Bad news for the fascist invaders: the Shi?i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr issues general call to arms.
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 6 May 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
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Friday, 6 May 2005.
Al-Anbar Province.
Ar-Ramadi.
Resistance attack on US troops in ar-Ramadi leaves four American soldiers dead Friday afternoon.
Fighting erupted between Iraqi Resistance forces and a US patrol in the al-Jarayishi area north of ar-Ramadi at 4pm local time Friday afternoon. Witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam that the Resistance fighters were armed with light machine guns and rocket launchers and that in the course of the battle they killed four US troops and wounded two more. The witnesses saw one of their Humvees ablaze.
After the attack, US forces imposed a curfew and launched a campaign of searches in the area, arresting six local people on the claim that they were involved in the fighting that lasted about half an hour.
Nine US troops killed in Resistance car bombing south of ar-Ramadi Friday morning.
An Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-laden car into a US military column in the ath-Thaylah area south of ar-Ramadi at 11am local time Friday morning. The ar-Ramadi correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported Captian Ziyad ?Abdallah of the puppet army as saying that the blast destroyed one Bradley armored vehicle and disabled one Humvee. Nine US troops were killed in the attack, he said, and four more wounded.
US forces encircled the area and prevented any journalist or even any Iraqi citizen from approaching the area.
The Iraqi Resistance organization known as the Base Qa?idah of the Jihad in the Land of the Two Rivers, led by the Jordanian Islamist Abu Mus?ab az-Zarqawi, issued a communiqué, distributed in a number of local mosques after the attack, announced its responsibility for the operation.
Al-Fallujah.
Afternoon Resistance ambush kills six US troops.
In a dispatch posted at 4:55pm Mecca time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while before Iraqi Resistance forces had ambushed a US foot patrol in the al-Jawlan neighborhood of al-Fallujah. Witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam that the attack left six US troops dead and two more wounded. The corresponent reported a source in the puppet police a saying that masked Resistance fighters armed with medium machine guns and hand grenades attacked the US patrol, killing six US troops and wounding two more.
Afterwards, US forces encircled the area and launched a powerful campaign of raids on several houses and shops.
Hit.
Resistance pounds US ?Ayn al-Asad base, after which US fire wipes out Iraqi family of six.
Iraqi Resistance forces mounted a violent bombardment of the US ?Ayn al-Asad base west of Hit in western Iraq on Friday. In a dispatch posted at 4:57pm Mecca time Friday afternoon, the Hit correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Captain Jawad Kazim of the puppet so-called ?anti-terrorist force? said that Resistance fighters attacked the US base with rockets and mortars, killing six US troops and wounding 22 more.
The puppet captain, who entered the American base with his unit after the attack, added that a barracks in which the US troops sleep took a direct hit, producing a high casualty rate.
US forces used heavy artillery to return fire in the direction of the incoming rounds. The correspondent reported that the Americans fired 15 heavy artillery shells, killing an entire family made up of a husband, wife, and four children.
The Resistance made no mention of any casualties in their ranks as a result of the US fire, but said that the US attack on the civilian house was designed to produce hostility among the local population towards the Resistance. A Resistance communiqué, a copy of which Mafkarat al-Islam obtained, said that the local people, however, ?understand the dirty tricks and plots of the Jews,? an apparent reference to the Zionist practice in south Lebanon and occupied Palestine of deliberately battering civilian areas in an effort to turn local opinion against Resistance fighters.
Baghdad.
Resistance bomb kills three US troops Friday afternoon.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb planted in the middle of a road in central Baghdad?s al-Mu?allimin neighborhood exploded by a passing US foot patrol at 3pm local time Friday. The Americans were on a mission to snoop on mosques in the city during the Friday congregational prayers. US forces with translators surround mosques and monitor sermons and if any seem to encourage worshippers to oppose the occupation of their country, US troops or Iraqi puppets storm in immediately and arrest the preacher from the pulpit.
Witnesses who live in al-Mu?allimin told Mafkarat al-Islam that the bomb killed three US troops and seriously wounded four more. The local residents described the blast as ?extremely powerful,? noting that it shattered glass in nearby houses and left a big crater in the unpaved road.
