·       Shi'i sectarian attacks drive 1,000 Sunni residents out of Baghdad neighborhoods as effort to split Iraq along sectarian lines continues in accordance with Zionist and US schemes.

·       US soldier reported killed in Samarra’ Saturday.

·       Resistance sharpshooter reportedly kills two US soldiers Bayji Saturday.

·       US troops kill three of their allies, the puppet "Iraqi National Guard" by mistake near ad-Dulu'iyah on Saturday.

Al-Anbar Province.

Rawah.

Resistance blasts US base in Rawah with Grad rockets Saturday evening.

In a dispatch posted at 12:25pm Makkah time Sunday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces fired two Grad rockets into a US military headquarters in the as-Sahl area of wester Rawah, about 315km northwest of Baghdad, on Saturday evening.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that the missiles scored direct hits on the American-occupied facility setting off a number of powerful explosions, one after the other, inside the base.  Plumes of smoke rose over the facility and then American helicopters flew in and could be seen prowling the skies over the area for several hours.

Al-Fallujah.

Resistance fighters ambush US patrol in southwestern al-Fallujah Saturday.

In a dispatch posted at 3:18pm Makkah time Sunday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters carried out a powerful assault on a US patrol in southwestern al-Fallujah on Saturday.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in the 'Amiriyat al-Fallujah housing complex as saying that Resistance men armed with rockets and light and medium machine guns attacked a US patrol near the complex, sparking a half hour battle.  An amphibious armored vehicle was destroyed in the attack and all the US troops aboard it were either killed or wounded.  At least two of the Americans were believed probably to have died in the attack, in view of the severity of damaged done to the vehicle.

Resistance bomb damages US Humvee; Resistance mortar blast US base in al-Fallujah.

In a dispatch posted at 12:10pm Makkah time midday Sunday, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb had exploded by US occupation forces in al-Fallujah and the American base known as al-Mazra'ah ("the Farm") came under mortar barrage.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that a bomb that had been planted by the side of a main street near the al-Fallujah Fire Department in the ad-Dubbat neighborhood went off by a US patrol, damaging a US Humvee.

The witnesses said that  the blast caused several casualties among the Americans but no one was able to offer more details of their nature or extent because US forces quickly closed off the entire area and shopkeepers nearby hurriedly closed up for fear of the random reprisals that the Americans usually make in such circumstances.

Meanwhile, Iraqi Resistance forces fired four heavy 120mm mortar rounds into the US base known as al-Mazra'ah ("the Farm"), which is the largest US base in the al-Fallujah area.  The barrage set off powerful explosions within the US-occupied facility.

Resistance bomb rips through puppet "National Guard" patrol in al-Fallujah Saturday night.

In a dispatch posted at 11:42am Makkah time Sunday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a patrol of the Iraqi puppet army in al-Fallujah on Saturday night.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in the Nazal neighborhood as saying that a bomb that had been planted by the side of a road in the as-Sadd Street area of southern al-Fallujah went off in an extremely violent blast by a passing puppet army patrol at 8pm local time Saturday night.

The witnesses said that the explosion totally destroyed a patrol vehicle, killing four puppet "Iraqi National Guards" who were aboard it.  Following the attack, the Iraqi puppet forces opened fire indiscriminately on nearby homes and then made arrests of 13 youths from among the residents of the area, despite there being no sign that they had been involved in anything.

Baghdad.

Shi'i sectarian attacks drive 1,000 Sunni residents out of Baghdad neighborhoods as effort to split Iraq along sectarian lines continues in accordance with Zionist and US schemes.

In a dispatch posted at 4:50pm Makkah time Sunday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that pro-Iranian Shi'i sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen backed up by puppet Iraqi army troops carried out coordinated attacks on Sunnis resident in the al-Hurriyah district of Baghdad beginning on Saturday night and into Sunday morning.  In all more than 200 Sunni families were driven out of their homes in the area.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that the Shi'i sectarian gunmen and puppet government troops used loudspeakers to declare: "To the children of Mu'awiyah the infidel and 'Umar the homosexual, you have just half an hour to leave your houses or we will burn them over your heads."

