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"The Passion Against the War" |
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30 Aug 2005 10:00:42 PM |
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What the Phony, Brain-Dead U.S. Media Fails to tell us |
Monday, 29 August 2005.
Four US troops reportedly killed in bombing north of Hit.
Massive bomb rips through US personnel carrier in al-Karmah Monday
afternoon.
Resistance fighters assault US-Iraqi puppet army camp in al-Fallujah.
Three prisoners break out of Abu Ghurayb prison camp.
Four US troops reported killed in Monday morning roadside bombing in
al-Mahmudiyah.
Al-Anbar Province.
Hit.
Four US troops reported killed in roadside bombing on highway north of
Hit late Monday morning.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military column on the highway
in the 30km area north of Hit in western Iraq at 11am local time Monday
morning.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in the area reported residents of
Hit who witnessed the attack as saying that a bomb that was planted by
the side of the highway blew up as a column of four US troop transports
and three Humvees passed by.
The explosion destroyed one of the troop transport vehicles, killing
four US soldiers and wounding another four American troops.
Resistance car bomb blasts passing US patrol on its way into Hit Monday
morning.
An Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded by a US military column on the
main road near the eastern entrance to the city of Hit in western Iraq
at 9am local time Monday morning.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported local residents who
witnessed the explosion as saying that an explosives-laden car that was
parked by the side of the road blew up as a column of several American
armored vehicles passed by on its way to the US headquarters in the
middle of the city.
The explosion destroyed one US armored vehicle and disabled a second,
killing or wounding about seven American troops.
Al-Fallujah.
Five US troops reported killed in massive bomb blast in al-Karmah late
Monday afternoon.
In a dispatch posted at 5:30pm Mecca time Monday afternoon, the Mafkarat
al-Islam correspondent in al-Fallujah reported that it had just been
learned that a massive Iraqi Resistance bomb had exploded by a US column
in the al-Karmah area to the east of the city (which is located some
50km west of Baghdad).
Residents of al-Karmah who witnessed the explosion told the
correspondent that the huge bomb was planted by the side of the main
road near the al-Karmah Bridge. It went off as a column of several US
personnel carriers and three Humvees was passing by. The blast
completely destroyed one troop carrier, killing five American soldiers
and wounding seven more US troops.
At the time of reporting, American forces were deploying around the area
to encircle it and lay down a security perimeter. A huge Chinook
helicopter was observed landing near the scene to evacuate the wrecked
vehicle and the bodies of the dead and the wounded.
Resistance attacks joint US-Iraqi puppet army camp in al-Jaghifi
neighborhood of al-Fallujah.
The Iraqi Resistance fiercely attacked a camp jointly used by the US
military and the Iraqi puppet army in the al-Jaghifi neighborhood in
northern al-Fallujah on Monday.
In a dispatch posted at 2:40pm Mecca time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported residents of al-Jaghifi who witnessed the attack as
saying that Iraqi Resistance fighters armed with light and medium
weapons including PKS machine guns and pipe rockets attacked the camp.
The assault lasted about half an hour, the witnesses reported, but no
information was available on the extent or nature of possible
casualties.
Two US troops reported killed in roadside Resistance bombing in central
al-Fallujah Monday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 9:12am Mecca time Monday morning, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that a short while earlier, an Iraqi Resistance bomb
exploded by a US military patrol in the ash-Shuhada’ neighborhood of
central al-Fallujah in western Iraq.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in al-Fallujah reported
eyewitnesses as saying that a bomb that was planted by the side of the
road leading to the center of town blew up when a patrol of several US
Humvees was passing. The explosion set fire to one Humvee, killing two
US troops and wounding one more.
Ar-Ramadi.
Resistance guns down US-appointed Director of Customs in al-Anbar
Province Monday afternoon.
In a dispatch posted at 5:20pm Mecca time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that a short while earlier, Iraqi Resistance fighters
had assassinated the US-appointed Director of Customs for al-Anbar
Province, Colonel Nasir al-‘Aythawi. The attack on the Colonel, who
collaborates with US forces working near Iraq’s western border, took
place in the 5km area west of ar-Ramadi, a city located some 110km west
of Baghdad.
The ar-Ramadi correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported witnesses as
saying that Resistance fighters opened fire with light arms and PKS
machine guns on the car in which Colonel al-‘Athawi was driving home. He
was killed instantly.
