Plenty of trouble afoot in Iraq

[BBond]

You haven't read about the memos, have you.

Even a child knows what a lie is.

 

[raildogg]

So you want us to pull out and admit defeat at the hands of Zarqawi and OBL? I guess raising the white flag is what you guys really want. I'm sorry guys, we are Americans, not France. We don't raise the white flag, we kill our enemies.

Until the Iraqis can secure themselves, we will have to stay. I want the troops home as well, but the job isn't done yet. And as long as Bush is in office, we will never surrender to the Islamo fascists. We will kill them instead, kill them all or capture them. Maybe the next president will run and hide from them.

Instead of talking about the Iraq war, lets talk about the current state of Iraq. Why are you people living in the past? The war for Iraq is over, Saddam is removed. However, the war with Islamic terrorists in Iraq has just begun, and it will last for a while. You people aren't helping with your celebration for Zarqawi and his attacks.

I was not for the Iraq war, but now that we are there, I want the job to be finished.

Be honest, do you want the US to surrender to al-qaeda and Zarqawi?

 

[BBond]

You're ridiculous.

Bush already admitted defeat at the hands of OBL.

"Dead or alive" but Bush is off hunting WMD in Iraq while OBL plans his next attack.

WTFU. Stop drinking the Kool Aid.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: conjur
If Iraq wasn't a lie, then where are the WMDs? Where's the sarin? Where's the ricin? Where are the mobile weapons labs? Where are the nuclear warheads? Where's the anthrax?

Again, your definition of "lie" is not on par with reality. You think it was a lie, but intelligence experts from around the globe were the basis for Bush mentioning the intelligence. But hey, don't let those FACTS get in the way of your little conspiracy theory.

CsG

I'm still waiting on links to those intelligence experts from around the world. Someone in another thread started reeling off names of European countries whose intelligence agencies were producing information on WMDs.

Ain't seen anything on that and I'm sure you won't either.

But, then again, you're someone who dismisses The Stovepipe, Selective Intelligence, and The New Pentagon Papers so why am I not surprised you live in denial?

 

[BBond]

Hahaha.

Bush is in the Euphrates and "csg" is in da' Nile.

 

[Gaard]

?We do know that there have been shipments going into Iraq of aluminum tubes that are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs, centrifuge programs.?

?We know where they are. They?re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west,
south, and north somewhat.?

"Saddam Hussein is a threat because he is dealing with Al Qaida."

?We do know, with absolute certainty, that he is using his procurement
system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to
build a nuclear weapon.?

?We said they had a nuclear program. That was never any debate.?

?We do know that [Saddam Hussein] is actively pursuing a nuclear
weapon.?

 

[BBond]

Originally posted by: Gaard
?We do know that there have been shipments going into Iraq of aluminum tubes that are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs, centrifuge programs.?

?We know where they are. They?re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west,
south, and north somewhat.?

"Saddam Hussein is a threat because he is dealing with Al Qaida."

?We do know, with absolute certainty, that he is using his procurement
system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to
build a nuclear weapon.?

?We said they had a nuclear program. That was never any debate.?

?We do know that [Saddam Hussein] is actively pursuing a nuclear
weapon.?

Why!!! Those are all lies!!!

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: conjur
If Iraq wasn't a lie, then where are the WMDs? Where's the sarin? Where's the ricin? Where are the mobile weapons labs? Where are the nuclear warheads? Where's the anthrax?

Again, your definition of "lie" is not on par with reality. You think it was a lie, but intelligence experts from around the globe were the basis for Bush mentioning the intelligence. But hey, don't let those FACTS get in the way of your little conspiracy theory.

CsG

I'm still waiting on links to those intelligence experts from around the world. Someone in another thread started reeling off names of European countries whose intelligence agencies were producing information on WMDs.

Ain't seen anything on that and I'm sure you won't either.

But, then again, you're someone who dismisses The Stovepipe, Selective Intelligence, and The New Pentagon Papers so why am I not surprised you live in denial?

:roll: Boy you have a short memory(and quite selective).


The german's and Russians also thought there were WMDs. Hell Chirac even seemed to think they did too.

Also please not that the UN considered Iraq in material breach of wmd related resolutions - PLUS the UNSC voted unanimously on this issue.

