Friday, 28 April 2006.
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US soldier reported killed when Resistance bomb explodes by Americans
surrounding mosque in Samarra’.
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US forces stage brutal mass arrests in Diyala Province.
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US, Britain mass equipment, boost air patrols along Iranian border east
of al-Basrah.
Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Fallujah.
Resistance bombards US
checkpoint in 'Amiriyat al-Fallujah.
In a dispatch posted at 9:50pm
Makkah time Friday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi
Resistance forces fired four 82mm mortar rounds into the US check point
set up in the residential complex in 'Amiriyat al-Fallujah, 7km
southwest of al-Fallujah, at 7pm local time Friday afternoon.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that he heard
the sound of explosions going off inside the US checkpoint as a result
of the barrage.
US troops foil car bomb attack
on themselves in al-Fallujah.
In a dispatch posted at 7:45pm
Makkah time Friday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a
short while earlier US forces had deliberately detonated a car bomb that
had been left by the side of a road frequented by US patrols.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as
saying that the Resistance had left an explosives-laden Volkswagen by
the side of the road but a US column came upon the car, determined that
it was a bomb and then backed away and blew it up. Local people
confirmed that the blast caused no casualties.
US aircraft blow up house,
reportedly killing three Resistance fighters.
In a dispatch posted at 2:50pm
Makkah time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US
warplanes rocketed a house in the southern al-Hasy area of al-Fallujah,
completely destroying the home and killing three men who were inside.
Two others were wounded in the American air raid.
The al-Fallujah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported Dr.
'Umar Sa'di al-Hadithi as saing that US warplanes fired a guided missile
at the home of Muhammad Thabit in the al-Hasy area at dawn Friday,
killing three persons and wounding two more who, he said, "amazingly
survived." The two were recovered from under the collapsed roof of the
house.
The correspondent reported that the house belonged to a member of the
Iraqi Resistance and that the three who died and the two survivors were
Resistance fighters. The correspondent said that there were no women or
children in the home, has some in the town had said.
US, Iraqi puppet forces raid
al-Fallujah neighborhoods Thursday night, arrest 57.
In a dispatch posted at 12:40pm
Makkah time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US
troops accompanied by their Iraqi puppet army allies carried out an
extensive campaign of raids and arrests in various neighborhoods of
al-Fallujah, about 60km west of Baghdad, late Thursday night.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US Marines
and Iraqi puppet troops carried out house-to-house raids in the
neighborhoods of ash-Shuhada’, al-Jawlan, al-Mu'allimin, al-Jumhuriyah,
and an-Nazal. A total of 57 local people, ranging in age from 20 to 40,
were arrested in the sweep, according to Qasim al-'Alwani, the head of
the puppet municipal council in the city. Al-'Alwani added that the
Iraqi puppet troops who came along with the Americans seized the money,
gold jewelry, and any valuables they could find in the houses they
raided.
Ar-Ramadi.
Resistance bombards US
facility in downtown ar-Ramadi Friday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 11am
Makkah time Friday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi
Resistance forces fired five heavy 120mm mortar rounds into the al-Anbar
Provincial government building in the middle of ar-Ramadi, a facility
occupied by US forces and used as their headquarters,
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported local
eyewitnesses as saying that the barrage, which took place at 8:30am
local time Friday morning, sent dust and thick smoke rising into the
sky.
The provincial government building has been regularly attacked by
Resistance forces for four months since US troops turned it into a local
headquarters.
Baghdad.
Defiant Iraqi President marks
69th birthday like his country: a prisoner of the US
occupation.
Saddam Husayn, still the legal
President of Iraq, on Friday marked his 69th birthday like the state of
Iraq itself, as a prisoner of the occupation.
In a statement on the occasion,
the Arab Socialist Baath Party noted that Iraq had become the most
difficult conundrum ever faced by America during its colonialist
history.
In many respects the role of
President Saddam Husayn mirrors the role of Iraq. Like the country he
is confined to a US prison, but he remains defiant and unbowed. In
session after session of the American-staged "trial" the Iraqi President
has stood firm against the illegal occupation and its mock "trial" as
well as against the charges trumped up by a "court" whose sole "legal"
authority is derived from the temporary presence of an alien army of
occupation.
Seven more bodies of torture
victims found in Baghdad Friday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 6:40pm
Makkah time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the
Forensic Medicine Department in Baghdad had announced that seven bodies
of Iraqi Sunnis had been discovered in the American-occupied city. All
had been tortured and killed by the pro-American Shi'i sectarian
militia.