The correspondent, who was on the scene where the attack occurred, reported that US forces encircled the area and imposed a curfew on the neighborhood. They then evacuated the bodies of their dead and wounded. In its propaganda broadcasts beamed at the local population, the US admitted that the attack took place, saying that a ?home-made bomb? had exploded by a foot patrol causing ?damage? but as usual the Americans concealed the extent of their casualties.
Resistance rocket attack on ?green zone? drives Iraqi puppet ?ministers? into underground shelters.
Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded the headquarters of the US occupation and the puppet ?government? in the Republican Palace area of Baghdad ? known to the invaders as the ?green zone? on Friday. Witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam that six powerful Tariq rockets blasted into the area at about 10am local time Friday morning. The missiles were targeted on the former area of the arch of triumph where the offices of the new puppet ?ministers? are clustered.
A member of the puppet police told Mafkarat al-Islam that the attack left dead and wounded Americans and Iraqi stooges. The puppet police source said, ?we laid out a security plan to protect the members of the puppet ?government? from such attacks, preparing shelters for them under ground to protect them from these attacks. That?s what happened today, in fact. They spent half an hour during and after the bombardment in the shelters.?
US forces encircled the area that was bombarded, not allowing journalists to approach. As a result no information is available as to the exact nature or extent of casualties.
Bodies of 17 puppet troops found in northern Baghdad.
The Iraqi puppet police announced on Friday morning that they had found the bodies of 14 members of the puppet police and puppet so-called ?Iraqi national guard? in the Saba? Abkar area of northern Baghdad. The collaborator personnel had all been shot in the back of the head, execution style. Later reports put the number of dead collaborators at 17.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a puppet police spokesman as saying that the bodies were found by members of the puppet guards and puppet police and that they had been abducted several days ago while doing ?official duties.?
In a communiqué, a copy of which was obtained by Mafkarat al-Islam, the Resistance organization known as the Army of the Partisans of the Sunnah Prophet?s Practice announced their responsibility for the liquidation of the puppet troops, calling the dead, ?apostates from the religion of God who were working to block the path before the Resistance in its battles with the occupation.?
Bodies of 14 prominent Sunni civilians found murdered in northern Baghdad. Board of Muslim ?Ulama? issues statement.
The Board of Muslim ?Ulama? Scholars in Iraq, the highest Sunni religious authority in the country, issued a statement dealing with the circumstances of what took place between the killing of 17 members of the puppet police and the puppet so-called ?Iraqi national guard? whose bodies were found in the Saba? Abkar area north of Baghdad, and the murder of 14 Sunni Iraqi citizens whose bodies were found in the Kasrat Wa?tash area, 10km from the first location.
The Board statement said, ?regarding the news report broadcast by satellite TV stations today concerning the discovery of a mass grave of 14 bodies, their hands tied and their eyes blindfolded, in the Kasrat Wa?tash area northeast of Baghdad, we present below the names of the deceased as supplied to us by their families.
Nayif Mujawwal Salih ad-Dulaymi, Taha ?Abbas Salman ad-Dulaymi, Lu?ay Mahmud Mjawwil ad-Dulaymi, Jabbar Mutlik Salih ad-ulaymi, ?Abdallah Mahmud Salih ad-Dulaymi, ?Abd al-Wahhab Mahmud Salman ad-Dulaymi, ?Umar ?Abd al-Wahhab Mahmud ad-Dulaymi, Muhammad Jamil Salim ad-Dulaymi, Ziyad Mjawwil Sa?id ad-Dulaymi, Qasim Muhammad Sa?id ad-Dulaymi, Sabah Karim Sa?id ad-Dulaymi, Jasim Ni?,mah Salim ad-Dulaymi, ?Ammar Karim Najm ad-Dulaymi.
It is noteworthy that the survivors of the massacre declared that the event took place at dawn on Thursday, 5 May 2005, when puppet so-called ?shock troop police? raided a part of the vegetable market and led away the victims to an unknown location.
The bodies will be taken to their final rest in a funeral procession beginning in front of the Forensic Medical Hospital in Baghdad tomorrow morning 7 May 2005.
Iraqi puppet forces today found 14 bodies in Kasrat Wa?tish, 10km from the place where 17 bodies of members of the puppet ?national guard? were found earlier.