Abu Ghurayb.
Three prisoners escape Abu Ghurayb prison camp through hole under the
wall.
Three prisoners in the notorious American prison in Abu Ghurayb escaped
through the southern wall around the prison on Sunday night.
The local correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported witnesses as
saying that US troops in the early hours of the morning surrounded a
whole area and began a campaign of raids and searches of all the houses
there, hunting for the escapees but without finding anything.
A source in the Iraqi puppet army told the correspondent and a number of
news agency reporters that the prisoners had managed to escape thorough
two holes that they had dug under the south wall of the prison. The
source said that the prisoners who got out were Resistance fighters from
al-Fallujah.
Shortly before the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent filed his report
(posted at 11:30am Mecca time Monday morning) the US forces issued a
communiqué in the occupation headquarters in the Republican Palace area
in Baghdad – known to the US as “the green zone” – admitting that one
prisoner had escaped and that they had found the hole through which he
had got out.
Sources in the Iraqi puppet army confirmed, however, that the number of
escapees was three, not one. US troops themselves confirmed this, as
they were distributing three photographs, not just one, of escapees in
the area and asking local people to help in apprehending them.
(See the first report on the escape based on a US announcement in “US
acknowledges prisoner escaped from Abu Ghurayb,” in Iraqi Resistance
Report, Sunday, 28 August 2005.)
Baghdad.
Resistance bombards US-Iraqi puppet army headquarters in as-Sayyidiyah
late Monday morning.
Iraqi Resistance forces fired two Katyusha rockets at the joint
headquarters of the US and Iraqi puppet army in the as-Sayyidiyah area
south of Baghdad 11am local time Monday morning.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported a source in the Iraqi
puppet army as saying that two medium-range Katyusha rockets blasted
into the headquarters. One rocket struck a group of Iraqi puppet army
soldiers when they were assembled with one of their officers. The
explosion killed an Iraqi lieutenant and four of his troops. Five other
Iraqi puppet army soldiers were wounded.
The second rocket only inflicted some material damage on a building
inside the camp, the source said.
Arab League Secretary General: Parts of Iraq’s draft “constitution” are
“recipe for chaos.”
The Secretary General of the League of Arab States, ‘Amr Musa declared
on Monday that certain parts of the draft Iraqi “constitution” are a
“call to chaos.”
In an interview British Radio, monitored by Mafkarat al-Islam, Musa
expressed his concern over the lack of consensus over the draft that has
been overwhelmingly rejected by Iraq’s Sunni Arab population.
Musa said, “the Arab League shares the fears of Iraqi Sunnis regarding
federalism.” He said that his fears were renewed by the fact that the
draft document also fails to declare Iraq’s identity as an Arab country.
Musa said that this appeared to be a concession to non-Arab minorities,
such as the Kurds.
Iraqi Scholar publishes details of theft of Iraqi historic manuscripts
by US military command in 2003.
An Iraqi manuscript specialist has stated that after the occupation of
Baghdad in April 2003, US officials took away to their country a group
of Iraqi manuscripts, including scrolls of the Torah, disregarding Iraqi
objections that “Israel” had been trying to take possession of them for
some time.
Usamah Nasir an-Naqshabandi said that after the American occupation of
the Iraqi capital, US troops found a number of manuscripts and books,
including leather scrolls of the Torah in a wooden cylinder in a store
room in the headquarters of the Iraqi Intelligence service. “They took
them and put them in a big air-conditioned truck,” an-Naqshbandi
recounted.
An-Naqshbandi, who was General Director for Iraqi Manuscripts from 1988
– when the Directorate was established – until 2002, said that experts
from the Dar al-Makhtutat Manuscript Archive and from Iraqi museums
presented a report to the Board of Antiquities in which they stressed
that the manuscripts were “national heritage materials subject to the
Law on Antiquities and that they must be handed over to the Board of
Antiquities and Heritage.” An-Naqshbandi said that no one paid any
attention to their entreaties.
In a study entitled Istihdaf al-Makhtutat fi al-‘Iraq khilal al-Harb
1991 – 2003 (The Targeting of Manuscripts in Iraq during the War 1991 –
2003) published in the most recent issue of the journal Turathiyat, a
biannual scholarly journal from Egypt, an-Naqshbandi wrote that an
Arabic-speaking official with the American Defense Department (the
Pentagon) was sent to Iraq shortly after the US occupation to supervse
the Board of Antiquities and Heritage.
