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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 11 October 2006.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial
board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearab voice.org
Wednesday, 11 October 2006.
· Nine huge transport planes ferry American casualties to al-
Habbaniyah airbase from devastating Tuesday night Resistance strike
on US Falcon arsenal, indicating heavy American losses. US
claims "no casualties," but Iraqi regime evacuates 90 injured puppet
troops to ar-Ramadi hospital.
· Remains of US Falcon arsenal described as "burned out
wasteland with no buildings." US helicopters continue to dump water
on site Wednesday to extinguish last flames. Puppet officials
estimate US losses could exceed US$1 billion. Iraqi puppet army
orders two regiments to move to southern Baghdad to fill gap left by
decimated American troops.
· Resistance bomb blasts US vehicle near al-Baghdadi,
reportedly killing four US troops late Wednesday night.
· US air strike kills Iraqi family north of al-Fallujah
Wednesday.
· Three US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing in ar-
Ramadi Wednesday morning.
· Three US troops reported killed in Resistance attack in
Baghdad's al-A`zamiyah district late Wednesday night.
· Four US troops reported killed in bold Resistance attack
near "Green Zone" Wednesday afternoon.
· New study in The Lancet reveals 655,000 Iraqis killed by US
war in Iraq.
Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Baghdadi.
Resistance bomb blasts US vehicle near al-Baghdadi, reportedly
killing four US troops late Wednesday night.
In a dispatch posted at 11:05pm Makkah time Wednesday night,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while earlier, an Iraqi
Resistance bomb had exploded by a US military column in the al-Madij
area of al-Baghdadi, about 200km northwest of Baghdad.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the bomb
destroyed one vehicle in the American column, killing the four US
troops aboard it. At the time of reporting, local residents were up
on their rooftops, watching as flames and smoke rose from the
wrecked vehicle.
Ar-Ramadi.
Three US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing in ar-Ramadi
Wednesday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 2:20pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by
a US military patrol in the at-Ta'mim neighborhood of ar-Ramadi,
about 110km west of Baghdad at about 10am Wednesday morning.
The ar-Ramadi correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported
eyewitnesses in at-Ta'mim as saying that a bomb went off by a US
patrol, destroying a Humvee and killing three US troops and wounding
a fourth.
Resistance sharpshooter kills Iraqi puppet soldier in ar-Ramadi
Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 1pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance marksman shot
and killed an Iraqi puppet soldier in ar-Ramadi on Tuesday.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as
saying that the Resistance sharpshooter picked off the Iraqi puppet
soldier as he was perched atop an observation tower at the ar-Ramadi
Youth Center – a facility that US forces have occupied and turned
into a base for themselves and their Iraqi puppet army allies. The
witnesses said that the puppet soldier took a direct hit from the
sharpshooter' s bullet.
Al-Fallujah.
US air strike kills Iraqi family north of al-Fallujah Wednesday.
In a dispatch posted at 2:45pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US aircraft had struck a house north
of al-Fallujah in the Dhira` Dajlah area.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a medical source as
saying that a US fighter plane fired a rocket at the home of al-Hajj
Khalid `Abd Shahudh in the area on Wednesday, killing four
civilians – al-Hajj Khalid, his mother, his wife, and their small
daughter.
Resistance men assault US camp in al-Fallujah late Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 1:57pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance men attacked a US
military camp in al-Fallujah, about 60km west of Baghdad late on
Tuesday evening.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as
saying that Resistance men armed with RPG-7 rocket-propelled
grenades and light weapons assaulted the US camp near the al-
Mudallil Mosque that overlooks al-Fallujah Public Street. The
Resistance attackers surprised the Americans from behind. No
details on the nature or extent of loses were available, however,
because US troops opened fire indiscriminately on houses in the area
after the attack to prevent anyone seeing the outcome.
Resistance blasts US headquarters in al-Fallujah Tuesday afternoon
for third straight day.
In a dispatch posted at 2:13am Makkah time before dawn Wednesday
morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces
fired a barrage of Katyusha rockets into the US "as-Simak"
headquarters in al-Fallujah at 4pm local time Tuesday afternoon.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as
saying that plumes of smoke rose from the American-occupied facility
after the bombardment. Witnesses noted that "as-Simak" had been
targeted by Resistance barrages at about the same time every day for
the last three days.
The witnesses said that the most violent rocket attack came on
Sunday, 8 October when the Resistance fired six rockets into the
facility with about 10 minutes between each one.
Al-Habbaniyah.
Iraqi Resistance blasts US al-Habbaniyah base with three mortar
shells Wednesday night.
In a bulletin posted at 10:10pm Makkah time Wednesday night,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while earlier, Iraqi
Resistance forces fired three mortar rounds at the US base in al-
Habbaniyah, about 70km west of Baghdad.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in the
village of al-Bu Mar`i, which overlooks the US base, as saying that
they could hear warning sirens wailing and saw US helicopters flying
in over the facility.
Nine huge American transport planes unload casualties from
devastating Resistance strike on US Falcon Base in Baghdad just
before midnight Tuesday, indicating heavy American losses.
In a bulletin posted at 2am Makkah time before dawn Wednesday
morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported its correspondent in al-
Habbaniyah as saying that the US military hospital at the massive
American-occupied air base there had begun to receive dead and
wounded personnel from the devastating Resistance rocket assault on
the US Falcon arsenal in the southern Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah.
Just before midnight Tuesday, the Iraqi Resistance fired barrages of
Katyusha and Grad rockets into the arsenal, the largest such
facility in occupied Iraq, causing the ordnance to begin to
explode. Western news reports stated that the blasts continued for
hours lighting up the nighttime sky over Baghdad.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported at that hour that
three huge US transport aircraft emblazoned with the red cross had
flown into the base, and casualties were being unloaded and sent
into the hospital at the al-Habbaniyah base, located some 70km west
of Baghdad.
