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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 14 June 2004 through Wednesday, 16 June 2004
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The Free Arab Voice




Monday, 14 June 2004.

Powerful Resistance blast shakes downtown Baghdad early Monday, kills suspected US intelligence agents. A violent explosion shook downtown Baghdad early Monday morning sending clouds of black smoke skywards, according to the Agence France Presse (AFP). The Iraqi puppet police reported that an Iraqi Resistance martyrdom attacker blew up a car in a crowded street on Monday morning as a convoy of cars carrying foreign profiteers was passing by. The blast destroyed a nearby building. The Egyptian Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported that an explosives-laden car had exploded in the center of the Iraqi capital, destroying a number of storefronts and residences. MENA reported Iraqi puppet police sources as saying that the type of vehicle targeted in the Resistance attack was the type used by US intelligence agents in Iraq. The American Associated Press (AP) reported that at least 13 people were killed in the explosion, among them one American profiteer and four other foreigners working to exploit the Iraqi power industry. According to a General Electric spokeswoman, the foreigners killed in the blast were three employees of the monopoly General Electric and two security contractors (i.e., mercenaries). Three of the victims worked for Granite Services Inc., a wholly-owned GE subsidiary, said Louise Binns, a GE spokeswoman in Brussels. The US military said that the dead included two Britons, one Frenchman, one American and a foreigner of undetermined nationality. More than 60 people, including 10 foreign contractor profiteers, were injured, the military said. An AP report said that two Filipinos were also among the dead aliens. The bodies of the foreigners were reportedly taken to Saddam International Airport where the US aggressor troops have one of their largest bases. A hospital source referred to one of the dead as Sudanese and another as Iraqi. The attack took place near the main thoroughfare as-Sa‘dun Street on the east bank of the Tigris River. At least eight cars were destroyed in the Iraqi Resistance martyrdom attack. One car reportedly was still smoldering from the blast on Liberation Square (Sahat at-Tahrir) near as-Sa‘dun Street, and the Iraqi puppet police closed off the area. Ambulances and fire trucks raced to the scene of the Resistance attack which occurred just after 8:00am Monday, local time. US aggressor forces told Reuters at the time that they had no information on the blast at that time. An officer in the Iraqi puppet police told Agence France Presse (AFP) that the Resistance bomb attack came as two US aggressor four-wheel drive vehicles were passing by. There were numerous reported deaths from the Resistance bombing, and the façade of a building was severely damaged. Iraqi puppet policeman Hasan al-Mali said that the Iraqi Resistance martyrdom car was driving along the road and then exploded. He said that there were deaths but was unable to assess how many. Reuters reported that local people were trying to extract people from the ruins of a building whose façade collapsed as a result of the bombing. Local people also attacked two cars that had been damaged in the Resistance attack, beat the stricken vehicles and chanted “America is the enemy of God!” Witnesses said that foreigners had been killed in the attack and their bodies were being pulled out of wrecked cars. Puppet police fired automatic weapons into the air to break up crowds that had gathered in the area.


Iraqi Resistance car bomb kills four in attack on puppet police in Salman Pak.

An Iraqi Resistance car bomb struck near the town of Salman Pak southeast of Baghdad on Monday. Puppet police said a gray Opel drove between puppet police vehicles and exploded, killing four people and injuring four others.


Resistance kills five Kurdish chauvinist stooge soldiers near Kirkuk.

Five Kurdish members of the puppet Iraqi “army” put together by the US occupation forces were killed in northern Iraq by Resistance fighters. Their bodies were subsequently burned, according to an announcement made by a Kurdish collaborator official in Kirkuk after the burial of the five stooges. Jalal Jawhar, a member of the Political Bureau of the chauvinist so-called National Union of Kurdistan lead by Jalal Talibani said that the five dead Kurdish puppet troops belonged to both of the collaborationist Kurdish chauvinist parties, the NUK and the so called Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). Jawhar told Agence France Presse (AFP) that the five Kurdish chauvinists were shot to death, then their bodies dumped in their car which was set ablaze. According to Jawhar the car in which the five were traveling broke down. When they went to find someone to fix it, they were attacked and killed. The funeral for the five chauvinist stooges was held in the predominantly Kurdish neighborhood of Rahmawah, north of Kirkuk and the Kurdish collaborator police and militias prevented journalists from attending the event.