That individual, an-Naqshbandi wrote, was behind the operation to take
the materials. An-Naqshbandi wrote that he tried to persuade the
Arab-American agent not to move the manuscripts because “Israel” had
been trying to seize them for 30 years, since they were written by
famous Jewish scribes from Baghdad. The agent, however, paid no
attention and “the collection was spirited off to New York,”
an-Naqshbandi wrote.
Salah ad-Din Province.
Balad.
Resistance bombards US base in Balad Monday afternoon.
Iraqi Resistance forces fired three medium-range Katyusha rockets into
the US base in Balad, formerly known as the al-Bakr military base, at
4pm local time Monday afternoon.
A source in the Iraqi puppet army told the Mafkarat al-Islam
correspondent in Baghdad that two of the three rockets scored direct
hits on the American headquarters on the base, causing severe material
damage to one administrative building and destroying a Humvee. Six US
troops were wounded in the barrage, the source indicated; two of them
severely.
Samarra’.
Resistance attacks joint US-Iraqi puppet army headquarters Monday
morning.
In a dispatch posted at 10:55am Mecca time Monday morning, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces had mounted a fierce
attack on the joint headquarters of US and Iraqi puppet army forces in
the al-Khadra’ area of the city of Samarra’, north of Baghdad.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported witnesses as saying
that Resistance fighters armed with light and medium weapons including
RPG7 rocket-propelled grenades attacked the US-Iraqi puppet army
facility, killing or wounding several troops who were posted at the
checkpoint in front of the gate. Then the Resistance fighters fired
seven mortar rounds directly into the headquarters.
Powerful explosions shook the headquarters, sending plumes of smoke
rising into the sky.
Tikrit.
Resistance bombards US headquarters in Tikrit.
Iraqi Resistance forces fired four medium-range Grad rockets into the US
occupation forces’ headquarters in Tikrit at 8:30am local time Monday
morning.
The Tikrit correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported witnesses in the
al-‘Awjah area as saying that four powerful explosions shook the
American-occupied headquarters which have been set up in a presidential
palace. Smoke billowed into the sky from inside the stricken
headquarters.
Babil Province.
Al-Mahmudiyah.
Four US troops reported killed in Monday morning roadside bombing in
al-Mahmudiyah.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military column on the main
road in the al-Mahmudiyah area south of Baghdad on Monday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 1:40pm Mecca time Monday, Mafkarat al-Islam
reported residents of al-Mahmudiyah as saying that a bomb that was
planted by the side of the main road blew up as a column of several US
Humvees was passing. The explosion totally destroyed one of the Humvees,
killing its crew of four US soldiers.
Al-Latifiyah.
Resistance roadside bomb blasts joint US-Iraqi puppet army patrol late
Monday morning.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a joint US-Iraqi puppet army patrol
on al-Atibba’ Street in the middle of al-Latifiyah, south of Baghdad at
11am local time Monday morning.
Local residents who witnessed the attack told the correspondent for
Mafkarat al-Islam that a bomb that was planted by the side of al-Atibba’
Street blew up as a joint patrol of four US Humvees and three vehicles
belonging to the Iraqi puppet army was passing by.
The blast destroyed one Humvee, killing or wounding its crew of four.
Ninwa Province.
Mosul.
Resistance battles US, Iraqi puppet army forces in Mosul early Monday
morning.
Fierce fighting erupted in the al-Yarmuk area of northern Iraqi city of
Mosul at 8am Monday morning local time between Iraqi Resistance forces
on the one side and US and Iraqi puppet troops on the other.
The Mosul correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported residents of
al-Yarmuk who witnessed the battle as saying that the fighting began
when Iraqi Resistance fighters armed with light and medium weapons,
including PKS machine guns and pipe rockets attacked a joint US-Iraqi
puppet army patrol.
The fighting lasted for about 15 minutes and left two Land Cruisers
belonging to the Iraqi puppet forces ablaze and one US Humvee disabled.
One American soldier was killed and three other US troops were wounded.
Four Iraqi puppet soldiers were killed and three more of them wounded.
Witnesses said that two of the Iraqi Resistance fighters also died in
the engagement.
All in just one day in Iraq! Could US fatalities in Iraq be closer to
8,000 to 9,000?
~Absolute power corrupts absolutely
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