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"The Passion Against the War" |
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01 Sep 2005 08:42:13 AM |
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What the totally Dysfunctional, Brain-Dead U.S. media fails to tell us |
Tuesday, 30 August 2005.
Bloodbath in al-Qa’im. US warplane drops 500-pound bomb on children’s
clinic. Four homes also destroyed: 50 civilians dead, half of them women
and children.
Resistance shoots down US Black Hawk helicopter in al-Qa’im Tuesday
afternoon.
Three US Marines reported killed in nighttime Resistance ambush near
Syrian border.
Resistance fighters battle US Marines in north of ar-Ramadi Tuesday
morning.
Mufti of Iraq, Shaykh ‘Abd al-Karim al-Mudarris, under house arrest by
US forces for over two years, dies at age 110.
Twenty civilians butchered by US artillery barrage following heavy
fighting near Tall ‘Afar.
Resistance fighters kill British soldier in al-Basrah.
Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Qa’im.
American massacre in al-Qa’im. US warplane drops 500-pound bomb on
children’s clinic. Fifty civilians killed, half of them women and
children.
In a dispatch posted at 3:50pm Mecca time Tuesday afternoon, the
al-Qa’im correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while
before, US warplanes bombed a children’s health care center and
neighboring houses in the as-Salman area in the west of the city of
al-Qa’im, located near the Syrian border in western Iraq.
The correspondent reported witnesses as saying that the American
aircraft targeted civilian houses and the children’s health care center
in the as-Salman area with massive 500-pound bombs. The clinic was
completely destroyed as were four nearby homes.
Some 50 local residents, all of them civilian, among them 25 women and
children, perished in the savage air raid. At the time of writing, most
of the victims were still buried under the rubble.
Dr. Salman al-Kubaysi of al-Qa’im General Hospital told the Mafkarat
al-Islam correspondent that the hospital had already taken in more than
35 bodies of victims, among them 17 children and eight women in addition
to six people with severe injuries.
Resistance shoots down US Black Hawk helicopter Tuesday afternoon.
In a bulletin posted at 3:20pm Mecca time Tuesday afternoon, the
al-Qa’im correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while
before Iraqi Resistance forces had shot down a US Black Hawk helicopter
over the village of Sa‘dah near the Syrian border.
Eyewitnesses said that they say the American aircraft, a fire burning in
the front of the ship, plunge rapidly to earth. As the correspondent
approached the area where the helicopter crashed, he observed large
numbers of US armored vehicles and tanks encircling the area. A fierce
fire was raging in the village wheat fields there.
Three US Marines reported killed in nighttime Resistance ambush near
Syrian border.
Iraqi Resistance forces ambushed a joint patrol of US and Iraqi puppet
army troops west of the city of al-Qa’im on the border with Syria at
about 12:30am local time just after midnight Tuesday morning.
The al-Qa’im correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported Colonel Sa‘dun
al-Asadi of the Iraqi puppet army as telling a press conference in
al-Qa’im Tuesday morning that the nighttime combat left one American
Marines vehicle and two vehicles belonging to the Iraqi puppet forces
destroyed and three US Marines and six Iraqi puppet army troops dead.
Colonel al-Asadi denied that any members of the patrol had been
captured, but admitted that the Resistance fighters were able to
withdraw from the area after the attack.
Ar-Ramadi.
Resistance fighters battle US Marines in north of ar-Ramadi Tuesday
morning.
In a bulletin posted at 10:40am Mecca time Tuesday morning, the
correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in ar-Ramadi reported that at that
moment Iraqi Resistance fighters were engaged in fierce battles with US
Marines in the al-Bu Farraj area to the north of the city.
The correspondent reported eye witnesses as saying that the Resistance
fighters had totally destroyed four US armored vehicles during the
fighting. The witnesses said that Resistance fighters and Marines were
at that moment engaged in very close combat.
A source in the local weather bureau – around the offices of which the
fighting was raging – told Mafkarat al-Islam that four Humvees had been
totally destroyed and that US helicopters had been unable to land or
even hover at low altitude near the battle zone because of the intensity
of gunfire.
Al-Fallujah.
Following four days under strict curfew and blockade US relaxes
restrictions following two days of punishing Resistance strikes on
American positions.
After being blockaded and under strict curfew for four consecutive days,
the town of ‘Amiriyat al-Fallujah, a suburb just south of al-Fallujah
city, 50km west of Baghdad, has been partially released.
In a dispatch posted at 8:45pm Mecca time Tuesday night, the Mafkarat
al-Islam correspondent in ‘Amiriyat al-Fallujah reported that the US
occupation forces lifted the curfew from the area and allowed people to
enter and leave the town between the hours of 6am and 10pm local time.
All people coming and going will still be subject to thorough searches,
however.
