Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Iraqi Resistance Report

From 7th Fire.
Seventeen Americans killed in Saturday night fighting in al-Qa’im, puppet spokesman admits.

Resistance kills 21 US troops, shoots down Apache helicopter in Saturday night fighting dubbed the Battle of the Free People of Iraq.

Sharpshooter kills US Marine in al-Khalidiyah Sunday morning.

Resistance bombards US al-Habbaniyah base Sunday afternoon.

Situation deteriorates after US siege for one week cuts off water, food, electricity from population.

US siege of al-Karmah in second day.

Resistance car bomber kills 11 US troops in base in ar-Rustamiyah in Baghdad early Sunday.

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Martyrdom car bomber kills nine US troops Sunday morning in ad-Durah.

Car bomb kills four US troops in Abu Ghurayb.

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“Dozens” of US dead and wounded in lethal Resistance rocket attack on US base early Sunday.

Martyrdom car bomber kills six US troops in al-Mahmudiyah Sunday afternoon.

Three US troops killed in Sunday morning roadside bomb attack in Ba‘qubah.

Three US troops killed in roadside car bombing in Diyala Sunday.

Roadside bomb kills two US troops in ad-Dulu‘iyah Sunday afternoon.

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Roadside bomb kills three US troops in Mosul Sunday afternoon.

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Some reports suggest that the US military hopes to begin a significant draw-down of forces in Iraq by December. They appear to hope that by then, the new Iraqi military will be able to play a major role in curbing the guerrillas.

On the evidence of the past week, I wouldn't hold my breath.

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Bombings and attacks killed another 23 persons and wounded many more on Monday.

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The guerrilla campaign of mass violence continued unrelentingly on Sunday. Guerrillas in the far northern, largely Turkmen city of Telafar, sent a car bomb into the midst of a funeral for a just-assassinated local Kurdish leader. The bomb killed 30 mourners and wounded more than 50.

AP adds, " At least six other car bombs one of them a suicide attack and five roadside explosions hit Baghdad on Sunday, killing six Iraqis, wounding more than 20 civilians, six Iraqi police officers and five U.S. soldiers." There were also a number of other attacks and assassinations, using machine guns rather than car bombs.

The four-day total for deaths is 116.

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