But hey, continue to think it was just a big conspiracy orchestrated by Bush if you wish. He orchestrated the intelligence and the many years of resolutions regarding wmds and Iraq. Hell, he even conned a bunch of democrats back in the 90's to proclaim Saddam had WMDs.

*shrug* believe whatever your tinfoil hat recieves...we've been over and over this issue but reality still hasn't seemed to sink in for you - you just seem to get more and more radical with your rhetoric. The intelligence was wrong regarding Iraq but saying Bush lied is more than a bit intellectually dishonest.

CsG

 

[Summitdrinker]

just keep listening to Bush jr, every thing is going good:disgust:

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: conjur
If Iraq wasn't a lie, then where are the WMDs? Where's the sarin? Where's the ricin? Where are the mobile weapons labs? Where are the nuclear warheads? Where's the anthrax?

Again, your definition of "lie" is not on par with reality. You think it was a lie, but intelligence experts from around the globe were the basis for Bush mentioning the intelligence. But hey, don't let those FACTS get in the way of your little conspiracy theory.

CsG

I'm still waiting on links to those intelligence experts from around the world. Someone in another thread started reeling off names of European countries whose intelligence agencies were producing information on WMDs.

Ain't seen anything on that and I'm sure you won't either.

But, then again, you're someone who dismisses The Stovepipe, Selective Intelligence, and The New Pentagon Papers so why am I not surprised you live in denial?

:roll: Boy you have a short memory(and quite selective).


The german's and Russians also thought there were WMDs. Hell Chirac even seemed to think they did too.

Also please not that the UN considered Iraq in material breach of wmd related resolutions - PLUS the UNSC voted unanimously on this issue.

But hey, continue to think it was just a big conspiracy orchestrated by Bush if you wish. He orchestrated the intelligence and the many years of resolutions regarding wmds and Iraq. Hell, he even conned a bunch of democrats back in the 90's to proclaim Saddam had WMDs.

*shrug* believe whatever your tinfoil hat recieves...we've been over and over this issue but reality still hasn't seemed to sink in for you - you just seem to get more and more radical with your rhetoric. The intelligence was wrong regarding Iraq but saying Bush lied is more than a bit intellectually dishonest.

CsG

Still waiting on those links.

And, btw, the only way Saddam was in breach of UN resolutions is he didn't have the paperwork to prove the WMDs and the programs were all destroyed/dismantled. But, the UN inspection process was finding that out. And, this administration couldn't have the truth get out before they got in now, could they?

Nope.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: conjur
If Iraq wasn't a lie, then where are the WMDs? Where's the sarin? Where's the ricin? Where are the mobile weapons labs? Where are the nuclear warheads? Where's the anthrax?

Again, your definition of "lie" is not on par with reality. You think it was a lie, but intelligence experts from around the globe were the basis for Bush mentioning the intelligence. But hey, don't let those FACTS get in the way of your little conspiracy theory.

CsG

I'm still waiting on links to those intelligence experts from around the world. Someone in another thread started reeling off names of European countries whose intelligence agencies were producing information on WMDs.

Ain't seen anything on that and I'm sure you won't either.

But, then again, you're someone who dismisses The Stovepipe, Selective Intelligence, and The New Pentagon Papers so why am I not surprised you live in denial?

:roll: Boy you have a short memory(and quite selective).


The german's and Russians also thought there were WMDs. Hell Chirac even seemed to think they did too.

Also please not that the UN considered Iraq in material breach of wmd related resolutions - PLUS the UNSC voted unanimously on this issue.

But hey, continue to think it was just a big conspiracy orchestrated by Bush if you wish. He orchestrated the intelligence and the many years of resolutions regarding wmds and Iraq. Hell, he even conned a bunch of democrats back in the 90's to proclaim Saddam had WMDs.

*shrug* believe whatever your tinfoil hat recieves...we've been over and over this issue but reality still hasn't seemed to sink in for you - you just seem to get more and more radical with your rhetoric. The intelligence was wrong regarding Iraq but saying Bush lied is more than a bit intellectually dishonest.

CsG

Still waiting on those links.

And, btw, the only way Saddam was in breach of UN resolutions is he didn't have the paperwork to prove the WMDs and the programs were all destroyed/dismantled. But, the UN inspection process was finding that out. And, this administration couldn't have the truth get out before they got in now, could they?

Nope.