Later, in a dispatch posted at 2:45am Makkah time Wednesday morning,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that two more huge transport planes had
arrived in the US-occupied al-Habbaniyah airbase, 70km west of
Baghdad carrying casualties from the devastating Resistance assault
on America's Falcon Base in the US-occupied as-Saqr (Falcon) Forward
Base in Sukkaniya located in the southern Baghdad suburb of ad-
Durah.
The al-Habbaniyah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported
eyewitnesses in the village of al-Bu Mar`i, about 2km from the US-
occupied air base, as saying that as of that time, a total of five
enormous transport planes had flown into the base emblazoned with
the red cross. The transports came in under fighter escort, the
fighter planes remained aloft circling al-Habbaniyah as the
transports set down.
The witnesses said that the US occupation forces illuminated the
base – something they do not normally do – as swarms of American
helicopters prowled the skies around the area, trying to prevent
Resistance rocket attacks.
Then in a dispatch posted at 5:15pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that at 7am Wednesday morning the last of
a total of nine huge transport planes had landed at the US-occupied
al-Habbaniyah airbase, site of America's largest military hospital
in the country, during the night.
The al-Habbaniyah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that
the transport planes continued to land and take off all night and
into Wednesday morning ferrying back and forth under fighter escort
from Baghdad loaded with dead and wounded Americans.
The correspondent reported eyewitnesses as saying that the aircraft
did indeed fly into al-Habbaniyah from Baghdad. The huge transport
planes arrived over al-Habbaniyah with fighter escort and then would
break away from the warplanes land at the airfield and then take off
again after about 20 minutes.
A source in the Iraqi puppet army told Mafkarat al-Islam that the US
forces transported more than 90 Iraqi puppet troops to hospital for
treatment after the blasts began to shake the southern part of the
city. This number was confirmed by Dr. `Umar `Abdallah ar-Rawi of
ar-Ramadi Hospital who told Mafkarat al-Islam that "90 wounded Iraqi
troops were brought to us late in the night." He indicated that the
Americans requested his hospital to clear a wing for them and they
did so.
Residents of al-Habbaniyah agreed that nine massive transport planes
arrived at various times during the night and into the morning
bringing casualties to the US military hospital at the base. The
first three planes arrived at 1am local time, witnesses said. The
fourth plane landed at about 1:30am, then a fifth about 10 minutes
later. Then at 3:30am two more large transports arrived at al-
Habbaniyah airbase, and the last two transports were seen coming in
at 7am local time Wednesday morning.
Although the nighttime curfew is usually lifted at around 6am each
morning, the correspondent reported that US forces only opened the
roads and lifted the automobile curfew in al-Habbaniyah at 8am
Wednesday morning.
In its announcements regarding the attack, US officials denied that
the attack on the arsenal caused any casualties at all. Mafkarat al-
Islam observed, however, that the landing of nine massive transport
planes carrying US casualties was an important indicator that the
number of Americans killed or wounded in the Resistance assault on
Falcon arsenal was very substantial.
The new American military hospital in al-Habbaniyah, reportedly the
largest in occupied Iraq, was opened on 12 May this year in response
to rising US casualties.
Baghdad.
Remains of US Falcon arsenal described as "burned out wasteland with
no buildings." US helicopters dump water on site during the day
Wednesday to extinguish last flames. Puppet officials estimate US
losses could exceed US$1 billion.
In a dispatch posted at 4:15pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a source in the puppet "Iraqi
Defense Ministry" had revealed that US forces and their Iraqi puppet
allies would begin clearing and cleaning away the US Forward Base
Falcon (as-Saqr Base) in Sukkaniya in the southern Baghdad suburb of
ad-Durah on Wednesday.
The puppet "Defense Ministry" source told Mafkarat al-Islam that the
base would never return to the way it had been prior to the attack
and that it was now a "burned out wasteland with no buildings."
The source said that at the present time US helicopters were pouring
water intensely on the remains of the arsenal to make sure that the
last flames of the fire were finally extinguished. Earlier on
Wednesday, US forces announced that the fires were still burning in
the arsenal which the Americans admitted was the biggest in Iraq and
which they acknowledged had been destroyed. The US military claimed
that the devastating explosions that lasted for hours and lit up the
skies over Baghdad caused no casualties.
Losses could top US$1 billion.
In a dispatch posted at 4pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi puppet officials expected that
the losses sustained by the US military as a result of the
destruction of the Falcon Arsenal would total more than a billion US
dollars.
The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Major
General Bilal Ahmad al-`Ithawi, an adviser to the puppet "Iraqi
Defense Minister" for transport and supply, visited ad-Durah on
Wednesday morning and said that the attack had inflicted enormous
losses on the US military that could total more than US$1 billion.
General al-`Ithawi said that the Falcon base was the biggest US
arsenal in central Iraq and was the launching point for US military
operations. The arsenal contained more than 50 tanks; numerous
artillery pieces; a landing strip for Chinook helicopters, some of
which were parked there when the place exploded; in addition to
armories containing weapons and ammunition. He said that all the
buildings and furnishings of the base had been totally destroyed,
and the archive records of the US troops was completely wiped out.
General al-`Ithawi said however that the biggest fear among Iraqi
puppet officials during the night was that the Americans might have
stockpiled low grade nuclear arms or chemical weapons such as were
used in the Second Battle of al-Fallujah in the base. Had such
weapons been there, the death toll of Iraqi residents of Baghdad
could have been in the thousands.
US troops seen hauling away at least 30 burned out tanks and armored
vehicles from ruined Falcon arsenal.
In a dispatch posted at 11:15pm Makkah time Wednesday night,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that as of 5:30pm Wednesday afternoon
Baghdad time, at least 30 US Abrams tanks and Bradley armored
vehicles were known to have been destroyed in the devastating
Resistance attack on the Falcon Arsenal in southern Baghdad.
The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported
eyewitnesses who lie in the ar-Rashid section of southern Baghdad as
saying that the US had used 13 huge military transport trucks to
haul completely charred American armored vehicles out of the remains
of the American Falcon base. The US forces hid the burnt wreckage
of the vehicles behind the vegetable wholesale market known as
the `Ulwat ar-Rashid Commercial Market.
