Thursday, 22 September 2005.
Ninwa Province.
Tall 'Afar.
Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent murdered. Badr Brigades blamed in killing of lone independent reporter in beleaguered city.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in Tall 'Afar, whose
reports have been among the few to break through the US-imposed
blockade on the city was found murdered in his house Thursday morning.
Salim Tu'mah Khattab al-Jabburi, 25, submitted the report two days
ago on Tuesday, 20 September, that was the basis for the story
"Civilians continue to die as American offensive on Tall 'Afar grinds
on. Thus far 72 children and 53 women have been killed, medical sources
report."
Salim’s brother told Mafkarat al-Islam’s editorial offices that
Salim was found dead in bed at dawn Thursday, with bullet wounds in his
chest, neck, and head. The brother said that no one else was living in
Salim’s house at the time, since the young man had sent his mother and
brothers outside the city for fear of the ferocity of US bombing. Salim
remained behind to cover the news in Tall 'Afar where the Americans
have continued to press their offensive.
Salim’s relatives blamed the murder on the Shi'i sectarian Badr
Brigades, whose forces joined the US military during their invasion of
Iraq in the spring of 2003 and have since then served the American
occupation in puppet police and security agencies and have been linked
to waves of sectarian abduction, torture, and murder.
Salim al-Jabburi was determined to report the news in the defiant
city as it resisted the American onslaught. At the beginning of the US
offensive on Tall 'Afar, he was one of three reporters operating
secretly in the city, where US forces have arrested and imprisoned any
journalist discovered reporting from the city without American
permission. After the fighting intensified, Salim became the only
journalist working in besieged Tall 'Afar, Mafkarat al-Islam reported
Thursday.
Salim al-Jabburi was a 2002 graduate of the College of Management
and Economics of Mosul University and had worked for several Iraqi news
agencies and newspapers, including the paper al-'Iraq and al-Hadba’ in
Mosul, before joining Mafkarat al-Islam where he worked for 10 months
prior to his assassination.
In a dispatch posted at 7:40pm Mecca time Thursday, Mafkarat
al-Islam, many of whose journalists have been killed in the line of
duty in occupied Iraq, apologized to readers in advance for the fact
that in coming days they will have difficulty reporting from Tall
'Afar, until such time as they re-organize their news bureau in that
city.
Al-Anbar Province.
Ar-Ramadi.
One US soldier reported killed in morning battle in as-Sufiyah district of ar-Ramadi Thursday morning.
Iraqi Resistance forces armed with light and medium weapons,
including pipe rockets attacked a patrol of two US armored vehicles and
three Humvees in the middle of the as-Sufiyah area of ar-Ramadi at 9am
local time Thursday morning.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in the city reported residents
of as-Sufiyah as saying that the attack sparked a fire fight that
lasted about 20 minutes in the course of which on US Humvee was
disabled and an armored vehicle set ablaze. One US soldier was killed
and four others wounded. Two of the Resistance fighters were also
wounded before withdrawing with the rest of their comrades after the
clash.
US surrounds neighborhoods in ar-Ramadi in preparation for house-to-house raids and searches.
In a dispatch posted at 10:30am Mecca time Thursday morning,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US forces had begun to encircle
neighborhoods in preparation for raiding and searching homes there.
The Mafakrat al-Islam correspondent reported residents of the city
as saying that US forces had surrounded and cut off the whole
neighborhoods of al-Mal'ab, al-Mu'allimin, ath-Thilah, and
al-Mukhabarat in the center of the city. Dozens of US vehicles were
seen surrounding the private football field "al-Mal'ab" belonging to the ar-Ramadi football club, and the as-Siddiq mosque in the center of the city
A violent battle took place in the as-Sufiyah neighborhood of the
city on Thursday morning that left several US troops dead or wounded
and two American vehicles disabled (see story above).
Kilometer 160.
Resistance ambushes US column Thursday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 12:30pm Mecca time Mafkarat al-Islam
reported that fierce fighting broke out between Iraqi Resistance forces
and US troops in the Kilometer 160 area west of ar-Ramadi at 10:30am
local time Thursday morning.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported local witnesses as
saying that about nine Iraqi Resistance fighters armed with light and
medium weapons and pipe rockets attacked a column of several US
Humvees. The firefight lasted about 10 minutes and left one of the
American vehicles ablaze.
After the attack, US troops opened fire indiscriminately on
civilians and then surrounded the whole area, making it impossible for
the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent to obtain information on the nature
or extent of US casualties.
Al-Baghdadi.
Resistance bombards US 'Ayn al-Asad base Thursday morning.
Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded the main US base, known as 'Ayn
al-Asad, in al-Baghdadi west of Baghdad at 9:30am local time Thursday
morning.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported residents of
al-Baghdadi as saying that three medium-range Katyusha rockets blasted
directly into the US base, sending up columns of smoke.
Abu Ghurayb.
Resistance fighter blasts car bomb into US patrol in Abu Ghurayb Thursday afternoon.
In a bulletin posted at 3:45pm Mecca time Thursday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded
by a US patrol in the middle of Abu Ghurayb a short time earlier.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in Abu Ghurayb, 30km west of
Baghdad, reported a source in the Iraqi puppet army as saying that a
short time earlier an Iraqi Resistance fighter drove an
explosives-packed car into the American patrol in the ar-Risalah
section of Abu Ghurayb, killing or wounding a number of US occupation
troops.
The correspondent reported the source as saying that two US
vehicles were severely damaged in the attack, which killed or wounded a
number of American troops.
The correspondent was unable to ascertain the exact nature or
number of casualties because US forces surrounded the entire section of
the city after the attack with a very tight security cordon.
