Resistance Report

High-ranking sources in the Iraqi puppet army that asked to remain anonymous told Mafakrat al-Islam that the US military on Wednesday opened an investigation into the flight of more than 20 US troops from combat with the Iraqi Resistance during their assault on the Abu Ghurayb prison camp.

Two sources in the Iraqi puppet forces said that US intelligence revealed that a number of American troops descended from the prison camp’s four observation towers, fleeing from Resistance attacks and gunfire.

In a report to the Pentagon the Americans blamed the measure of success scored by the Resistance attackers on the flight of the troops charged with guarding the main gates of the prison. Those soldiers allegedly ran away when the Resistance attacked, leaving their weapons behind. Those were then confiscated by the Resistance fighters, and, according to the report, that facilitated the Resistance attack on the prison camp.

The Iraqi puppet army sources were highly pleased with the American investigation, because they said it was the first time that the Americans ever placed blame for a failure on their own forces. In every other instance, the Iraqi puppet officers complained, “they say, ‘members of the [Iraqi puppet] army, or the [puppet] police were unqualified for the responsibility laid upon them’.” But “for a change this time it is as clear as day,” the sources gloated, “that it was American troops who fled before the armed men.”

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The Board of Sunni Pious Endowments (Diwan al-Waqf as-Sunni) in Iraq declared that US forces have arrested more than 80 imams and preachers in Sunni mosques throughout the country.[...]The correspondent noted that Dr. ‘Adnan Muhammad Salman ad-Dulaymi, the Chairman of the Sunni Waqf Board in Iraq, recently called on the Iraqi puppet “government” release immediately and unconditionally those religious leaders. He said that keeping them in prison was only increasing tension in the Sunni provinces.

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In confirmation of what Mafkarat al-Islam reported earlier, the US military on Wednesday admitted that four of its soldiers were killed and an undetermined number of others wounded in the Camp Bucca prison rebellion that took place Monday night.

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An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol as it passed through the as-Sufiyah area north of ar-Ramadi at 10am Wednesday. A source in the local police told Mafkarat al-Islam that the blast destroyed one US armored vehicle and killed five American troops, all those who were aboard the vehicle.

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Iraqi Resistance forces fired more than 16 rockets and mortar rounds into the US al-Warrar Base located west of ar-Ramadi at 1pm Wednesday afternoon local time.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source who works as a translator on the American base as saying that the bombardment left 13 US troops dead and 18 more wounded. Two meeting halls that formerly were known as halls of the al-Furat Palace and are now occupied by US troops were destroyed.

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An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded in the village of al-Halabisah, 6km west of al-Fallujah, at 3pm Wednesday local time. Witnesses who live in the area told Mafkarat al-Islam that the blast killed three US troops and wounded one more.

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Iraqi Resistance forces shot down a US Black Hawk helicopter, killing its two-man crew over the date syrup (dibs at-tamar - a food sweetener) factories east of al-Baghdadi, 210km west of Baghdad.

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A Baghdad correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported residents of the area as saying that a column of four US Humvees was proceeding down the main street in the area when a roadside bomb exploded, totally destroying one Humvee. Three American troops were killed and two more were wounded.

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The Iraqi puppet army announced on Wednesday that together with puppet so-called “national guards” they had found the beheaded bodies of 14 puppet troops in an abandoned building in the Jarf as-Sakhr area south of Baghdad.

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An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military column in al-Latifiyah, 25km south of Baghdad at 3pm Wednesday afternoon, local time [...] disabling an American armored vehicle and killing three US troops and wounding another five more.

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Iraqi Resistance forces attacked a puppet police patrol in Kirkuk, 255km north of Baghdad, seriously wounding three puppet police.

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An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded under a US column near the al-Yarmuk neighborhood crossing in the middle of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul at 8am Wednesday morning. An official source in the puppet police told Mafkarat al-Islam that a high-explosive bomb went off by an armored vehicle in the US column, disabling it and killing three US troops.

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An Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter drove a car bomb into a US column in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday morning [...] The blast destroyed three US Humvees and killed “a number” of American troops and wounded others.

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The United States put advertisements in Turkish newspapers on Tuesday calling for the hiring of 5,000 Turkish security men to guard US forces in northern occupied Iraq.

The advertisements announce that the US is seeking Turkish security men of high ranks to protect US bases, headquarters, and buildings belonging to US forces in occupied Iraq. Conditions for employment are that the candidate must have a good knowledge of either Arabic or English and that he must have previous experience in the Turkish army or General Security Apparatus or in private Turkish security companies.

  7th Fire News article