Witnesses reported that about 15 minutes before sunset Wednesday,
the procession of vehicles under US helicopter air cover and
escorted by Humvees took the wrecked vehicles, estimated to number
at least 22 to the back wall of the `Ulwah. The Americans then set
up a guard post to control access to the wrecked vehicles.
The Americans also set up a checkpoint 2km away where they
confiscated cell phones with built-in cameras because travelers on
their way to the village of as-Sa`idat would be able clearly to see
the wrecked armored vehicles.
Meanwhile, residents of the al-Khadra' neighborhood and a number of
Iraqi traffic wardens told Mafkarat al-Islam that they had seen
giant American trucks carrying charred US tanks. The witnesses said
that the vehicles had no apparent damage to their external shells,
as usually is the case when they are burned in the explosion of a
roadside bomb or shoulder-fired rockets. Witnesses said that the
number of burned tanks being hauled through their area was between
eight and 12.
As of the time of reporting men of the American 4th Engineering
Division were still working together with a cleanup unit of Iraqi
puppet army to haul away wrecked US vehicles and other wreckage of
the American base with the help of American helicopters and cranes.
US forces have completely blocked the road that runs by the ruined
base. Residents of the al-Mahdiyah al-Ula section of the city whose
houses are opposite the base reported that there were US vehicles
that had been totally destroyed and were still inside the base
waiting for the teams of cleanup troops to get to them.
The witnesses also told Mafkarat al-Islam that high-ranking American
officials had visited the site during the first hours of Wednesday
under very heavy guard.
Iraqi puppet army orders two regiments to move into southern Baghdad
to fill gap left by decimated US forces.
In a dispatch posted at 10:20pm Makkah time Wednesday night,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the Iraqi puppet "Defense Ministry"
had issued orders to two regiments of the Iraqi puppet army
currently based in the city of al-Kut, 150km southeast of Baghdad in
Wasit Province, to move out within 24 hours and take up positions in
southern Baghdad.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the transfer
of the forces was intended to fill the gap left by the heavy losses
of US troops in the southern Baghdad area as a result of Tuesday
night's devastating attack on the Falcon arsenal.
Resistance rockets blast US camp in southern Baghdad before sunrise
Wednesday.
In a dispatch posted at 2:17pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces fired a
barrage of Katyusha rockets into the US base in ar-Ridwaniyah to the
south of Baghdad at about 5am local time Wednesday morning.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that they saw thick
clouds of smoke rising from the American camp, which occupies a home
of the Iraqi President Saddam Husayn.
Thick smoke, the smell of gunpowder envelope Baghdad hours after
Iraqi Resistance midnight rocket barrage destroys US Falcon arsenal
in as-Saqr Base.
In a dispatch posted at 3am Makkah time before dawn Wednesday
morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that hours after the devastating
Resistance rocket attack that ignited the US Falcon arsenal in the
occupied as-Saqr Base in the southern Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah,
thick smoke was still rising into the sky over the occupied Iraqi
capital.
The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that thick
smoke was enveloped large swathes of the city. The distinct smell
of gunpowder suffused the air in many parts of Baghdad, including ad-
Durah, al-Bayya`, al-Yarmuk, al-`Amiriyah, the al-`Amil
neighborhood, al-Jihad, al-Mansur, Abu Dushayr, and many other
places across the sprawling Iraqi capital.
The sky above was now black with smoke, the correspondent wrote,
having been clear earlier that nigh before the Resistance blasted
the arsenal. About one-third of Baghdad was covered in smoke from
the exploding American camp.
Resistance group Islamic Army of Iraq claims responsibility for
rocket attack on Falcon arsenal.
In a dispatch posted at 11am Makkah time Wednesday morning, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that the Iraqi Resistance group the Islamic Army
in Iraq had issued a communiqué taking responsibility for the
devastating attack on the US arsenal at the as-Saqr (Falcon) Forward
Base Tuesday night.
Al-Jazeera satellite TV, as monitored by Mafkarat al-Islam, reported
the communiqué as saying that "fire support units for rockets and
mortars bombarded the base of the US occupying army with two
Katyusha rockets and three mortar shells."
The communiqué, which al-Jazeera said had not been authenticated,
said that the missiles "by the grace of God landed amongst mountains
of munitions and began to explode and throughout Baghdad the thunder
of the explosions could be heard."
Resistance attacks reported throughout Baghdad Tuesday night.
The patriotic Iraqi website albasrah.net reported early Wednesday
morning that the pro-American Badr Brigades had reported on their
news service that in addition to blowing up the massive US arsenal
in Sukkaniya Tuesday night, Resistance forces had also fought
battles in the Baghdad district of al-Mansur. In addition,
Resistance fighters blasted an-Nusur Square with mortars and
attacked a puppet army checkpoint. An Iraqi Resistance bomb
exploded near a fuel station in al-Mansur and explosive devices were
reported blasting targets in the Baghdad district of as-Sayyidiyah.
AlBasrah reported that the destruction of the American arsenal in
Sukkaniya was the beginning of an Iraqi Resistance offensive.
Resistance mortars shelled puppet "Shock Troops" in al-Ghazaliyah on
Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 1:40pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces fired
several mortar shells into the headquarters of the puppet "Iraqi
Interior Ministry Shock Troops (Maghawir)" in the western Baghdad
district of al-Ghazaliyah on Tuesday.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the shells
scored direct hits setting off explosions inside the facility and
sending plumes of smoke rising into the sky.
Three US troops reported killed in Resistance attack in Baghdad's al-
A`zamiyah district late Wednesday night.
In a bulletin posted at 11:40pm Makkah time Wednesday night,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces had a short
while before completely destroyed a US vehicle in front of the Abu
Hanifah an-Nu`man Mosque in Baghdad's al-A`zamiyah district.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the
puppet police in al-A`zamiyah as saying that three US troops were
killed and a fourth probably mortally wounded in the Resistance
attack. Americn soldiers in the column responded by opening fire
indiscriminately at the Abu Hanifah Mosque and nearby houses as fire
continued to burn in the American vehicle.