New Zealand aggressor troops targeted by Resistance mortars in al-Basrah. British invader troops wounded in attack.

New Zealand Radio admitted that New Zealand aggressor troops in an engineering unit came under mortar attack in southern Iraq on Monday. According to a report by Agence France Presse (AFP) the Radio quoted a New Zealand defence department official as admitting that three mortar shells crashed into the New Zealand military camp in al-Basrah, but caused no casualties among the New Zealanders, according to preliminary information. A number of British soldiers were wounded, he said, however. A New Zealand spokesman said that communications with the camp were difficult, making it impossible to give any more detailed information on the attack or the wounded at that time. New Zealand sent 80 aggressor troops belonging to an engineering unit to southern Iraq where they cooperate with British invaders in serving the American occupation of the country. British Defense Minister Geoff Hoon paid a surprise visit to a British base in al-Basrah on Monday. It was not immediately clear whether his visit was connected with the Iraqi Resistance mortar barrage.


US said ready for deal with Muqtada as-Sadr.

The puppet governor of an-Najaf, ‘Adnan az-Zarafi, announced on Monday that the US aggressor forces had expressed readiness to sign an agreement with Shi‘i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr about the future of his Jaysh al-Mahdi militia. According to al-‘Alam news station, az-Zarafi said that the word of the American readiness came in a note sent by the US commissioned ambassador Christopher Rols to the Shi‘i clerical establishment. Az-Zarafi said that the Jaysh al-Mahdi on Monday released puppet policemen it had taken hostage in an attack on Friday on a puppet police station. In a press conference on Sunday, US military spokesman Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt expressed surprise over the number of weapons in the possession of the Jaysh al-Mahdi and offered to buy them from the militia.


American aggressors arrest aide to Muqtada as-Sadr in Karbala’.

The US invader troops captured an official in the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia loyal to Shi‘i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr on Sunday. The US aggressors made the arrest of Sayyid Ahmad Rida al-Husayni, 33, in his office in Karbala’, according to al-Husayni’s brother, Jamil, who spoke to Agence France Presse (AFP). The US invaders stormed al-Husayni’s home and stole US$2,000 and 2 million Iraqi dinars (about US$1,380). Jamil al-Husayni said that he was unaware of the reasons for the US raid and arrest of his brother, indicating that he was being held in an American base in al-Ibrahimiyah district on the outskirts of the city, which is located some 110km south of Baghdad. It was the US arrest of Mustafa al-Ya‘qubi in an-Najaf at the beginning of April that sparked the uprising of Jaysh al-Mahdi forces against the US aggressors. American sources have failed to confirm the arrest of al-Husayni.

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Tuesday, 15 June 2004.


Battle erupts west of Baghdad as Resistance attacks US convoy. Americans shoot Iraqi bystanders in response.

Iraqi Resistance forces attacked a US military patrol on Tuesday west of Baghdad in al-‘Adl neighborhood. The Resistance ambushed the patrol as it was escorting a group of non-military vehicles in service to the US occupation. According to al-Jazeera satellite TV, the battles began when the Resistance pounded the patrols with rockets. One of the non-military vehicles in the convoy was damaged. US aggressor forces immediately closed off the area of the attack and deployed their troops on neighboring rooftops to serve as snipers firing at local residents. There was no immediate word on American invader casualties. Al-Jazeera reported one resident eyewitness as saying that the US aggressor troops opened fire indiscriminately after the attack – a standard American response to Resistance attacks. They shot at Iraqi civilian bystanders, the eyewitness said, killing several of them. Al-Jazeera reported that at least one Iraqi civilian was killed and another Iraqi civilian was wounded. A US military spokesman admitted on Tuesday that a group of Iraqi Resistance fighters opened fire on a convoy of vehicles in which at least three “contractor” profiteers and collaborators with the occupation were riding near Saddam International Airport. US Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told the press that the Resistance opened fire on the US convoy from an overpass on the road near the airport. He said, however, that at the time it was impossible to determine if any of the “contractors” had been killed or not. He acknowledged that the attack “might have” resulted in deaths among the Americans. Kimmitt also failed to identify the “contractor” profiteers who were said to be riding in the heavily protected convoy. Late on Tuesday, US Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations of the US occupation forces in Iraq, told the press that a convoy of “contractor” profiteers working with the occupation authorities had come under Iraqi Resistance attack near Saddam International Airport. Kimmitt acknowledged that several of the contractor profiteers were killed, but refused to disclose how many had died or what their nationalities were.