Again, links won't do you any good(nor did I promise any) because you are already in denial of reality and history. What I have stated is true. They thought he had them and we thought he had them -but just because we couldn't find them after we got there does not mean that "Bush lied". Even my 3 year old knows what a lie is....and you are how old conjur and you still don't know what a lie is? sheesh...

CsG

 

[conjur]

Still waiting on those links. Otherwise, it's more of your bloviating.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: conjur
Still waiting on those links. Otherwise, it's more of your bloviating.

You aren't getting links as I never promised them. However it is clear that you do not understand what a lie is nor do you remember what other Nations and the intelligence thought before the war.

Meh, stay delusional if you wish...

CsG

 

[conjur]

I've asked other people for links but they never appear. Hmm...wonder why?


In the meantime, we've lost 21 soldiers in less than a week in Iraq because of this mass deception.

 

[BBond]

Germany and France thought there were WMDs in Iraq???

The chimp damn near accomplished what the Soviets couldn't -- the breakup of NATO -- and you're going to tell us Germany and probably Chirac as well as Russia -- ALL OF WHOM REFUSED TO ACCOMPANY BUSH ON HIS EXCELLENT IRAQI ADVENTURE -- thought Iraq had WMD and considered it a grave enough threat to do what?

Refuse to invade Iraq?

Are you doing a parody, "csg"? Is this your version of the Onion? Because honestly, you can't be serious.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: BBond
Germany and France thought there were WMDs in Iraq???

The chimp damn near accomplished what the Soviets couldn't -- the breakup of NATO -- and you're going to tell us Germany and probably Chirac as well as Russia -- ALL OF WHOM REFUSED TO ACCOMPANY BUSH ON HIS EXCELLENT IRAQI ADVENTURE -- thought Iraq had WMD and considered it a grave enough threat to do what?

Refuse to invade Iraq?

Are you doing a parody, "csg"? Is this your version of the Onion? Because honestly, you can't be serious.

I just had to quote this because it shows just how completely delusional and/or forgetful you are. You obviously were not paying attention before the war otherwise you'd know that they too though Saddam possessed wmds. They didn't think it was worth removing him however - they thought more of the same would work to get Saddam to fully comply. Ofcourse reality and common sense tells us that Saddam would never have fully complied but that's a different issue.

Conjur - google is your friend. you can sift through the garbage sites whining about "lies" if you wish but I will not take the time just so you can remember what the intelligence agencies from around the globe thought.

CsG

 

[BBond]

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: BBond
Germany and France thought there were WMDs in Iraq???

The chimp damn near accomplished what the Soviets couldn't -- the breakup of NATO -- and you're going to tell us Germany and probably Chirac as well as Russia -- ALL OF WHOM REFUSED TO ACCOMPANY BUSH ON HIS EXCELLENT IRAQI ADVENTURE -- thought Iraq had WMD and considered it a grave enough threat to do what?

Refuse to invade Iraq?

Are you doing a parody, "csg"? Is this your version of the Onion? Because honestly, you can't be serious.

I just had to quote this because it shows just how completely delusional and/or forgetful you are. You obviously were not paying attention before the war otherwise you'd know that they too though Saddam possessed wmds. They didn't think it was worth removing him however - they thought more of the same would work to get Saddam to fully comply. Ofcourse reality and common sense tells us that Saddam would never have fully complied but that's a different issue.

Conjur - google is your friend. you can sift through the garbage sites whining about "lies" if you wish but I will not take the time just so you can remember what the intelligence agencies from around the globe thought.

CsG

You complete blithering delusional maniac. THERE WERE NO WMDS IN IRAQ!

 

[BBond]

But meanwhile:

21 killed in Iraq bomb attacks

Associated Press in Baghdad
Friday May 13, 2005
The Guardian

At least 21 Iraqis were killed and more than 70 wounded yesterday in another wave of attacks. Four car bombs exploded in Baghdad, with the worst killing 17 people in the east of the city.

The violence came despite a US offensive aimed at followers of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraq's most wanted terrorist, near the Syrian border. Two Marines were killed and 14 wounded when a bomb hit their transport vehicle during the offensive on Wednesday.

The attacks brought to more than 400 the number of people killed in the past two weeks.

Meanwhile, the UN's international narcotics board said yesterday that drug traffickers were starting to exploit the chaos in Iraq to use the country as a transit from central Asia to Jordan and on to Europe.