According to a forensic medical report issued by al-Yarmuk General Hospital in Baghdad, 14 dead ranged in age between 29 and 43 years. They were Sunni and disappeared two days ago according to sources in the Islamic Party who spoke to the correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam in Baghdad.
A member of the party told the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent that the dead were prominent Sunni personalities in the area. Most people refused comment on who was likely behind the mass killing, but a few persons who asked not to be identified said that members of the Shi?i chauvinist collaborationist Badr Brigades were responsible for the murders. Those sources also threatened to respond to the crime.
The Resistance organization the Salafi Army of the Partisans of the Sunnah Prophet?s Practice announced its responsibility for the execution of the 17 members of the puppet police and ?national guards? who werer found at 9:15am local time Friday morning in northern Baghdad?s Saba? Abkar area. (See story above.)
Babil Province.
As-Suwayrah.
Car bomb explodes in vegetable market in as-Suwayrah.
An official in the Iraqi puppet police claimed on Friday that an Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-laden car into a vegetable market in the town of as-Suwayrah, south of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 22 people and wounding at least 45 more. The al-Jazeera satellite TV station reported the attack as told to them by the puppet police official, noting that as-Suwayrah is predominantly Shi?i.
Salah ad-Din Province.
Tikrit.
Resistance car bomb kills seven puppet police in Tirkit.
An Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-laden car into a bus that was carrying puppet policemen to their place of work in the city of Tikrit on Friday morning. Reuters reported the puppet police announced that the blast killed seven puppet policemen and wounded another 15.
Diyala Province.
Al-Khalis.
Resistance pounds US base in al-Khalis early Friday.
Iraqi Resistance forces fired more than 10 mortar rounds into the US base in the area of al-Khalis, west of Ba ?qubah at 8am Friday morning local time. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in the city reported witnesses a saying that the bombardment ignited fires in two different places inside the base. Sirens wailed inside the American-occupied facility minutes after the attack began. US helicopters prowled the skies above the facility in an unusual way. Seven Apache helicopters took off above the area around the base and landed inside, apparently to evacuate dead and wounded.
Puppet police and ?national guards? refused to disclose the extent of casualties as a result of the attack.
For its part, the Base Qa?idah of the Jihad in the Land of the Two Rivers issued a communiqué, a copy of which was obtained by Mafkarat al-Islam, announced its responsibility for the attack, saying that the bombardment inflicted many dead and wounded in the ranks of the enemy.
Ninwa Province.
Mosul.
Four US troops killed in early morning bombing in Mosul.
A high explosive Iraqi Resistance roadside bomb blew up in the al-Islah az-Zira?i neighborhood west of Mosul at 7am Friday morning. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported Captain Ahmad Lami of the Mosul puppet police as saying that the blast went off as a US column was passing by on its way to the main American base to the north of the city. The explosion destroyed one Humvee and killed four US troops and wounded three more, two of them ?may as well be dead,? the source said.
An-Najaf Province.
An-Najaf.
Fighting breaks out in an-Najaf between US forces, Sadr militia. Muqtada as-Sadr issues general call to arms. Jaysh al-Mahdi militia mobilize throughout southern Iraq.
Combat broke out between members of the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia loyal to Shi?i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr and US occupation troops and their puppet police and puppet ?national guard? stooges in the southern Iraqi city of an-Najaf on Friday. The an-Najaf correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported in a dispatch posted at 5:05pm Mecca time Friday afternoon that the fighting erupted because US occupation troops backed by puppet troops and police surrounded the tomb and mosque of the Imam ?Ali ibn Abi Talib during Friday congregational prayer services. The Americans and their stooges blocked the worshippers inside the mosque from leaving after the prayers to prevent them from joining a rally called by the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia to demand the release of Jaysh al-Mahdi prisoners.
When the Jaysh al-Mahdi insisted on going ahead with their protest despite the armed presence of the American invader troops, Iraqi puppet forces opened fire on the protesters, killing two Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen.
