Wednesday, 22 March 2006.
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Two US troops
reported killed in Resistance bombing in central ar-Ramadi.
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Resistance car
bomber blasts US column on Airport Road, reportedly killing four US
troops.
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US troops raid
ad-Dulu'iyah Tuesday, kill nine local people, including a couple and
their 13-year-old son.
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Resistance bomb
south of al-Latifiyah leaves a reported two US troops dead.
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US soldier
reported wounded in Resistance bomb attack in western Mosul.
Al-Anbar
Province.
Al-Fallujah.
Resistance bombards US outposts, headquarters in
'Amiriyat al-Fallujah Wednesday evening.
In a dispatch posted at 9:40pm Mecca time Wednesday
night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces
blasted a number of US occupation headquarters and outposts in 'Amiriyat
al-Fallujah, a suburb located southwest of al-Fallujah, some 60km west
of Baghdad, at about 7pm local time Wednesday evening.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam
reported the Resistance forces fired 10 mortar rounds into homes that US
occupation forces and Iraqi puppet troops had taken over as posts or
headquarters.
The Resistance also blasted the al-'Amir facility,
which US forces have taken over and turned into one of their
headquarters, with 15 mortar rounds setting off explosions that rocked
the American posts in the area and sent plumes of smoke billowing into
the sky, in an indication that the shells had scored direct hits.
Iraqi Resistance mounts car bomb and mortar
attack on US headquarters in 'Amiriyat al-Fallujah Wednesday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 8:20pm Mecca time Wednesday
night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces
carried out attacks on various headquarters and posts of US occupation
forces in 'Amiriyat al-Fallujah on Wednesday.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam
reported that a about 9am local time Wednesday morning, an Iraqi
Resistance fida’i fighter drove an explosives-packed car into the
entrance to one of the US occupation headquarters in an area called
al-'Anqur al-Awwal and blew it up amidst a crowd of troops and vehicles.
Eyewitnesses said that the explosion set many
Humvees ablaze and inflicted severe damage on the building.
Iraqi Resistance forces followed up the car bomb
attack a short while later with a mortar bombardment of the same
headquarters, inflicting even more casualties and losses of American
vehicles.
Ar-Ramadi.
Resistance bomb reportedly kills two US troops
on road towards central ar-Ramadi Wednesday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 1pm Mecca time Wednesday
afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance
bomb exploded by a US patrol on the main road in the middle of
ar-Ramadi, about 110km west of Baghdad.
The ar-Ramadi correspondent for Mafkarat
al-Islam reported local eyewitnesses as saying that the bomb went
off as a patrol of several US Humvees was driving down the road towards
the provincial government office building, now occupied by US forces and
serving as one of their headquarters in downtown ar-Ramadi. The
witnesses said that the blast disabled one Humvee, severely wounding
three US troops.
Eyewitnesses who spoke to Quds Press
reported that a Resistance bomb, which exploded by a US patrol on
Wednesday morning in the middle of ar-Ramadi, completely destroyed an
American Humvee, which they saw on fire. The witnesses also said that
two US Marines were killed and a third wounded in the blast, after which
the Americans opened fire into indiscriminately and closed of the area
to prevent people from approaching. The US troops then began raiding
and searching nearby houses for signs of the Resistance attackers.
Quds Press noted that on Tuesday US forces carried
out extensive raids in ar-Ramadi, arresting seven Iraqis, one no more
than 15 years old.
Al-Qa’im.
Resistance mortar shells blast joint US-Iraqi
puppet army headquarters in al-'Ubaydi.
In a dispatch posted at 12:30pm Mecca time
Wednesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraq
Resistance forces bombarded headquarters jointly occupied by US and
Iraqi puppet trops in the al-'Ubaydi area east of the city of al-Qa’im
located near the Iraq-Syrian border.
The al-Qa’im correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam
reported eyewitnesses in al-'Ubaydi as saying that Resistance fighters
fired four 82mm mortar rounds into the joint headquarters, setting off
explosions and sending pillars of smoke rising into the air over the
facility.
Baghdad.
Resistance ambushes puppet police patrol in
southwest Baghdad’s al-'Amil district.
In a dispatch posted at 4:10pm Mecca time Wednesday
afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance
fighters ambushed a puppet police patrol in the al-'Amil area of
southwestern Baghdad.
The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam
reported eyewitnesses in al-'Amil as saying that Resistance fighters
equipped with light arms and rocket launchers attacked a puppet police
patrol, disabling one patrol vehicle and killing two puppet policemen.
Two more puppet policemen were also wounded in the ambush.