 

[conjur]

Iraqis throw rocks at troops
Public angry over increase in attacks
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...le?AID=/20050513/NEWS06/505130512/1012


Wonder if the rocks were shaped like flowers?

 

[conjur]

Iraq's ministries struggle to serve
Amid a wave of attacks in Baghdad, the health ministry, like others, grapples with shortages and corruption.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0513/p06s01-woiq.html

BAGHDAD ? Moments after another car bomb rocks the Iraqi capital, a badly wounded policeman is wheeled into the emergency ward of Baghdad's Yarmouk Hospital.

The officer lives. But doctors who are working to save his life and the lives of many others are frustrated that they can provide only limited services.

Two years since the US started spending hundreds of millions on Iraqi healthcare, the country's health ministry is plagued by shortages and corruption that marked Saddam Hussein's rule, say health professionals and officials.

The results are broad reaching - and are affecting Iraqi lives for the worse, they say. With six leadership changes in two years, and steady insecurity and corruption, the ministry is unable to distribute medicines or repair facilities overwhelmed by decades of neglect.

"From day to day, the situation is getting worse, but it should be getting better," says Luay Farhan, head of the emergency ward at Yarmouk, which receives scores of cases from attacks every day. "We hear every [promise], but we do not see anything. There is stealing from this ministry, starting with the highest people."

Officials say that the problems of the health ministry are emblematic of those that dog many Iraqi ministries. The approval of new Iraqi cabinet two weeks ago sparked a wave of attacks that have left more than 400 dead. Thursday, militants exploded car bombs in Baghdad, killing at least 21 and wounding more than 70.

A further burden on the new health minister, Abdel Mutalib Mohammad, and the other newly appointed heads of the Iraqi bureaucracy, is endemic corruption, which some estimate to be as high as 70 percent.

"That's a very high figure," says Shakir al-Ainachy, chief of operations for the health ministry. "You can see that services are not improving well ... there is definitely a negative impact."

That impact is being felt across the board, according to a study of living conditions in Iraq in 2004, released Thursday by the Ministry of Planning and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The survey of 21,668 households found that many vital statistics have hardly changed since the Hussein era. Almost a quarter of children under five are chronically malnourished; pediatricians say that infant mortality remains among the highest, at 40 per 1,000 live births.

The UN data indicates that, in the aftermath of the 2003 war to spring 2004, some 24,000 Iraqis "with a 95 percent confidence interval from 18,000 to 29,000 deaths"died a war-related death.

"While many aspects of living conditions in Iraq in 2004 are dismal, most reflect the courage, endurance and determination of the Iraqi people to overcome the hurdles they are facing," said Staffan de Mistura, the UNDP representative in Iraq.

As casualties from two weeks of constant attacks roll into freshly painted but underfunded facilities, the impact of two years of uneven rebuilding is felt on the ward level. At Yarmouk, the 1,000-bed hospital that carries the biggest caseload in Baghdad, money has run out.

"The health ministry does not have money to spend until July ... a lot of things have stopped; we have been hurt by this," says Tala al-Awqati, a pediatrician in charge of the special-care baby unit. "People are not getting what they need from the health services. Money for disinfectant is not there anymore; sometimes we must buy it ourselves."

Part of the problem has been constant leadership change - with first American and then Iraqi officials - coming in "with their own vision, and trying to change everything," says Dr. Awqati. "Before, despite the dictatorship, there was a system, but now there is chaos. You can't bring a whole country crumbling down, and then tell people to work."

The special baby-care unit has been fortunate. It was refurbished a year ago by the International Committee of the Red Cross, and has received six new incubators. Still, insecurity aggravates every problem. Awqati's 12-year-old son stays with her at the hospital during exam periods - no other option is safe. Infant mortality rates remain high, partly because "women can't reach the hospital at night," she says.

Doctors and their families have also been targeted, and often kidnapped for ransom. The son of one Yarmouk doctor is currently being held. Iraqi newspapers report that 130 doctors have been assassinated over the past two years. To protect themselves, doctors and clerics last week were given the right to carry weapons from the Ministry of Interior.

"America can control this situation, because America is the first country in the world - all Iraqis thought the US would solve every problem in Iraq, but it's just promises," says Dari al-Adwan, Yarmouk's deputy director. After Baghdad fell, an early stop of the first US administrator of Iraq, Gen. Jay Garner, was at Yarmouk.