Two hours later US occupation forces stormed the ancient mosque in an-Najaf and the area known as the ?home? of the Imam ?Ali ibn Abi Talib where his tomb is located. This attack prompted Muqtada as-Sadr, through one of his aids, to issue a general call to arms of the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia and to prepare for what he called a ?protracted battle? against the occupation and its helpers.
A source in the Iraqi puppet police told Mafkarat al-Islam that at least two US troops were killed at the beginning of the fighting.
The correspondent in an-Najaf also reported that a number of Shi?i puppet so-called ?government ministers? in the puppet regime and Shi?i religious leaders headed to the home of Muqtada as-Sadr to convince him to back down from his call to arms.
The correspondents of Mafkarat al-Islam in Baghdad, Karbala? and a number of other places in southern Iraq, meanwhile, reported that offices of the Sadr movement in those areas were massing their militia in preparation to go to an-Najaf to join the fighting.
Jaysh al-Mahdi hits US troops in Baghdad . . .
In a dispatch posted at 5:40pm Mecca time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that members of the Jaysh al-Mahdi had attacked a US Bradley armored vehicle with RPG7 rocket-propelled grenades in Baghdad. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in the largely Shi?i section of Baghdad nicknamed ?Madinat ath-Thawrah? said that the attack totally destroyed the Bradley and killed five US troops.
The correspondent reported that four Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen attacked the US vehicle as it was parked near the Shi?i Muhammad as-Sadr Husayniyah place of worship.
US forces seal off an-Najaf, prevent reporters from entering the besieged city.
In a dispatch posted at 6:20pm Mecca time Friday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US occupation troops at the time of writing were surrounding the Shi?i holy city of an-Najaf on all sides, having deployed a large number of military vehicles and giant armored vehicles around the city.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the American occupation troops had prevented journalists coming from Baghdad from getting into an-Najaf, setting a serious precedent of further inhibiting news coverage in the country.
The correspondent noted that keeping journalists out also was an ominous sign, seriously suggesting that the US harbored evil intent with respect to the city of an-Najaf and its residents.
Not only did US forces prevent journalists from getting into an-Najaf, they also broke the reporters? cameras and tape recorders that the reporters had brought with them.
Huge US military columns with air support converge on an-Najaf.
In a dispatch posted at 6:59pm Mecca time, Friday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that massive US military columns were heading towards the city of an-Najaf backed by Apache and Black Hawk helicopters. The columns were approaching the city from four directions. American troops already in the area of the city had earlier sealed off an-Najaf.
Within the city unusual movements were underway as Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen deployed in the streets and lanes of the city in numbers that have not been seen since the battles of an-Najaf at the end of last year.
Al-Kufah.
Muqtada as-Sadr urges followers to prepare for a confrontation with the occupation and its stooges.
In a dispatch posted at 5:59pm Mecca time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while before Shi?i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr had addressed a number of his followers and commanders in the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in the grand mosque in al-Kufah.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that as-Sadr told his followers that if the occupation violates the truce it signed months ago with the Jaysh al-Mahdi, that that would be the signal for the beginning of an attack by the Jaysh al-Mahdi on occupation forces and whoever is siding with them ? in an allusion to the puppet police and puppet so-called ?Iraqi national guard.?
The an-Najaf correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam quoted sources close to the Shi?i religious leader as saying: Sayyid Muqtada as-Sadr directed a message to the members of the new ?government?, which he called a ?shadow government,? saying ?if you go back to fighting we will go back to fighting, and if you violate, we will defend ourselves.? As-Sadr warned his followers that the first spark would set everything ablaze.
Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.
Jaysh al-Mahdi commander in al-Basrah issues warning to British troops, puppet police Friday afternoon.
After fighting broke out between US invaders and the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia loyal to Shi ? religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr in an-Najaf on Friday afternoon, the commander of the Jaysh al-Mahdi in al-Basrah held a press conference in which he warned British invader troops and the Iraqi puppet police against attacking the militia in al-Basrah.
Bomb targets puppet police in al-Basrah.
In a dispatch posted at 12:55pm Mecca time Friday, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded at the al-Muwaffaqiyah intersection in the southern Iraqi city of al-Basrah as a support patrol of the Iraqi puppet police was passing. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in al-Basrah reported a puppet police spokesman as saying that the bomb inflicted no casualties, although it was very powerful, according to witnesses.