Al-Fallujah.
Resistance ambushes puppet police patrol near al-Fallujah market Thursday afternoon.
In a dispatch posted at 5:50pm Mecca time Thursday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while earlier, Iraqi Resistance
forces had attacked an Iraqi puppet army patrol on the road to the
al-Fallujah market.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported shopkeepers in the
area as saying that the Resistance fighters armed with hand grenades
and light weapons ambushed the patrol of three pickups belonging to the
Iraqi puppet army. The witnesses reported that the Resistance fighters
set one of the vehicles on fire, killing or wounding four Iraqi puppet
troops.
Baghdad.
Two US troops reported killed in roadside bombing south of Baghdad.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a joint US-Iraqi puppet army
patrol between the area of Jurf ash-Sakhr and al-Mahmudiyah south of
Baghdad at about 3:15pm local time Thursday afternoon.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in Jurf as-Sakhr reported
witnesses as saying that a bomb that had been planted by the side of
the road south to al-Mahmudiyah blew up as the joint patrol was passing
by. The explosion set one Humvee on fire and killed two US troops and
wounded a third, eyewitnesses reported.
Two US soldiers reported killed in morning bombing in Baghdad’s al-Mashtal area.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a column of US armored
vehicles on the mian road in the al-Mashtal ("Arboretum")area of
Baghdadat 10am local time Thursday morning.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported traffic wardens who
were on the scene at the time of the blast as saying that a bomb that
had been planted on the side of the road blew up as the patrol of
several US armored vehicles passed by.
The blast disabled one of the armored vehicles, killing two US
soldiers and wounding another. One civilian who was nearby was also
injured.
Resistance bomb targets patrol of puppet "shock police" in as-Sayyidiyah Thursday morning.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a patrol of the Iraqi puppet
"shock police" in the as-Sayyidiyah area south of Baghdad at about
9:15am local time Thursday morning.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported a source in the puppet
police as saying that a bomb that had been planted by the side of the
road leading to as-Sayyidiyah blew up as a patrol of several pickups
belonging to the "shock police" was passing by.
The explosion damaged one of the vehicles in the patrol, wounding four puppet "shock policemen," one of them severely.
Salah ad-Din Province.
Samarra’
Thousands flee Samarra’ following threats by US puppet regime to launch military offensive on the city.
More than 1,200 families have fled the city of Samarra’, heading
towards Tirkit following threats by the US-appointed "Iraqi Defense
Minister" Sa'dun ad-Dulaymi that US and Iraqi puppet troops would be
launching an offensive on the city to rid it of Iraqi Resistance
forces.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in Samarra’ reported that most
of the families had to undergo humiliating searches by Iraqi puppet
troops on the outskirts of the city.
The correspondent said that dozens of shops in the city had been
closed and official offices and other services have been closed and
shut down. The correspondent said that claims by the local governor
that schools had reopened were false. "No school in Samarra’ had opened
out of fear of an expected military offensive against the city.
Ad-Dulu'iyah.
US continues blockade, bombing, house raids on ad-Dulu'iyah. Four civilians killed in American air raids.
US forces continued their blockade of the city of ad-Dulu'iyah,
north of Baghdad on Thursday. In a dispatch posted at 9:40am Mecca time
Thursday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that at the time of
reporting, American troops had sealed off the al-Jabbur are of the city
and were carrying out house-to-house raids and searches there.
The ad-Dulu'iyah correspondent for Mafarat al-Islam reported city
residents as saying that US warplanes had been bombing parts of the
city on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, targeting houses of local
civilian residents. Four civilians were killed, two of hem women, and
three others wounded in the American attacks. Dr. Usamah al-Baz of
ad-Dulu'iyah General Hospital said that two of the injured were in
serious condition.
Residents of al-Jabbur told Mafkarat al-Islam that the Americans
were raiding and searching many houses, particularly after hey had
received word that one of he truck drivers working for them had been
captured after his truck was destroyed in a Resistance ambush on an
American convoy two days ago.
Diyala Province.
Al-Miqdadiyah.
Resistance forces ambush joint US-Iraqi puppet patrol north of Ba'qubah.
In a dispatch posted at 12:10pm Mecca time Thursday, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters had attacked a joint
US-Iraqi puppet army patrol in the Shahraban area (al-Miqdadiyah), some
85km northeast of Baghdad.
Residents of Shahraban told Mafkarat al-Islam that Resistance
fighters armed with light and medium weapons, incluing PKS machine
guns, attacked the joint patrol on the road to Ba'qubah.
At-Ta’mim Province.
Al-Hawijah.
Puppet police backed up by US troops carry out mass arrests of Sunnis following attacks.
In a dispatch posted at 5:20pm Mecca time Thursday afternoon, the
Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that Iraqi puppet "shock
police" force under the US-installed "Ministry of the Interior" had
launched a campaign of arrests of Sunnis in the al-Hawijah area west of
Kirkuk.
The correspondent reported local witnesses as saying that the
"shock police," backed up by US military forces, encircled numerous
districts in the area and carried out raids and arrests of Sunni Arabs
belonging to the tribes of a-Jabbur, al-'Ubayd, al-Janabiyyin, and
ash-Shamar.
The correspondent reported that more than 30 young men had been
rounded up in the sweeps that were carried out on the pretext that
there had been attacks on US and puppet troops.
Kirkuk.
Resistance bombards US base at Kirkuk Airport early Thursday morning.
Iraqi Rseistance forces fired five mortar rounds into the main US
headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk at 5am local time
Thursday morning.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in the city reported
eyewitnesses as saying that five mortar rounds blasted into the airport
that the US forces have taken over as their base. The attack set off
powerful explosions inside the US facility.
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