Four US troops reported killed in bold Resistance attack near "Green
Zone" Wednesday afternoon.
In a dispatch posted at 3:05pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a band of Iraqi Resistance men
carried out a bold attack Wednesday on US forces just one kilometer
from the high-security area around the Republican Palace in Baghdad,
dubbed by the Americans the "Green Zone."
The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a
short while earlier, a bomb exploded by a passing American patrol
near the "Green Zone." Immediately after the blast, about four
Resistance men assaulted the vehicle, killing the survivors,
according to shopkeepers in the nearby market.
The witnesses said that four US soldiers died in the attack and that
at the time of reporting American troops had completely sealed off
the area.
New study in The Lancet reveals 655,000 Iraqis killed by US war in
Iraq.
A study to be published on the website of the British medical
journal The Lancet on Wednesday reveals that an estimated 655,000
Iraqis have been killed as a result of the US invasion and
occupation of Iraq since the spring of 2003.
The study supervised by Iraqi and American public health researchers
said that deaths in Iraq rose sharply after the American invasion.
"Deaths are occurring in Iraq now at a rate more than three times
that from before the invasion of March 2003," the lead author of the
study, Dr. Gilbert Burnham, said in a statement quoted by the
American Associated Press. Burnham is a researcher at the Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Western supporters of the American occupation expressed disdain for
the study because it revealed a death toll far in excess of the
numbers they have been claiming.
The AP reported that Burnham said that the estimated death toll was
much higher in this study because it was derived from a house-to-
house survey, rather than on the basis of body counts and media
reports which are notoriously incomplete.
For The Lancet study, researchers gathered data from a sample of
1,849 Iraqi households with a total of 12,801 residents from late
May to early July 2006. The sample was used to extrapolate the
total figure and therefore covers deaths only up through July 2006.
Major funding for The Lancet study came from the American
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Two puppet policemen killed in double car bombing in eastern Baghdad
Wednesday.
Iraqi Resistance forces mounted a double-car bomb attack on a patrol
of Iraqi puppet police in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday.
The correspondent for Quds Press quoted a source in the puppet
police as saying that an explosives-laden car that was parked near
the building of the puppet "Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs"
blew up on Wednesday morning. The source claimed that the
explosion caused no casualties. But then after puppet policemen
gathered on the scene, a second explosives-packed car parked in the
area blew up killing two puppet policemen and wounding at least 14
more. The area was entirely closed off after the attack as the dead
and wounded were evacuated.
Salah ad-Din Province.
Balad.
Resistance car bomber blasts US vehicle in Balad on Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at am Makkah time Wednesday morning, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance fida'i fighter drove an
explosives-laden car into a US patrol in the area of the train
station in Balad, about 80km north of Baghdad on Tuesday.
The Balad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in
the puppet police as saying that the attack set one US military
vehicle ablaze but he declined to reveal the nature or extent of US
casualties. Eyewitnesses, however, said it was probable that all
the Americans inside the vehicle had been killed, given the force of
the explosion that struck their vehicle and caused it to burst into
flame.
Tikrit.
Puppet army commander survives Resistance attack on Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 11:40am Makkah time Wednesday morning,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters ambushed
the motorcade of the commander of the 3rd Brigade of the Iraqi
puppet army in the area of the Hirbah Bridge in Tikrit, about 180km
north of Baghdad, as he was returning from a meeting with the unit
on Tuesday.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the
Iraqi puppet army as saying that Resistance men armed with light and
medium weapons attacked the motorcade but the commander survived
while one of his soldiers was killed and two others were wounded.
Eyewitnesses said that a high-ranking officer was riding in a
civilian car when Resistance men spotted him and attacked at a point
near the headquarters of the brigade. The witnesses said that the
attack came so suddenly that the guards were unable to prevent it.
Babil Province.
Al-Musayyib.
Resistance bomb wounds US troops in al-Musayyib Wednesday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 2:07pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by
a US military column in al-Musayyib, about 70km south of Baghdad on
Wednesday morning.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the
puppet "Rescue Police" in al-Musayyib as syaign that the bomb
disabled a US Humvee and wounded four American troops who were
aboard it.
At-Ta'mim Province.
Kirkuk.
US forces arrest tribal leader south of Kirkuk Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 12:40pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US troops accompanied by their Iraqi
puppet army allies raided the home of the Shaykh of one of the Sunni
Iraqi tribes near Kirkuk on Tuesday and arrested him along with
several members of his family.
The Kirkuk correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses
as saying that US troops and Iraqi puppet forces raided the home of
Shaykh Turki Hajim al-`Ubaydi, a shaykh of the al-`Ubayd tribe, in
the village of ash-Shamsiyah, about 30km south of Kirkuk. The
Americans arrested him together with five other members of his
family.
A source in the puppet security services confirmed that the shaykh
and five relatives had been arrested in his home and taken to one of
the American headquarters for interrogation. The source would not
disclose the reason for the arrest or what charges might have been
made against Shaykh al-`Ubaydi.
Shaykh Turki is one of the most prominent leaders of the al-`Ubayd
tribe whose members live in several Iraqi provinces, in particular
at-Ta'mim and Salah ad-Din.
Ninwa Province.
Al-Mawsil.
Resistance pounds US al-Ghazlani base in al-Mawsil late Wednesday
night.
In a dispatch posted at 11pm Makkah time Wednesday night, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that a short while earlier Iraqi Resistance forces
unleashed a violent rocket barrage on the main US base in the
northern city of al-Mawsil.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Resistance
forces launched Grad and Katyusha rockets into the US-occupied al-
Ghazlani base, sending up four plumes of black smoke. The wail of
sirens coming from the base could be heard throughout the city. Us
helicopters flew into the area but at high, safe altitudes, scouring
the environs looking for Resistance fighters.