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 6 May 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
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Friday, 6 May 2005.
Al-Anbar Province.
Ar-Ramadi.
Resistance attack on US troops in ar-Ramadi leaves four American soldiers dead Friday afternoon.
Fighting erupted between Iraqi Resistance forces and a US patrol in the al-Jarayishi area north of ar-Ramadi at 4pm local time Friday afternoon. Witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam that the Resistance fighters were armed with light machine guns and rocket launchers and that in the course of the battle they killed four US troops and wounded two more. The witnesses saw one of their Humvees ablaze.
After the attack, US forces imposed a curfew and launched a campaign of searches in the area, arresting six local people on the claim that they were involved in the fighting that lasted about half an hour.
Nine US troops killed in Resistance car bombing south of ar-Ramadi Friday morning.
An Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-laden car into a US military column in the ath-Thaylah area south of ar-Ramadi at 11am local time Friday morning. The ar-Ramadi correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported Captian Ziyad ?Abdallah of the puppet army as saying that the blast destroyed one Bradley armored vehicle and disabled one Humvee. Nine US troops were killed in the attack, he said, and four more wounded.
US forces encircled the area and prevented any journalist or even any Iraqi citizen from approaching the area.
The Iraqi Resistance organization known as the Base Qa?idah of the Jihad in the Land of the Two Rivers, led by the Jordanian Islamist Abu Mus?ab az-Zarqawi, issued a communiqué, distributed in a number of local mosques after the attack, announced its responsibility for the operation.
Al-Fallujah.
Afternoon Resistance ambush kills six US troops.
In a dispatch posted at 4:55pm Mecca time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while before Iraqi Resistance forces had ambushed a US foot patrol in the al-Jawlan neighborhood of al-Fallujah. Witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam that the attack left six US troops dead and two more wounded. The corresponent reported a source in the puppet police a saying that masked Resistance fighters armed with medium machine guns and hand grenades attacked the US patrol, killing six US troops and wounding two more.
Afterwards, US forces encircled the area and launched a powerful campaign of raids on several houses and shops.
Hit.
Resistance pounds US ?Ayn al-Asad base, after which US fire wipes out Iraqi family of six.
Iraqi Resistance forces mounted a violent bombardment of the US ?Ayn al-Asad base west of Hit in western Iraq on Friday. In a dispatch posted at 4:57pm Mecca time Friday afternoon, the Hit correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Captain Jawad Kazim of the puppet so-called ?anti-terrorist force? said that Resistance fighters attacked the US base with rockets and mortars, killing six US troops and wounding 22 more.
The puppet captain, who entered the American base with his unit after the attack, added that a barracks in which the US troops sleep took a direct hit, producing a high casualty rate.
US forces used heavy artillery to return fire in the direction of the incoming rounds. The correspondent reported that the Americans fired 15 heavy artillery shells, killing an entire family made up of a husband, wife, and four children.
The Resistance made no mention of any casualties in their ranks as a result of the US fire, but said that the US attack on the civilian house was designed to produce hostility among the local population towards the Resistance. A Resistance communiqué, a copy of which Mafkarat al-Islam obtained, said that the local people, however, ?understand the dirty tricks and plots of the Jews,? an apparent reference to the Zionist practice in south Lebanon and occupied Palestine of deliberately battering civilian areas in an effort to turn local opinion against Resistance fighters.
Baghdad.
Resistance bomb kills three US troops Friday afternoon.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb planted in the middle of a road in central Baghdad?s al-Mu?allimin neighborhood exploded by a passing US foot patrol at 3pm local time Friday. The Americans were on a mission to snoop on mosques in the city during the Friday congregational prayers. US forces with translators surround mosques and monitor sermons and if any seem to encourage worshippers to oppose the occupation of their country, US troops or Iraqi puppets storm in immediately and arrest the preacher from the pulpit.
Witnesses who live in al-Mu?allimin told Mafkarat al-Islam that the bomb killed three US troops and seriously wounded four more. The local residents described the blast as ?extremely powerful,? noting that it shattered glass in nearby houses and left a big crater in the unpaved road.