Drive-by Resistance shooting of US vehicle kills driver.

An American military GMC car came under Iraqi Resistance automatic weapons attack in the area of at-Taji on Tuesday morning. A Resistance fighter stood up and fired from the moon roof of the car in which he was riding past the US vehicle, spraying it with a hail of bullets. Mafkarat al-Islam reported the attack. The attack left the American vehicle’s driver dead. The fate of the other passengers in the car was unknown when the matter was reported. As usual, occupation troops gathered after the Resistance attack and closed off all roads to the site.


Resistance fires RPG at collaborationist organization building.

At precisely 50 Tuesday morning, Iraqi Resistance fighters fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a building in ash-Shu‘lah town belonging to the so-called “Iraqi communist party,” a liberal organization whose leader, with a history of working with the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), was appointed by the US to its puppet “interim governing council” and which collaborates with the US imperialist occupation of Iraq. A large section of the building was damaged according to the report carried by Mafkarat al-Islam.


Iraqi Resistance bomb explodes on road to Saddam International Airport.

An explosion resounded on Tuesday morning at an intersection on the road leading to Saddam International Airport near Baghdad, a site now occupied by one of the American aggressors’ largest bases in the area of the Iraqi capital. Agence France Presse (AFP) reported that US invader troops and Iraqi puppet police closed off the area from which columns of smoke were rising. One US soldier reported that “it appeared that there had been a bomb,” but provided no information on casualties or damage.


Iraqi Resistance bomb attack Monday night cuts oil shipments out of al-Basrah by 80 percent.

Shipping sources reported on Tuesday that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded near the port of al-Basrah, causing enough damage to “greatly reduce” the amount of crude oil being shipped out of the port. A deputy in charge of navigation in the area told Reuters that “one of the oil pipelines that feeds the storage tank in al-Basrah was damaged severely by the blast this time.” Another shipping source reported that the explosion occurred late on Monday night near a village 25km from the Port of al-Basrah. He added that “it appears that this blast halted the flow of crude to the storage tank. As a result, the quantities of crude being shipped out of the port have fallen by nearly 80 percent.” Oil pipelines in northern Iraq have been hit repeatedly in recent days crippling the efforts of the US aggressors to spirit oil from occupied Iraq out of the country via Turkey. The attacks on the oil facility in al-Basrah are now threatening to close off the only other remaining export route for stolen Iraqi oil.


Iraqi Resistance shells US-Ukrainian base near al-Kut.

Two explosions shook the area near the main military base for US and their Ukrainian satellite troops west of the southern city of al-Kut. Clouds of smoke rose from the base, but there were no immediate reports from the occupation authorities.


Resistance fires mortar barrage at British occupied airport north of al-Basrah.

Iraqi Resistance forces launched a mortar barrage at the occupation forces’ airport north of al-Basrah. Columns of smoke were observed rising from the airport. There was no immediate word on casualties.


Resistance rockets slam into British headquarters in al-Basrah.

Iraqi Resistance fighters fired rockets at the British occupation base in al-Hakimiyah in al-Basrah in southern Iraq, inflicting material damage on the invaders’ headquarters there, according to the Egyptian Middle East News Agency (MENA).


Resistance bomb targets Oil of the South offices in al-Basrah.

A bomb reportedly exploded on Tuesday morning near the Oil of the South Company offices in al-Basrah, injuring one Iraqi and badly damaging a car, according to Mafkarat al-Islam. Later reports carried by the American Associated Press (AP) claimed that two oil pipelines on the Faw peninsula of southern Iraq were blasted apart by Iraqi Resistance forces on Tuesday, forcing authorities to curb exports through the Gulf by half – from an average of 1.85 million barrels per day to more than 800,000 barrels. The attacks sent ripples through the international petroleum markets. Contracts for US light crude for July delivery jumped 81 cents in New York, before easing to $37.17 per barrel. July contracts of Brent crude rose 41 cents before retreating to $35.78, down 24 cents in late trading in London, the AP reported. Iraqi puppet officials told Dow Jones Newswires they expected to have the damage repaired within a few days. However, petroleum analyst Paul Horsnell, the head of energy research at Barclays Capital in London, said that as a result of the blasts, the Iraqi puppet regime would probably fail to meet its export target of 2 million barrels a day for June.


