Thursday, 24 May 2007.
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Shi'i sectarian murder spree continues: 22 murder victims’ bodies found
dumped in Baghdad Thursday.
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US
admits two soldiers killed in al-Anbar Province Wednesday.
Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Fallujah.
Bomb kills 37 at funeral in al-Fallujah.
In a
dispatch posted at 1:50pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that medical sources and sources in the puppet
security services report that 37 people were killed and more than 100
wounded when a mysterious car bomb exploded during a funeral in the city
of al-Fallujah, 60km west of Baghdad.
The
correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the funeral was
for a local notable in the city and one of the leaders of the al-Anbar
Awakening Congress, a tribal alliance that is opposed to al-Qa'idah.
Al-Jazeera satellite TV reported that a person wearing an explosive belt
blew himself up near the funeral, causing the carnage. Witnesses said
that blast took place near the al-Firdaws Mosque in the al-Ba'th
neighborhood during the funeral of Ahmad Zuwayd, the nephew of Shaykh
'Abd ar-Razzaq al-'Isawi, a leader of the al-Anbar Awakening Congress.
Baghdad.
Shi'i sectarian murder spree continues: 22 murder victims’ bodies found
dumped in Baghdad Thursday.
In a
dispatch posted at 10:42pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the
Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that the Iraqi
puppet police recovered 22 bodies of unknown murder victims dumped in
various parts of Baghdad on Thursday.
The
AMSI reported a source in the puppet police as saying that most of the
bodies were bound and blindfolded and had been shot in the head. The
bodies were taken to the Forensic Medicine Department.
US
admits two soldiers killed in al-Anbar Province Wednesday.
In a
dispatch posted at 2:32pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the
Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that the US
military had admitted that two of its soldiers were killed in fighting
with the Iraqi Resistance in al-Anbar Province on Wednesday. In keeping
with the standard US policy of secrecy, no further details on the
engagement were revealed.
US
embassy motorcade attacked in ar-Rusafah.
In a
dispatch posted at 2:32pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the
Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that Iraqi
Resistance fighters equipped with light arms attacked a motorcade from
the US Embassy and its security escort of US troops in the ar-Rusafah
area of central Baghdad.
The
AMSI reported a US communiqué as saying that the embassy guards returned
fire and called in reinforcements and air support to beat back the
Thursday morning attack. Apache helicopter gun ships arrived on the
scene and attacked the armed men who were assaulting the Americans. The
American statement said that the attack inflicted no casualties on the
US forces or personnel.
Attack
on bus and bomb in northern Baghdad Thursday.
In a
dispatch posted at 5:41pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that the puppet police as reporting that armed men
stopped a minibus at a fake check point in a northern Baghdad
neighborhood on Thursday and killed 11 people who were aboard it.
Mafkarat al-Islam reported the British
news agency Reuters as saying that according to the puppet police the
armed men then hid a bomb among the bodies of the dead victims on the
bus and detonated it when puppet policemen arrived on the scene. Two
people were killed and four more wounded – among them puppet policemen –
in that attack.
Salah ad-Din Province.
Samarra’.
Resistance bomb kills five puppet policemen in Samarra’ Wednesday night.
In a
dispatch posted at 5:41pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a puppet
police patrol on the main road in Samarra’, 120km north of Baghdad, on
Wednesday night.
The
correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the
puppet police as saying that the bomb killed five puppet policemen and
destroyed their patrol vehicle. A number of neighboring buildings were
also damaged.
The
city of Samarra’ has been under curfew since last Tuesday, after a bomb
exploded by a US military patrol there and after fighting broke out to
the southeast of the city.
Tuz Khurmantu.
Puppet administrator wounded in bomb attack near Tuz Khurmatu.
In a
dispatch posted at 1:50pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by the
motorcade of Talib al-Bayyati, the puppet administrator of the Sulayman
Bayk area, just south of Tuz Khurmatu, which is about 175km north of
Baghdad.
The
correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported Colonel 'Abbas
Muhammad Amin, the puppet police chief in Tuz Khurmatu as saying that a
bomb went off by al-Bayyati’s motorcade as it was taking him to work.
The explosion killed six of his bodyguards and wounded four more of
them. Al-Bayyati himself was also wounded in the attack.
Sulayman Bayk is a stronghold of the al-Bayyat Turcoman tribe, which is
partly Sunni an partly Shi'i. Puppet officials there come under
frequent attack by the Resistance.
Babil Province.
Al-Yusufiyah.
Resistance bomb disables US Humvee.
In a
communiqué dated Wednesday, 23 May 2007 and posted on its website, the
Iraqi Resistance organization the Army of the Rashideen announced that
one of its units had detonated a bomb by a US Humvee in the area of
al-Yusufiyah, 30km southwest of Baghdad. The communiqué said that the
blast disabled the American vehicle.
At-Ta’mim Province.
Kirkuk.
Oil well blown up near Kirkuk; "several weeks" needed to put out fire.
In a
dispatch posted at 1:50pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that unknown armed men blew up a major oil well
located northwest of the northern city of Kirkuk at dawn Thursday.
The
correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the
US-backed "Oil of the North" company as saying that the regime was
trying to get the oil well fire under control, but that putting it out
could take "several weeks." No casualties were reported as a result of
the attack.
A
source in the puppet "Oil Protection Forces" reported that the blast was
the result of a bomb explosion. The source said that the attacking
forces struck at dawn when the guard staff at the installation were
sleeping.
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