The correspondent, who was on the scene where the attack occurred, reported that US forces encircled the area and imposed a curfew on the neighborhood. They then evacuated the bodies of their dead and wounded. In its propaganda broadcasts beamed at the local population, the US admitted that the attack took place, saying that a ?home-made bomb? had exploded by a foot patrol causing ?damage? but as usual the Americans concealed the extent of their casualties.
Resistance rocket attack on ?green zone? drives Iraqi puppet ?ministers? into underground shelters.
Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded the headquarters of the US occupation and the puppet ?government? in the Republican Palace area of Baghdad ? known to the invaders as the ?green zone? on Friday. Witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam that six powerful Tariq rockets blasted into the area at about 10am local time Friday morning. The missiles were targeted on the former area of the arch of triumph where the offices of the new puppet ?ministers? are clustered.
A member of the puppet police told Mafkarat al-Islam that the attack left dead and wounded Americans and Iraqi stooges. The puppet police source said, ?we laid out a security plan to protect the members of the puppet ?government? from such attacks, preparing shelters for them under ground to protect them from these attacks. That?s what happened today, in fact. They spent half an hour during and after the bombardment in the shelters.?
US forces encircled the area that was bombarded, not allowing journalists to approach. As a result no information is available as to the exact nature or extent of casualties.
Bodies of 17 puppet troops found in northern Baghdad.
The Iraqi puppet police announced on Friday morning that they had found the bodies of 14 members of the puppet police and puppet so-called ?Iraqi national guard? in the Saba? Abkar area of northern Baghdad. The collaborator personnel had all been shot in the back of the head, execution style. Later reports put the number of dead collaborators at 17.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a puppet police spokesman as saying that the bodies were found by members of the puppet guards and puppet police and that they had been abducted several days ago while doing ?official duties.?
In a communiqué, a copy of which was obtained by Mafkarat al-Islam, the Resistance organization known as the Army of the Partisans of the Sunnah Prophet?s Practice announced their responsibility for the liquidation of the puppet troops, calling the dead, ?apostates from the religion of God who were working to block the path before the Resistance in its battles with the occupation.?
Bodies of 14 prominent Sunni civilians found murdered in northern Baghdad. Board of Muslim ?Ulama? issues statement.
The Board of Muslim ?Ulama? Scholars in Iraq, the highest Sunni religious authority in the country, issued a statement dealing with the circumstances of what took place between the killing of 17 members of the puppet police and the puppet so-called ?Iraqi national guard? whose bodies were found in the Saba? Abkar area north of Baghdad, and the murder of 14 Sunni Iraqi citizens whose bodies were found in the Kasrat Wa?tash area, 10km from the first location.
The Board statement said, ?regarding the news report broadcast by satellite TV stations today concerning the discovery of a mass grave of 14 bodies, their hands tied and their eyes blindfolded, in the Kasrat Wa?tash area northeast of Baghdad, we present below the names of the deceased as supplied to us by their families.
Nayif Mujawwal Salih ad-Dulaymi, Taha ?Abbas Salman ad-Dulaymi, Lu?ay Mahmud Mjawwil ad-Dulaymi, Jabbar Mutlik Salih ad-ulaymi, ?Abdallah Mahmud Salih ad-Dulaymi, ?Abd al-Wahhab Mahmud Salman ad-Dulaymi, ?Umar ?Abd al-Wahhab Mahmud ad-Dulaymi, Muhammad Jamil Salim ad-Dulaymi, Ziyad Mjawwil Sa?id ad-Dulaymi, Qasim Muhammad Sa?id ad-Dulaymi, Sabah Karim Sa?id ad-Dulaymi, Jasim Ni?,mah Salim ad-Dulaymi, ?Ammar Karim Najm ad-Dulaymi.
It is noteworthy that the survivors of the massacre declared that the event took place at dawn on Thursday, 5 May 2005, when puppet so-called ?shock troop police? raided a part of the vegetable market and led away the victims to an unknown location.
The bodies will be taken to their final rest in a funeral procession beginning in front of the Forensic Medical Hospital in Baghdad tomorrow morning 7 May 2005.
Iraqi puppet forces today found 14 bodies in Kasrat Wa?tish, 10km from the place where 17 bodies of members of the puppet ?national guard? were found earlier.