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Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial
board, the Free Arab Voice.
http://www.freearab voice.org Wednesday, 11 October 2006.
· Nine huge transport planes ferry American casualties to al-
Habbaniyah airbase from devastating Tuesday night Resistance strike
on US Falcon arsenal, indicating heavy American losses. US
claims "no casualties," but Iraqi regime evacuates 90 injured puppet
troops to ar-Ramadi hospital.
· Remains of US Falcon arsenal described as "burned out
wasteland with no buildings." US helicopters continue to dump water
on site Wednesday to extinguish last flames. Puppet officials
estimate US losses could exceed US$1 billion. Iraqi puppet army
orders two regiments to move to southern Baghdad to fill gap left by
decimated American troops.
· Resistance bomb blasts US vehicle near al-Baghdadi,
reportedly killing four US troops late Wednesday night.
· US air strike kills Iraqi family north of al-Fallujah
Wednesday.
· Three US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing in ar-
Ramadi Wednesday morning.
· Three US troops reported killed in Resistance attack in
Baghdad's al-A`zamiyah district late Wednesday night.
· Four US troops reported killed in bold Resistance attack
near "Green Zone" Wednesday afternoon.
· New study in The Lancet reveals 655,000 Iraqis killed by US
war in Iraq.
Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Baghdadi.
Resistance bomb blasts US vehicle near al-Baghdadi, reportedly
killing four US troops late Wednesday night.
In a dispatch posted at 11:05pm Makkah time Wednesday night,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while earlier, an Iraqi
Resistance bomb had exploded by a US military column in the al-Madij
area of al-Baghdadi, about 200km northwest of Baghdad.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the bomb
destroyed one vehicle in the American column, killing the four US
troops aboard it. At the time of reporting, local residents were up
on their rooftops, watching as flames and smoke rose from the
wrecked vehicle.
Ar-Ramadi.
Three US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing in ar-Ramadi
Wednesday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 2:20pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by
a US military patrol in the at-Ta'mim neighborhood of ar-Ramadi,
about 110km west of Baghdad at about 10am Wednesday morning.
The ar-Ramadi correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported
eyewitnesses in at-Ta'mim as saying that a bomb went off by a US
patrol, destroying a Humvee and killing three US troops and wounding
a fourth.
Resistance sharpshooter kills Iraqi puppet soldier in ar-Ramadi
Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 1pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance marksman shot
and killed an Iraqi puppet soldier in ar-Ramadi on Tuesday.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as
saying that the Resistance sharpshooter picked off the Iraqi puppet
soldier as he was perched atop an observation tower at the ar-Ramadi
Youth Center – a facility that US forces have occupied and turned
into a base for themselves and their Iraqi puppet army allies. The
witnesses said that the puppet soldier took a direct hit from the
sharpshooter' s bullet.
Al-Fallujah.
US air strike kills Iraqi family north of al-Fallujah Wednesday.
In a dispatch posted at 2:45pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US aircraft had struck a house north
of al-Fallujah in the Dhira` Dajlah area.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a medical source as
saying that a US fighter plane fired a rocket at the home of al-Hajj
Khalid `Abd Shahudh in the area on Wednesday, killing four
civilians – al-Hajj Khalid, his mother, his wife, and their small
daughter.
Resistance men assault US camp in al-Fallujah late Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 1:57pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance men attacked a US
military camp in al-Fallujah, about 60km west of Baghdad late on
Tuesday evening.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as
saying that Resistance men armed with RPG-7 rocket-propelled
grenades and light weapons assaulted the US camp near the al-
Mudallil Mosque that overlooks al-Fallujah Public Street. The
Resistance attackers surprised the Americans from behind. No
details on the nature or extent of loses were available, however,
because US troops opened fire indiscriminately on houses in the area
after the attack to prevent anyone seeing the outcome.
Resistance blasts US headquarters in al-Fallujah Tuesday afternoon
for third straight day.
In a dispatch posted at 2:13am Makkah time before dawn Wednesday
morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces
fired a barrage of Katyusha rockets into the US "as-Simak"
headquarters in al-Fallujah at 4pm local time Tuesday afternoon.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as
saying that plumes of smoke rose from the American-occupied facility
after the bombardment. Witnesses noted that "as-Simak" had been
targeted by Resistance barrages at about the same time every day for
the last three days.
The witnesses said that the most violent rocket attack came on
Sunday, 8 October when the Resistance fired six rockets into the
facility with about 10 minutes between each one.
Al-Habbaniyah.
Iraqi Resistance blasts US al-Habbaniyah base with three mortar
shells Wednesday night.
In a bulletin posted at 10:10pm Makkah time Wednesday night,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while earlier, Iraqi
Resistance forces fired three mortar rounds at the US base in al-
Habbaniyah, about 70km west of Baghdad.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in the
village of al-Bu Mar`i, which overlooks the US base, as saying that
they could hear warning sirens wailing and saw US helicopters flying
in over the facility.
Nine huge American transport planes unload casualties from
devastating Resistance strike on US Falcon Base in Baghdad just
before midnight Tuesday, indicating heavy American losses.
In a bulletin posted at 2am Makkah time before dawn Wednesday
morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported its correspondent in al-
Habbaniyah as saying that the US military hospital at the massive
American-occupied air base there had begun to receive dead and
wounded personnel from the devastating Resistance rocket assault on
the US Falcon arsenal in the southern Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah.
Just before midnight Tuesday, the Iraqi Resistance fired barrages of
Katyusha and Grad rockets into the arsenal, the largest such
facility in occupied Iraq, causing the ordnance to begin to
explode. Western news reports stated that the blasts continued for
hours lighting up the nighttime sky over Baghdad.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported at that hour that
three huge US transport aircraft emblazoned with the red cross had
flown into the base, and casualties were being unloaded and sent
into the hospital at the al-Habbaniyah base, located some 70km west
of Baghdad.