Translator collaborator shot to death by Resistance fighters.

An Iraqi collaborator translator working for the British invader troops was killed on Tuesday when Resistance fighters opened fire upon him, according to a report carried by Mafkarat al-Islam.


Terrified Baghdad city puppet council calls for martial law to fight “explosive situation” caused by Resistance struggle.

In a desperate effort to stem the rising tide of Resistance attacks, the city council of Baghdad, a body appointed by the US occupation authorities, on Tuesday called for a declaration of martial law in the country. The stooge city council acknowledged that the security situation was deteriorating rapidly in Baghdad and generally throughout the occupied country. A source inside the puppet council said that the city council intends to bring the proposal up to the puppet so-called Iraqi “interim government” (appointed by the United States occupation), claiming that a declaration of martial law is an “urgent necessity” in the country due to the growing successes of the Iraqi Resistance. The source told Quds Press that countries that have lived through much less critical conditions than the Iraqi situation have declared martial law and instituted emergency regulations. The source said that the puppet city council declared that Iraq today was “in need of martial law to get control over the exploding security situation.”


US invader troops open fire on Iraqi civilian car near al-Muthanna.

American aggressor troops attacked a black Dolphin car on the highway leading from the al-Muthanna overpass to al-Qanat at 70am Tuesday. The owner of the car was slightly wounded. The fate of the passenger in the car was unknown when the report of the American attack was posted on Mafkarat al-Islam’s website. Ambulances arrived at the scene of the American attack to provide care for the casualties. An American Humvee towed away the Dolphin car. The reasons for the American attack on the Iraqi civilian car were not explained.


British “civilian contractor” killed in Monday martyrdom attack former paratrooper.

The British Guardian newspaper disclosed on Tuesday that one of the British citizens killed in the Iraqi Resistance martyrdom bomb attack in Baghdad on Monday had formerly been a British paratrooper who fought in the Malvinas (Falklands) against Argentina and served in Britain’s colony in northern Ireland. Keith Butler, 46 a former sergeant in the British military, was killed by the Iraqi Resistance along with his cohorts, one believed to be a Londoner. Butler ostensibly worked as a security guard for the foreign contractors said killed in the Resistance attack. The Guardian reported that he was employed by Olive Security, a London-based company that employs former members of the British special forces, and has about 300 staffmembers in occupied Iraq.

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Wednesday, 16 June 2004.

Resistance burns four US military dump trucks in al-Fallujah.

Resistance forces set four German-made dump trucks ablaze in the ash-Shuhada’ neighborhood of al-Fallujah late on Wednesday on the outskirts of the city, according to the local correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam. The dump trucks are usually used to transport sand and building materials for the American aggressor forces.


Resistance land mines kill four wound other American aggressor troops in as-Saqlawiyah after sunset Wednesday.

An Iraqi Resistance land mine exploded under US vehicles in a patrol in the city of as-Saqlawiyah west of Baghdad after sunset on Wednesday. The mine blew up as the American military patrol proceeded through the town, destroying one US Humvee and knocking a second out of action. The first Humvee carried four American soldiers, all of whom were killed instantly in the attack, the reporter for Mafkarat al-Islam reported. The troops in the second Humvee were wounded and later evacuated by helicopter.


Resistance rocket attack on US base near Balad kills three, wounds 25 American invaders.

The American Associated Press (AP) reported that three American aggressor soldiers had been killed and 25 others wounded when the Iraqi Resistance attacked an American invader logistical base with rockets Wednesday afternoon. The base is in the area of the town of Balad, some 80km northwest of Baghdad. Fourteen of the wounded aggressor troops were taken a military support hospital belonging to the 31st Division. Seven others were reportedly treated in an American base infirmary at a camp the American invaders call “Camp Anaconda.”


