- Baghdad remains a hotbed of resistance activities as
does Mosul, Samaara and Tikrit, and US pillaged oil installations, with
several attack reported yesterday that indicate post election Iraq remains
a significant problem for the American agenda.
-
- Resistance Pounds Baghdad Base
-
- Resistance forces fired some 21 Grad and Tariq rockets
into the US military headquarters in the Sukkaniya base in the southern
Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah at 9am Wednesday, local witnesses told Mafkarat
al-Islam. The witnesses said that the attack ignited massive fires in the
US facility. For the first time, Allawi troops were brought in to extinguish
the flames and US helicopters could be seen evacuating the casualties.
-
- An official with the fire department who took part in
fighting the fires reportedly told Mafkarat al-Islam that there were between
40 and 50 reportedly killed in the attack and subsequent fires. Some were
reportedly American troops, others were Filipino servants and mercenaries.
-
- This was one of the heaviest attacks yet on the base,
which is a regular target of Resistance fighters/
-
- Housing Minister Assassinated
-
- The Allawi police announced that a high ranking official
in the "Iraqi Housing and Construction Ministry was assassinated in
Baghdad Wednesday. The Allawi police said that fighters attacked the car
of the man who was described as a "director in the ministry. No further
details were provided.
-
- Three Kurds Reportedly Killed In Attack
-
- Resistance fighters attacked a convoy of three cars carrying
Kurdish chauvinist collaborator officials on Hayfa Street in central Baghdad
on Wednesday, reportedly killing three of the Kurds who were apparently
members of the Kurdistan National Party. Bodyguards of the Kurdish collaborators
battled Resistance fighters, but in the end one of the cars was destroyed
and burst into flame, the Jordanian daily al-Arab al-Yawm reported Thursday.
-
- Sunni Waqf Official Killed
-
- A car belonging to the department of Sunni pious trusts
[Awqaf] in the predominantly Shii city of al-Amarah in the province of
Maysan, south of Baghdad came under attack by armed men and an employee
of the department and his son were reportedly killed.
-
- Bomb Destroys US Tank, Reportedly Killing Crew
-
- A Resistance roadside bomb exploded next to a US military
column made up of four vehicles in al-Yusufiyah, south of Baghdad at 1pm
Wednesday. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in the area reported
that the blast reportedly left five US troops dead. An officer in the Allawi
police in al-Yusufiyah told the correspondent that the bomb had been planted
on the road leading to the ad-Dulaym area. He said, "the blast destroyed
a US tank and killed five American soldiers.
-
- Gas Pipeline Blown Up Near Bayji
-
- Rocketswere fired into the main pipeline transporting
natural gas from the Kirkuk fields to the refinery in Bayji at dawn on
Wednesday, starting a fire near the al-Fathah area, 59km southwest of Kirkuk,
the Jordanian daily al-Arab al-Yawm reported. An official in the Allawi
so-called oil facilities protection force maintained that the use of rockets
to attack the installation was a new tactic that was a response to their
heightened efforts to protect the installations from on-site sabotage.
-
- Resistance Attacks Allawi Guards In Bayji
-
- A source in the Iraqi Allawi "national guard in
Bayji announced that a member of the guard was reportedly killed and three
others wounded in a Resistance attack just before noon on Wednesday, according
to the Jordanian daily al-Arab al-Yawm on Thursday. Majid Muhammad of the
Allawi guard in Bayji said that those killed and wounded worked for the
department of protection of oil installations and the Resistance fighters
attacked them with machine guns Wednesday morning.
-
- Resistance Rocket Hits Allawi Police Station In Bayji
-
- Allawi police captain Nasir Hammud announced that "a
shell struck a police station reportedly killing a passerby, in an attack
Wednesday. The Jordanian daily, al-Arab al-Yawm, reported that the man
was allegedly killed by shrapnel.
-
- Attack Leaves Croatian Truck Driver Dead
-
- Resistance forces armed with rockets attacked a convoy
that was bringing supplies to US forces near Tikrit, killing a Croatian
truck driver, the Croatian foreign ministry has reported. According to
the Jordanian daily al-Arab al-Yawm on Thursday, Croatia appealed to its
citizens not to go to Iraq, and said that if their citizens nevertheless
did go there, they should be alert to the dangers that they will be exposed
to .
-
- Car Bomb Reportedly Kills Seven US Troops In Mosul
-
- A martyrdom fighter blasted his black Daewoo car bomb
into a US checkpoint in the al-Islah az-Zirai neighborhood of Mosul at
about 12 noon local time Wednesday. Seven US troops and one Iraqi translator
collaborating with the Americans were reportedly killed in the explosion
and four more US troops were seriously wounded, according to Mafkarat al-Islam.
After the explosion US forces sealed off the area and evacuated the lacerated
American bodies.
-
- Bomb Kills Four Allawi Police In Downtown Samarra
-
- Colonel Nayif Hamid of the Allawi police announced that
"four Allawi policemen were killed and two others wounded when an
explosion destroyed two vehicles in their patrol in central Samarra,, the
Jordanian daily al-Arab al-Yawm reported Thursday.
|
