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* Iraq - Falluja - The Fall and Fall Out - 15 min 00 sec
[10 January 2005]
Battle in Fallujah goes on
http://www.journeyman.tv/download.php?id=10477
* Blood is Precious
Iraqis and Americans meet to share grief
and committment to justice
* Fear and Voting in Baghdad
* Bizarro Election
* Car Bombs
* Hersh Adds Credibility to Speculation Margaret Hassan
was the Victim of a Counterinsurgency Operation
* Iraqi Resistance Report
for events of Wednesday, 19 January 2005.
* U.S. troops fire on car, killing 2 civilians
Associated Press, St. Petersburg Times
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=8986&hd=0&size=1&l=x
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/01/19/Worldandnation/
US_troops_fire_on_car.shtml
* Pictures: US soldiers kill civilians in Tal Afar on 18 January.
http://www.albasrah.net/images/tal-afar/tal-afar-180105.htm
* Show your solidarity with the Iraqi resistance!
http://www.albasrah.net/solidarity-actions.htm
* Crisis Pictures
http://crisispictures.org/
Iraq - Falluja - The Fall and Fall Out - 15 min 00 sec
[10 January 2005]
Battle in Fallujah goes on
Two months after the US launched its biggest ever assault on
Fallujah, what exactly happened inside the city has, until
now, remained a mystery. Now, for the first time, Guardian
films reveals the true story.
It was billed as a resounding military success. Over 1,200
insurgents were meant to have been killed and another 2,000
trapped inside Fallujah. But now this version of events is
being challenged. Far from being crushed, rebels claim they
left the city in an organised withdrawal. "It was a tactical
move," explains insurgent leader Alazaim Abuthe. "The fighters
decided to redeploy to Amiriya." Before they left, fighters
booby-trapped many bodies. People are too scared to move them
so the corpses lie rotting all over the city. Rabid dogs feed
off them and then attack returning residents. Far from stabilising
Iraq in preparation for this month's election, the assault on
Falluja has fanned the flames of civil war. Today Fallujans are
too busy trying to stay alive in freezing refugee camps to worry
about ballot papers that haven't arrived for an election they
have no intention of voting in. As one resident comments, "We're
not interested in this sort of democracy." Guardian Films
(Ref: 2541
http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=18059&cc=1#18048
http://www.journeyman.tv/download.php?id=10477
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Blood is Precious
Iraqis and Americans meet to share grief
and committment to justice
by Dahr Jamail ; The Ester Republic; January 17, 2005
Family members left behind by those who have died violent deaths
amidst the occupation of Iraq, whether they are Iraqi or American,
have every reason to be bitter. After all, each death is due to
an illegal occupation as the result of an illegal invasion of a
sovereign country (although the United States government disputes
this view). With over 1,340 dead US soldiers and an estimated
100,000 dead Iraqi civilians as a result of the war and occupation,
there are many families left behind engulfed in grief.
In a recent delegation to Amman, Jordan, US family members who lost
loved ones in the conflict in Iraq came to the Middle East to meet
with Iraqis who had lost loved ones. The delegation was sponsored by
Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human rights group, and Code
Pink, a women's peace activist group based in Los Angeles. The groups
represented in the delegation were Military Families Speak Out and
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.
Preceding reconciliation, the families shared stories of violence
and suffering, particularly from Iraqis who face a daily battle
of survival in the hell that has befallen their country under US
occupation. A Shi'ite Muslim man spoke at the first meeting of the
delegation. His brother was detained by soldiers last summer while
giving a speech at the offices of the Human Rights Organization of
Hilla.
"The Americans raided the place and made everyone lie down. They
randomly shot nine people and injured them. Then they put two people
on the wall and executed them by shooting them in the head. These
were religious people. They then detained my brother and one other
person," he said.
After living under a brutal dictatorship for his entire life, now
with the opportunity to tell the story of his brother to people from
the country who now occupied his, he took the liberty of saying how
things were even worse now for his people under US occupation, using
his own brother as an example.
"I come from a family who were fighters against Saddam. Saddam
discriminated against my family and our whole tribe. Thousands of
us," he said, "My brother is a sheikh, he is a religious man in
Hilla. He used to make sermons during Saddam's time against Saddam.
He was detained for speaking against Saddam."
He said his brother was suffering more in Abu Ghraib at the hands
of the US military than when he was detained by the former regime.
His family went months without being allowed to contact his brother,
"They would not charge my brother with anything, and for three
months they set appointments, then canceling them."
His brother has now been detained for seven months, and he added,
"After three months I met with him and he was paralyzed in his arm
and leg, because he had been shot by a taser gun. They kept him in
a small black box for many days."
At a later meeting between Iraqi and American families that was
filled with tears, a sheikh from Fallujah also shared the horrendous
story of his son-in-law's execution by US soldiers last week.
"I am happy to be a Muslim which taught me brotherhood, love and
peace for everybody on this planet, no matter who they are or what
they are doing," he began, "The closest people to Islam are people
who say they are Christians."
"We used to think the worst dictator was Saddam Hussein. I was one
who was persecuted by him. I used to wish that somebody would come
to liberate us. The occupation troops came to help us get rid of
this dictator. All of the people where I used to live decided not
to fight the occupation troops because we thought they are going
to bring security and withdraw because this is what they told us.
Everyone knows what it means to liberate a country."
He spoke of what he saw during the invasion in April 2003, "I saw
with my own eyes they destroyed the shops, the institutes and they
allowed people to steal everything, and killing was collective."
"We used to say maybe this is only the first days...but a month after
the occupation the troops went at night to places and broke the doors,
entered, stole things, and let the thieves steal," he said angrily,
"We began to compare the dictatorship to the occupation. We compared
the criminal Saddam to criminal Bush."
He spoke of his son-in-law, Sheikh Mouofa. On the 24th of December,
his home was raided and Sheikh Mouofa was shot by soldiers.
"I saw him on the ground surrounded by blood," he told the military
families, who were all weeping. Mouofa's wife heard the two bullets,
as she was in a nearby room.
Three days later the family was told by the military that the
assassination was a mistake.
After pausing to collect himself from his grief he added, "A
human being is very dear and precious in Islam. Any believer
of any religion is our brother, no matter what their beliefs."