Resistance bomb blasts puppet "Shock Troops" in
south Baghdad’s as-Sayyidiyah area.
In a dispatch posted at 1:10pm Mecca time Wednesday
afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance
bomb exploded by a patrol of puppet "Iraqi Interior Ministry Shock
Troops (Maghawir)" on the main road in as-Sayyidiyah, in southern
Baghdad.
The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam
reported residents of as-Sayyidiyah who witnessed the attack as saying
that at bomb planted by the side of the road opposite Madinat al-Al'ab
(Game City) blew up as a puppet "Shock Troop" patrol was passing by.
The blast disabled a patrol vehicle, killing one puppet "Shock Troop"
soldier and wounding two more of them.
Resistance car bomber blasts US column on Airport
Road, reportedly killing four US troops.
In a dispatch posted at 11:10am Mecca time
Wednesday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi
Resistance fida’i fighter drove an explosives-laden car into a US
military patrol on the highway to Saddam International Airport west of
Baghdad.
The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam
reported a source in the Iraqi puppet police as saying that the car
bomber blew up his car as a patrol of four Humvees was driving past
along the highway to the airport. The source said that the explosion
completely destroyed one Humvee, killing the four US troops who were
aboard it.
Resistance shoots down unmanned US spyplane
Tuesday evening.
In a dispatch posted at 10:50am Mecca time
Wednesday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi
Resistance forces shot down an unmanned American spy plane in the area
of at-Taji, a northern suburb of Baghdad, on Tuesday night.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam
reported eyewitnesses in at-Taji as saying aht Resistance fighters fired
light arms at the aircraft causing it to crash.
Salah ad-Din
Province.
Yathrib.
Resistance fighters ambush convoy carrying
construction supplies to US al-Bakr Baase.
In a dispatch posted at 1:40pm Mecca time Wednesday
afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance
fighters ambushed a convoy hauling construction supplies to the US
al-Bakr Airbase near Yathrib, about 100km north of Baghdad.
The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam
reported residents of Yathrib who witnessed the attack as sayimg that
Resistance fighters armed with light and medium weapons had attacked a
convoy hauling construction equipment to the US-occupied al-Bakr base.
The attackers disabled one truck, killing its driver, a collaborator
with the US military.
Ad-Dulu'iyah.
US troops raid ad-Dulu'iyah, kill nine local
people, including a couple and their 13-year-old son.
US forces occupied several buildings in the town of
ad-Dulu 'iyah, 97km north of Baghdad on Tuesday morning and remained
there until 4pm local time Tuesday afternoon. When they pulled out, the
Americans left behind the bodies of nine local people, three of them
members of one family, whom they had killed, according to a Quds
Press dispatch on Wednesday.
Iraqi puppet police sources told Quds Press
that a force of US troops drove into the area of ad-Dulu'iyah at dawn
Tuesday, backed up by aircraft and tanks following violent fighting that
raged from shortly after midnight until 4am Tuesday morning.
The puppet police told Quds Press that after
the fighting, US troops pulled into ad-Dulu'iyah and began
house-to-house raids and searches. In the course of their sweep through
the town the Americans killed nine people. Three of those killed were
members of one family – a father, mother and their 13-year-old son. The
Americans also rocketed three homes in the area and no information on
the nature or extent of casualties from those "demolitions" is
available.
During their raid on ad-Dulu'iyah, US troops
distributed leaflets calling on the local population – whose houses they
were raiding – to cooperate and "help expel 'gunmen’" from the city.
One local resident told Quds Press that the Americans offered any
amount of aid to local people who gave them help. The resident said
that the US troops told local people that they were not against Sunnis
or the Baath Party and that they would leave Iraq as soon as the [puppet
regime’s] army has control of the situation.
Local residents of ad-Dulu'iyah and the other towns
and villages in the path of the on-going American offensive on the
Samarra’ area report that the American offensive is characterized by
violence and brutality. Ahmad as-Samarra’ told Quds Press of
hearing the air raids on nearby areas and could clearly hear bombs
exploding in the city while they are confined to their houses under
curfew. Many families have fled the area trying to escape the ferocity
of the American troops.
At-Tarimiyah.
Residents of at-Tarimiyah observe two wrecked US
vehicles being sent out of battle zone to at-Taji.
In a dispatch posted at 10pm Mecca time Wednesday
night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that witnesses in at-Tarimiyah,
some 30km northwest of Baghdad had reported that they had watched US
forces transporting two wrecked vehicles through their town to be dumped
in the at-Taji area where the Americans have a "grave yard" for wrecked
equipment.