Iraqi Resistance ambushes US intelligence officers near “Green Zone.”

A detachment of Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked a column of seven American intelligence GMC vehicles at about 1:00pm Tuesday afternoon. The Resistance ambushed the column as it was driving along the highway adjacent to the so-called “green zone” – the Republican Palace compound, where the US invaders have set up their headquarters in Baghdad. Two GMC vehicles were destroyed in the attack, with all those aboard being killed. The other five cars fled. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reports that the Resistance fighters used machine guns and BKCs in their ambush on the American intelligence spies. Just as the Resistance fighters were attacking the US intelligence vehicles, another American aggressor patrol raced up to the scene from the opposite direction and opened a hail of gunfire on the patriots. Nevertheless, the Resistance fighters were able to leave the scene. After the Resistance fighters had gone, the American troops continued random firing in the area for some time, wounding a civilian bystander. Immediately afterward, US invaders closed off the highway. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam, however, was able to use a side road to approach the scene and there saw two bodies on the ground covered in white sheets. One of the two cars was also visible, completely destroyed by the hail of gunfire to which it had been subjected.


Four US intelligence officers blown up in ar-Ramadi Wednesday afternoon.

Four members of the US intelligence services were killed in the city of ar-Ramadi when an Iraqi Resistance land mine exploded under their vehicle on Wednesday afternoon. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported from the scene that the four were killed when their 2004 GMC vehicle ran over a mine that the Resistance hurried to plant while the Americans were stopped at a shop drinking soft drinks. The ambush took place near the Baghdad Garage, a bus depot that transports people to a wide variety of destinations.


Iraqi Resistance bomb kills four profiteers in ar-Ramadi.

An Iraqi Resistance carbomb exploded in ar-Ramadi, killing nine people, including four foreign profiteers, a BBC dispatch reported early Wednesday. Later on Wednesday, a US military spokesman reported that six members of the puppet so-called “civil defense forces” and one Iraqi civilian had been arrested on “suspicion” of involvement in the bomb attack that, the US claims, left five wounded in ar-Ramadi early Wednesday. Al-Jazeera satellite TV reported a US spokesman as saying that American invader troops had taken the seven captive Iraqis to a US base for interrogation. Earlier al-Jazeera had reported that three foreigners had been killed and a number of others wounded when an explosives-laden car blew up in downtown ar-Ramadi.


Resistance rockets miss US aircraft.

Iraqi Resistance fighters on Wednesday fired rockets at a US transport aircraft of the C5K type that was taking off from a US-occupied airfield. The rocket failed to strike its target, according to the correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam.


Iraqi Resistance ambushes US column on highway north of Baghdad.

A US military column came under Iraqi Resistance rocket-propelled grenade attack on the highway north of Baghdad on Wednesday according to a report carried by the Samarra’ correspondent for al-Jazeera satellite TV. The Resistance attack left one US military truck totally burned. US aggressor troops closed off the highway for an hour following the attack.


Iraqi Resistance guns down occupation authority’s security chief for northern Iraqi oilfields.

The security chief for occupied Iraq’s northern oil fields, serving the US invaders in their plunder of Iraq’s resources, has been shot to death by the Iraqi Resistance. Ghazi al-Talabani was gunned down in the city of Kirkuk - the third Iraqi official to be killed since Saturday. It comes as another blow for the US, seeking to steal Iraqi’s oil wealth.
At-Talibani, a relative of the leader of the Kurdish chauvinist, collaborationist so called “Patriotic Union of Kurdistan” Jalal Talabani, died in a hail of Resistance bullets on his way to work. His driver was seriously wounded.


Resistance fires mortars at US base in Saddam International Airport.

Iraqi Resistance fighters fired a mortar barrage on US aggressor troops occupying Saddam International Airport on Tuesday night. The Resistance launched the mortar shells from the nearby al-‘Amiriyah area and apparently inflicted casualties on the Americans according to Mafkarat al-Islam’s correspondent in the area. Immediately following the attack, US aggressor troops showed up on the scene of the launch, closed it off totally and began combing the side streets in search of evidence that might lead them to the Resistance fighters who carried out the attack.


Resistance Katyusha blasts US base at Kirkuk Airport.