"This is what we believe, not like Bush. He prefers oil rather than
human beings," he added while holding up a photo of two little girls.
"Two days after their father was killed these children were asking
for their father. Their father was killed by the people who were
supposed to make their dreams come true."
He pleaded with the delegation, as well as continuing on about
atrocities he has witnessed in his country.
"We criticized Saddam for the mass graves. We have mass graves daily
now in Iraq. Houses in Iraq are destroyed on people as they sleep. I
saw them detain a man and take him in front of his family," he said
to the audience. "They tied him to a chair with a rope, they beat him
with the butts of their rifles, then they shot and killed him. Then
they took his brothers."
He continued, "We seek your help. We tell you, please help us get
rid of these troops. Not to shed blood, yours or ours. At the funeral
of my son-in-law some people shouted that America is the enemy of
God. But I don't accept this, because I know that in America there
are other people like you."
"I feel terrible hearing about these atrocities in Fallujah and all
around Iraq," replied Fernando Suarez del Solar of Los Angeles. He
and his wife Rosa lost their son, Jesus, on March 27, 2003 when he
stepped on a US cluster bomb while fighting in Iraq.
Suarez, after wiping away tears, added, "I understand and share your
grief because I also have a young grandson who is left orphaned.
Because of two people, Saddam Hussein and George Bush, who made harm
to humanity. I would like you to understand the great suffering in
the US from this war that is so unjust. I know the numbers are very
unequal but in the US there are children who have been left orphaned.
We share your suffering. You have a great responsibility today to
avoid that the hate against us grows. And we the parents how have
lost our children have a great responsibility for stopping the hate
with this loss. With hate we get nowhere. Only with love. My heart
goes out to you."
The sheikh patted his heart with his hand repeatedly while saying,
"Thanks for these words that come from the heart."
The exchange between the two men symbolized what occurred with the
peace delegation, where shared loss and grief was transformed into
solidarity and a commitment to work for justice.
"My son's birthday was last month," said Suarez, "He died so we could
have this moment. He wanted to give his life to help Iraqis. Thank
you for being together today my brother and you are all part of my
family."
Suarez was told by the military that his son had died by being
shot in the head during battle. After further investigation,
Suarez learned his son was killed when he stepped on an illegal,
unexploded US cluster bomb in Diwaniyah during the invasion.
Nadia McCaffrey lost her son, Sergeant Patrick McCaffrey, on June
22, 2004 in Iraq. He'd joined on September 12th, 2001, because he
wanted to do something to help his country. He too left behind a
wife and children, as did Jesus and the sheikh's son-in-law.
Speaking about her loss at a press conference later at the
Intercontinental Hotel in Amman, McCaffrey said, "I blame the
government. I blame Bush. I've never felt any resentment towards
the Iraqi people. The last picture I have of him was holding
white flowers given to him by Iraqi children, just before he was
killed."
One of the main goals of the delegation was to bring medical supplies
and money donated by people in America in order to bring relief to
the hundreds of thousands of refugees from Fallujah. After the US
military assault on the city in November, it is estimated that 75%
of the homes and buildings have been bombed to the ground, and the
remaining 25% received at least moderate damage.
"I am aware and I don't defend the horrible crimes the troops have
done in Iraq. I'm ashamed of what's happening," said Fernando Suarez
when he met with Iraqi doctors, "But you have to understand that they
are not all the same. You can't say that all people from the US are
criminals. Just like we can't say because some Muslims are terrorists
all Muslims are terrorists."
"A year ago when I was in Iraq I learned to love Iraqi people," said
Suarez, referring to his trip to Baghdad last year to visit the spot
where his son died, "We have to work together. Sitting around here
talking, you are going back to Iraq and tell them there are people
from the US, and we will go back and denounce how a corrupt government
has turned our children into beasts."
At another meeting between the delegation and Iraqi families, Suarez
continued, "You have to understand that our children were forced to
go to Iraq, they didn't want to go. Sometimes it is survival, but
that doesn't justify that they don't help people, or that they abuse
prisoners. That is why yesterday I asked for your forgiveness. Maybe
the medicine we bring can help 100 children survive. But we are
working to help the whole country survive."
Suarez brought several large suitcases of medicine and medical
supplies he'd collected from donations raised. "If this helps
just a few Iraqi children," he said, "then I am happy."
The sheikh from Fallujah, also at this meeting, summarized the
feeling of the delegation.
While holding up a picture of his deceased son-in law, the sheikh
said, "This man was killed last weekend," then holding up the photo
of his two children added, "These two kids will not see their father
again. This moment should be a lesson for us all. Let us say the
truth for all the people. To the people whose presidents lied to
them, and media helps them in their lies. Let's have one position.
Blood is precious, on the contrary to what Bush wants. Let's try
to prevent our people from participating in this unjust war."
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=7040§ionID=15
* * *
Fear and Voting in Baghdad
by Robert Fisk; Seattle Post-Intelligencer; January 19, 2005
Journalism yields a world of cliches but here, for once, the
first cliche that comes to mind is true. Baghdad is a city
of fear. Fearful Iraqis, fearful militiamen, fearful American
soldiers, fearful journalists.
Jan. 30, that day upon which the blessings of democracy will shower
upon us, is approaching with all the certainty and speed of doomsday.
The latest Zarqawi video shows the execution of six Iraqi policemen.
Each shot in the back of the head, one by one. A survivor plays dead.
Then a gunman walks confidently up behind him and blows his head
apart with bullets.
These images haunt everyone. At the al-Hurriya intersection Tuesday
morning, four truckloads of Iraqi national guardsmen -- the future
saviors of Iraq, according to President Bush -- are passing my car.
Their rifles are porcupine quills, pointing at every motorist, every
Iraqi on the pavement, the Iraqi army pointing their weapons at
their own people. And they are all wearing masks -- black hoods or
ski masks or kuffiyas that leave only slits for frightened eyes.
Just before it collapsed finally into the hands of the insurgents
last summer, I saw exactly the same scene in the streets of
Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad. Now I am watching them in the capital.
At Kamal Jumblatt Square beside the Tigris, two American Humvees
approach the roundabout. Their machine-gunners are shouting at
drivers to keep away from them. A big sign in Arabic on the rear
of each vehicle says: "Forbidden. Do not overtake this convoy.