Witnesses said that Iraqi Resistance fighters in the streets and atop roofs in the area did battle with the Shi'i sectarian attackers, killing 14 of them but the US-backed puppet government troops were fighting on the side of the Jaysh al-Mahdi and that gave them the advantage in the engagement.

Local residents said that half of the weapons being carried by the Shi'i sectarians were Iranian made and new.

Half an hour after the attack and under heavy gunfire, the residents of the area left their houses to sleep in the streets and the Shi'i sectarians set fire to them.

The correspondent walked through the neighborhood and reported that of 12 Sunni mosques that had been in the area, only one remained.  The 11 others had either been burned down or turned into Shi'i Husayniyahs.

Local residents during the night sought intervention by the US-installed puppet regime to halt the sectarian attacks of the Jaysh al-Mahdi, but their requests fell on deaf ears and on Sunday morning the Jaysh al-Mahdi gunmen and militiamen led by Jalal as-Saghir, the Iranian cleric and member of the American-installed puppet "Iraqi Parliament" (who also runs the notorious Buratha Mosque, where dozens of Sunni Iraqis have been tortured and murdered), renewed their assault on Sunnis in the area.  The pro-Iranian sectarians killed 22 local residents in unequal gun battles and proceeded to burn down the Sunni al-Muhaymin Mosque, killing its guard and muezzin Shaykh Khalid Khalifah.  In House No. 20, No. 6 Lane in Mahallat 426, a woman was found dead, apparently sexually assaulted in front of her husband who was found tied up and dead as well.

The correspondent reported that more than 1,000 people, including many women, children, and elderly people from the areas had found temporary refuge in the Ma 'ruf al-Karakhi Mosque the al-Ibthal School and other places in the districts of al-'Adl, al-Jami'ah, and al-'Amiriyah.

The Shi'i sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi militia is run by Muqtada as-Sadr, a Shi'i cleric loyal to Iran, which is seeking to extend its regional hegemony and step into the shoes of the American occupation in Iraq.  The Shi'i sectarians, seeking to implement a partition plan that would divide Iraq into three states in accordance with schemes drawn up by Zionist and US strategists, have been working to "cleanse" mixed neighborhoods in Baghdad of Sunni residents.

Jaysh al-Mahdi gunmen attack western Baghdad’s al-Ghazaliyah neighborhood.

In a dispatch posted at 4:35pm Makkah time Sunday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that pro-Iranian Shi'i sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi militia were at that hour pounding the western Baghdad neighborhood of al-Ghazaliya with Iranian made mortar shells and short-range rockets

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that more than 20 mortar shells had blasted into houses, shops, and streets in al-Ghazaliyah, as of the time of reporting.

The Shi'i sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi militia is run by Muqtada as-Sadr, a Shi'i cleric loyal to Iran, which is seeking to extend its regional hegemony and step into the shoes of the American occupation in Iraq.

Battle rages Sunday between Jaysh al-Mahdi attackers and Sunni residents in Baghdad’s al-'Amil neighborhood.

In a dispatch posted at 4:31pm Makkah time Sunday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that fierce fighting was underway between pro-Iranian Shi'i sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen and local Sunni residents in the al-'Amil neighborhood of Baghdad.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that the two sides were exchanging mortar barrages.  More than 30 of the Jaysh al-Mahdi attackers and seven of the Sunni defenders were reported to have been killed in the battle, and several homes of local Sunni residents had burned down in the course of the mortar bombardment.

The Shi'i sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi militia is run by Muqtada as-Sadr, a Shi'i cleric loyal to Iran, which is seeking to extend its regional hegemony and step into the shoes of the American occupation in Iraq.

US forces seal off, search neighborhoods in northern Baghdad Sunday morning.