The relaxation of the blockade followed two days of heavy Iraqi
Resistance attacks on places where US troops were deployed outside the
‘Amiriyat al-Fallujah housing complex. On Monday Resistance forces fired
fifteen 82mm mortar rounds into concentrations of US troops around the
housing complex and also unleashed three powerful Grad missiles on the
American soldiers.
Then at 1pm local time Tuesday, the Resistance bombarded the same
American positions with ten 82mm mortar rounds, witnesses who were near
the scene of the attack reported that a US checkpoint was hit and two
Humvees damaged. After the barrage, US aircraft prowled the skies over
the area.
Al-Baghdadi.
Resistance bombards US ‘Ayn al-Asad base early Tuesday.
Iraqi Resistance forces fired two Katyusha rockets into the US ‘Ayn
al-Asad base in the al-Baghdadi area of western Iraq at 8am local time
Tuesday morning.
Residents of al-Baghdadi told the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent that
explosions shook the base after the rocket attack.
Abu Ghurayb.
Three US troops reported killed in rural bombing early Tuesday.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol in the Khan Darri area
west of Abu Ghurayb (which is 30km west of Baghdad) at 8:30am Tuesday
morning.
Owners of groves in Khan Darri told the correspondent for Mafkarat
al-Islam that a bomb that was planted in the middle of an unpaved farm
road in Khan Darri exploded as the patrol of five Humvees passed over
it. The blast completely destroyed one of the Humvees, killing three US
troops and seriously wounding a fourth.
Baghdad.
Mufti of Iraq, Shaykh ‘Abd al-Karim al-Mudarris, dies under house
arrest, aged 110.
The Mufti (Islamic Jurisconsult) for Iraq, Shaykh ‘Abd al-Karim
al-Mudarris, died on Tuesday. Shaykh al-Mudarris, 110 years old, had
been under house arrest on orders of the US occupation and its local
puppet regime for two years.
The US occupation forces surrounded Shaykh al-Mudarris’s school, located
in a venerable building in Baghdad that was built in the medieval
Abbasid dynasty, after he issued a fatwa (Islamic legal ruling) on 14
April 2003 proclaiming a united jihad against the invaders and
permitting women to take part in the fighting under certain conditions.
Shaykh al-Mudarris was the first Iraqi religious leader to reject the
call issued by Usamah bin Ladin to confer supreme leadership of the
Resistance in Iraq on one man (presumably a representative of Bin
Ladin). Shaykh al-Mudarris held that any such action would weaken the
cause, and called instead on all contingents and groups in the Iraqi
Resistance to take the example of the Prophet Muhammad as their leader
rather than any single earthly commander.
There were numerous attempts on the life of Shaykh al-Mudarris, said to
have been plotted by Shi‘i sectarian extremists who back the American
occupation. But all such attempts were thwarted by the population, the
correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported.
Resistance assassinates official in “Oil of the North” Company late
Monday.
A source in the Iraqi puppet police said on Tuesday morning that Iraqi
Resistance fighters had killed a security official in the Oil of the
North company along with a companion who was traveling with him.
Reuters, as monitored by Mafkarat al-Islam, reported that the
assassination took place on Monday evening.
US embassy in Cairo reportedly pressuring Egypt’s al-Azhar University to
send “moderate” religious scholars to Iraq.
The Egyptian liberal publication Nahdat Misr reported in its issue for
29 August 2005 that informed sources among the scholars in the al-Azhar
University report that the US embassy in Cairo is making intensive
contacts with Dr. Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, the Shaykh of al-Azhar, to
try to push him into sending religious scholars, preachers, and teachers
from the venerable Egyptian Islamic institution to Iraq. The pressure on
Tantawi is viewed as part of the American effort to create Islamic
institutions in Iraq that support the American occupation and its
hegemony in the region.
Nahdat Misr reported that Shaykh Tantawi has so far been hesitant to
accede to the American requests.
Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Egypt, Dr. ‘Abdallah al-Ash‘al, told
Nahdat Misr that the American pressure campaign is aimed at dragging
Egypt into its quagmire in Iraq after Washington had failed to convince
Cairo and the other Arab states to send troops to serve the US
occupation of that fraternal Arab country.
More evidence of US pressure on al-Azhar appeared in the Egyptian Misr
al-‘Arabiyah website, as monitored by Mafkarat al-Islam on Tuesday. It
reported that the US ambassador to Egypt had met with the al-Ahram
Center for Political and Strategic Studies and leveled sharp criticism
at al-Azhar, reportedly calling it a source of what he termed
“terrorism.” The American envoy reportedly said that the time had come
to review several religious and university institutions in Egypt and
called on the Egyptian government to reform its educational system in
line with the so-called “American plan.” Various opposition forces in
Egypt have criticized the government’s acceptance of the American plan
for revamping education in conformity with which the Ministry of
Education has sent a number of officials to Washington for training
courses and curriculum preparation.