Stay 50 meters away from it." The drivers behind obey; they know
the meaning of the "deadly force" that Americans have written onto
their checkpoint signs.
But the two Humvees drive into a massive traffic jam, the gunners
now screaming at us to move back. When a taxi that does not notice
the U.S. troops blocks their path, the American in the lead vehicle
hurls a full plastic bottle of water onto its roof and the driver
mounts the grass traffic circle. A truck receives the same treatment
from the lead Humvee. "Go back," shouts the rear gunner, staring at
us through shades. We try desperately to turn into the jam.
Yes, the Russians probably would have chucked hand grenades in Kabul.
But here were the terrified "liberators" of Baghdad throwing bottles
of water at the Iraqis who are supposed to enjoy a U.S.-imposed
democracy on Jan. 30.
Lest anyone doubt this extraordinary scene, the rear Humvee has
"Specialist Carrol" written on the windscreen. Specialist Carrol,
I am sure, regards every one of us as a potential suicide bomber --
a killer on wheels -- and I can't blame him. One such bomber had
just driven up to the police station in Tikrit north of Baghdad and
destroyed himself and the lives of at least six policemen.
Round the corner, I discover the reason for the jam: Iraqi cops are
fighting off hundreds of motorists desperate for petrol, the drivers
refusing to queue any longer for the one thing that Iraq possesses
in Croeses-like amounts -- petrol.
I drop by the Ramaya restaurant for lunch. Closed. They are building
a 20-floor security wall around the premises. So I drive to the Rif
for a pizza, occasionally tinkling the restaurant's piano while I
watch the entrance for people I don't want to see. The waiters are
nervous. They are happy to bring my pizza in 10 minutes. There is no
one else in the restaurant, you see, and they watch the road outside
like friendly rabbits. They are waiting for The Car.
I call on an old Iraqi friend who used to publish a literary magazine
during Saddam Hussein's reign. "They want me to vote, but they can't
protect me," he says. "Maybe there will be no suicide bomber at the
polling station. But I will be watched. And what if I get a hand
grenade in my home three days later? The Americans will say they did
their best, Allawi's people will say I am a 'martyr for democracy.'
So do you think I'm going to vote?"
At Moustansariya University, one of Iraq's best, students of English
literature are to face their end-of-term exam. January marks the end
of Iraqi semesters.
But one of the students tells me that his fellow students had told
their teacher that -- so fraught are the times -- that they were not
yet prepared for the examination. Rather than giving them all zeros,
the teacher meekly postpones the exam.
I drive back through the Al-Hurriya intersection beside the Green
Zone and suddenly there is a big black 4-by-4, filled with ski-masked
gunmen. "Get back!" they scream at every motorist as they try to cut
across the median. I roll the window down. The rear door of the 4-by-
4 whacks open. A ski-masked westerner -- blond hair, blue eyes -- is
pointing a Kalashnikov at my car. "Get back!" he shrieks in ghastly
Arabic. Then he clears the median, followed by three armored pick-
ups, windows blacked, tires skidding on the road surface, carrying
the sacred westerners inside to the dubious safety of the Green
Zone, the hermetically sealed compound from which Iraq is supposedly
governed.
I glance at the Iraqi press. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell
is again warning of "civil war" in Iraq. Why do we westerners keep
threatening civil war in a country whose society is tribal rather
than sectarian? Of all papers, it is the Kurdish Al Takhri, loyal
to Mustafa Barzani, which asks the same question. "There has never
been a civil war in Iraq," the editorial thunders. And it is right.
So "full ahead both" for the dreaded Jan. 30 elections and democracy.
The American generals -- with a unique mixture of mendacity and hope
amid the insurgency -- are now saying that only four of Iraq's 18
provinces may not be able to "fully" participate in the elections.
Good news. Until you sit down with the population statistics and
realize -- as the generals, of course, all know -- that those four
provinces contain more than half the population of Iraq.
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=7057§ionID=15
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Bizarro Election
Bob Dreyfuss, Tompaine.com
January 18, 2005
The election in Iraq is getting weirder and weirder.
First, does anyone but me think that the media's emphasis on
registering Iraqi voters in the United States and other Western
countries is being wildly hyped? This is, after all, an election
in Iraq, but the U.S. media is giving enormous ink to the polling
places being set up in the United States, neglecting to mention
that these voters have no idea who to vote for, since there is
no campaigning, no election materials, and no easy way to find
out who the candidates are. Second, the press here keeps calling
them Iraqi "exiles," but they are in fact "immigrants," just like
millions of other foreign-born U.S. citizens and residents. They
are not going back. Why exactly they should vote in Iraq isn't
clear to me, but it is clear that they represent a large pool of
mostly pro-American (and pro-Shiite) voters.
The Bush administration has been saying for weeks now that the
election doesn't matter, that it's only a first step, downplaying
the importance of the election_even as sober analysts point out
that the election is likely to splinter the country and set it up
for civil war.
The funniest thing of all is the report that the Iraqi puppet
government is planning to ban all private vehicular traffic on
election day. How are people supposed to get to the polls? Why
don't they just impose an all-day curfew and order people to
stay in their homes? That would make the election safe.
Today I am passing on an excerpt of a piece sent to me by Patrick
Lang, the former Middle East chief at the Defense Intelligence
Agency and a leading critic of the Bush-neocon axis. He provides
some historical context, which is sadly missing in nearly all
mainstream media reporting on Iraq. They treat Iraq as if it didn't
exist before the first Gulf War, and here Lang neatly summarizes
the pre-history of Iraq. I was particularly struck by his notion
that the Baath Party tried to reinvent Iraq as a nation not organized
along ethnic and religious lines. Here's the excerpt:
The British Empire screwed the lid down on Mesopotamia, installed
King Feisal, and hoped for the best. The country exploded in a
mostly Shia tribal revolt shortly thereafter. After several years
of fighting the British felt secure enough in what they had done
to grant Iraq a rather liberal Western style constitution under
the Hashemite (read foreign) monarch. This government ruled Iraq
with a certain benevolence on a parliamentary basis until 1958.