In a dispatch posted at 2:27pm Makkah time Sunday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US occupation forces together with their Iraqi puppet army allies surrounded two areas in northern Baghdad on Sunday morning and launched a campaign of raids and searches there.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that the Americans and their Iraqi puppet allies surrounded the al-Qahirah and as-Salikh neighborhoods and then launched raids and searches of local houses. The main streets in the area were closed off and US armored other military vehicles deployed in the areas as helicopter gun ships flew in overhead.

As of the time of reporting the area was still sealed off and no one was allowed to leave his home, not even employees of the puppet "Government."

Officer in puppet police abducted in Baghdad Sunday morning.

In a dispatch posted at 1:10pm Makkah time Sunday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters abducted an officer in the puppet police from on of the squares in northern Baghdad on Sunday morning.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that armed men in civilian dress driving a late-model car abducted a traffic officer at gunpoint from Aden Square, located between the districts of al-Hurriyah and al-Kazimiyah.  The correspondent reported that the fighters took the officer away to an unknown destination, with puppet police in pursuit.  The police, however, were unable to catch up with the abductors.

Salah ad-Din Province.

Balad.

Resistance men ambush Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen near Balad Saturday.

In a dispatch posted at 2:40pm Makkah time Sunday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters executed at least six members of the pro-Iranian Shi'i sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi in the city of Balad, about 80km north of Baghdad on Saturday.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that Resistance men ambushed two civilian BMW cars belonging to the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia near the tomato paste factory in the city.  The witnesses said that Resistance men armed with light machine guns ambushed the two cars when they showed up on the scene, killing more than six of the sectarian gunmen before they could even respond.  The Resistance fighters then withdrew from the area.

Samarra’.

US soldier reported killed in Samarra’ Saturday.

In a dispatch posted at 2:14pm Makkah time Sunday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance marksman shot and killed a US soldier in Samarra’, about 120km north of Baghdad, on Saturday.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that an American foot patrol was going through a market in the middle of Samarra’ when one of the US soldiers took bullet in the head from a Resistance sharpshooter’s gun.  Witnesses said that the power of the impact raised him slightly off the ground and then he fell to earth dead.  The other American troops were overcome by hysteria and panic, witnesses said, and they opened fire into the air to keep people away from them.

Another patrol then showed up to cover the retreat of the first group and helicopters prowled the skies above the area for more than four hours after the attack.

Bayji.

Resistance sharpshooter reportedly kills two US soldiers Bayji Saturday.

In a dispatch posted at 12:55pm Makkah time Sunday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance marksman shot and killed two US troops in the middle of Bayji, about 200km north of Baghdad on Saturday.

The Bayji correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that a Resistance sharpshooter shot and killed two US troops in a military camp in the al-Karamat area in the middle of the city.  Sharpshooter bullets struck two American soldiers, one after the other, directly in the head, killing them instantly.

Ad-Dulu'iyah.

US troops kill three of their allies, the puppet "Iraqi National Guard" by mistake on Saturday.

In a dispatch posted at 12:50pm Makkah time Sunday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US troops mistakenly killed three puppet "Iraqi National Guards" east of ad-Dulu'iyah, 97km north of Baghdad, on Saturday.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the Iraqi puppet police as saying that a US patrol engaged in a clash with Iraqi Resistance fighters near the ad-Dulu'iyah Bridge on Saturday.  The Americans then went searching through local gardens and areas near where they had been ambushed looking for the Resistance men.  Coming upon a new checkpoint manned by members of a squadron from the puppet "Iraqi National Guard" in the Khazraj area east of ad-Dulu'iyah, the US troops opened fire, killing three of the puppet "Guards."

Ninwa Province.

Al-Mawsil.

Resistance fighters gun down Iraqi puppet soldier on leave in al-Mawsil Saturday.

In a dispatch posted at 12:54pm Makkah time Sunday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters shot and killed an Iraqi puppet soldier in eastern al-Mawsil on Saturday.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the puppet police as saying that  an unknown armed group opened fire on Khalid Yusuf 'Umayr, an Iraqi puppet army soldier who was standing with his brother in an area where gas is sold in the city.  The source said that 'Umayr was killed instantly.  At the time he was dressed in civilian clothing and away from his military unit on leave.