- US forces find butchered bodies of four American women
troops taken prisoner one week ago.
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- On Thursday morning, US occupation forces discovered
the bodies of the four American soldiers who were captured in the Resistance
attack that took place in al-Fallujah one week earlier, on Thursday, 23
June 2005. A source in the Iraqi puppet army told Mafkarat al-Islam that
the throats of the four American women soldiers had been slit and their
bodies (lain) in the area of stone quarries south of al-Fallujah.
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- In its report posted at 10:35am Mecca time, the correspondent
for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the American occupation forces had
at that time made no comment on the discovery of the corpses, though they
had earlier listed the women soldiers as "missing" in the Resistance
car bomb attack of the previous week.
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- Resistance bomb in al-Fallujah kills US soldier Thursday.
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- In a dispatch posted at 12:50pm Mecca time Thursday,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance roadside bomb exploded
by a joint US-Iraqi puppet force patrol near the Grand Mosque of al-Fallujah
in the al-Jawlan neighborhood in the western part of the city on Thursday.
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- The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported residents
of al-Jawlan neighborhood as saying that a bomb planted by the road that
runs along the banks of the Euphrates River blew up as the joint US-Iraqi
puppet patrol was passing. The blast set one US Humvee and one Iraqi puppet
troop transport on fire.
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- One American soldier was killed and two more US troops
wounded. Six Iraqi puppet troops were killed and five more wounded in the
attack. Afterwards, US and Iraqi puppet forces encircled the western and
northern parts of the city and launched a campaign of house-to-house searches
and raids, looking for Resistance fighters.
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- Hit.
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- American forces bombard residential areas of Hit as their
offensive codenamed "Operation Sword" continues for third day.
US troops arrest director of Hit General Hospital charging him with providing
medical care for Resistance fighters.
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- US occupation forces arrested the General Director of
Hit General Hospital in western Iraq on Wednesday, Quds Press reported
in a dispatch posted at 8:46 GMT Thursday. A source in the hospital told
Quds Press that US forces raided the city hospital on Wednesday and arrested
Dr. Nizar al-Kubaysi, the General Director of Hit General Hospital on charges
that he treated wounded and injured Iraqi Resistance fighters in his facility.
The source explained that the American troops raided the hospital and searched
through the wards and hospital rooms looking for what they called "insurgents"
receiving treatment.
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- Otherwise the source said that Hit General Hospital received
on Wednesday the bodies of nine Iraqi civilians killed in the Americans'
so-called "Operation Sword" offensive on the city which has been
underway for three days. The source said that among the nine civilian bodies
were corpses of several women and children.
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- The source explained that about 40 local civilians came
to the hospital suffering from wounds received in the American bombardment
of the city. The American attacks have targeted several residential neighborhoods
of the city, in the course of which five houses have been destroyed. Local
residents said that some of the members of the families who lived in the
houses were killed and their bodies were still buried in the rubble of
the buildngs.
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- For three days, Quds Press noted, the US forces have
been waging a major military campaign against regions on the Upper Euphrates,
in particular in the cities of Hit and al-Hadithah. The Americans have
code named this offensive "Operation Sword" and it comes on the
heels of three other operations that the American invaders and their Iraqi
stooges mounted against al-Qa'im, al-Hadithah, and Baghdad.
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- In a dispatch posted at 3:22pm Mecca time Thursday afternoon,
the Saudi News Agency (WAS) reported that clashes erupted all along the
length of the Upper Euphrates for the third day on Thursday as US forces
pursued their so-called "Operation Sword" offensive, raiding
residences and shops throughout the cities of the region in search of Iraqi
Resistance fighters.
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- (See: "Resistance blasts US position as Americans
continue blockade of city of Hit in so-called "Operation Sword,"
in the Iraqi Resistance Report, Wednesday, 29 June 2005.)
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- Al-Qa'im.
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- Resistance martyrdom bomber kills seven US troops in
Thursday morning attack.
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- In a dispatch posted at 10:55am Mecca time, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-packed
pickup truck into a US column west of al-Qa'im, near the Iraqi-Syrian border.
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- The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in al-Qa'im reported
Captain Jawad as-Sa'di of the Iraqi puppet army as saying that the Resistance
martyrdom car bombing near the village of ar-Rummanah destroyed one armored
Humvee and disabled another, killing seven American troops and an Egyptian
collaborator translator.