The government functioned much as does that of the Jordanian branch
of the Hashemite family. They are restrained, civilized people,
the Hashemites. Those who claim that Iraq has never known democracy
seldom mention this experience of responsible and representative
government. There was early evidence that such a government might
not endure in Iraq. The unsuccessful 1944 revolt of generals of the
Iraqi Army who hated a continuing British presence and who favored
the German side in World War Two was a bad omen.
In the end, however, the opportunity and temptation provided by
such a government for conspiracy and plotting among ethno-religious
communities on the basis of Arab Nationalism and religious hostility
proved too great. The monarchy was overthrown in 1958 with great
cruelty and public disgrace. There followed a rapid succession of
nationalist, communist, Baathist and other governments who waged both
peace and war against and with the non-Arab and non-Muslim minorities
(Kurds, Yazidis, Turcomans, etc). The lid "screwed down" by imperial
Britain lasted remarkably well long after they had gone and it
functioned largely on the basis of the British sponsored continuation
of the millennium long domination of the area by the Sunni Arab
community. The Sunni Arabs remained the real rulers of the country
until the American invasion of 2003 and the Shia Arabs remained in
the position of a despised "underclass" while the largely Sunni Kurds
observed the process and resisted it when they dared. Oddly enough,
the Baath Party served in Iraq as a political vehicle for the entry
of Shia and Christian Iraqis into the "mainstream of Iraqi life. The
Baath was founded by Christian Arabs and was designed by them so as
to identify people as Arabs, not by religion, but by language and
culture. This suited the purposes of the Iraqi Shia perfectly and
many, many of them joined the Baath Party rising quite high in the
government and armed forces. Indeed, the lieutenant general commanding
the Republican Guards Armored Corps in the invasion of Kuwait in the
first Gulf War was a Shia.
The present American and British occupation of Iraq has the specific
intention of re-organizing the country on the basis of "one man,
one vote." The declaration of this intention pried "the lid" off the
"can of worms," of relations and understandings that had long kept the
forces of chaos in check in Iraq. In the Middle East people understand
that they must vote for candidates from their own ethno-religious
community. To do anything else is a revolutionary choice, something
that only a radical would do, perhaps a Baathist. To make that choice
is to risk rejection by your own community.
In this context we can expect that the coming election will produce
a Shia dominated government under the influence of the higher clergy
and likely to be inclined toward Shia Iran in a massively Sunni part
of the world.
"Freedom is on the march?" No, chaos and war are on the march.
Article nr. 8979 sent on 19-jan-2005 18:38 ECT
The address of this page is : www.uruknet.info?p=8979
The original address of this article is :
www.tompaine.com/archives/the_dreyfuss_report.php
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Car Bombs
January 19, 2005
The thundering blast rocks me awake at 7:05am. The first thing my
eyes see are the curtains of my room flowing in, as if a strong
wind is blowing into my room.
'Holy shit, they hit the embassy,' I think to myself, 'the blast
was so close.'
I leave my windows cracked and curtains drawn for just this reason-
while my door was blasted open, splintering the frame where it was
locked shut, none of my windows shattered. Aside from small chunks
from the ceiling of my room strewn about the floor, I am alright.
I look out my window and see that despite shattered glass strewn
outside many of the nearby buildings, the Australian embassy is
intact.
I quickly throw on some clothes, grab my camera and run into the
hall-where it is filled with so much dust it's difficult to see.
In the hall, as well as all the others I see as I run upstairs,
pieces of ceiling and broken glass are everywhere.
The suicide car bomb detonated near the base of a large building
across the street which is home to many Australian soldiers. From
there they guard the checkpoint to their nearby embassy from the
multi-story building with snipers. Two smoldering bits of a vehicle
sit nearby the building, and two bodies lay in pools of blood
across the street.
A small building near the Australian outpost received heavy damage
right in front of the detonated car. Despite being heavily fortified
with concrete barriers, razor wire, sand bags, and sand barriers, the
outpost has chunks blown out of it and the netting and plywood which
covers many of the windows is hanging haphazardly out the openings.
I was on the roof just minutes after the blast and the Iraqi Police
(IP) had already arrived en masse. A woman screaming in hysterics
is pushed inside one of their trucks and taken away_she was trying
to reach one of the bodies as several policeman ushered her off.
Other IP's inspect the bodies while black smoke plumes languidly
drift down the street in the early morning stillness.
Police run about, yelling orders and barking at journalists, but
there is nothing much else for them to do. They load the two bodies
into a vehicle and drive them to a morgue.
It is a seemingly senseless attack-as this building occupied by the
Australian military is so heavily fortified that no car bomb could
possibly reach it. This one caused merely superficial damage, and
killed only civilians while wounding some Australian soldiers.
This was a smaller car bomb, as it didn't leave a crater like so many
of the others. Nevertheless, glass is shattered in buildings hundreds
of meters away from the blast, pieces of wall are crumbled_it is like
being in a large earthquake, but the tremors consolidated into one
large shake.
About 20 minutes later several truckloads of Iraqi soldiers show up,
many of them wearing their usual black facemasks.
15 minutes after this the US military shows up with 10 Humvees, a
Bradley and a large tank. They seal the street, and begin to string
their razor wire across the road.
Two Apache helicopters arrive and commence rumbling in circles around
the area, buzzing overhead.
I watch an old woman who lives in a home just across from the
bombing. She is walking around in her yard aimlessly, sometimes
stopping to slowly pick up rubble from her wall that was damaged
in the blast, then just looking around her home.
Half an hour after this another large car bomb detonates in eastern
Baghdad at an Iraqi police headquarters, killing 18 people as the
explosion echoes across the capital city.
I return to my room to commence writing_Abu Talat calls and can't
make it over for our work because so many roads nearby my hotel
are closed.
As I write three more huge explosions rumble across the center
of Baghdad. In a span of just 90 minutes five car bombs detonated
killing at least 26 people.
One of the car bombs detonated outside a bank where IP's were
collecting their salaries, killing at least 10 of them.
Another car bomb detonated at the airport, killing two guards.
A military installation was also attacked, killing two American
soldiers and two civilians.
Iraqis around my hotel compound are sweeping up glass as I make
some calls to let folks know I'm alive.