"He promised us he would rehabilitate this hospital, and turn it into an Iraqi model for the Middle East," says Dr. al-Adwan, a staff doctor at the time. "But it was just words."

Nearly all health facilities have had makeovers - overdue paint jobs and clean-ups. Salaries have also risen from $20 per month before the war to $300 or even higher.

Officials point out that in 2002, Hussein budgeted $16 million for health, while last year the budget was $950 million. Still, that amount was less than half what the health minister wanted in his $2 billion request.

And lack of cash has meant that crucial infrastructure projects - such as replacing old water pipes and sewage systems at Yarmouk - go undone. New medical equipment is limited to "very simple things" like X-ray machines, says Dr. Adwan.

But the real frustration, health professionals say, is that past problems created by wars and a decade of sanctions are not being resolved.

"Salaries take half the ministry budget, and the rest is not enough to run facilities, so every day you see people go to hospitals and they don't get their medicines," says an Iraqi doctor working for a Western relief agency, who asked not to be named. He points to a case at Qaim, on the border with Syria, where medical deliveries are made every three months instead of every one, and distribution is "deficient and inefficient."

About a year ago, arrests were made after more than $10 million in medicine was stolen.

Addressing drug shortages, the new inspector-general of the health ministry was quoted as saying that "a lot of money is leaking out," and called for all warehouse workers to be fired.

"It's not better than Saddam's era," says the doctor. "Despite all this money in to the system, people see no change [in services]. A lot of people are dying, for lack of simple drugs."

Well, I think we know where a lot of that $9.1 billion went to. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss (just with deeper pockets to feed the corruption.)

 

[conjur]

New Iraqi gov't extends state of emergency for 30 days
http://www.bakutoday.net/afps/english/shared/int/050513150633.i99qb4ug.html

So much for that broken back.

 

[BBond]

How many months has this "state of emergency" existed? And why doesn't Bush ever mention it on the exceedingly rare occassions a reporter (I refuse to call them journalists) finally quizzes the supreme leader on his manifestation of deception?

IIRC, the "state of emergency" was put in place by Allawi around 60 days prior to the "election". Including this latest of many "extensions" that would be EIGHT MONTHS OF IRAQ IN A STATE OF EMERGENCY ALONG WITH THE U.S. MILITARY CONSIDERING ALL OF IRAQ A WAR ZONE.

Why doesn't Bush mention ANY of those extremely salient points once an election cycle when one of these neutered note takers finally asks? And why don't they ever FOLLOW UP WHEN HE IGNORES THE FACTS AND CONTINUES TO SPOUT HIS LIES?

 

[conjur]

Hurt
http://www.bushflash.com/y2.html

 

[BBond]

Originally posted by: conjur
Hurt
http://www.bushflash.com/y2.html

What a disgrace.

And every day Bush's lies rule Iraq it just gets worse.

Losing hearts and minds

By Derrick Z. Jackson | May 13, 2005

WHEN THE Abu Ghraib prison scandal exploded a year ago, President Bush said it was ''an insult to the Iraqi people and an affront to the most basic standards of morality and decency." He said, ''These humiliating acts do not reflect our character." He also said, ''American soldiers and civilians on the ground have come to know and respect the citizens of Iraq."

Less than a week before the scandal became worldwide news, Secretary of State Colin Powell said that all was relatively well between Iraqi civilians and American occupiers.

''I don't think that we have lost their hearts and minds," Powell said. ''I think most of the Iraqi people know what we are doing and want to be part of that. . . . What we don't have are the hearts and minds of the thugs, the former regime elements, and the terrorists who have come to make trouble. . . . The Iraqi people, whose hearts and minds we have, will see that these thugs and criminals are attacking the government of the Iraqi people."

On Wednesday, National Public Radio broadcast a piece that made it appallingly clear that we have not cleaned up our character in Iraq. Humiliation remains a primary weapon. For all the soldiers who have a heart, a lot also appear to have lost their minds.

NPR reporter Philip Reeves followed American soldiers around Mosul. At one point, the soldiers decided to take over a civilian house for two hours as a surveillance post. A lieutenant said to the surprised family of the house, ''Listen to me. Let me make this really clear for you. We need to be in your house for two hours. Everybody in this house will stay here."