The Baghdad correspondent for
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi puppet police had found the
bodies on Ibrahim ibn 'Ali Street in the ash-Shu'lah district of
northwest Baghdad on Friday morning. All suffered from various tortures
including burns, having fingernails pulled out, and having the hair on
their heads set on fire. The victims were then shot to death.
The source at the Forensic
Medicine Department said that with the discovery of these latest seven
victims, a total of 66 bodies have been discovered since the beginning
of last week and until today, Friday. Fifty-one of the bodies were
those of Sunni citizens. The other bodies were those of Iraqi puppet
army men and puppet policemen killed by the Resistance.
Salah ad-Din Province.
Samarra’.
US soldier reported killed
when Resistance bomb explodes by Americans surrounding mosque in
Samarra’.
In a dispatch posted at 4:10pm
Makkah time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an
Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol that was surrounding the
ar-Ribat mosque in western Samarra’ during Friday congregational prayer
at 1:30pm local time.
The correspondent for
Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the Iraqi puppet police as
saying that the bomb killed one US soldier and wounded three more of
them, one of them severely.
The correspondent reported that
American forces had completely surrounded four local mosques during
Friday prayers, subjecting everyone who showed up for worship to submit
to a detailed search. The US troops were carrying pictures and were
comparing them with the worshippers headed to the mosques. Five
individuals who appeared to resemble the pictures were arrested by the
US forces. The four mosques that were singled out for the searches
were: ar-Ribat, Samarra’, al-Hayy al-Qayyum, and al-Kabir.
Diyala Province.
Ba'qubah.
US forces stage brutal mass
arrests in Diyala Province.
In a dispatch posted at 6:50pm
Makkah time Friday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US
occupation forces launched a massive campaign of raids and arrests in
various districts of the province of Diyala east and north of Baghdad at
dawn on Friday.
The correspondent for
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US troops and their Iraqi puppet
army allies carried out house-to-house raids in Ba'qubah, Buhriz,
al-Khalis, al-Miqdadiyah, Sharaban, and Khan Bani Sa'd. At the time of
reporting some 70 local citizens, ranging in age from 20 to 60, had been
arrested, but the raids were continuing.
The correspondent, who
personally witnessed one house raid by US forces in Ba'qubah, reported
that the Americans used a new method during Friday’s raids. They first
planted percussion grenades at the threshold of the home, blowing open
the door. But instead of charging in immediately as has previously been
their practice, they first waited a few minutes to assure themselves
that the house did not contain Resistance fighters and then stormed in.
Correspondent reported that the
American troops would very severely beat the man they wanted to arrest
in sensitive parts of his body to such an extent that the man would then
be incapable of standing. The Americans then put a bag over his head.
If the man’s wife, daughter or sister started to scream, they would be
kicked or punched by the various soldiers.
Wasit Province.
As-Suwayrah.
Five bodies of torture victims
discovered in as-Suwayrah near puppet regime prison.
In a dispatch posted at 8:40pm
Makkah time Friday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi
puppet police found the tortured and murdered bodies of five men in the
Tigris River valley south of the city of as-Suwayrah, about 160km
southeast of Baghdad. The bodies were found about 5km from the main
puppet "Iraqi Interior Ministry" prison in Iraq.
The Baghdad correspondent for
Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the Iraqi puppet police as
saying that the bodies showed signs of "savage" torture, and the victims
had then been shot in the head and chest. The correspondent reported
that the identity of the victims was uncertain, but it was suspected
that they were Sunni Iraqis.
Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.
US, Britain mass equipment,
boost air patrols along Iranian border east of al-Basrah.
In a dispatch posted at 12 noon
Makkah time Friday, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US and
British forces have been heading towards the Iranian border east of the
city of al-Basrah in southern Iraq, according to eyewitnesses.
The correspondent for
Mafkarat al-Islam reported residents along the Shatt al-'Arab
waterway report that US and British heavy military equipment has been
moved up towards the border and that air patrols by American war planes
have been increased in order to intensify reconnaissance of the
frontier.
Residents of al-Basrah told
Mafkarat al-Islam that the offices of pro-Iranian Shi'i parties in
the city have been distributing arms to their members. The sources say
that most of the weapons being distributed come from Iran and were
smuggled over the border to the southern cities of al-Basrah and
al-'Amarah.
The moves come against a
backdrop of escalating US pressure on Iran over the issue of that
country’s right to develop peaceful nuclear energy, a right guaranteed
under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to which Iran is signatory.
Washington and its satellites in NATO are taking the position that Iran,
despite the wording of the treaty, should have no such right.
Local observers doubt that the
US is preparing a strike against Iran. It is thought, rather, that the
US and Britain on one side and Iran on the other are escalating
activities against each other on Iraqi soil as a form of applying
pressure to each other.
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