According to a forensic medical report issued by al-Yarmuk General Hospital in Baghdad, 14 dead ranged in age between 29 and 43 years. They were Sunni and disappeared two days ago according to sources in the Islamic Party who spoke to the correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam in Baghdad.
A member of the party told the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent that the dead were prominent Sunni personalities in the area. Most people refused comment on who was likely behind the mass killing, but a few persons who asked not to be identified said that members of the Shi?i chauvinist collaborationist Badr Brigades were responsible for the murders. Those sources also threatened to respond to the crime.
The Resistance organization the Salafi Army of the Partisans of the Sunnah Prophet?s Practice announced its responsibility for the execution of the 17 members of the puppet police and ?national guards? who werer found at 9:15am local time Friday morning in northern Baghdad?s Saba? Abkar area. (See story above.)
Babil Province.
As-Suwayrah.
Car bomb explodes in vegetable market in as-Suwayrah.
An official in the Iraqi puppet police claimed on Friday that an Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-laden car into a vegetable market in the town of as-Suwayrah, south of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 22 people and wounding at least 45 more. The al-Jazeera satellite TV station reported the attack as told to them by the puppet police official, noting that as-Suwayrah is predominantly Shi?i.
Salah ad-Din Province.
Tikrit.
Resistance car bomb kills seven puppet police in Tirkit.
An Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-laden car into a bus that was carrying puppet policemen to their place of work in the city of Tikrit on Friday morning. Reuters reported the puppet police announced that the blast killed seven puppet policemen and wounded another 15.
Diyala Province.
Al-Khalis.
Resistance pounds US base in al-Khalis early Friday.
Iraqi Resistance forces fired more than 10 mortar rounds into the US base in the area of al-Khalis, west of Ba ?qubah at 8am Friday morning local time. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in the city reported witnesses a saying that the bombardment ignited fires in two different places inside the base. Sirens wailed inside the American-occupied facility minutes after the attack began. US helicopters prowled the skies above the facility in an unusual way. Seven Apache helicopters took off above the area around the base and landed inside, apparently to evacuate dead and wounded.
Puppet police and ?national guards? refused to disclose the extent of casualties as a result of the attack.
For its part, the Base Qa?idah of the Jihad in the Land of the Two Rivers issued a communiqué, a copy of which was obtained by Mafkarat al-Islam, announced its responsibility for the attack, saying that the bombardment inflicted many dead and wounded in the ranks of the enemy.
Ninwa Province.
Mosul.
Four US troops killed in early morning bombing in Mosul.
A high explosive Iraqi Resistance roadside bomb blew up in the al-Islah az-Zira?i neighborhood west of Mosul at 7am Friday morning. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported Captain Ahmad Lami of the Mosul puppet police as saying that the blast went off as a US column was passing by on its way to the main American base to the north of the city. The explosion destroyed one Humvee and killed four US troops and wounded three more, two of them ?may as well be dead,? the source said.
An-Najaf Province.
An-Najaf.
Fighting breaks out in an-Najaf between US forces, Sadr militia. Muqtada as-Sadr issues general call to arms. Jaysh al-Mahdi militia mobilize throughout southern Iraq.
Combat broke out between members of the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia loyal to Shi?i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr and US occupation troops and their puppet police and puppet ?national guard? stooges in the southern Iraqi city of an-Najaf on Friday. The an-Najaf correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported in a dispatch posted at 5:05pm Mecca time Friday afternoon that the fighting erupted because US occupation troops backed by puppet troops and police surrounded the tomb and mosque of the Imam ?Ali ibn Abi Talib during Friday congregational prayer services. The Americans and their stooges blocked the worshippers inside the mosque from leaving after the prayers to prevent them from joining a rally called by the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia to demand the release of Jaysh al-Mahdi prisoners.
When the Jaysh al-Mahdi insisted on going ahead with their protest despite the armed presence of the American invader troops, Iraqi puppet forces opened fire on the protesters, killing two Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen.
Two hours later US occupation forces stormed the ancient mosque in an-Najaf and the area known as the ?home? of the Imam ?Ali ibn Abi Talib where his tomb is located. This attack prompted Muqtada as-Sadr, through one of his aids, to issue a general call to arms of the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia and to prepare for what he called a ?protracted battle? against the occupation and its helpers.
