·       Resistance bomb in al-Haqlaniyah leaves five Americans reported dead.

·       Three US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing in al-Hadithah.

·       US forces throw 23 families out of their village west of ar-Ramadi, to set up camp there.

·       Resistance fighter detonates explosive belt as Americans raid his house in 'Amiriyat al-Fallujah, leaving four US troops dead.

·       Resistance ambush in south of ad-Dujayl leaves one US soldier reported dead.

·       US troops kill five members of family going to sell vegetables at al-Miqdadiyah market.

·       Resistance bomb in al-Mawsil reportedly kills US soldier.

·       Iraqi puppet army conceals true number of its casualties in keeping with US practice.  Demonstrators demand information on their sons in the puppet army who have disappeared, never to be heard from again.

Al-Anbar Province.

Al-Hadithah.

Resistance bomb in al-Haqlaniyah leaves five Americans reported dead.

In a dispatch posted at 5:50pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military patrol on the main road near the Ayyar Hotel in the al-Haqlaniyah area east of al-Hadithah, about 300km northwest of Baghdad.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in al-Haqlaniyah as saying that the bomb completely destroyed a US Humvee, killing five American troops who were inside.

The US soldiers were observed transferring the bodies of the five from their wrecked vehicle to an armored ambulance.  At the time of reporting, American forces were still surrounding the scene, having cut the road to the area.

Three US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing in al-Hadithah.

In a dispatch posted at 2:40pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military patrol on the main road in al-Hadithah.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in al-Hadithah as saying that the bomb, which had been planted next to the main road in the middle of town, completely destroyed a US Humvee, killing three American troops and severely wounding a fourth.

At the time of reporting, American soldiers were still surrounding the scene, preventing anyone from approaching.  Military ambulances were evacuating the bodies of the dead and the wounded from the area.

Ar-Ramadi.

Resistance forces ambush US patrol in ar-Ramadi at dawn Tuesday.

In a dispatch posted at 6:30pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters ambushed a US patrol in the at-Ta’mim neighborhood of southern ar-Ramadi at dawn on Tuesday.

The ar-Ramadi correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in at-Ta’mim as saying that Resistance fighters armed with light and medium weapons and pipe rockets attacked an American patrol in the al-Qadisiyah neighborhood of at-Ta’mim, damaging two US vehicles and wounding four American soldiers.

US troops throw 23 families out of their village west of ar-Ramadi, to set up camp there.

In a dispatch posted at 1:10pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US troops have thrown 23 Iraqi villagers out of their homes in a farm village west of ar-Ramadi and then turned the area into a military position.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US troops stormed the al-Bu 'Ali al-Jasim Village west of ar-Ramadi a 6am local time Tuesday morning and used loudspeakers to order all the residents in the area to leave their homes within three hours or be thrown out by force.

The Americans allowed the villagers to take only their clothes, money, and light and valuable personal items with them.  Then after two hours, rather than three as promised, they began throwing the families out of their village.  Some left on foot; others who had cars drove away.

The Americans then brought in bulldozers, digging machines, and cranes.  They laid sandbags around the villages and raised an earthen barricade six meters high in addition to the sand bags and then took over the 23 houses of the village families they had evicted.

In answer to the question why the Americans had chosen this particular village to take over and why they preferred to steal people’s houses rather than set up a camp on vacant land, villagers said that al-Bu 'Ali Jasim village was located near the biggest US base in the area – al-Warrar Base.  They said that the Americans occupied their village to prevent the Resistance from using it as a launching area for rocket attacks on al-Warrar.  The village is also a good location from which the Americans can launch attacks on the people of ar-Ramadi.

The scene of the evicted villagers including women, children, and the elderly, being driven out of their confiscated homes was very painful to see, the correspondent reported.  Religious leaders in ar-Ramadi used mosque loudspeakers to announce: "whoever gives refuge or a home to them or takes care of them will have earned the pleasure of God. Muslims, hasten to earn God’s pleasure, receive your sisters, daughters, and brothers in your homes.  Don’t leave them in the street under the eyes of the occupation troops."

Within one hour all the refugees had been given accommodation with families in the ar-Ramadi neighborhoods of at-Ta’mim, al-Mal'ab, and ad-Dubbat.  Not one was forced to sleep in the street.

The correspondent reported an eyewitness from the confiscated village as saying that the occupation troops were still busy at the time of reporting putting up earthen barriers around their newly stolen camp.  American tanks and military vehicles meanwhile were destroying the villagers crops and killing the large number of livestock and poultry that the families were forced to leave behind.

Al-Fallujah.