Later, in a dispatch posted at 2:45am Makkah time Wednesday morning,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that two more huge transport planes had
arrived in the US-occupied al-Habbaniyah airbase, 70km west of
Baghdad carrying casualties from the devastating Resistance assault
on America's Falcon Base in the US-occupied as-Saqr (Falcon) Forward
Base in Sukkaniya located in the southern Baghdad suburb of ad-
Durah.
The al-Habbaniyah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported
eyewitnesses in the village of al-Bu Mar`i, about 2km from the US-
occupied air base, as saying that as of that time, a total of five
enormous transport planes had flown into the base emblazoned with
the red cross. The transports came in under fighter escort, the
fighter planes remained aloft circling al-Habbaniyah as the
transports set down.
The witnesses said that the US occupation forces illuminated the
base – something they do not normally do – as swarms of American
helicopters prowled the skies around the area, trying to prevent
Resistance rocket attacks.
Then in a dispatch posted at 5:15pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that at 7am Wednesday morning the last of
a total of nine huge transport planes had landed at the US-occupied
al-Habbaniyah airbase, site of America's largest military hospital
in the country, during the night.
The al-Habbaniyah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that
the transport planes continued to land and take off all night and
into Wednesday morning ferrying back and forth under fighter escort
from Baghdad loaded with dead and wounded Americans.
The correspondent reported eyewitnesses as saying that the aircraft
did indeed fly into al-Habbaniyah from Baghdad. The huge transport
planes arrived over al-Habbaniyah with fighter escort and then would
break away from the warplanes land at the airfield and then take off
again after about 20 minutes.
A source in the Iraqi puppet army told Mafkarat al-Islam that the US
forces transported more than 90 Iraqi puppet troops to hospital for
treatment after the blasts began to shake the southern part of the
city. This number was confirmed by Dr. `Umar `Abdallah ar-Rawi of
ar-Ramadi Hospital who told Mafkarat al-Islam that "90 wounded Iraqi
troops were brought to us late in the night." He indicated that the
Americans requested his hospital to clear a wing for them and they
did so.
Residents of al-Habbaniyah agreed that nine massive transport planes
arrived at various times during the night and into the morning
bringing casualties to the US military hospital at the base. The
first three planes arrived at 1am local time, witnesses said. The
fourth plane landed at about 1:30am, then a fifth about 10 minutes
later. Then at 3:30am two more large transports arrived at al-
Habbaniyah airbase, and the last two transports were seen coming in
at 7am local time Wednesday morning.
Although the nighttime curfew is usually lifted at around 6am each
morning, the correspondent reported that US forces only opened the
roads and lifted the automobile curfew in al-Habbaniyah at 8am
Wednesday morning.
In its announcements regarding the attack, US officials denied that
the attack on the arsenal caused any casualties at all. Mafkarat al-
Islam observed, however, that the landing of nine massive transport
planes carrying US casualties was an important indicator that the
number of Americans killed or wounded in the Resistance assault on
Falcon arsenal was very substantial.
The new American military hospital in al-Habbaniyah, reportedly the
largest in occupied Iraq, was opened on 12 May this year in response
to rising US casualties.
Baghdad.
Remains of US Falcon arsenal described as "burned out wasteland with
no buildings." US helicopters dump water on site during the day
Wednesday to extinguish last flames. Puppet officials estimate US
losses could exceed US$1 billion.
In a dispatch posted at 4:15pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a source in the puppet "Iraqi
Defense Ministry" had revealed that US forces and their Iraqi puppet
allies would begin clearing and cleaning away the US Forward Base
Falcon (as-Saqr Base) in Sukkaniya in the southern Baghdad suburb of
ad-Durah on Wednesday.
The puppet "Defense Ministry" source told Mafkarat al-Islam that the
base would never return to the way it had been prior to the attack
and that it was now a "burned out wasteland with no buildings."
The source said that at the present time US helicopters were pouring
water intensely on the remains of the arsenal to make sure that the
last flames of the fire were finally extinguished. Earlier on
Wednesday, US forces announced that the fires were still burning in
the arsenal which the Americans admitted was the biggest in Iraq and
which they acknowledged had been destroyed. The US military claimed
that the devastating explosions that lasted for hours and lit up the
skies over Baghdad caused no casualties.
Losses could top US$1 billion.
In a dispatch posted at 4pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi puppet officials expected that
the losses sustained by the US military as a result of the
destruction of the Falcon Arsenal would total more than a billion US
dollars.
The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Major
General Bilal Ahmad al-`Ithawi, an adviser to the puppet "Iraqi
Defense Minister" for transport and supply, visited ad-Durah on
Wednesday morning and said that the attack had inflicted enormous
losses on the US military that could total more than US$1 billion.
General al-`Ithawi said that the Falcon base was the biggest US
arsenal in central Iraq and was the launching point for US military
operations. The arsenal contained more than 50 tanks; numerous
artillery pieces; a landing strip for Chinook helicopters, some of
which were parked there when the place exploded; in addition to
armories containing weapons and ammunition. He said that all the
buildings and furnishings of the base had been totally destroyed,
and the archive records of the US troops was completely wiped out.
General al-`Ithawi said however that the biggest fear among Iraqi
puppet officials during the night was that the Americans might have
stockpiled low grade nuclear arms or chemical weapons such as were
used in the Second Battle of al-Fallujah in the base. Had such
weapons been there, the death toll of Iraqi residents of Baghdad
could have been in the thousands.
US troops seen hauling away at least 30 burned out tanks and armored
vehicles from ruined Falcon arsenal.
In a dispatch posted at 11:15pm Makkah time Wednesday night,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that as of 5:30pm Wednesday afternoon
Baghdad time, at least 30 US Abrams tanks and Bradley armored
vehicles were known to have been destroyed in the devastating
Resistance attack on the Falcon Arsenal in southern Baghdad.
The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported
eyewitnesses who lie in the ar-Rashid section of southern Baghdad as
saying that the US had used 13 huge military transport trucks to
haul completely charred American armored vehicles out of the remains
of the American Falcon base. The US forces hid the burnt wreckage
of the vehicles behind the vegetable wholesale market known as
the `Ulwat ar-Rashid Commercial Market.