The US-backed Iraqi government has announced draconian measures which
state that from January 29th-31st the borders of Iraq will be closed,
mobile and satellite phone services will be cut, the borders of
Iraq's 18 governorates will be closed and no civilian traffic will be
allowed near the polling stations.
Polling stations will each have several rings of security in an
attempt to stave off the violence. Be that as it may, the Ministry
of Health is making special preparations to deal with the massive
bloodshed expected for the "elections."
Posted by Dahr_Jamail at January 19, 2005 12:49 PM
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000175.php#more
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Hersh Adds Credibility to Speculation Margaret Hassan
was the Victim of a Counterinsurgency Operation
Kurt Nimmo
January 18, 2005
On November 17 of last year, I speculated that CARE director in
Iraq, Margaret Hassan, was abducted and presumably killed as part
of a counterinsurgency operation--a victim of phony terrorist
groups created by foreign intelligence--on the part of either the
United States, Israel, the British, or a combination of thereof,
a dirty trick in the dirty war against the Iraqi insurgency
( http://kurtnimmo.com/blog/index.php?p=419 ). One journalist wrote
to say I had no evidence of this, I was in fact conspiracy mongering,
and such speculation is a basically disservice to others opposed to
war for it essentially makes the antiwar movement out to be wild-eyed
crackpots. I wrote my blog entry, subsequently reposted widely on
the internet, after doing considerable research about the history of
counterinsurgency. I quoted from and summarized several articles--
written by Andrew Rubin, Julian Borger, Richard Sale, and Seymour
Hersh--to make the case Hassan was the victim of a counterinsurgency
op engineered to make the Iraqi resistance look bad. In addition, I
quoted Michael McClintock:
US military (and CIA operative) officer Major Edward Geary Lansdale's
"psy-war tactics" used in the Philippines against the Huk. Lansdale's
methods "centered on measures of deception similar to those employed
in the British and French colonial campaigns in Kenya and Indochina,"
including the creation of bogus guerilla units used to discredit the
enemy.
Further research turned up little on the Kenya counterinsurgency
program--that is until I read Seymour Hersh's latest installment
on the Strausscons (The Coming Wars: What the Pentagon can now
do in secret: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=8931 ) published by the
New Yorker and posted on their website. Quoting John Arquilla, a
professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School,
in Monterey, California, Hersh includes the following:
When conventional military operations and bombing failed to defeat
the Mau Mau insurgency in Kenya in the 1950s, the British formed
teams of friendly Kikuyu tribesmen who went about pretending to be
terrorists. These "pseudo gangs," as they were called, swiftly threw
the Mau Mau on the defensive, either by befriending and then ambushing
bands of fighters or by guiding bombers to the terrorists' camps.
What worked in Kenya a half-century ago has a wonderful chance of
undermining trust and recruitment among today's terror networks.
Forming new pseudo gangs should not be difficult.
As I noted, Lansdale adopted at least some of the British
counterinsurgency tactics in the Philippines and was considered
"eminently qualified to advise on unconventional warfare and the
American role in Indochina" and elsewhere in the Third World, as
Michael McClintock notes ( http://www.statecraft.org/chapter8.html ).
He also writes:
Only in 1961, when a presidential demand was made for a purpose-
built counterinsurgency establishment, was the Special Forces/
Special Warfare Center development of unconventional warfare
adopted across the board as the foundation of a military doctrine
of counterinsurgency. The military core of unconventional warfare,
the organization, tactics and techniques of America's covert CIA
and Special Forces "guerrillas," provided a nucleus for the new
doctrine of counterinsurgency.
As stated previously, I believe the CIA (and military intelligence)
is busy at work discrediting the Iraqi resistance with such tactics,
although of course I cannot prove it. As John Arquilla writes,
forming "new pseudo gangs should not be difficult," especially in
the chaotic environment of Iraq (and soon, as Hersh points out,
Iran).
Obviously, the U.S. military realizes it cannot defeat the Iraqi
resistance through conventional military means, as the British were
unable to defeat the Mau Mau insurgency in Kenya. Considering the
long and violent history of the CIA--and the fact the Joint Chiefs
of Staff proposed creating fake terrorist groups to discredit Cuba
(Operation Northwoods) as a pretext to invade Cuba and depose Castro--
I find it entirely plausible that Hassan, who was against Bush's
invasion and occupation (and influential as the director of a high-
profile NGO), was kidnapped and possibly murdered, although her body
has yet to be found. It makes infinitely more sense for a "pseudo
gang" of Iraqi terrorists--possibly criminals, paramilitaries from
the Allawi government, or freelance mercenaries under the direction
of U.S., Israeli, or British intelligence--to engage in such vile
behavior, not the Iraqi resistance who would only lose from committing
such horrendous violence against those striving to alleviate the
suffering of the Iraqi people.
* * *
As if to lend credence to the assertion that the Allawi government
consists of people of the sort who would kill innocent people--
exactly the sort of people the Strausscons need in Iraq--the Sydney
Morning Herald reports that a "former Jordanian government minister
has told The New Yorker that an American official confirmed to him
that the Iraqi interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, executed six
suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station last year".
( http://www.uruknet.info/?p=8963 ) Note the word "suspected," not
convicted criminals.
"A well-known former government minister told me that an American
official had confirmed that the killings took place, saying to him,
'What a mess we're in--we got rid of one son of a bitch only to get
another one'," writes Jon Lee Anderson for the New Yorker. The Sydney
Morning Herald adds "that Anderson was present during an interview
conducted by the Herald's chief correspondent, Paul McGeough, in late
June, with a man who said he witnessed the executions by Dr Allawi."
"The man," writes Anderson, "described how Allawi had been taken to
seven suspects, who were made to stand against a wall in a courtyard
of the police station, their faces covered. After being told of their
alleged crimes by a police official, Allawi had asked for a pistol,
and then shot each prisoner in the head. [One of the men survived.]
Afterward, the witness said, Allawi had declared to those present,
'This is how we must deal with the terrorists.' The witness said he
approved of Allawi's act, adding that, in any case, the terrorists
were better off dead, for they had been tortured for days."
No doubt it would be a guessing game to speculate who tortured the
suspects--Allawi's thugs or "our" thugs, the same thugs who rape
children and beat people to death at Abu Ghraib.