Resistance bombards US military camp in 'Amiriyat al-Fallujah.

In a dispatch posted at 3pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces fierd four mortar rounds at the US military headquarters in the al-Ikha’ Industrial Complex in 'Amiriyat al-Fallujah, 7km southwest of al-Fallujah.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in 'Amiriyat al-Fallujah as saying that the barrage set off violent explosions inside the American-occupied headquarters.  Sirens could be heard wailing inside the compound following the bombardment.

Resistance fighter detonates explosive belt as Americans raid his house, leaving four US troops dead.

In a dispatch posted at 12:20pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance fida’i fighter blew himself up among a group of US soldiers who were raiding his home in the suburb of 'Amiriyat al-Fallujah, 7km southwest of al-Fallujah on Monday night.

The 'Amiriyat al-Fallujah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported local eyewitnesses as saying that a US force landed on the home of an Iraqi Resistance fighter in the town and stormed in during the night of Monday-Tuesday.  As they rushed the house, the homeowner detonated the explosive belt he was wearing in the midst of the Americans, killing four US troops and wounding five more of them.

Quds Press reported that three individuals were in the house at the time of the American raid and that two of them slipped away, but one remained behind and when US troops surrounded him to take him prisoner, he detonated the explosive belt he was wearing.  Quds Press quoted local eyewitnesses as saying that the blast killed four Americans and wounded two more of them.  The witnesses said that the Americans failed to capture the other two men.

After the explosion, the Americans withdrew their soldiers from the house and a helicopter rocketed it, completely razing the structure.

Baghdad.

Bodies of eight murdered, tortured Sunnis found in Baghdad’s al-Karakh; 15 bodies of Iraqi puppet army troops found following Resistance ambush in Abu Ghurayb.

In a dispatch posted at 1:30pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a total of 23 bodies had been found in the Baghdad area.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the Forensic Medicine Hospital in downtown Baghdad as saying that 15 bodies of Iraqi puppet army troops were found after they had been shot by Iraqi Resistance forces in the Abu Ghurayb area, about 30km west of Baghdad.  The puppet troops were on their way to join their unit in al-Anbar Province when Resistance fighters waylaid their vehicle in Abu Ghurayb and sprayed it with machine gun fire.

A total of eight bodies of Iraqi Sunnis who had been tortured and killed were found in two groups in Baghdad’s al-Karakh district, the source said.  There was a group of five who had been tortured to death and another group of three bodies that had been tortured, bound, blindfolded, and shot to death were also found in al-Karakh.

The Iraqi puppet army took possession of the 15 puppet soldiers an hour after they were recovered, the source said.  The bodies of the eight murdered Sunni torture victims were placed in the morgue where they await recovery by next of kin.

Resistance bomb blasts puppet police in Baghdad’s al-A'zamiyah.

In a dispatch posted at 10:40am Makkah time Tuesday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a patrol of Iraqi puppet police on al-Maghrib Street in the al-A'zamiyah district northern Baghdad.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in the al-Maghrib neighborhood as saying that the bomb destroyed a patrol vehicle, killing one puppet policeman and wounding two more of them.

Salah ad-Din Province.

Al-Mushahadah.

Resistance bombards joint US-Iraqi puppet army camp in al-Mushahadah.

In a dispatch posted at 7:25pm Makkah time Tuesday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded a camp jointly occupied by US and Iraqi puppet army forces on the road between at-Tarimiyah and al-Mushahadah, a few kilometers to the southwest and about 25km north of the occupied Iraqi capital.

The al-Mushahadah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported local eyewitnesses as saying that the Resisance blasted the joint US-Iraqi puppet army camp with a barrage of 82mm mortar rounds, sending plumes of smoke billowing into the sky.  After the attack, US forces closed the roads leading to the camp.

Ad-Dujayl.

Resistance ambush in south of ad-Dujayl leaves one US soldier reported dead.

In a dispatch posted at 3:40pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked a column of US troops on the main road in southern ad-Dujayl, about 55km north of Baghdad.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in ad-Dujayl as saying that Resistance fighters armed with light and medium weapons ambushed the US column, destroying two US vehicles and killing one American soldier and wounding three more of them.

Ad-Dawr.

Resistance fighters assault puppet police checkpoint in ad-Dawr Tuesday morning.

In a dispatch posted at 2:10pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters assaulted a checkpoint manned by Iraqi puppet police in ad-Dawr, 150km north of Baghdad on Tuesday morning.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in ad-Dawr as saying that Resistance fighters armed with light and medium weapons attacked the checkpoint, killing three officers in the puppet force and one puppet policeman.  The Resistance fighters then withdrew from the area.