A powerful explosion shook the US occupation headquarters at the occupied Kirkuk Airport on Wednesday morning after a Katyusha rocket slammed into the base. The explosion inflicted great material damage and wounded three US aggressor troops. The Egyptian Middle East News Agency (MENA), which reported the attack, had no immediate further details of the extent of damage or casualties.


Resistance rockets US headquarters in al-Kazimiyah district, Baghdad.

The US occupation headquarters in the building formerly occupied by Iraqi Intelligence in al-Kazimiyah district of Baghdad came under Iraqi Resistance rocket attack at precisely 8:00am on Wednesday. Resistance forces fired two Grad rockets from the nearby Madinat al-Hurriyah district.


US column attacked in al-‘Amiriyah at midday Tuesday.

A US column made up of four Humvees was attacked at 11:00am on Tuesday in al-‘Amiriyah district of al-Muhamin neighborhood near a former base of the Iraqi Jerusalem Army that the US invaders have taken over as their local headquarters. The Resistance fighters used rocket-propelled grenades in their attack. American sources made no reports concerning casualties sustained in the attack, and US forces withdrew into their stronghold quickly following the Resistance assault, the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported.


Iraqi Resistance reports on killing of Chelebi men in attack on al-Fallujah.

A source close to the Iraqi Resistance has reported that Resistance fighters in al-Fallujah killed seven supporters of the so-called Iraqi National Congress (INC) Party, a traitor collaborationist organization run by convicted thief Ahmad al-Chelebi. They were killed in connection with their attack on the security headquarters in al-Fallujah several days ago in which 12 security men were killed and others wounded. The corpses of the seven Chelebi men were delivered to their relatives. The source close to the Resistance told Quds Press on Tuesday that the seven were apprehended after they fired mortars at the headquarters of the al-Fallujah security brigade, killing 12 security men and wounding and number of others. Following the attack, Resistance fighters surrounded the cemetery in which the INC traitors had taken cover. Seven of the attackers were captured. During their interrogation it was learned that they were followers of Ahmad Chelebi. The source told Quds Press that the demonstration in Baghdad that took place on Tuesday had been portrayed by the international media as a “Shi‘i protest” and the killing of the seven INC men reported as a sectarian killing by the people of al-Fallujah “just because they the seven were Shi‘i.” The source said that such a distortion was simply another attempt by the convicted embezzler and CIA agent Chelebi to incite sectarian violence between Sunni and Shi‘i Iraqis. The source close to the al-Fallujah Resistance said, “We refuse to dress the matter up in sectarian clothing. Those who were killed were followers of al-Chelebi. They attacked us, and we carried out the verdict of the scripture and the law upon them. We would not have gone any easier on them if one of them had been a Sunni, for they all deserve this fate inasmuch as they opened fire on their own brothers.” Demonstrations were put together on Wednesday in al-Firdaws Square in Baghdad, in front of the hotels housing foreign journalists. Demonstrators carried pictures of seven Shi‘i individuals who, the organizers of the demonstration claimed, had been killed by the Resistance in al-Fallujah. The organizers of the demonstration also distributed a statement containing demands of the Rabi‘ah tribes and southern Iraq that revenge be taken and punishment inflicted upon the killers of the “Shi‘ah.” The statement circulated by demonstration organizers claimed that the seven Shi‘ah had been transportation workers hired by people in al-Fallujah. But they were kidnapped and killed by a group of al-Fallujah Resistance fighters. The statement claimed that the killing was carried out with the agreement of two Sunni religious authorities, ‘Abdallah al-Jannabi and Zafir ad-Dulaymi. Shaykh ‘Abdallah al-Jannabi denied any connection with the killing, and explained in a statement to al-‘Arabiyah satellite TV that he is above soiling his hands with the blood of others. He said he was willing to go to court if any evidence were brought forward attesting to his involvement in the incident. Both Shaykh al-Jannabi and Shaykh ad-Dulaymi are prominent Sunni religious leaders in al-Fallujah and were high on the list of targets compiled by the Badr Brigades, the armed wing of the so-called Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), a collaborationist organization that joined US forces in the invasion and occupation of Iraq in the spring of 2003. Shaykh ad-Dulaymi was held in notorious Abu Ghurayb prison for several months until his recent release. Local observers in al-Fallujah fear that the latest charges against the two religious leaders might be an excuse for a renewed effort by pro-occupation Shi‘i sectarians to liquidate them and fan flames of religious conflict.