One thing is for certain--Allawi is precisely the sort of "son of a
bitch" the Strausscons need in Iraq, not that it will ultimately make
much difference because eventually Allawi will be living in Miami or
swinging from a lamppost in Baghdad.
Article nr. 8982 sent on 19-jan-2005 19:25 ECT
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Iraqi Resistance Report
for events of Wednesday, 19 January 2005.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial
board The Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
Wednesday, 19 January 2005.
Ar-Ramadi.
Resistance bomb kills three US troops in ar-Ramadi, after American
bomb detecting robot missed it.
An Iraqi Resistance roadside bomb exploded in the al-'Ummal
neighborhood of ar-Ramadi as a US column was passing at 10:40am
Wednesday morning. Witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam that the
bomb exploded by a Humvee, killing three US troops and wounding
one other seriously.
The correspondent wrote that US forces were using a new technique
to deal with bombs, sending a robotic device ahead of the column to
detect land mines. Apparently, however, it failed in this instance,
since today there was a robot preceding the US column as it advanced
towards the city but it did not detect the bomb. The Mafkarat al-
Islam correspondent wrote that the failure of the American robot was
probably due to the Resistance using new and advanced methods for
planting land mines and moveable bombs.
Al-Qa'im.
Brother and eyewitness tells the story: Resistance martyrdom fighter
blows himself up killing four American troops in al-Qa'im Wednesday
afternoon.
An Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter blew himself up amidst a group
of US soldiers inside a government building in the city of al-Qa'im
on the border with Syria Wednesday afternoon.
The correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported local eyewitnesses
as saying that the attack occurred at 4pm Wednesday, local time and
left four US troops dead and 10 more American soldiers lightly and
moderately wounded.
Tuesday was a bloody day of fighting between US forces and the Iraqi
Resistance but Wednesday began with the US forces announcing what
they called an "amnesty for fighters and gunmen." US forces offered
sums of money to anyone who would hand in a weapon. US $ 1,000 was
offered for anyone handing in an anti-tank rocket launcher, US $
1,500 to anyone handing in a Strela rocket, US $ 500 or more to
anyone handing in bombs or land mines, depending on the yield of the
explosive.
The correspondent reported that the Americans also offered US $ 250
for any type of submachine gun that was handed in. US $ 100 was the
price for a hand grenade. US $ 10,000 was the price for a mortar,
particularly since the Resistance fires mortars at the US bases on a
daily basis. The Americans also set specific prices for the ammunition
for each of these weapons.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent noted that by setting such
attractive prices for weapons, the Americans were trying to exploit
the grinding poverty in which the local people of al-Qa'im live,
particularly those who fight in the Resistance and their families.
The Americans opened a center for the handover of weapons inside a
government building and they hoped that the townspeople would be
rushing to take advantage of their "generous offer."
But the Resistance had a surprise in store for the Americans. A
martyrdom fighter wearing an explosive belt and armed with an RPG7
anti-tank rocket launcher stormed into the building, blew himself
up, and killed four Americans in the process.
Later, at the Martyrs' Cemetery in the center of al-Qa'im, the brother
of the martyr spoke to the correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam. "My
brother tricked the occupation troops into thinking that he was the
first person to come in and sell his weapons. That's how he got inside
with them. I was watching. Then he blew himself up in front of the
inside door to the building when US troops had gathered around him to
examine the rocket launcher that he was carrying, or maybe they had
doubts about him, I don't know for sure."
The brother of the martyr went on, "There were more than 10 troops
gathered around him. Really, I don't know how many of them died and
how many were wounded. But I saw them all lying on the floor."
The correspondent noted that this account was confirmed to him by a
member of the local puppet police.
The martyr's brother finished his story saying, "The American
occupation forces left that building about three hours after the
explosion, after they had loaded up their corpses and taken them
away. They looked like little children, with their desperate steps.
Then we rushed into the building to find my brother who had been
blown into charred remains from his head to the bottom of his feet -
except for his chest." The martyr's brother swore that his brother's
chest was uncut because he had learned the Qur'an by heart. "Praise
be to God," the brother told the correspondent, "my brother has been
granted martyrdom. We are not like those other cowardly Iraqis who
sold their arms - really their honor - to the infidel occupiers."
The martyr's brother told the correspondent that this was not the
first such incident in his family. He had another brother who was
a martyrdom fighter and gave his life in a martyrdom attack more
than a year ago.
Baghdad.
Iraqi Resistance shoots down huge US Chinook helicopter west of
Baghdad.
Iraqi Resistance forces shot down a US Chinook transport helicopter
in the village of Jubbah north of the city of Hadithah, 17km west of
Baghdad.
Witnesses in the village told Mafkarat al-Islam that the huge
helicopter was flying over the village at a low altitude together
with two Apache helicopters that were there to provided cover as
it approached the base that the American invaders have named 'Ayn
al-Asad (known formerly as al-Qadisiyah).
As it passed over the village at 8:30am Resistance fighters in
the al-Qal'ah (Citadel) area fired a SAM7 missile at the Chinook,
totally blowing it up and killing all aboard. The witnesses could
not specify the number of casualties, but one village policeman
told the correspondent that 30 US troops were killed in the attack
and that four Resistance fighters who fired the rocket were killed
when one of the Apache helicopters fired a rocket at the launcher
used to fire the SAM7. Shaykh Abu Sayf of the Jihadi Brigades of the
1920 Revolution confirmed that fact when he told Mafkarat al-Islam:
"The operation to shoot down the aircraft was done by us with a SAM&
rocket and four of the fighters were killed in the operation."
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam personally saw the wreckage
of the helicopter and took eights shots of the craft and took four
pictures of dead US soldiers lying on the ground 200 meters from
where the helicopter crashed. But US occupation troops encircled
the area and prohibited journalists from taking pictures. The troops
seized the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent's personal camera and
took out its contents and then broke it. The American troops did
the same thing to six journalists among them a photographer working
for Agence France Presse (AFP).
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam added that the American
soldiers threatened to arrest the French correspondent if he didn't
leave the area. When the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent left the
area, six bodies of Americans were hanging in the tops of palm trees
and floating in the Euphrates River. The Chinook helicopter is one
of the most massive US helicopters, able to carry three vehicles.