Babil Province.
Al-Iskandariyah.
Double bombing strikes US column south of Baghdad Tuesday afternoon.
Two Iraqi Resistance bombs exploded in the area of Jurf as-Sakhr, south
of Baghdad on Tuesday.
The al-Iskandariyah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that
one bomb exploded in the Jurf as-Sakhr area at 1pm local time Tuesday.
The blast completely destroyed one US Humvee, killing all the American
troops aboard it.
After the explosion, US forces closed the roads and gathered the
wreckage of the Humvee and the body parts of the dead soldiers. As they
were leaving the area headed towards their base in al-Musayyib at 3pm
local time a second bomb exploded, setting another Humvee on fire.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US aircraft were
still prowling the skies and American ground forces still had the roads
closed around the area of the second blast at the time he filed his
report, posted at 11:25pm Mecca time Tuesday night.
Al-Yusufiyah.
Resistance shoots down unmanned spy plane Tuesday morning.
Iraqi Resistance fighters shot down an unmanned US spy plane in the area
of kilometer 37 around al-Yusufiyah, south of Baghdad on Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 10:35am Mecca time Tuesday morning, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported residents of al-Yusufiyah as saying that the
Resistance shot down the aircraft, which was on a reconnaissance mission
in the area, using a PKS machine gun, that set it ablaze in the air and
caused it to plummet to earth.
Salah ad-Din Province.
Samarra’.
Four US troops reported killed in roadside car bombing in al-Ishaqi
Tuesday afternoon.
An Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded next to a US military column in
al-Ishaqi, south of Samarra’ at 4pm local time Tuesday afternoon.
The al-Ishaqi correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported witnesses as
saying that an explosives-packed black car that was parked by the side
of the road near the southern entrance to the city blew up as a US
patrol of several Humvees passed by on its way to Baghdad in the south.
The explosion totally destroyed one US vehicle, killing its crew of
four.
At-Tarimiyah.
Resistance forces target US, Iraqi puppet regime troops in numerous
attacks Monday-Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 10:15am Mecca time Tuesday morning, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces had carried out a number
of attacks on US and Iraqi puppet army forces in the area of
at-Tarimiyah, north of Baghdad in the previous 24 hour period.
Residents of at-Tarimiyah reported that two Iraqi Resistance bombs
nearly exploded simultaneously by a joint force of US and Iraqi puppet
army troops on the main road in at-Tarimiyah at 6pm Monday evening. The
double bombing destroyed one American armored vehicle and one Iraqi
puppet army troop transport. Three US troops were killed and two others
wounded while four Iraqi puppet army troops were killed and two more of
them injured in the attack.
Iraqi Resistance fighters armed with light and medium weapons, including
RPG7 rocket-propelled grenades, attacked a joint US-Iraqi puppet army
patrol on a farm road south of the city. One vehicle belonging to the
Iraqi puppet forces was destroyed, killing one American soldier and
three Iraqi puppet regime troops. Another Iraqi puppet army soldier was
wounded.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb that was planted on the main road in
at-Tarimiyah exploded by a column of several US tanks and four Humvees.
The blast disabled one of the tanks, killing a US soldier. Two other
American troops were also wounded, according to local witnesses.
Diyala Province.
Ba‘qubah.
Resistance attacks checkpoint near Ba‘qubah Tuesday afternoon.
Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked a checkpoint jointly manned by US and
Iraqi puppet army troops in the Shahrabn area north of Ba‘qubah at 2pm
local time Tuesday afternoon.
A source in the Iraqi puppet army, who asked not to be identified, told
the Ba‘qubah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent that
Iraqi Resistance fighters armed with light and medium weapons, including
RPG7 rocket-propelled grenades and PKS machine guns, attacked the
checkpoint destroying a pickup belonging to the Iraqi puppet army and
killing two Iraqi puppet regime troops and wounding four more of them.
One American soldier was also killed in the attack, the source said. The
source asserted that three of the Iraqi Resistance fighters were killed
in the engagement as well.
Residents of Shahraban, however, told Mafkarat al-Islam that none of the
Resistance fighters were killed, but that two of them were wounded but
they withdrew with the rest of the Resistance unit from the area.
Ninwa Province.
Mosul.
Roadside bomb kills a reported two US troops at noon in Mosul.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a column of US armored vehicles in
the Tall ar-Rumman area in the southern part of Mosul at 12 noon local
time Tuesday.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in the city reported residents of
Tall ar-Rumman as saying that a bomb that was planted by the sidewalk
nest to the road leading towards the center of the city blew up as a
column of several American Bradley armored vehicles passed by.