Iraqi Resistance blast cuts northern oil pipelines again.

An official in the Iraqi Oil of the North corporation announced that an explosion ripped through a pipeline linking northern Iraqi oil fields, and said that “most likely it was sabotage” by the Iraqi Resistance. Al-Jazeera satellite TV reported eyewitnesses as saying that fire was still raging along the pipeline extending from the Dibs field, some 50km west of Kirkuk.


BBC: Iraqi exports from the south totally shut down due to Resistance attacks.

The British Broadcasting Corporation notes that the Iraqi oil industry was “already at a standstill after a series of attacks on pipelines,” even before the assassination of the puppet security chief for the northern oil sector on Wednesday morning. Iraqi Resistance attacks in the last few days have cut off all crude oil all exports from Iraq's southern terminals in Basra and Khawr al-‘Amayah, which had been handling virtually all the country's exports. The southern terminals were exporting 1.6m barrels of oil a day, and the aim had been to increase output to 2m barrels a day by 30 June. The shutdown will cost the occupation authorities in Baghdad nearly US$60 million a day, analysts said. Benchmark US crude prices for July delivery rose 21 US cents to $37.40 a barrel on Wednesday on news of the attacks. The Iraqi Resistance bombed a pipeline in northern Iraq on Tuesday evening, but exports had already been crippled as a result of previous attacks. The pipeline from the oilfields around Kirkuk to Ceyhan in Turkey has barely been in operation since the March 2003 US-led invasion because of repeated Resistance attacks. Iraqi oil exports are still below the pre-invasion level, even though a 14,000-strong Iraqi puppet guard force has been set up specifically to protect pipelines and other vital parts of the oil infrastructure from which the US occupation seeks to draw profits against the patriotic Resistance fighters. US-appointed Iraqi puppet so-called “prime minister” Iyad ‘Allawi, says pipeline sabotage has cost the country more than US$200 million in lost revenues over the past seven months.


Three more mercenary companies quit Iraq.

The Syrian News Agency SANA reported an Iraqi source as saying that the Romanian firm “Compania,” the South African “Executive outcomes”, and the British Sandline company – all mercenary firms – have closed their doors and left Iraq, bringing to five the total number of such “security firms” that have fled the country since January 2003 in the wake of the rising tide of the Iraqi Resistance. Sources told SANA that the rewards and payoffs for providing security services were outweighed by the costs involved as the Resistance relentlessly pounds the aggressor occupation forces and all those who huddle beside them. Nevertheless, the mercenary army is still the largest army in Iraq, after that of the United States, according to informed estimates. Their total number is said to approach 20,000 men, more than the regular military forces of any nation occupying Iraq other than those of the US.


Jaysh al-Mahdi battles US invaders in Baghdad.

Clashes erupted again during Tuesday-Wednesday night between US occupation forces and the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia loyal to Shi‘i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr in the Baghdad district that they have nicknamed “Madinat as-Sadr.” Al-‘Arabiyah satellite TV reported that the battles broke out at 11:00pm local time Tuesday and lasted until daylight Wednesday. Fighting on the southern and western approaches to the district. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. Al-‘Arabiyah notes that such clashes have gone on almost daily for two months.


Muqtada as-Sadr orders Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen out of an-Najaf.

Shi‘i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr on Wednesday ordered his Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen who were not residents of an-Najaf to leave that Shi‘i holy city, according to a report posted by Reuters. Muqtada as-Sadr’s order called on militiamen to return to their homes to carry out their duties there. Earlier this month, under pressure from the pro-US Shi‘i religious establishment, Muqtada as-Sadr agreed to a cease fire after his militia had spent weeks battling the US occupation in an-Najaf and Karbala’.

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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=3
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=3
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=3
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=3
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=3
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=3
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=3
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=3
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=3
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=3
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=3
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=3
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=3
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=3
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=3
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=3
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Three more mercenary companies quit Iraq.