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- The correspondent reported that local witnesses said
that the Resistance martyrdom fighter drove a pickup loaded with agricultural
products into the American column, destroying one armored vehicle and disabling
a second and killing more than seven American troops and wounding others.
The official source, however confirmed only the death of seven Americans
along with that of the Egyptian translator.
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- Ar-Ramadi.
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- Resistance car bomber kills seven US troops in ar-Ramadi
midday Thursday.
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- An Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-laden
car into a US patrol in the industrial zone in the middle of ar-Ramadi
in western Iraq at about 1pm local time Thursday. Residents of the industrial
zone who witnessed the attack told Mafkarat al-Islam that the martyrdom
fighter in his car managed to break into the US patrol and detonate his
vehicle in their midst, setting three Humvees ablaze and killing seven
American troops and wounding three more. Afterwards, US forces encircled
the scene of the attack and US helicopters landed to haul away the wrecked
vehicles and the bodies of the American dead and wounded.
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- Rawah.
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- Resistance fighters ambush US supply convoy on highway
near Rawah.
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- In a dispatch posted at 3:51pm Mecca time Thursday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked a US
truck convoy loaded with provisions for American occupation forces in the
Rawah area in western Iraq on Thursday. Residents of the Rawah area told
the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam that seven Resistance fighters
armed with light and medium weapons and pipe rockets attacked the American
military truck convoy on the International Highway north of Rawah, setting
two of the US trucks on fire and killing three American troops and wounding
a fourth.
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- Baghdad.
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- Resistance bomb reportedly kills six US troops in west
Baghdad al-Yarmuk area at noon Thursday.
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- An Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded by a column of
US military vehicles in the al-Yarmuk neighborhood of western Baghdad at
12 noon local time Thursday. Residents of al-Yarmuk who witnessed the blast
told Mafkarat al-Islam that the explosives-packed car was parked by the
side of the road leading to the area of the Republican Palace in downtown
Baghdad - the so-called "green zone" where the US occupation
forces have their headquarters.
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- The Resistance car bomb went off as a column of four
US armored vehicles and four Humvees passed by, setting fire to one armored
vehicle and destroying one Humvee. The explosion killed six American troops
and wounded five more. After the blast, US forces surrounded the al-Yarmuk
and al-Qadisiyah neighborhoods in western Baghdad and brought in helicopters
to evacuate the wreckage of the vehicles and the bodies of the dead and
wounded. Local residents and journalists were not allowed in or out of
the neighborhoods.
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- Resistance fighters attack column of foreign mercenaries
on Airport Road Thursday afternoon, killing four.
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- Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked a column of four-wheel
drive vehicles of the type used by foreign profiteer contractors working
with the US occupation forces on the highway to Saddam International Airport
near the al-Jihad neighborhood of western Baghdad at 4pm local time Thursday
afternoon.
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- Residents of the al-Jihad neighborhood told Mafkarat
al-Islam that eight Resistance fighters, armed with light and medium weapons
including RPG7 rocket-propelled grenades ambushed the column of six four-wheel
drive vehicles used by mercenary "security companies" working
under contract for the US occupation troops.
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- The witnesses reported that the Resistance fighters set
two of the vehicles on fire, killing four of the foreigners and wounding
five more. The witnesses said that one of the Resistance fighters was martyred
and another wounded in the attack.
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- "Armed struggle until occupation leaves Iraq":
Resistance groups deny claims of readiness to form political organization
and negotiate.
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- Iraqi Resistance organizations on Thursday morning issued
a statement in which they denied claims by the former puppet so-called
"Iraqi minister of electricity," Ayham as-Samarra'i that the
Iraqi Resistance had agreed to negotiate with US occupation forces and
to form a political organization.
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- The Baghdad correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam obtained
a copy of the statement signed by the Army of the Ansar as-Sunnah Partisans
of the Prophet's Practice, the Islamic Army, the Jama'at Jund as-Sahabah
Group of the Army of the Companions of the Prophet, and the Army of the
Mujahideen. The statement said that as-Samarra'i spoke with his own tongue
and with the tongue of the occupation, and said that the Resistance groups
regarded as-Samarra'i's claim as an American occupation attempt "to
sedate" the members of the Resistance throughout Iraq.
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- The Resistance statement said that any negotiations or
discussions with the occupation forces would take place only using the
language of guns. The statement said that whatever has been taken by force
can only be recovered by force and concluded: "the armed struggle
will not cease until the occupation leaves the land of Iraq."
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