
up casualties from the attack.
Car bomb, mortar barrage obliterate joint US-Iraqi puppet army
checkpoint near at-Taji.
In a dispatch posted at 9:59am Sunday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam
reported that Iraqi Resistance forces destroyed a checkpoint jointly
manned by US and Iraqi puppet troops on the road leading to
al-Mushahadah north of the northern Baghdad suburb of at-Taji.
Residents of at-Taji who witnessed the attack told Mafkarat al-Islam
that an Iraqi Resistance fighter drove an explosives-packed car into the
checkpoint and blew up, destroying a large part of the position and
setting a Humvee on fire. Nine US and Iraqi puppet army troops were
killed or wounded.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that after the car bomb
attack, Resistance fighters bombarded the checkpoint with eight heavy
120mm mortar rounds from different angles, totally destroying the
position and setting two American Humvees and one pickup belonging to
the Iraqi puppet army on fire.
The correspondent reported that following the two attacks, the Americans
called in reinforcements of US and Iraqi puppet troops backed up by
helicopters. At the time of reporting, the correspondent said, the
Americans were encircling the area and preventing local people and
journalists from approaching. The Americans were working with the aid of
helicopters to remove the demolished vehicles and the bodies of the dead
and the wounded from the area.
Tortured bodies of Sunni religious leaders, arrested by security
services, found in morgue Saturday morning.
The Association of Muslim Scholars, the supreme Sunni Muslim religious
authority in occupied Iraq issued an announcement dated Saturday, 3
September 2005 in which it said that during the evening prayers on
Thursday, 1 September 2005, puppet security forces of the so-called
al-Husayn Brigade raided the al-Mustafa Mosque in the al-‘Ubaydi
district of Baghdad al-Jadidah and arrested the Imam, Shaykh Salim Nasif
Jasim at-Tamimi, a member of the Association of Muslim Scholars and the
mosque muezzin Khalid Bakhit al-Karakhi as well as a number of
worshipers.
On Saturday morning, 3 September, the statement said, the bodies of
Shaykh at-Tamimi, the muezzin al-Karakhi, and two of the worshippers
captured on Thursday evening (‘Adnan Nasif al-Jabburi and Jasim al-Bawi)
were found in the forensic morgue in Baghdad. The bodies bore signs of
torture, they were manicled, and they had been shot to death.
The Association denounced the sectarian murder apparently carried out by
a state security service working for the US-installed “government” and
called on Iraqis to stand in one rank to frustrate the plots of such
suspicious elements.
Babil Province.
Al-Latifiyah.
Five US troops reported killed in Resistance ambush near al-Latifiyah
late Sunday morning.
Iraqi Resistance fighters ambushed US troops east of al-Latifiyah near
the bridge on the road to al-Yusufiyah some 25km south of Baghdad at
11am local time Sunday morning.
Witnesses told the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in al-Latifiyah that
a bomb that had been planted by the side of the road blew up near the
al-Latifiyah Bridge as a column of two US troop carriers and four
Humvees was passing by. The explosion destroyed one of the Humvees, the
witnesses said.
After the column came to a halt following the blast, Iraqi Resistance
fighters armed with light and medium weapons, including RPG7
rocket-propelled grenades and PKS machine guns attacked, setting one
more Humvee on fire and killing five US troops and wounding another
three American soldiers.
The witnesses reported that the Resistance attackers were able to
withdraw from the area after the attack having sustained no casualties.
Diyala Province.
Al-Mada’in.
Resistance marksman shoots and kills US soldier Sunday afternoon.
An Iraqi Resistance marksman shot and killed a US soldier in the
al-Mu‘allimin neighborhood in the middle of al-Mada’in, southeast of
Baghdad at 3pm local time Sunday afternoon.
Residents of al-Mada’in told the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent that a
US soldier was killed while standing in one of the vehicles that was
part of a US patrol in the al-Mu‘allimin neighborhood, when an Iraqi
Resistance sharpshooter’s bullet struck and killed him.
After the attack, US forces surrounded the area and searched nearby
house but found nothing.
Buhriz.
Resistance assaults joint check point Sunday.
In a report posted at 2:50pm Mecca time Sunday afternoon, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters armed with light and
medium weapons, including RPG7 rocket-propelled grenades and PKS machine
guns, attacked a checkpoint jointly manned by US and Iraqi puppet army
forces in the Buhriz area, south of Ba‘qubah.
A source in the puppet army’s “rapid deployment forces,” who asked not
to be identified, told Mafkarat al-Islam that the attack destroyed the
checkpoint and left two US troops and four Iraqi puppet army soldiers
dead. Five other Iraqi puppet army troops were wounded in the attack,
the source said.
A column of “rapid deployment forces” was then sent to reinforce the
checkpoint, but an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded under their advancing
unit, destroying one pickup and killing two Iraqi puppet army soldiers
and wounding three other puppet army troops.
Salah ad-Din Province.
Samarra’.
Resistance bombards US headquarters in Samarra’ Sunday afternoon.
Iraqi Resistance forces fired four heavy 120mm mortar rounds into the US
headquarters in the an-Nu‘ayriah area to the northeast of Samarra’,
120km north of Baghad at 5pm local time Sunday afternoon.
The Samarra’ correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported witnesses as
saying that four powerful explosion shook the headquarters of US forces
in an-Nu‘ayriyah and surrounding areas. No information was available on
the nature or extent of any casualties that might have been caused by
the barrage.
Resistance bomb blasts joint US-Iraqi puppet army patrol in Samarra’
early Sunday.
Iraqi Resistance fighters detonated a bomb in the path of a joint
US-Iraqi puppet army patrol on the main road in the area of the
pharmaceutical plant in the northeast of Samarra’ at 10am local time
Sunday morning.
A source in the Iraqi puppet army who asked not to be identified told
the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent that a bomb that was planted by the
side of the road leading to the pharmaceutical plant blew up as the
joint patrol was passing by. He said that the blast destroyed one pickup
belonging to the Iraqi puppet army, killing three Iraqi puppet army
soldiers and wounding three more.
Ninwa Province.
Mosul.
Resistance bombards US al-Ghazlani base midday Sunday.
Iraqi Resistance forces fired three medium-range Katyusha rockets into
the US al-Ghazlani base in the middle of Mosul at about 1pm local time
Sunday.
Residents of ash-Shaykh Fathi village, adjacent to the US base, told the
Mosul correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam that three powerful explosions
shoot the US base and sent columns of smoke rising into the sky.
Resistance bomb blasts US armored column on road to Kirkuk early Sunday.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US armored column on the main
road in the al-Wahdah neighborhood in the south of Mosul at 7am local
time Sunday morning.
Residents of al-Wahdah told the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent that a
bomb that was planted by the road leading to Kirkuk in the southeast
blew up as a column of five armored vehicles and two Humvees passed by.
The explosion destroyed one of the armored vehicles and wounded five US
troops.
~Absolute power corrupts absolutely
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