Diyala Province.

Al-Miqdadiyah.

US troops kill five members of family going to sell vegetables at al-Miqdadiyah market.

In a dispatch posted at 12:30pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US occupation troops killed five members of a local family in al-Miqdadiyah, 85km northeast of Baghdad at dawn on Monday.

The al-Miqdadiyah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that American troops opened fire on a pickup truck as al-Hajj Muhammad Tawfiq and his five sons were driving a load of vegetables that they had picked from their farm fields to sell at the wholesale market.  The attack occurred on the old farm road west of the city.

The correspondent reported motorists who drove the bodies of the dead family members to town after the killing as saying that the US troops opened fire on the vegetable truck with unusual ferocity, causing it to burst into flame, killing all aboard.  The witnesses said that the dead were: al-Hajj Muhammad Tawfiq and his sons: Khalid, Dahham, 'Ubaydah, and 'Abd ar-Rahman – who was nine years old and usually went with his father to sell their crops at the wholesale marked in the city.  The five victims were buried at the Martyrs Cemetery at the large mosque in al-Miqdadiyah.

Babil Province.

Al-Yusufiyah.

Resistance bomb kills six puppet "Iraqi National Guards" on highway to al-Yusufiyah.

In a dispatch posted at 11am Makkah time Tuesday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that  an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a puppet "Iraqi National Guard" column on the highway to al-Yusufiyah, 25km southwest of Baghdad.

The al-Yusufiyah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported local eyewitnesses as saying that a bomb that had been planted by the side of the highway destroyed a troop transport vehicle, killing six puppet "National Guards" and wounding four more of them.

Ninwa Province.

Al-Mawsil.

Resistance bomb blasts puppet policemen in al-Mawsil.

In a dispatch posted at 7pm Makkah time Tuesday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a puppet police patrol on the main road in the 'Adan neighborhood of western al-Mawsil (Mosul) in northern Iraq.

The al-Mawsil correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in 'Adan neighborhood as saying that a bomb that had been planted by the side of the road to the al-Karamah neighborhood blew up by an Iraqi puppet police patrol.  The blast destroyed one patrol vehicle and severely wounded two puppet policemen.

Resistance bomb in al-Mawsil reportedly kills US soldier.

In a dispatch posted at 6:20pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded near a station for gas in the southwest of al-Mawsil.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the Iraqi puppet police as saying that the bomb went off by a column of six US Humvees on the main road. The blast destroyed a Humvee, killing one US soldier and wounding three more of them.

An-Najaf Province.

An-Najaf.

Iraqi puppet army conceals true number of its casualties in keeping with US practice.  Demonstrators demand information on their sons in the puppet army who have disappeared, never to be heard from again.

In a dispatch posted at 8:40pm Makkah time Tuesday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that dozens of Shi'i Iraqis took to the streets of the southern city of an-Najaf on Tuesday to demand information on their relatives who had gone into the US-run Iraqi puppet army and then disappeared.

The an-Najaf correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a mass protest formed up in front of the puppet Provincial administration building.  Demonstrators demanded information about the fate of their loved ones who joined the puppet army but were never heard from again.  Protestors said that at least three months had passed since they last heard from their relatives serving the Americans in the puppet army and they demanded to know what had become of them.

The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in an-Najaf reported from the middle of the demonstration that it began at 10am local time Tuesday morning,  One protestor told the correspondent that his son had volunteered for the puppet army at the end of 2005 and was sent to a combat unit in al-Anbar Province.  "But we don’t know anything about what has become of him.  The [puppet] Ministry of Defense told us that he was on the battlefield fighting terrorism but he has never contacted us, not even to send one letter until now.  And he hasn’t been given leave once after three months."  The demonstrator told the correspondent that he imagines that his son has been killed but that the regime does not want to admit it.

Another protestor at the demonstration told Mafkarat al-Islam that the puppet "Ministry of Defence" had told them that their son had been killed but they wanted their son’s body and it had never been sent back to them even though two months have passed since they were told of his death.  The protestor said that he has been searching through hospital after hospital for his son’s body, but to no avail.

Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the US-run Iraqi puppet army has begun to follow the American practice of concealing the true numbers of casualties and dead who perish daily in the war in Iraq.  This fact was acknowledged by Muhammad al-'Ubaydi, a major general who broke with the puppet "Ministry of Defense" and said that "the Iraqi [puppet] army is just like the American army in terms of announcing the number of their soldiers killed.  They only announce a fourth of those who fall every day all over Iraq."