Witnesses reported that about 15 minutes before sunset Wednesday,
the procession of vehicles under US helicopter air cover and
escorted by Humvees took the wrecked vehicles, estimated to number
at least 22 to the back wall of the `Ulwah. The Americans then set
up a guard post to control access to the wrecked vehicles.
The Americans also set up a checkpoint 2km away where they
confiscated cell phones with built-in cameras because travelers on
their way to the village of as-Sa`idat would be able clearly to see
the wrecked armored vehicles.
Meanwhile, residents of the al-Khadra' neighborhood and a number of
Iraqi traffic wardens told Mafkarat al-Islam that they had seen
giant American trucks carrying charred US tanks. The witnesses said
that the vehicles had no apparent damage to their external shells,
as usually is the case when they are burned in the explosion of a
roadside bomb or shoulder-fired rockets. Witnesses said that the
number of burned tanks being hauled through their area was between
eight and 12.
As of the time of reporting men of the American 4th Engineering
Division were still working together with a cleanup unit of Iraqi
puppet army to haul away wrecked US vehicles and other wreckage of
the American base with the help of American helicopters and cranes.
US forces have completely blocked the road that runs by the ruined
base. Residents of the al-Mahdiyah al-Ula section of the city whose
houses are opposite the base reported that there were US vehicles
that had been totally destroyed and were still inside the base
waiting for the teams of cleanup troops to get to them.
The witnesses also told Mafkarat al-Islam that high-ranking American
officials had visited the site during the first hours of Wednesday
under very heavy guard.
Iraqi puppet army orders two regiments to move into southern Baghdad
to fill gap left by decimated US forces.
In a dispatch posted at 10:20pm Makkah time Wednesday night,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the Iraqi puppet "Defense Ministry"
had issued orders to two regiments of the Iraqi puppet army
currently based in the city of al-Kut, 150km southeast of Baghdad in
Wasit Province, to move out within 24 hours and take up positions in
southern Baghdad.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the transfer
of the forces was intended to fill the gap left by the heavy losses
of US troops in the southern Baghdad area as a result of Tuesday
night's devastating attack on the Falcon arsenal.
Resistance rockets blast US camp in southern Baghdad before sunrise
Wednesday.
In a dispatch posted at 2:17pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces fired a
barrage of Katyusha rockets into the US base in ar-Ridwaniyah to the
south of Baghdad at about 5am local time Wednesday morning.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that they saw thick
clouds of smoke rising from the American camp, which occupies a home
of the Iraqi President Saddam Husayn.
Thick smoke, the smell of gunpowder envelope Baghdad hours after
Iraqi Resistance midnight rocket barrage destroys US Falcon arsenal
in as-Saqr Base.
In a dispatch posted at 3am Makkah time before dawn Wednesday
morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that hours after the devastating
Resistance rocket attack that ignited the US Falcon arsenal in the
occupied as-Saqr Base in the southern Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah,
thick smoke was still rising into the sky over the occupied Iraqi
capital.
The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that thick
smoke was enveloped large swathes of the city. The distinct smell
of gunpowder suffused the air in many parts of Baghdad, including ad-
Durah, al-Bayya`, al-Yarmuk, al-`Amiriyah, the al-`Amil
neighborhood, al-Jihad, al-Mansur, Abu Dushayr, and many other
places across the sprawling Iraqi capital.
The sky above was now black with smoke, the correspondent wrote,
having been clear earlier that nigh before the Resistance blasted
the arsenal. About one-third of Baghdad was covered in smoke from
the exploding American camp.
Resistance group Islamic Army of Iraq claims responsibility for
rocket attack on Falcon arsenal.
In a dispatch posted at 11am Makkah time Wednesday morning, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that the Iraqi Resistance group the Islamic Army
in Iraq had issued a communiqué taking responsibility for the
devastating attack on the US arsenal at the as-Saqr (Falcon) Forward
Base Tuesday night.
Al-Jazeera satellite TV, as monitored by Mafkarat al-Islam, reported
the communiqué as saying that "fire support units for rockets and
mortars bombarded the base of the US occupying army with two
Katyusha rockets and three mortar shells."
The communiqué, which al-Jazeera said had not been authenticated,
said that the missiles "by the grace of God landed amongst mountains
of munitions and began to explode and throughout Baghdad the thunder
of the explosions could be heard."
Resistance attacks reported throughout Baghdad Tuesday night.
The patriotic Iraqi website albasrah.net reported early Wednesday
morning that the pro-American Badr Brigades had reported on their
news service that in addition to blowing up the massive US arsenal
in Sukkaniya Tuesday night, Resistance forces had also fought
battles in the Baghdad district of al-Mansur. In addition,
Resistance fighters blasted an-Nusur Square with mortars and
attacked a puppet army checkpoint. An Iraqi Resistance bomb
exploded near a fuel station in al-Mansur and explosive devices were
reported blasting targets in the Baghdad district of as-Sayyidiyah.
AlBasrah reported that the destruction of the American arsenal in
Sukkaniya was the beginning of an Iraqi Resistance offensive.
Resistance mortars shelled puppet "Shock Troops" in al-Ghazaliyah on
Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 1:40pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces fired
several mortar shells into the headquarters of the puppet "Iraqi
Interior Ministry Shock Troops (Maghawir)" in the western Baghdad
district of al-Ghazaliyah on Tuesday.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the shells
scored direct hits setting off explosions inside the facility and
sending plumes of smoke rising into the sky.
Three US troops reported killed in Resistance attack in Baghdad's al-
A`zamiyah district late Wednesday night.
In a bulletin posted at 11:40pm Makkah time Wednesday night,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces had a short
while before completely destroyed a US vehicle in front of the Abu
Hanifah an-Nu`man Mosque in Baghdad's al-A`zamiyah district.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the
puppet police in al-A`zamiyah as saying that three US troops were
killed and a fourth probably mortally wounded in the Resistance
attack. Americn soldiers in the column responded by opening fire
indiscriminately at the Abu Hanifah Mosque and nearby houses as fire
continued to burn in the American vehicle.