A source in the Iraqi puppet police told Mafkarat al-Islam that at least two US troops were killed at the beginning of the fighting.
The correspondent in an-Najaf also reported that a number of Shi?i puppet so-called ?government ministers? in the puppet regime and Shi?i religious leaders headed to the home of Muqtada as-Sadr to convince him to back down from his call to arms.
The correspondents of Mafkarat al-Islam in Baghdad, Karbala? and a number of other places in southern Iraq, meanwhile, reported that offices of the Sadr movement in those areas were massing their militia in preparation to go to an-Najaf to join the fighting.
Jaysh al-Mahdi hits US troops in Baghdad . . .
In a dispatch posted at 5:40pm Mecca time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that members of the Jaysh al-Mahdi had attacked a US Bradley armored vehicle with RPG7 rocket-propelled grenades in Baghdad. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in the largely Shi?i section of Baghdad nicknamed ?Madinat ath-Thawrah? said that the attack totally destroyed the Bradley and killed five US troops.
The correspondent reported that four Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen attacked the US vehicle as it was parked near the Shi?i Muhammad as-Sadr Husayniyah place of worship.
US forces seal off an-Najaf, prevent reporters from entering the besieged city.
In a dispatch posted at 6:20pm Mecca time Friday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US occupation troops at the time of writing were surrounding the Shi?i holy city of an-Najaf on all sides, having deployed a large number of military vehicles and giant armored vehicles around the city.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the American occupation troops had prevented journalists coming from Baghdad from getting into an-Najaf, setting a serious precedent of further inhibiting news coverage in the country.
The correspondent noted that keeping journalists out also was an ominous sign, seriously suggesting that the US harbored evil intent with respect to the city of an-Najaf and its residents.
Not only did US forces prevent journalists from getting into an-Najaf, they also broke the reporters? cameras and tape recorders that the reporters had brought with them.
Huge US military columns with air support converge on an-Najaf.
In a dispatch posted at 6:59pm Mecca time, Friday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that massive US military columns were heading towards the city of an-Najaf backed by Apache and Black Hawk helicopters. The columns were approaching the city from four directions. American troops already in the area of the city had earlier sealed off an-Najaf.
Within the city unusual movements were underway as Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen deployed in the streets and lanes of the city in numbers that have not been seen since the battles of an-Najaf at the end of last year.
Al-Kufah.
Muqtada as-Sadr urges followers to prepare for a confrontation with the occupation and its stooges.
In a dispatch posted at 5:59pm Mecca time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while before Shi?i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr had addressed a number of his followers and commanders in the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in the grand mosque in al-Kufah.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that as-Sadr told his followers that if the occupation violates the truce it signed months ago with the Jaysh al-Mahdi, that that would be the signal for the beginning of an attack by the Jaysh al-Mahdi on occupation forces and whoever is siding with them ? in an allusion to the puppet police and puppet so-called ?Iraqi national guard.?
The an-Najaf correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam quoted sources close to the Shi?i religious leader as saying: Sayyid Muqtada as-Sadr directed a message to the members of the new ?government?, which he called a ?shadow government,? saying ?if you go back to fighting we will go back to fighting, and if you violate, we will defend ourselves.? As-Sadr warned his followers that the first spark would set everything ablaze.
Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.
Jaysh al-Mahdi commander in al-Basrah issues warning to British troops, puppet police Friday afternoon.
After fighting broke out between US invaders and the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia loyal to Shi ? religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr in an-Najaf on Friday afternoon, the commander of the Jaysh al-Mahdi in al-Basrah held a press conference in which he warned British invader troops and the Iraqi puppet police against attacking the militia in al-Basrah.
Bomb targets puppet police in al-Basrah.
In a dispatch posted at 12:55pm Mecca time Friday, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded at the al-Muwaffaqiyah intersection in the southern Iraqi city of al-Basrah as a support patrol of the Iraqi puppet police was passing. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in al-Basrah reported a puppet police spokesman as saying that the bomb inflicted no casualties, although it was very powerful, according to witnesses.
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