The Syrian News Agency SANA reported an Iraqi source as saying that the Romanian firm “Compania,” the South African “Executive outcomes”, and the British Sandline company – all mercenary firms – have closed their doors and left Iraq, bringing to five the total number of such “security firms” that have fled the country since January 2003 in the wake of the rising tide of the Iraqi Resistance. Sources told SANA that the rewards and payoffs for providing security services were outweighed by the costs involved as the Resistance relentlessly pounds the aggressor occupation forces and all those who huddle beside them. Nevertheless, the mercenary army is still the largest army in Iraq, after that of the United States, according to informed estimates. Their total number is said to approach 20,000 men, more than the regular military forces of any nation occupying Iraq other than those of the US.

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Vi ricordate la storia dei sette camionisti sciiti uccisi dalla Resistenza? erano uomini di Chalabi che a Falluja avevano attaccato la Brigata Falluja uccidendo 12 suoi componenti e spacciato falsamente ome attacco della Resistenza.

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Iraqi Resistance reports on killing of Chelebi men in attack on al-Fallujah.

A source close to the Iraqi Resistance has reported that Resistance fighters in al-Fallujah killed seven supporters of the so-called Iraqi National Congress (INC) Party, a traitor collaborationist organization run by convicted thief Ahmad al-Chelebi. They were killed in connection with their attack on the security headquarters in al-Fallujah several days ago in which 12 security men were killed and others wounded. The corpses of the seven Chelebi men were delivered to their relatives. The source close to the Resistance told Quds Press on Tuesday that the seven were apprehended after they fired mortars at the headquarters of the al-Fallujah security brigade, killing 12 security men and wounding and number of others. Following the attack, Resistance fighters surrounded the cemetery in which the INC traitors had taken cover. Seven of the attackers were captured. During their interrogation it was learned that they were followers of Ahmad Chelebi. The source told Quds Press that the demonstration in Baghdad that took place on Tuesday had been portrayed by the international media as a “Shi‘i protest” and the killing of the seven INC men reported as a sectarian killing by the people of al-Fallujah “just because they the seven were Shi‘i.” The source said that such a distortion was simply another attempt by the convicted embezzler and CIA agent Chelebi to incite sectarian violence between Sunni and Shi‘i Iraqis. The source close to the al-Fallujah Resistance said, “We refuse to dress the matter up in sectarian clothing. Those who were killed were followers of al-Chelebi. They attacked us, and we carried out the verdict of the scripture and the law upon them. We would not have gone any easier on them if one of them had been a Sunni, for they all deserve this fate inasmuch as they opened fire on their own brothers.” Demonstrations were put together on Wednesday in al-Firdaws Square in Baghdad, in front of the hotels housing foreign journalists. Demonstrators carried pictures of seven Shi‘i individuals who, the organizers of the demonstration claimed, had been killed by the Resistance in al-Fallujah. The organizers of the demonstration also distributed a statement containing demands of the Rabi‘ah tribes and southern Iraq that revenge be taken and punishment inflicted upon the killers of the “Shi‘ah.” The statement circulated by demonstration organizers claimed that the seven Shi‘ah had been transportation workers hired by people in al-Fallujah. But they were kidnapped and killed by a group of al-Fallujah Resistance fighters. The statement claimed that the killing was carried out with the agreement of two Sunni religious authorities, ‘Abdallah al-Jannabi and Zafir ad-Dulaymi. Shaykh ‘Abdallah al-Jannabi denied any connection with the killing, and explained in a statement to al-‘Arabiyah satellite TV that he is above soiling his hands with the blood of others. He said he was willing to go to court if any evidence were brought forward attesting to his involvement in the incident. Both Shaykh al-Jannabi and Shaykh ad-Dulaymi are prominent Sunni religious leaders in al-Fallujah and were high on the list of targets compiled by the Badr Brigades, the armed wing of the so-called Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), a collaborationist organization that joined US forces in the invasion and occupation of Iraq in the spring of 2003. Shaykh ad-Dulaymi was held in notorious Abu Ghurayb prison for several months until his recent release. Local observers in al-Fallujah fear that the latest charges against the two religious leaders might be an excuse for a renewed effort by pro-occupation Shi‘i sectarians to liquidate them and fan flames of religious conflict.