When the family continue to appear to be ''baffled and unhappy," another soldier stepped in and said (with obscenities bleeped out by NPR):

''Look, check this out. You tell them this. You're not [bleep] leaving. Nobody's [bleep] leaving this house. You're not using the phone. Anybody comes, they're going to [bleep] stay here. OK? You give me a [bleep] hard time, I'll turn you [bleep] guys into the commandos, and they'll [bleep] you up."

In the background, one soldier said, ''Hey don't translate that." Another soldier added, ''Yeah, don't say that." The soldier with the foul mouth said, ''That's what I tell them all the time." Again, a soldier said, ''You shouldn't say that."

Bush has boasted how ''Iraqis have laid the foundations of a free society, with hundreds of independent newspapers." The reality was a bit more totalitarian. The featured soldiers handed out a newspaper full of favorable news about the US-installed government. When they saw that two young Iraqis had ripped up the newspaper, a soldier took one aside and asked, ''Why are you ripping up the paper? Why are you ripping up the paper?"

A staff sergeant told NPR, ''When a guy tears up a paper in my face, it looks like he's disrespecting everything we're trying to do. Maybe he knows somebody. Or maybe he is somebody. But it's just blatant for him to tear it up in my face and then lie about it. It's blatant. He blatantly disrespected everything that we're trying to accomplish."

Finally a supervising soldier, playing the benevolent occupier, told the young Iraqi, ''If you tore up the paper, that's fine. If you didn't tear up the paper, that's fine. Don't tear up the papers in the future, OK?"

This is not to tear up the soldiers. They are but pawns of President Bush, who declared major combat operations over under the banner of ''Mission Accomplished" two years ago. If all that soldiers can now accomplish is curse at baffled Iraqi families and berate people in the streets for exercising what we consider the right of free speech to tear up a newspaper, then there is no mission.

In a sign of their morass, the soldiers described themselves in lowly terms far removed from the pre-invasion build-up, when Vice President Dick Cheney said ''we will be greeted as liberators." The supervising soldier in Mosul told NPR as his armored vehicle cruised the streets, ''If you look on the walls here, you can see all this graffiti. We've really taken to the streets here kind of like a gang unit would in, say, LA. It's a giant gang war, and we've got the biggest gang, so every time we see graffiti, we mark it out, we tag it with 'US Forces,' and we say, 'Hey look, this is our block.' "

Funny, when Bush told us we were liberating the Iraqi people, he said nothing about employing the Crips and Bloods.

 

[Votingisanillusion]

Let us keep on listening to the Resistance's version of what is going on. Why? The Pentagon lied about losses during the fascist invasion of Vietnam. The real number of US losses was only revealed after the war.

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=99999&l=i&size=1&hd=0

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 13 May 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org

Friday, 13 May 2005.


Al-Anbar Province.

Al-Qa?im.

Resistance fighters morale high despite US leafleting tactics.

In a dispatch posted at 9:34am Mecca time Friday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US aircraft dropped leaflets over the area of al-Karabilah and ar-Rummanah north of al-Qa?im, calling on Resistance fighters to surrender. The attempt at reducing the morale of the fighters was a duplicate of American tactics used in al-Fallujah.

Mafkarat al-Islam reported witnesses as saying that the American leaflets claimed that the Resistance commanders Abu ?Abd ar-Rahman al-?Iraqi, Abu Jalal, and Abu Khattab had been killed in the battle and that Abu Mus?ab az-Zarqawi had been seriously wounded.

The correspondent described the morale of the Resistance fighters as ?very high,? despite such American tactics. The leaflets, in fact, only increased their determination and ferocity in fighting, he reported. The fighters took the leaflets as an expression of the Americans? desperation, particularly after four Iraqi Resistance organizations issued statements denying the American leaflets? claims.

US sends 300 more Marines into al-Qa?im area as fighting continues.

In a dispatch posted at 11:30am Mecca time Friday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the US ?joint? command had ordered 300 US Marines into the al-Qa?im area to reinforce faltering American forces battling the Resistance in the area.

Resistance announces: martyrdom fighter infiltrates US base near al-Karabilah, kills 12 US troops midday Friday.

The Iraqi Resistance in the city of al-Qa?im on the Syrian border issued a communiqué on Friday that was distributed in the areas around the city confirming that a martyrdom fighter and member of one of the Resistance organizations infiltrated into a US military barracks in the environs of the village of al-Karabilah, east of al-Qa?im at 12 noon local time Friday.