The at-Tarimiyah correspondent for Mafkarat
al-Islam reported a number of local witnesses as saying that they
had seen a Humvee and an American armored vehicle that had been nearly
completely destroyed being transported on two large trucks from the
north, where US forces are carrying out their Samarra’ offensive, past
at-Tarimiyah, to the US camp in at-Taji, a northern suburb of Baghdad.
The witnesses said that it was obvious from the state of the wrecks that
they had only recently been destroyed.
Diyala
Province.
Bani Sa'd.
Resistance forces ambush convoy hauling concrete
barriers to US bases northeast of Baghdad.
In a dispatch posted at 4pm Mecca time Wednesday
afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance
forces attacked a convoy of cement barriers being transported along a
farm road near the village of Bani Sa'd, some 30km northeast of Baghdad,
not far from Ba'qubah.
The Ba'qubah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam
reported residents of Bani Sa'd who witnessed the attack as saying that
Resistance fighters armed with light and medium weapons ambushed the
convoy that was hauling the concrete barriers to US bases where the
barriers are used for protection. The Resistance fighters disabled two
of the trucks, killing three drivers who were working for the American
occupation forces. Following the ambush, the fighters withdrew from the
area.
Al-Mada’in.
Resistance fighters assault puppet police
station in al-Mada’in at dawn Wednesday.
In a dispatch posted at 11am Mecca time Wednesday
morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance
fighters attacked the puppet police station in the center of the city of
al-Mada’in, just southeast of Baghdad at dawn on Wednesday.
The al-Mada’in correspondent for Mafkarat
al-Islam reported local eyewitnesses as saing that Resistance
fighters armed with light and medium weapons and pipe rockets attacked
the puppet police station in the city at dawn Wednesday, killing one
officer and four men in the puppet force and wounding three more of
them. To of the Resistance fighters were also killed in the assault.
Babil
Province.
Al-Hillah.
Resistance bombards US base north of al-Hillah
Wednesday night.
In a bulletin posted at 8:40pm Mecca time Wednesday
night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while earlier
Iraqi Resistance forces had bombarded the US base north of al-Hillah,
about 100km south of Baghdad.
The al-Hillah correspondent for Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that the Resistance fired six mortar rounds into
the former Heavy Artillery School of the Army of the Republic of Iraq,
which has been occupied by US forces and turned into their local
headquarters. The correspondent reported that clouds of smoke could be
seen billowing from the base as American helicopters prowled the skies
over the area.
Al-Latifiyah.
Resistance bomb south of al-Latifiyah leaves a
reported two US troops dead.
In a dispatch posted at 11:40am Mecca time
Wednesday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi
Resistance bomb exploded by a US military column south of the town of
al-Latifiyah, about 30km south of Baghdad.
The al-Latifiyah correspondent for Mafkarat
al-Islam reported local eyewitnesses as saying that a bomb that had
been planted by the farm road to Muwaylihah blew up by a passing US
column, disabling one Humvee and killing two US troops and wounding two
more of them.
Ninwa
Province.
Mosul.
Resistance rockets blast US al-Ghazlani base in
Mosul.
In a dispatch posted at 4pm Mecca time Wednesday
afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance
forces fired medium-range rockets at the US-occupied al-Ghazlani
military base in the northern part of Mosul.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam
reported eyewitnesses in Mosul as saying that the US base took direct
hits from two medium-range rockets, sending plumes of smoke rising into
the sky over the facility.
US soldier reported wounded in Resistance bomb
attack in western Mosul.
In a dispatch posted at 11:50am Mecca time
Wednesday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi
Resistance bomb exploded by a US column in the al-Yarmuk section of
western Mosul in northern Iraq.
The Mosul correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam
reported eyewitnesses in the al-Yarmuk area as saying hat the bomb
disabled an American armored vehicle, killing one US soldier and
wounding two more of them.
Resistance bombards puppet police academy in
Mosul Wednesday morning.
Quds Press reported that meanwhile six
rockets blasted into the puppet police academy on the left bank of the
Tigris River in Mosul. Puppet security sources claimed that there were
no casualties in the barrage.
Tall 'Afar.
Resistance fires rocket into puppet military
coordination center in Tall 'Afar Wednesday morning.
Iraqi Resistance forces fired a rocket into the
so-called "Joint Coordination Center" of US and puppet forces in the
town of Tall 'Afar west of Mosul in northern Iraq on Wednesday morning,
Quds Press reported. The attack inflicted damage on the building
and wounded a number of personnel in the center.
A puppet police security source told Quds Press
that the rocket attack wounded two officers in the puppet force, one a
lieutenant colonel and the other a first lieutenant as well as a third
puppet soldier. The rocket also inflicted material damage on the
center, the source said.
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