The blast set one of the Bradleys on fire, killing two US troops and
wounding four other American soldiers.
US soldier reported killed when Resistance bomb targets patrol in Mosul
late Tuesday morning.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a joint US-Iraqi puppet army patrol
in the al-Yarmuk neighborhood in the middle of the northern city of
Mosul at 11am local time Tuesday morning.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported a traffic warden who was on
the scene near where the bomb exploded as saying that the explosive
device was planted by the side of the main road leading towards the
center of the city. It blew up as the patrol was passing, destroying a
US Humvee and killing one American soldier and wounding three more US
troops.
Tall ‘Afar.
Twenty civilians butchered by US artillery barrage following heavy
fighting near Tall ‘Afar.
Iraqi Resistance forces waged fierce battles throughout Monday night and
during the day Tuesday against American troops in the Tall ‘Afar area.
Quds Press reported that Resistance fighters armed with light and medium
weapons, rocket-propelled grenades, and mortars, scored a direct hit on
a US armored Stryker vehicle, setting it on fire. They also destroyed a
Humvee.
According to sources close to the Iraqi Resistance, US forces sustained
heavy losses in the course of the fighting. The Americans responded to
Resistance attacks on their base with an artillery bombardment of the
al-Qadisiyah neighborhood and 80 Street in the town, where armed clashes
had taken place. Twenty civilians living in that area were killed by the
American artillery, among them women and children, Quds Press reported.
Late morning bomb blasts US column north of Tall ‘Afar.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military patrol in the
al-‘Ayadiyah area to the north of Tall ‘Afar, about 55km west of Mosul,
at about 11am local time.
The Mafakrat al-Islam correspondent reported residents of al-‘Ayadiyah
as saying that a bomb that had been planted by the side of the road
leading to the center of Tall ‘Afar blew up as the US patrol passed by
on its way into the city.
The explosion set one of the Humvees in the patrol on fire, killing or
wounding the four US soldiers aboard it.
Resistance bombards US base near Tall ‘Afar before dawn Tuesday.
Iraqi Resistance forces fired 21 mortar rounds and Grad rockets into the
US base located to the west of Tall ‘Afar at 1am Tuesday morning. A
spokesman for the Iraqi puppet army who asked not to be identified told
Mafkarat al-Islam that the barrage destroyed two US helicopters that
were parked inside the base at the time. The spokesman said that a
number of US troops were also killed and that a fuel storage depot was
blown up. Numerous military vehicles were also damaged in the
bombardment.
A spokesman for the US military said on Tuesday morning in Baghdad that
the Iraqi Resistance had attacked Unit 71 of the Marines, inflicting
“material damage” and killing one Marine and wounding a second.
Witnesses living near the base told the correspondent that flames could
be seen all over the base area and the thunder of explosions could be
heard throughout the area. Helicopters were observed flying at low
altitude fighting the fire.
Resistance reportedly downs two US helicopters in Tall ‘Afar area Monday
night and Tuesday.
Iraqi Resistance forces fired a rocket that scored a direct hit on a US
helicopter near Tall ‘Afar on Monday night causing it to crash.
Witnesses who spoke to Quds Press reported that it seemed probable that
the crew was killed in the crash.
The Resistance shot down a second US aircraft with an anti-aircraf
rocket on Tuesday, Quds Press reported. The craft was seen on fire and
plunging to earth near Tall ‘Afar. The fate of the crew remained
unknown.
US forces announced early on Tuesday that one of their helicopters had
been shot down by the Resistance near Tall ‘Afar, claiming that one US
soldier was killed in the crash and another wounded.
Sinjar.
Resistance ambushes US supply convoy west late Tuesday morning.
Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked a convoy of nine trucks loaded with
provisions and materiel for US forces in the Sinjar area west of Mosul
in northern Iraq at about 11:30am local time Tuesday morning.
The convoy was on its way to Tall ‘Afar, about 55km east of Sinjar, when
Resistance fighters armed with light and medium weapons including RPK
light machine guns and pipe rockets ambushed it, setting three of the
trucks on fire and killing three of the drivers who were working for the
American military.
Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.
Resistance fighters kill British soldier in al-Basrah.
A detachment of four Iraqi Resistance fighters armed with machine guns
attacked a British patrol at the az-Zuhur intersection in al-Basrah.
In a report filed at 3:45pm Mecca time Tuesday afternoon, the
correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in al-Basrah reported a source in
the local puppet police as saying that the Resistance attack left one
British soldier dead and two others slightly wounded. The source said
that the Resistance fighters withdrew from the area quickly in their car
and puppet police and army patrols were unable to stop them.
British occupation troops surrounded the area and closed off the
neighborhood for an hour as they searched houses of Sunnis in a wide
area. They found nothing.
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Another day in Iraq!
~Absolute power corrupts absolutely
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