The communiqué, a copy of which was obtained by the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam, reported that the martyrdom fighter killed four US troops before blowing himself up inside an American troop transporter which had an eight-man crew.

Resistance rockets pound US positions near al-Qa?im Friday afternoon.

Iraqi Resistance forces mounted a large-scale bombardment of US barracks concentrated in the western and northern areas of al-Qa?im on the border with Syria. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in al-Qa?im reported witnesses living in the areas near the village of al-Karabilah as saying that the Resistance used medium-range rockets of the Grad and Katyusha type in a fierce bombardment of the US barracks and troop concentrations surrounding and besieging the villages of al-Karabilah and ar-Rummanah.

The witnesses reported that the rocket attack took place at 5pm local time Friday afternoon and that it sent plumes of thick smoke rising into the sky over the American positions.


Rawah.

Resistance ambush of American convoy leaves seven US troops dead Friday afternoon.

In a dispatch posted at 2:40pm Mecca time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked a column of US military trucks in the city of Rawah, west of Baghdad as they were transporting supplies and equipment to US forces encircling the city of al-Qa?im on the border with Syria.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in Rawah reported witnesses as saying that the Resistance fighters, armed with light and medium weapons such as RPG7 rocket-propelled grenades and pipe rockets, attacked a column of 12 US military trucks and Humvees. Witnesses reported that the Resistance attackers destroyed four US trucks and killed seven American troops and wounded three more.


Ar-Ramadi.

Resistance bomb kills three US troops early Friday.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US column in ar-Ramadi, west of Baghdad at 8am local time Friday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported. Local residents of the area of 20 Street told the correspondent that the bomb was planted on that street in the middle of the city and that it blew up as a patrol of four US Humvees was passing. The blast destroyed one Humvee and killed three US troops and wounded two more.

US forces raid al-Anbar University campus for third time this week.

Fir the third time this week US troops on Thursday stormed onto the campus of al-Anbar University in ar-Ramadi, an institution consisting of 11 colleges.

A statement issued by the Board of Muslim ?Ulama? Scholars, the highest Sunni religious authority in occupied Iraq, announced that the US forces raided the university and searched the colleges of engineering and literature on the excuse that they were looking for ?insurgents? among the students.

The Board statement said that the American troops led out all the people who were in the colleges, beating some of them and insulting the rest. They were all led away for interrogation.

The Board statement said that the US forces, as they always do, ransacked the area. They blew up doors and tore up papers in the colleges. They even used their vehicles to uproot trees on the campus.

Iraqi Resistance bombards US camp west of ar-Ramadi Friday afternoon.

Iraqi Resistance forces fired six heavy 120mm mortar rounds into the US base west of ar-Ramadi at 5pm local time Friday afternoon. The correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported local residents who witnessed the attack as saying that the explosions of the six mortar shells were followed by numerous secondary explosions inside the camp as American munitions began going off.


Al-Fallujah.

Four US troops killed in afternoon bombing near al-Fallujah Friday.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol in the al-?Amiriyah area west of al-Fallujah at 5pm Friday afternoon local time. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported local owners of agricultural fields as saying that the bomb was planted in the middle of an unpaved road and that it blew up when the US column was passing. The blast totally destroyed one vehicle and killed four US troops.


Baghdad.

Resistance car bomb kills five US troops in ad-Durah Friday afternoon.

An Iraqi Resistance car bomb blew up by a column of US armored vehicles and Humvees on the highway in the area of the southern Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah at 4pm local time Friday afternoon.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the puppet so-called ?rapid deployment force? as saying that an explosives-laden car was parked by the side of the highway in ad-Durah and that it went off when the American column passed by, destroying one Humvee and disabling an armored vehicle. Five US troops were killed and another four were wounded. The source said that Resistance detonated the car by remote-control.

Resistance bomb in Abu Ghurayb leaves two US troops dead.

In a dispatch posted at 4:10pm Mecca time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a passing US armored column in the Khan Darri area west of Abu Ghurayb on Friday. Witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam that the blast went off as a column of four US armored vehicles was passing along an unpaved dirt road in the area. The explosion set one armored vehicle ablaze and killed two US troops and wounded three more.

Resistance bomb blasts US Humvee in Baghdad late Friday morning.

In a dispatch posted at 11:20am Mecca time Friday morning Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military column on the main road leading to Baghdad on Friday.