Four US troops reported killed in bold Resistance attack near "Green
Zone" Wednesday afternoon.
In a dispatch posted at 3:05pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a band of Iraqi Resistance men
carried out a bold attack Wednesday on US forces just one kilometer
from the high-security area around the Republican Palace in Baghdad,
dubbed by the Americans the "Green Zone."
The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a
short while earlier, a bomb exploded by a passing American patrol
near the "Green Zone." Immediately after the blast, about four
Resistance men assaulted the vehicle, killing the survivors,
according to shopkeepers in the nearby market.
The witnesses said that four US soldiers died in the attack and that
at the time of reporting American troops had completely sealed off
the area.
New study in The Lancet reveals 655,000 Iraqis killed by US war in
Iraq.
A study to be published on the website of the British medical
journal The Lancet on Wednesday reveals that an estimated 655,000
Iraqis have been killed as a result of the US invasion and
occupation of Iraq since the spring of 2003.
The study supervised by Iraqi and American public health researchers
said that deaths in Iraq rose sharply after the American invasion.
"Deaths are occurring in Iraq now at a rate more than three times
that from before the invasion of March 2003," the lead author of the
study, Dr. Gilbert Burnham, said in a statement quoted by the
American Associated Press. Burnham is a researcher at the Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Western supporters of the American occupation expressed disdain for
the study because it revealed a death toll far in excess of the
numbers they have been claiming.
The AP reported that Burnham said that the estimated death toll was
much higher in this study because it was derived from a house-to-
house survey, rather than on the basis of body counts and media
reports which are notoriously incomplete.
For The Lancet study, researchers gathered data from a sample of
1,849 Iraqi households with a total of 12,801 residents from late
May to early July 2006. The sample was used to extrapolate the
total figure and therefore covers deaths only up through July 2006.
Major funding for The Lancet study came from the American
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Two puppet policemen killed in double car bombing in eastern Baghdad
Wednesday.
Iraqi Resistance forces mounted a double-car bomb attack on a patrol
of Iraqi puppet police in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday.
The correspondent for Quds Press quoted a source in the puppet
police as saying that an explosives-laden car that was parked near
the building of the puppet "Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs"
blew up on Wednesday morning. The source claimed that the
explosion caused no casualties. But then after puppet policemen
gathered on the scene, a second explosives-packed car parked in the
area blew up killing two puppet policemen and wounding at least 14
more. The area was entirely closed off after the attack as the dead
and wounded were evacuated.
Salah ad-Din Province.
Balad.
Resistance car bomber blasts US vehicle in Balad on Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at am Makkah time Wednesday morning, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance fida'i fighter drove an
explosives-laden car into a US patrol in the area of the train
station in Balad, about 80km north of Baghdad on Tuesday.
The Balad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in
the puppet police as saying that the attack set one US military
vehicle ablaze but he declined to reveal the nature or extent of US
casualties. Eyewitnesses, however, said it was probable that all
the Americans inside the vehicle had been killed, given the force of
the explosion that struck their vehicle and caused it to burst into
flame.
Tikrit.
Puppet army commander survives Resistance attack on Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 11:40am Makkah time Wednesday morning,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters ambushed
the motorcade of the commander of the 3rd Brigade of the Iraqi
puppet army in the area of the Hirbah Bridge in Tikrit, about 180km
north of Baghdad, as he was returning from a meeting with the unit
on Tuesday.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the
Iraqi puppet army as saying that Resistance men armed with light and
medium weapons attacked the motorcade but the commander survived
while one of his soldiers was killed and two others were wounded.
Eyewitnesses said that a high-ranking officer was riding in a
civilian car when Resistance men spotted him and attacked at a point
near the headquarters of the brigade. The witnesses said that the
attack came so suddenly that the guards were unable to prevent it.
Babil Province.
Al-Musayyib.
Resistance bomb wounds US troops in al-Musayyib Wednesday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 2:07pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by
a US military column in al-Musayyib, about 70km south of Baghdad on
Wednesday morning.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the
puppet "Rescue Police" in al-Musayyib as syaign that the bomb
disabled a US Humvee and wounded four American troops who were
aboard it.
At-Ta'mim Province.
Kirkuk.
US forces arrest tribal leader south of Kirkuk Tuesday.
In a dispatch posted at 12:40pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US troops accompanied by their Iraqi
puppet army allies raided the home of the Shaykh of one of the Sunni
Iraqi tribes near Kirkuk on Tuesday and arrested him along with
several members of his family.
The Kirkuk correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses
as saying that US troops and Iraqi puppet forces raided the home of
Shaykh Turki Hajim al-`Ubaydi, a shaykh of the al-`Ubayd tribe, in
the village of ash-Shamsiyah, about 30km south of Kirkuk. The
Americans arrested him together with five other members of his
family.
A source in the puppet security services confirmed that the shaykh
and five relatives had been arrested in his home and taken to one of
the American headquarters for interrogation. The source would not
disclose the reason for the arrest or what charges might have been
made against Shaykh al-`Ubaydi.
Shaykh Turki is one of the most prominent leaders of the al-`Ubayd
tribe whose members live in several Iraqi provinces, in particular
at-Ta'mim and Salah ad-Din.
Ninwa Province.
Al-Mawsil.
Resistance pounds US al-Ghazlani base in al-Mawsil late Wednesday
night.
In a dispatch posted at 11pm Makkah time Wednesday night, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that a short while earlier Iraqi Resistance forces
unleashed a violent rocket barrage on the main US base in the
northern city of al-Mawsil.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Resistance
forces launched Grad and Katyusha rockets into the US-occupied al-
Ghazlani base, sending up four plumes of black smoke. The wail of
sirens coming from the base could be heard throughout the city. Us
helicopters flew into the area but at high, safe altitudes, scouring
the environs looking for Resistance fighters.
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