Deadly Resistance car bombs target Australian official's motorcade
near the Australian embassy, puppet police station in Baghdad, other
targets early Wednesday.
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded
by the Australian embassy in the al-Karradah area of Baghdad near the
two-story bridge. Witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam that the blast took
place at 9:30am Wednesday and that the target was a motorcade that was
bringing an official to work in the Australian embassy.
The blast destroyed two GMC command cars and disabled a third vehicle.
Nine personal guards were killed in the attack, all of them guards of
the targeted Australian official. The explosion was so powerful that
it damaged neighboring houses as well. Three Iraqi puppet policemen
who were on guard at the embassy were also killed.
The correspondent reported that so far there had been no word on
whether the targeted Australian official had been killed or not.
Earlier, Reuters reported that an Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded
near the Australian embassy in Baghdad. Reuters said that puppet
police sources and witnesses reported that an attacker driving an
explosives-laden car approached the Australian embassy in downtown
Baghdad and blew up, killing at least one person and wounding seven
more.
Reuters later reported that the organization Base [Qa'idah] of
the Organization of Jihad in the Land of the Two Rivers run by
Abu Mus'ab az-Zarqawi had claimed responsibility for the bombing
at the Australian embassy.
Car bombing at front gates to US al-Muthanna airbase in Baghdad.
An Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter detonated an explosives-laden
car at a US checkpoint at the entrance to al-Muthanna airbase in
Baghdad. Witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam that the attack took
place at the point where one crosses through the concrete barriers
and into the base at 8:15am Wednesday. Four US troops were killed
and two more wounded. Eight puppet so-called "Iraqi national
guards" were killed and six more of them wounded in the attack.
Car bombing targets puppet police in Baghdad.
An Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded at the puppet police station
in the al-'Alawiyah area north of Baghdad at 9:30am Wednesday,
killing nine puppet police and wounding 19 others.
Iraqi Resistance roadside bomb in Abu Ghurayb.
Iraqi Resistance forces detonated a roadside bomb in the village
of az-Zaydan in the Abu Ghurayb area at 7:15am Wednesday, destroying
a Bradley armored vehicle and killing three US troops. US forces
then opened fire indiscriminately at houses and passers by, killing
five innocent Iraqi civilians.
Resistance fighters execute collaborator gunmen.
Iraqi Resistance fighters armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles
liquidated three members of the collaborationist Badr Brigades in
a 1995 Opel on az-Zaytun street in Abu Ghurayb at 2:30pm Wednesday.
Resistance bombing in as-Suwayrah.
A heavy Iraqi Resistance roadside bomb exploded in as-Suwayrah,
south of Baghdad, at 11:30am Wednesday, destroying a US Humvee
and killing four US troops. US forces took one hour to haul away
the wrecked Humvee.
Resistance attacks US convoy in ar-Ridwaniyah Wednesday afternoon.
Iraqi Resistance fighters firing rockets attacked US forces in the
Third Bridge area of ar-Ridwaniyah at 2:30pm Wednesday, destroying
a US military truck carrying supplies and small ZiL truck loaded
with equipment for the US occupation forces. Witnesses said that
four US troops were killed in the attack. Afterwards American forces
encircled the area and sealed it off while they spent two hour and a
quarter hours hauling away their wreckage.
Fighting in al-Karakh.
Fighting broke out on Hayfa Street, in al-Fahhamah, and al-Mushahadah
in Baghdad's al-Karakh District between Iraqi Resistance forces
and puppet "national guards" at about 10:15am Wednesday. Resistance
fighters hurling hand grenades killed three puppet guards. One
Resistance fighter was severely wounded by an American sniper.
Fighting on Airport Road in Baghdad.
Fierce fighting broke out between the Iraqi Resistance, armed with
rockets and BKC machine guns, and US troops near the Ibn Taymiyah
Mosque on Airport Road at 9:15am Wednesday. One US Humvee was
destroyed and a Bradley armored vehicle disabled. Seven US troops
were killed and four more seriously wounded. Three Iraqi Resistance
fighters were martyred.
Resistance ambushes US column in al-Ishaqi.
Iraqi Resistance forces detonated bombs under a US column in the
al-Ishaqi area north of at-Taji at about 1:45pm Wednesday, and
then opened fire with rockets, destroying two civilian trucks
loaded with supplies for the US occupation troops. Two US troops
were killed in the attack.
Resistance attacks column in Sadr al-Qanat area.
Iraqi Resistance forces ambushed a US column on the highway in
the Sadr al-Qanat area north of Baghdad at about 4pm Wednesday,
destroying a Humvee and a civilian truck carrying supplies. Five
US troops were killed and a sixth wounded.
US-backed Baghdad regime suspected of cutting off water, food,
electricity to try to force people to vote in sham "election."
Baghdad residents greeted the Eid al-Adha holiday with rising anger
against the US-installed puppet government, after passing several
days without running water. Without warning the drinking water
supply had been cut off a couple days earlier. Local people noted
that a shut off of the water supply was unprecedented, something
that did not even happen at the most critical times during the
American war against their country.
The water shortage crisis was thus now added to the electricity
shortage as one of the "services" provided by the American occupation
regime, and many, particularly in Sunni areas, saw the crisis as a
part of the 'Allawi regime's effort to force people to take part in
the election farce planned for 30 January.
Haydar Shakir Mahmud, who owns a house with a well, told al-Quds
al-'Arabi newspaper that people have been flocking to visit him for
three days now to ask for water. Like many Iraqis, Mahmud dug the
well and put a small pump atop it shortly before the US aggression
in spring 2003, fearful that the American attack might knock out
the water supply.
Mahmud warns the people who get water from his well that it's not
drinkable, since it hasn't been sterilized, and tells them to boil
it before using it, or else they might contract diseases.
The puppet head of the Baghdad provincial assembly Muhammad Baqir
as-Suhayl acknowledged that his department has received many
complaints about the lack of water, saying that they are forwarded
to the appropriate departments.
Many see the water shortage as an effort by the US-backed regime
to force people to vote in the sham "elections" being pushed by
the Americans for 30 January in an effort to throw a veneer of
"democratic legitimacy" over their occupation.