The American Associated Press TV showed pictures of the scene of the attack showing the smoldering wreck of a Humvee and American soldiers closing the roads leading to the area. ?Ali Husayn al-Hamdani, an officer in the Iraqi puppet police said that the blast was the result of a bomb planted by the side of the road.

Repressive ?emergency regulations? renewed by puppet ?prime minister? al-Ja?fari.

The puppet ?prime minister? of Iraq, Ibrahim al-Ja?fari, announced Friday that ?emergency regulations? that give the puppet regime extraordinary powers to harass the citizens have been extended for another 30 days, according to a report from Reuters.

The former puppet ?prime minister? Iyyad ?Allawi had imposed the ?emergency regulations? for the first time on 7 November 2004 prior to a massive US offensive on the city of al-Fallujah.

The ?emergency regulations? allow the puppet regime to impose curfews and close borders, airports and to detain what it calls ?suspects? without following normal legal procedures. Reuters reported that the extension of the ?emergency regulations? did not cover the area of northern Iraq dominated by the Kurdish chauvinist parties that harbor separatist aims.


Babil Province.

Al-Yusufiyah.

Resistance car bomber kills five US troops in al-Yusufiyah late Friday morning.

An Iraq Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-laden vehicle into a US armored column on the main road in al-Yusufiyah, south of Baghdad at 11am Friday morning local time.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported an officer in the local puppet police, who asked not to be identified, as saying that a Resistance martyrdom fighter burst into the column in an explosives-laden Opel car and blew himself up, destroying one American armored vehicle and killing five US troops and wounding another three.


Al-Latifiyah.

Resistance bomb kills three US troops on patrol in al-Latifiyah Friday

In a dispatch posted at 5:40pm Mecca time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded as a patrol of six US Humvees was passing through al-Latifiyah, 25km south of Baghdad. Local residents told the correspondent that the explosion destroyed one Humvee and killed three American soldiers.


Salah ad-Din Province.
Bayji.

Resistance bombards US base west of Bayji Friday morning.

Iraqi Resistance forces fired seven Grad rockets into the US base in the as-Siniyah area west of Bayji at 10am Friday morning local time. The barrage set fires burning inside the US-occupied facility as plumes of smoke rose into the sky.


Ninwa Province.
Mosul.

Resistance bomb kills two US troops in Mosul Friday morning.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a patrol of several US vehicles in the Hammam al-?Alil area of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul at 9am local time Friday morning. Local residents who witnessed the attack told Mafkarat al-Islam that the blast disabled one American armored vehicle, killing two US troops and wounding four more.


Al-Basrah Province.
Abu al-Khasib.

Resistance roadside bomb kills two British soldiers Friday morning.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a joint patrol of British and Iraqi puppet forces in the Abu al-Khasib area south of al-Basrah on Friday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported. Witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam that the bomb was planted by the side of the main road in the area and that it blew up as the joint patrol was passing by, killing two British soldiers and wounding another. Two members of the Iraqi puppet forces were also killed. One British Jeep was destroyed by the blast.


Al-Basrah.

Puppet forces? midnight arrest raids net local men, terrorize neighborhood as new puppet leader pursues sectarian ?cleansing?, trying to expel Sunnis from al-Basrah.

Puppet so-called ?Iraqi national guards? raided the Balad Muhzim area of Abu al-Khasib at midnight Thursday-Friday and arrested two local men in an attack that sowed panic and terror among the local residents. It was the fourth such raid by puppet forces on the predominantly Sunni area.

The series of raids are viewed by local residents as part of a drive by the Shi?i chauvinist collaborator parties to push Sunnis out of the area, in an act of sectarian ?cleansing?. Witnesses reported local puppet government officials told them ?we?ll expel you from al-Basran and never allow a Sunni call to prayer to be heard or the names of the Sunni caliphs of the Seventh Century C.E. Abu Bakr or ?Umar to be mentioned. . . . We?ll go after you one-by-one until you all get out of al-Basrah.?

The sectarian cleansing campaign is linked to the new puppet ?government? installed recently in Baghdad which is under the control of puppet ?leader? Ibrahim al-Ushayqir al-Ja?fari, an extremist anti-Sunni who launched the campaign to ?cleanse? al-Basrah of Sunni residents just hours after taking office.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam also learned that there had recently been several cases of kidnappings of Sunni residents of al-Basrah, two persons having disappeared on Thursday alone.