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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 14 November 2004. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The Free Arab Voice.
Sunday, 14 November 2004.
Al-Fallujah.
The office of Mafkarat al-Islam received a communiqué late on Sunday night from the Consultative Council of the Mujahideen of al-Fallujah concerning the nature of the powerful explosion that rocked part of the city around sunset Sunday.
The communiqué disclosed that the blast was the result of an Ababil rocket fired by the Resistance at the Hajji Dahham Ice Factory in the industrial zone of the city. The explosion destroyed a number of American tanks and armored vehicles, the communiqué said.
The communiqué also refuted claims that some sort of negotiations had begun with the occupation forces. It also discounted claims that a cease-fire with the occupation troops was a possibility. No such thing could take place so long as the US operations around the environs of the city were continuing.
The communiqué also stated that there was no truth in the statements made by some people speaking on behalf of the city’s residents concerning the situation in the city. The communiqué stressed that there were no American tanks in any of al-Fallujah’s streets other than a small number that are encircled on some streets. The US presence on the main streets in the city consists only of American snipers in specific locations on ath-Tharthar Street.
The communiqué stated that the morale of the Iraqi Resistance fighters in al-Fallujah is at its highest possible level. “The American strike,” the communiqué said, “has only increased us in firmness, defiance, and resilience in the path of Truth.”
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in al-Fallujah reported that on Sunday the city experienced relative calm, as fighting between the invaders and the Resistance were on a very limited scale.
Resistance pounds US troops outside al-Fallujah with 53 rockets as the residential areas of the city return to normal.
Iraqi Resistance forces fired more than 50 Grad rockets at US forces deployed around al-Fallujah on Sunday. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that rockets were fired from al-Karmah to the east of al-Fallujah; from as-Saqlawiyah to the north of al-Fallujah; from ‘Amiriyat al-Fallujah to the south. In all 53 rockets – Grads and powerful Tariqs – crashed into the US troop concentrations, according to eye witness accounts.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent inside al-Fallujah reported on Sunday that the city residents had begun freely moving about the streets and neighborhoods of the city. They must run, however, whenever they get near any of the main streets of the city where US snipers are still deployed on some buildings. A peaceful situation reigns away from those main streets, however.
Resistance issues communiqué on US losses in al-Fallujah. Discrepancies with Abu Sa‘d interview noted.
In a dispatch posted at 7:03pm Mecca time, the office of Mafkarat al-Islam in al-Fallujah reported that it had received a short while before a communiqué issued by the Consultative Council of the Mujahideen of al-Fallujah which discussed the number of American, British, and puppet ‘Allawi Army dead, wounded, and captured.
The communiqué stated that in the operations of the last few days, the Iraqi Resistance had shot down two F-16 fighter bombers, 11 helicopters, 5 unmanned spy planes, and one Chinook helicopter with some 60 US troops aboard.
The communiqué said that 136 US troops, 15 British soldiers, and 123 members of the ‘Allawi Army (i.e., puppet so-called “Iraqi national guardsmen”) had been captured by the Resistance. About 400 American troops and 140 ‘Allawi troops have been killed, the statement reported.
The communiqué confirmed that the Iraqi Resistance had commandeered seven tanks and had destroyed a large number of other tanks, armored personnel carriers and other armored vehicles.
Mafkarat al-Islam noted that the figures cited in the communiqué differed from those cited in a telephone conversation to al-Jazeera satellite TV by the Abu Sa‘d ad-Daylami, the official spokesman of the Consultative Council of the Mujahideen of al-Fallujah on Saturday (see this report, below) in which he also mentioned that US forces had taken the major streets in al-Fallujah. Informed sources explained the discrepancies by observing that it was obviously much easier for the different Resistance organizations to coordinate their fighting activity than it was for them to coordinate their information gathering techniques and reporting.
The sources did express surprise at the relatively low numbers attributed by al-Jazeera to ad-Daylami, considering that there were reports from many sources that confirmed that 30 tanks and 12 other vehicles had been destroyed by the Resistance and that the Resistance had blown up the ice factory where the Americans had parked a large number of their military vehicles and where dozens of US troops were killed or wounded.
The Resistance sources repeated that the main streets of al-Fallujah – like ar-Ramadi Street, ath-Tharthar Street, al-Hadrah Street, and al-Jumhuriyah Street had been cleared of US troops, but that fighting was still underway on al-Wahdah Street and in the al-Jawlan neighborhood.
Spokesman for al-Fallujah Resistance denies US claims.
Abu Sa‘d ad-Dulaymi, the official spokesman of the Consultative Council of the Mujahideen of al-Fallujah, announced that the military situation of American forces in al-Fallujah had not changed for three days. He made the remarks in reply to US claims to have completely seized control over al-Fallujah.
Speaking by telephone to al-Jazeera satellite TV Abu Sa‘d said that the occupation troops have not been able until now to get near the al-Jawlan neighborhood; all they control are the main streets in al-Fallujah, backing up their presence with fierce air strikes.
Abu Sa‘d ad-Dulaymi said that when the Americans refer to “pockets of resistance” they mean the whole neighborhoods of al-‘Askari, ash-Shuhada’, al-Jaghifi, al-Wahdah, al-Jumhuriyah and the industrial zone – if they mean all these areas when they talk about “pockets of resistance,” then I tell you these “pockets” are al-Fallujah; these neighborhoods don’t exist outside of al-Fallujah.
The US forces are in a big public relations bind, Abu Sa‘d said, since they’ve declared an end to military operations at a time when US forces are facing the Resistance on the inside and are surrounded on the outside of the city, being hit by rockets and mortars. In fact the proof that they are in a bind is the very fact that they have announced the end of the military operation.
Abu Sa‘d denied claims that 1,000 Resistance fighters had been killed. He confirmed that 100 Resistance fighters had been killed. The remainder of the casualties are civilians He also said that the Chairman of the Consultative Council of the Mujahideen of al-Fallujah, ‘Abdallah al-Janabi, still leads the Resistance from within the city.
Iraqi Red Crescent relief convoy makes it into al-Fallujah on Sunday.
The Iraqi Red Crescent Society was able on Sunday to get a convoy of food and medical aid into the city of al-Fallujah. Firdaws al-‘Ibadi, a spokeswoman for the Iraqi Red Crescent, said that the convoy entered al-Fallujah from the north led by ambulances emblazoned with the Iraqi Red Crescent sign.
The convoy consisted of four trucks loaded with food and three ambulances in which were medical teams.
Al-‘Arabiyah.net reported that the trucks were loaded with foodstuffs such as bread, rice, and water as well as medical supplies.
Although this one convoy was able to get into al-Fallujah, the Red Crescent spokeswoman al-‘Ibadi warned that it was far too little to fill the urgent needs of the people inside the city and in its environs.
Informed sources in the Red Crescent report that at least 150 families are still in the heart of al-Fallujah. Furthermore there are fears concerning the conditions in which tens of thousands of refugees from the city are currently living in camps outside the city.
On Friday the Red Crescent Society sent three trucks full of food supplies and an ambulance to the city of al-Habbaniyah where 1,500 refugees from al-Fallujah are living in camps. In addition there are numerous refugees spread throughout nearby regions such as ‘Amiriyat al-Fallujah where 400 families are now staying.




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