Local residents were reported by Mafkarat al-Islam as saying that
the US-installed regime had cut off electricity and water supplies
to several places where there is a Sunni majority, as a "preliminary
threat" in response to their refusal to take part in the election
farce.
Residents told Mafkarat al-Islam that in addition, the regime had
begun denying food ration cards to the populace who reject the sham
"election." They have stolen money and also carried out evictions
of populations not going along with the farce.
In addition, US soldiers and puppet troops from time to time open
fire randomly on houses, claiming that they are searching for
"hidden 'terrorists'," and storm into people's homes in the middle
of the night.
Resistance liquidates collaborator gunman in al-Hurriyah ad-Dabbash
area of Baghdad.
Iraqi Resistance forces opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles
and assassinated a member of the collaborationist Badr Brigades
as he came out of his house in the al-Hurriyah ad-Dabbash area in
Baghdad at about 9am Wednesday.
Al-Latifiyah - al-Iskandariayh - al-Yusufiyah.
Massive Iraqi Resistance car bombings target puppet forces in al-
Latifiyah and al-Iskandariyah.
An Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded at a puppet "national guard"
check point on the main road in al-Latifiyah at 7:30am Wednesday.
Eye witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam that the blast destroyed a
Nissan pickup belonging to the puppet guard and killed 14 Iraqi
puppet troops.
An Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded at an Iraqi puppet police
check point near the Baratah Mosque in al-Latifiyah at 11:15am
Wednesday, destroying four Land Cruisers belonging to the puppet
police and killing 13 puppet policemen. Seven more were wounded.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that the puppet police
who were the target of the attack had gathered to carry out searches
and change duty shifts. Four passers by were also killed in the
attack and several private cars were set ablaze.
An Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-laden
car into a joint US-puppet "national guard" check point south of
al-Latifiyah in the al-Iskandariyah area and blew it up at 4:15pm
Wednesday afternoon. Witnesses said that the blast destroyed one
American Bradley armored vehicle and two Humvees as well as a Nissan
pickup belonging to the puppet guards. Nine US troops and 12 puppet
"national guards" were killed in the attack.
Resistance ambushes US column in al-Jannabiyin Wednesday afternoon.
Iraqi Resistance forces detonated several bombs under a US column in
the al-Jannabiyin area near al-Latifiyah at about 3:10pm Wednesday
and then opened fire with rockets and BKC machine guns. Three Humvees
were destroyed and one Bradley armored vehicle was damaged. Ten US
troops were killed and four other Ameican soldiers seriously wounded.
US forces then opened fire indiscriminately on neighboring houses and
then arrested 27 local residents.
Bomb attack in al-Yusufiyah Wednesday evening.
Two Iraqi Resistance roadside bombs exploded in the al-Qasr al-Awsat
area of al-Yusufiyah at 5:30pm Wednesday, killing three US troops and
seriously wounding two more. US forces opened fire indiscriminately
on neighboring houses seriously wounding three civilians.
Tikrit.
Resistance bomb attack in Tikrit.
Several Iraqi Resistance roadside bombs exploded in the Salah ad-Din
area at the entrance to the city of Tikrit at about 12:14pm Wednesday,
destroying a Humvee and a military truck loaded with supplies and
killing four US troops and seriously wounding two more. US forces
then sealed off the area and searched for Resistance fighters,
arresting eight persons.
Samarra'.
Resistance pounds US camp with deadly mortar bombardment.
Iraqi Resistance forces mounted a barrage against the US base in
Samarra', north of Baghdad, setting off massive fires within the
compound.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in the city reported that the
Resistance fired about 40 mortar rounds against the US base, set
up in a former presidential palace at 5am Wednesday morning. The
bombardment set massive fires that raged until 10am. The sound of
secondary explosions within the camp could be heard going off after
the end of the barrage. The correspondent reported that he saw five
huge Chinook helicopters evacuating dead and wounded from the base
towards Baghdad.
Translators working for the Americans inside the base told Mafkarat
al-Islam that the Americans were talking about 73 US dead and wounded
in the bombardment, among them 17 officers, one of them a captain who
was on an inspection visit.
In a communiqué circulated in mosques in the Wednesday morning, the
Brigades of Asadallah al-Ghalib declared their responsibility for the
attack, which they called "a present to the people of Iraq on the Eid
al-Adha holiday."
Al-Basrah.
Resistance bomb in al-Basrah kills British soldier.
Iraqi Resistance forces detonated a bomb in the middle of the dirt
road under a British military column in eastern al-Basrah at 1:15pm
Wednesday, witnesses reported to Mafkarat al-Islam. The blast, which
occurred on the road leading to the al-'Ashshsar district, disabled
a British armored vehicle and left one British soldier dead and three
more wounded. One witness said he saw fire burning in parts of the
armored vehicle.
Local al-Basrah television which is under British forces supervision
claimed that the blast caused no damage or injuries. This story was
contradicted, howver, by a puppet official in the local municipal
council who told the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent, "the blast
killed one British soldier and wounded three more."
Resistance assassinates prominent member of 'Allawi's party.
A prominent member of puppet so-called "prime minister" Iyyad
'Allawi's political party the "national accord" was assassinated
Wednesday morning in al-Basrah. Witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam
that the Resistance attacked the official near the al-'Abayikah
Mosque in the al-Jazayir area of the city.
Resistance bombardments throughout Iraq.
From 3am to 10:30am Wednesday, Iraqi Resistance forces subjected
the US camp at Saddam International Airport to an intensive pounding,
firing more than twenty-five 120mm mortar rounds, five Grad rockets,
and 11 Katyusha rockets into the US occupied facility. Clouds of
smoke rose over the compound and US medical helicopters wre seen
landing and taking off from the airport three times.
At about 9:30am Wednesday, Iraqi Resistance forces fired three
Katyusha rockets into the US Sukkaniya base in the southern
Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah, sending smoke into the sky.
At about 10:30am Wednesday, Iraqi Resistance forces fired 14
Katyusha rockets and 120mm mortar rounds into the US camp
occupying the military academy in Baghdad's ar-Rustamiyah area.
At about 11am Wednesday, Iraqi Resistance forces fired two Grad
rockets into the US al-Bakr base in the Balad area north of Baghdad.
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